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A nice compromise that I've appreciated in the classes that I've taken - have strict deadlines, but offer X days (say, 2) of a no-questions-asked extension. It creates the clear expectation that work be turned in on time, but offers a small relief valve for one-off problems.

The problem is that this adds extra bookkeeping for a professor who's already busy with everything else going on, which gets back to the original poster's point of becoming everything that they hated.

1400 is huge. It's common at large state universities for the introductory classes to have somewhere between 200 and 300 students. The professor lectures in a large auditorium, and grading (and questions!) are delegated to a staff of TAs.

If you get a good TA and have some good classmates, it's totally fine. Unfortunately, it's common for your TA to be crap, at which point grading becomes a nightmare.

I avoided all of this by taking introductory classes at the community college, where they teach the same material to classes of 25 students.

My wife is in a similar position here in Oregon. Two of her direct reports are Ukrainian, and one just took a leave of absence that wasn't explicitly "I'm off to defend my homeland," but it wasn't explicitly not that, either.

> nail sizes in the US are still typically given in pence

Reminds me of the Primus song. "Seen 'em down in SoCo pounding sixteen-penny nails."

My alma mater (Portland State) also used xv6 for its OS class, and it was excellent.

Yep. If you're looking for a musical explanation, the 1975 Hoyt Axton song "Speed Trap" explains it pretty well. It's been going on forever. The only solution is for the state government to pass laws that force ticket revenue away from the towns that employ the cops.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRnXgcutfz0

> Among the first entries was a reference to an article on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology authored by Splatt and Weedon.

I love it when we all acknowledge that everyone has an internal 4-year-old who finds this kind of thing very, very funny.

This applies to poker, too - a game where you really can get a consistent advantage over other players with sufficient study and make a living. Once you strip everything else away about the game, you're sitting in a casino for many hours a day, spending as much time as you can with mentally ill idiots... to make less money than you would applying that exact same effort to get good at an in-demand job skill and building things that people need.

Most people who are in a position to make a career out of poker decide that it's not worth it and remain (very good) recreational players. Casinos can be fun places to visit, and tournaments can be a lot of fun, but I wouldn't want to make them a fixture of my life.

There have always been stupid memes and injokes on the Internet. Usenet had them in spades, forums had them, and now Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook all have them. They weren't always in image format, as image hosting wasn't as easy back then, but there is no real difference between sharing a Wojak meme to describe a certain situation and repeating a Bash.org IRC quote.

OP is annoyed with the fact that today's kids have had different experiences than him and are making memes and injokes that don't make any sense to him. It happens to everyone at some point. Quoting Grandpa Simpson,

> I used to be with 'it,' but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I’m with isn’t 'it' anymore, and what’s 'it' seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to youuuuu!

Are the kids still making Simpsons references, or have they all moved to Spongebob references?

Just piling on, the big thing that I note is that it's not just stuff for the poorer people in society. It's their livelihood. If you screw up someone's car, you are taking away their ability to get to work, to drive their kids to daycare, and so on.

I'm privileged enough that if someone puts my car out of service, I can swear gratuitously, call my boss to tell him that I'll be late to work, and get a rental while my insurance handles my car. As frustrated as I might be, it's not a life-and-death situation for me.

By contrast, Jimbo the night-shift line cook at Waffle House has significantly less margin for error. If he doesn't show up to work, he at best doesn't get paid and at worst gets fired. If he gets fired, he's now behind on his rent, plus he has to fix his car with money he doesn't have. He might need to take out a payday loan, or sell something important, or borrow money from family who is just as poor as he is.

With this in mind, I'm not going to say that Jimbo is morally justified in whacking a criddler who's messing with his car, but I'm not going to say he's not, either.

You see the same thing in action with immigrant-owned bodegas. It's just entries on a spreadsheet to Walgreens and CVS, but that's rent and food to Mr. and Mrs. Kim's family, and it's not surprising that they're significantly more inclined toward the shotgun-and-bat approach to loss prevention.

I have a vivid memory of this. I got free tickets to a country music concert, and basically treated it as a party with a twangy soundtrack. It was fun, and I enjoyed myself. While waiting for my ride, I got to talking with a woman who got really offended that I saw it that way - she likened it to a religious experience, and how dare I treat it so flippantly.

I apologized while marveling to myself that something that felt so mediocre and forgettable to me was someone else's reason to exist.

For those who like text, his series of blog entries is also extremely good. https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/making-crash/

I was loudly corrected on this subject (that is, I had used "it," and he asserted that I was wrong) by a drill instructor in Marine Corps basic training a little more than a decade ago.

I'm not quite sure how much credence to give his opinion considering that his expertise was in pain, misery, and shooting guns rather than linguistics and grammar, but he certainly had strong beliefs on the subject, and I wasn't going to try to convince him otherwise.

Bored suburban cops. They have bait packages and everything around here. They caught the woman who stole the passports out of our mailbox, so they seem to be doing some good.

Amusingly enough, my wife's response to the website in the OP was "Gee, that's some pretty good ad copy for Ring. Should we get one?"

The book qualifies this by giving everyone a perfect memory of every moment of their lives.

