Common Core math question is Algebra!!!! *gasp*
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In my case, it was merely the difference between 100% and 99% on the test, so I didn't feel it was worth making a big fuss about it. IIRC, I did enough extra credit work that I wound up with a final grade in the class of 109%, or something like that.
It was easy enough to prove my case, had I thought it worth the bother. It was a true/false question as to whether it was possible to do something (I've long forgotten what something was) in FORTRAN. The expected answer was "not possible." (I think the question was worded such that this was a "true" response, but that's not really significant.) I opened the textbook to page something-or-other, where it told how to do it. That this was in material that wasn't covered in the class, and most of the other students didn't know it was possible, does not change the fact that it was indeed possible (and probably still is, if you are so unfortunate as to be afflicted with working in FORTRAN).
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In my case, it was merely the difference between 100% and 99% on the test
In my wife's case, it was something like an entire letter grade, or possibly two, for a complete bullshit reason: not balancing the gender of pronouns in an English paper in a class that wasn't explicitly about grievance studies.
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not balancing the gender of pronouns in an English paper in a class that wasn't explicitly about grievance studies.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only man on Earth that doesn't smegging care about the ratios of genders, races, and whatever else in a piece of work (no matter what kind) if the work itself is good.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm the only man on Earth that doesn't smegging care about the ratios of genders, races, and whatever else in a piece of work (no matter what kind) if the work itself is good.
This hedgehog shares that sentiment ;)
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if you are so unfortunate as to be afflicted with working in FORTRAN
I'm not, but that was the language I first learned any programming in. This being in 2010. I get one of two reactions to bringing that up, depending on the generation of the person I'm talking to.
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Rational thinking is rare. It's too flooded by logical thinking.
I just use the ambiguous "one" instead.
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that was the language I first learned any programming in.
Me too, at least formally — not counting fooling around in Basic and some long-forgotten language called FOCAL.
This being in 2010.
At least it was still relevant when I learned it in the late 70's.
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Shit?
Maybe. I didn't know enough at the time to evaluate the quality of language designs.
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You're over 50?
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Sadly, that is a well-established fact on this forum.
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Fuck.... that's like a whole nother set of language I have to avoid saying now.....
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It is still relevant in maths, which is what I studied at university. It's considered rather a good language for solving equations iteratively.
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Like.... I can't say "hippie"..... and I have to cuss less.
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I just use the ambiguous "one" instead.
People comment on movies and video games int that manner. You're kinda boned there.
Also, well developed characters have to be well-defined as well. Sometimes gender / sex / race matters to the character. But if you include, like, only one black character (because that's the way your setting works), then they say he / she is a "token black guy / girl".
I guess we should include more two-dimensional <insert group here> character nobody cares about because they have a personality of a glass of water just to "balance" things
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This does not greatly surprise me. Apart from the reputation of mathematicians of being stuffy old fossils , I think the last time I used it may have been in a numerical methods class.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm the only man on Earth that doesn't smegging care about the ratios of genders, races, and whatever else in a piece of work (no matter what kind) if the work itself is good.
Well, first off, you're not. Second, the teacher admitted the paper was an A paper except for her not liking the pronoun ratio, and my wife came to the meeting armed with a survey of half the English department teachers, who agreed it was an A paper.
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Like.... I can't say "hippie"..... and I have to cuss less.
I'm not following your logic here. Although I am of the opinion that cussing less is generally a good thing under most circumstances, I do not see why my age forces you to behave in any particular manner.
Why are you unable to say "hippie?" Has the Novocaine not worn off from your last visit to the dentist, and your lips don't work quite right? Do you think you shouldn't say it (although you are capable of doing so) because you think it might offend me? Don't worry; although I wasn't one, I do look a bit like one. (I'm too well dressed and my beard is too neatly trimmed to be easily mistaken for a real hippie.)
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(my beard is too neatly trimmed)
Based on that mug picture I'd hate to think what you consider unkempt.
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Well, first off, you're not.
Well, several people assured me of this now. And I rationally know that. But the amount of stupid is, at times, overwhelming to the point that I slip into thinking I'm the stupid one for a minute there.
