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rudyharrelson

@ rudyharrelson @lemmy.radio

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  • Wolfram tells me sqrt(-1) = i and it hasn't lied to me yet.

    In what meaningful way is i^2 = -1 different from sqrt(-1) = i?

  • Cleaned My Wallet Out Today

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  • A little bit stretched, but none of the cards seem to be loose enough to actually fall out.

  • What contemporary music hits do you think will stand the test of time?

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  • I don't think pop music has evolved so much in the last 10 years that either of those songs would be outside of the definition of "contemporary music".

  • What contemporary music hits do you think will stand the test of time?

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  • I think "Uptown Funk" by Bruno Mars/Mark Ronson (2014) and "Can't Stop the Feeling" by Justin Timberlake (2016) are strong contenders when it comes to contemporary dance music. They feel as fresh today as they did a decade ago, and I think they will age well because they exemplify the fundamentals of the genre. They're energetic, catchy, and have a je ne sais quoi that makes them stand out in a crowd. If I'm throwing a party, these two tracks are easily on the track list for the evening.

  • I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C

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  • I really like the Interactive Relationship Graph on your site. Reminds me of when I used to work with graph databases and could visualize all the information in the database as a handy graph of nodes and relationships.

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    Why was Eeyore so sad in Winnie the Pooh? What did he need that could have made him happier?

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  • I agree he had a general depression disorder of some sort, but I dunno if he "had a nice place." Eeyore famously lives in a tent made of sticks that constantly collapses and needs to be rebuilt. Guy was effectively homeless and lived in the Hundred-Acre Wood equivalent of a cardboard box.

    But in spite of that, he definitely he lived in a nice community with good friends.

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  • It is extremely common for classes to require students to learn to use proprietary software. It’s a tool of the trade.

    I understand that; my position is more ideological than practical. In an ideal scenario, AutoDesk, Adobe, Microsoft, etc wouldn't be so deeply entrenched in their respective fields such that they are the de-facto tools of the trade for every business which must be learned in order to be hired. I know a given student has to learn certain proprietary tools in the current academic and professional environment. My comment was saying I would prefer this not to be the case. I am fully aware that proprietary software domination in the academic and professional spaces is not going away any time soon.

    In my ideal scenario, an interviewer at a company would ask, "Can you perform the following edits to a given graphic?" instead of "Can you use Photoshop?" since the former allows for candidates who can use alternatives like GIMP. I understand company pipelines aren't set up for this, either, because company pipelines are also deeply entrenched in proprietary software.

    The OP's photo is specifically about professors allowing other software to be used. Which would be a good starting point for making these kinds of changes.

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  • I'm no academic, but it seems wrong to me that any field would require the use of a particular proprietary software in order to do one's homework assignments.

    May Excel or SPSS be the best tool for the job? In many cases, sure! But students should be allowed to use whatever other software can also get the job done, as long as the software exports the assignment in a data format that the professor can reasonably ingest (e.g.: turning in a CSV file, which can be understood by many different kinds of software, not just Excel).

    I understand professors have limited time to check homework and thus don't want to spend time learning how to do anything but open a single, specific filetype, but that's besides the point.

  • Does anyone truly think times are better now than 30 years ago? (US)

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  • Median household income, adjusted for inflation, is up ~25% (despite the narrative).

    What's the ratio of household income to the cost of living? I understand that's going to vary wildly from place to place, but my point is income, as a statistic, seems meaningless without knowing the cost of living to see if people are actually able to afford rent, groceries, etc on that 25% increased income.

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  • Came here to say something similar. I always have mixed feelings on Scrubs for similar reasons to you. I genuinely can't go back and rewatch most episodes because they are incredibly dated or insensitive in many respects. The good parts are still good, the great parts are still great, but the bad parts feel really bad IMO, and it really kills a lot of rewatch potential for me, despite having loved watching seasons 1-5 when it was originally airing. It was one of my favorite shows for years.

    I can definitely watch older stuff and understand it's a product of its time, but Scrubs in particular has me cringing by 5 minutes into the episode; I can't get through the rest of the episode most of the time. I end up skipping around to watch the scenes I know I like. I ain't got time to sit around watchin' The Todd harass people or Kelso make his usual "wife bad" jokes.

    What a soundtrack, though. One of the better soundtracks of any show I've watched.

  • What computer life hacks are your most used?

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  • At my old job (tech support), I watched a new hire once highlight text, right click for the context menu, and click "copy". And then right-click to hit "paste". Every time. They didn't know a single shortcut for anything. It was maddening to watch.

    I gave em a lot of help because they were clearly not particularly tech savvy, but it made me wonder how the hell they got through the interview process with such a limited skillset.

  • Do you succumb to the urge to stop the microwave a few seconds before it actually stops ?

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  • Why not? I press a button and have a cup of boiling water less than 2 minutes later.

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  • Derivatives started making more sense to me after I started learning their practical applications in physics class. d/dx was too abstract when learning it in precalc, but once physics introduced d/dt (change with respect to time t), it made derivative formulas feel more intuitive, like "velocity is the change in position with respect to time, which the derivative of position" and "acceleration is the change in velocity with respect to time, which is the derivative of velocity"

  • What's your LEAST favorite song

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  • My old boss used to die of cringe any time I started humming this song at the office.

  • When did you go full Linux nerd?

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  • Summer of 2020. Lockdown was in full effect and I was working from home. I wouldn't say I had a lot of extra free time (my kid was 1 year old at the time, lol), but I spent many hours that Summer tinkering with various projects, and that led me to eventually adopt Linux as my daily driver on all my machines.

    I've dabbled with Linux since 2005, but was never savvy enough to completely ditch Windows until 2020.

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  • What is the most technically accomplished "Maroon 5" song?

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  • IMO most of the songs on their first album, "Songs About Jane" (2002) are good. "Harder to Breathe", "Sweetest Goodbye", "The Sun", "Shiver", and "This Love" are all bangers as far as I'm concerned.

    I dunno what I'd consider the most "technically accomplished" song on the album, but it's definitely one of those. ("Sunday Morning" and "She Will Be Loved" from the same album are also good songs, but I wouldn't consider them in the running for their most "technically accomplished" tune).

  • Some things don't change

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  • This is one reason I really liked my Dynamics professor. On the first day of class, he wrote "F=ma" on the white board and said, "See that equation? It hasn't changed much in the last 200 years. You don't need to buy the newest edition of the textbook; it's mostly just fixing errata. The lessons are virtually the same as the first edition."

  • Tell me about when a stranger was kind to you

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  • One time when I was much younger, I borrowed a trailer from a buddy to haul around some stuff that wouldn't fit in my Jeep.

    When I initially borrowed it, my friend set up the hitch and locked it in place. I figured I'd be able to do the same when it came time to return it.

    Well, I didn't do it right. I got on the road to return the trailer to my friend, and about 1000ft down the road, the trailer popped right off the hitch and started barreling down the road behind me toward a car.

    The car stopped before the trailer hit it. A guy got out, grabbed the trailer, pulled it up to my Jeep before I could even say anything, and hitched it properly while I was apologizing.

    He just said, "No worries" and went on his way. What a cool guy.