> I found I could recall every detail of my life; every event ever experienced I could remember with perfect clarity. I could remember every word on every page I'd ever read. Every conversation. Every tax form I'd ever filled out. I could reconstruct every second of every day I'd been alive from the moment of my birth until the day I finally shut my eyes at the end.

> This clarity of memory surprised me the first time I tried reviewing the past, but it was all there. (This was to be the greatest curse of Hell. Sometimes I would reply my entire life again and again for thousands of years. Remembering all the things I could have done differently, all the things... No. I won't go there now. I must tell this story).

I thought that the best levels were the first three - Jungle Japes, Angry Aztec, and Frantic Factory.

Fungi Forest and Crystal Caves are okay, but have way too much switching between characters.

Gloomy Galleon and Creepy Castle are tedious grinds no matter how you slice it.

Similarly, you can play on difficulty settings that forbid reverts, but most people just want to build rockets and try again if they fail rather than meticulously engineer every aspect of the mission.

I joke that the Revert button is the "never mind, that was a simulation. The next one is the actual mission" button.

In towns whose livelihood depends on a feast-or-famine industry like oil, yes. In cities with strong, diversified economies, it's just people spending disposable income on stuff they want.

The issue with American football is the "line in the sand" nature of yardage. In rugby, as long as you wrap up the ball carrier and bring him down, it's fine if he gets another couple yards. In contrast, letting a running back get another couple yards is often the difference between a first down and a turnover.

Another reason is the lack of laterals in American football. In rugby, if you commit too hard to tackling a player, he laterals the ball to the player next to him, and you're now in a really, really bad defensive position. In contrast, laterals are so rare in American football that you can commit as hard as you want without consequences.

Neither of these things go away if you get rid of the helmets and pads; it just makes it more likely that people will die on the field, as they frequently did before helmets and pads were introduced. At one point, football was killing so many college students that President Roosevelt threatened to ban it.

I was going to say, 40,000 Americans die every year in car accidents. People get into their cars when they're drunk and when they're so tired that they're nodding off at the wheel. People eat tacos, apply makeup, and text their friends while flying along at 45 miles per hour in a 2000-pound death missile.

I find "cyclists" to be as cringey as everyone else does, but cyclists aren't killing 40,000 people a year. They wear silly outfits and are kinda irritating. As far as sins go, those are pretty small in the grand scheme of things. By and large, when a cyclist acts a fool, they're endangering themselves. When a driver acts a fool, they're endangering everyone else on the road.

If you don't do that, the areas will be absolutely ruined by people just doing whatever they want.

There are literally tens of thousands of other campsites and trails to hit if you want to avoid that kind of thing. Hell, even in the more crowded areas, it's straightforward to head into backcountry trails and go from hundreds of people to none.

From personal experience: Multnomah Falls, in the Columbia Gorge in Oregon, is a madhouse. Tour groups get bused in, everyone and their dog (literally) is walking up to the top of the waterfall, etc. More than two million people visit the falls every year. But if you head past the waterfall, you'll only see a few people, and after five miles up the Larch Mountain trail, there's absolutely nobody except for the very occasional weirdo like me. And if you don't like the crowds even at the entrance, there are a gazillion other trails in the Gorge that are very sparsely traveled.

It's really easy to look for trades before significant stock jumps. In this case, he made profitable trades before 11 straight earnings announcements. I'm sure their analysis flagged his trades, and then when they found out that his wife works at Amazon, they declared, "I choose you, Pikachu!"

From personal experience learning the language - despite its syntax, Rust inherits a lot of its concepts from OCaml and Haskell rather than C++ and Java. If you program stuff in Rust the same way that you would program it in C++, you're going to find yourself constantly fighting the borrow checker and having a rough time of it.

If they ever kill old.reddit.com, I'm outta there. The redesign was awful.

This is correct. The simplification being made is that the original orbit was circular, so if you increase the debris' velocity, the current point is now the low point of the new orbit.

The 2100 Stack Overflow question queue is, of course, filled with vast numbers of downvoted "how do i redwash my instance" duplicates.

I work at Intel right now. My laptop is serviceable but not the best, and it's loaded down with a bunch of spyware crap. Luckily, I just need it to SSH (either through VSCode or PuTTY) into my servers, which are nice and powerful.

I was helping an intern out, and they had him using literally the worst laptop I have ever seen. It had about as much power as a Chromebook, and it was running the same spyware that I had. No wonder he couldn't get anything done.

> Whatever happened to those Dreamliners?

They're still being made, they work great, etc. The biggest issue for Boeing is that they've hit really steep production costs on them. The idea is that the first planes start out really expensive to make, but you refine your methods as you continue manufacturing them, and eventually break even and start making a profit on each plane sometime in the future. It's taken Boeing much, much longer than expected to start making money on them.

The faces are just "Zoomer" and "Boomer," respectively. Depending on which group the creator is trying to make look ineffectual and clueless, one typically looks smug and amused while the other is losing his shit.

This is the old way to play Angband, and consensus on the forums is that it's incorrect (not to mention extremely boring).

Rather, you want to dive as deep as possible, pick your battles very carefully, and get loot off the ground or from occasional fightable monsters. Hilariously, people have found that Ironman play (never leaving the dungeon, and always descending) is easier because it forces you to play like this.

When grinding, you will still run into out-of-depth monsters that will wreck you, so there is no way to play the game safe.