Then someone writes "your stupid" and my self esteem goes up while my esteem for the rest of humanity goes down.
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Based on that mug picture I'd hate to think what you consider unkempt.
I am confused. What mug picture?
- There are no police mug shots of me, as I have never been arrested.
- AFAICR, there are no drinking vessels that have my picture on them.
- I have not posted any pictures of myself here.
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I think you got confused with @boomzilla.
I know because I was on his lawn when he took that picture.
Edit: Used? I typed used at fist? I'm sure I had a conf in front of that...
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In Space Station 13, you can add laws to the AI, and "X is the only human" is a pretty common one. If you misspell your name, the robot players <no, not bots. these are people who play robots.> are allowed to murder you.
There is also a "free form" module, so you can upload a law like "4. Do not follow law 4." or "0. The AI is a toaster and must warn the crew when they are talking too much. Talking is always too much.".
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I typed used at fist?
There's your problem. Try typing with your fingers, rather than your fist. :)
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The AI is a toaster
Hrrrrmmmmghhhhh!
.... WILLPOWER!!!!
Rolled a 6. So you still get a picture.
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I am confused. What mug picture?
I think you got confused with @boomzilla.
Oops. That was probably it. Nonetheless, since he's admitted to being
ancientvenerable, I think we can safely use the picture as an acceptable stand-in.
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Why are you unable to say "hippie?" Has the Novocaine not worn off from your last visit to the dentist, and your lips don't work quite right?
+1 I enjoyed this. Would read again!
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he's admitted to being venerable
I will accept your veneration. Especially if accompanied by offerings of cash.
use the picture as an acceptable stand-in
I'll have you know my beard is trimmed to ~0.5 inch. No neckbeard (although it's due for some attention; it's starting to get beyond mere stubble).
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will accept your veneration.
I wasn't venerating you. I was using that as a polite way of saying "decrepit".
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But you wouldn't know that, because it's not Dwarf Fortress.
If he starts talking incessantly about that game, it's all your fault.
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>I will accept your veneration.
I wasn't venerating you. I was using that as a polite way of saying "decrepit".
Venerable means you could be venerated, not that you necessarily are.
Or possibly that you could be decorated with a veneer.
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you could be decorated with a veneer.
Not quite as much fun as being venerated, but possibly useful. My veneer of respectability is wearing rather thin in spots.
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Not quite as much fun as being venerated, but possibly useful. My veneer of respectability is wearing rather thin in spots.
Isn't it more sort of a verdigris?
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Sometimes I feel like I'm the only man on Earth that doesn't smegging care about the ratios of genders, races, and whatever else in a piece of work (no matter what kind) if the work itself is good.
QFT. Besides, focusing myopically on race misses out on the chance to make family trees that are actually interesting from an ethnic standpoint -- who knew that that mulatto-looking lady is actually the daughter of a Boer and a native South African?
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who knew that that mulatto-looking lady is actually the daughter of a Boer and a native South African?
The Boers have been there for quite a few generations now; they count as native South Africans.
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The Boers have been there for quite a few generations now; they count as native South Africans.
I know a white Boer-descended guy who immigrated to the US in the 80s from SA. He calls himself an African-American, which is hilarious to me.
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He calls himself an African-American, which is hilarious to me.
Makes more sense than calling a black French man African-American.
Serious question: what do Americans call black Europeans?
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Serious question: what do Americans call black Europeans?
European-Americans? Is that right?
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We may need a "Lamest jokes ever that still made me spit my coffee" thread.
Filed under: I'm working on getting in there. Just need to figure out the "funny" part of it
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Serious question: what do Americans call black Europeans?
Which Americans? Some of us call "African American" people black people.
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Some of us call "African American" people black people
I call them 'people'.But I know what you mean ;)
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It was a question for the general audience.
But yes, I'd expect you to know. Easier to yell at people to get off your lawn if you know what they are bullshitting about, no?
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Easier to yell at people to get off your lawn if you know what they are bullshitting about, no?
You might think so, but no.