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Radvylf Programs

01:21

Considering making a "learn morse code" page. It would teach you a few letters at a time, and give you an accuracy score based on how good the timings for your dots and dashes and pauses were, and how many letters you got wrong

forest

@RadvylfPrograms One tip then: Learning how to hear it at a low speed does not translate into a higher speed, and vice versa. It can be hard for people who learn it at a high speed to then understand it at a low speed, which creates a catch-22 when they can only listen to people who are fluent and can't listen to beginners, but also can't send anything fluently.

Radvylf Programs

Yeah, I'll have an option thing for different speeds

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lyxal

04:04

When it comes to the most influential and most symbolic literature, some would say it's Shakespeare's plays and sonnets that meet the description. Others would say it's works such as Alice in Wonderland or Harry Potter. And some among us would even say that it's the research of programming giants like Iverson and Knuth.

But these authors and literature all pale in comparison to the one true work of art

This masterpiece encapsulates everything about society and truly inspires people to be their best selves.

Nothing can ever be written anymore. This book completes literature

des54321

04:34

lyxal

While I was planning the joke, I considered whether to leave that in, and I thought yes

des54321

04:58

lyxal

05:18

Now see that's just speed of lobsters

No one can ~~control the speed at which lobsters die~~ predict how people will lobsterify their text

5 hours later…

PyGamer0

10:34

my classmates think i am cringe lol

2 hours later…

user

12:21

Let me give you some advice, kid

The same thing happened to me, but I used brains to solve it

My parents were thinking of moving to the US, and after they realized that the pollution where we lived was making me get sick all the time, we moved here

After a little while, my new classmates also thought I was cringe, but I enacted my master plan and went to a magnet high school really far away from my home school after eighth grade

My classmates at high school also thought I was cringe, but unfortunately, I was unable to repeat my previous strategy and go to some random college that no one else from my school went to. I'm sure you can do better, though

I hope that helped. Like and subscribe for more bad life advice

lyxal

magnet high school?

what tf is a magnet high school?

user

12:47

A magnet program's this thing that a bunch of nerds take a test to get into so they can get access to classes others can't take until their senior year and so they can pretend they're better than everyone else

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is this: When the going gets tough, you should get going

Magnet school

In the U.S. education system, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities (usually school boards) as school zones that feed into certain schools. Attending them is voluntary. There are magnet schools at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. In the United States, where education is decentralized, some magnet schools are established by school districts and draw only from the district, while others are set up by state governments and may draw from multiple...

Weird thing is that the Wikipedia article says magnet schools were started to combat de facto segregation, but the demographics of the school I went to were very skewed

If you look at the school on Niche, it's probably ranked A+ for diversity

But within the school, there's quite a bit of de facto segregation

The area around the school is mainly Black and Hispanic, so you would expect that to be reflected in the school's demographics, and it is, as long as you don't look at the Magnet or CAP programs. In the Magnet, something like 60% of the students are Asian and most of the rest are white. In my grade, there were only a handful of Black and Hispanic kids

The CAP program isn't as skewed but I've heard it's mainly white

1 hour later…

lyxal

14:13

@mathcat *limes

mathcat

vote to close

thejonymyster

ik ik

sorry its a medical condition

chronic silly billy

mathcat

@lyxal limes then.

@thejonymyster You have a medical condition called "Chronic silly billy?

lyxal

it's also known as "professional golfposting" and "general sh*tposting"

thejonymyster

it's named after the silliest one of all...

lyxal

14:15

@thejonymyster Joe

mathcat

nice try

lyxal

@mathcat wasn't for you

mathcat

Ginger

@lyxal a term which I coined

thejonymyster

@lyxal Oh, sorry.

@lyxal Who is Joe?

lyxal

14:21

@thejonymyster You Fool, you Blongus, you absolute utter Clampongus

Joe Mama

thejonymyster

How do I deactivate my account

Ginger

OH MY GOD HE SAID IT OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

mathcat

OOOOOO

@thejonymyster There's a post on meta.stackexchange

Ginger

goddammit

mathcat

aha

lyxal

14:23

2 mins ago, by lyxal

@thejonymyster You Fool, you Blongus, you absolute utter Clampongus

source of the above

Ginger

hey whaddaya think of my bio

thejonymyster

@mathcat WOW i fell for that

now i actually feel like a fool, blong, et al

Ginger

2 mins ago, by lyxal

@thejonymyster You Fool, you Blongus, you absolute utter Clampongus

mathcat

@Ginger oh wow

lyxal

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pop quiz: what's a pufferfish?

user

14:38

A pufferfish is a fish

lyxal

user

Yes. Jimmy John Jones is a pufferfish. But he did not eat a cheeseburger. He wanted to eat a cheeseburger.

lyxal

Oh. Okay

user

And then Jeffery won the bet.

lyxal

Okay.

user

14:40

Btw @lyxal What's OldSandboxPost's email? I need to send it an email

So then Jimmy John Jones was sad.

lyxal

@user it's in the blog chat room, but I'll go find it for you

@user oh.

user

Ah thanks

@lyxal And then Jeffery went to get Jimmy John Jones another cheeseburger.

lyxal

Okay.

user

Oh huh it's just [email protected]

lyxal

yep

user

14:41

I sent my email to that address but got no response from caird :P

lyxal

I didn't get one either :p

user

And then Jimmy John Jones was happy.

Well you got one in TNB

lyxal

@user Oh.

user

lyxal

@user just wait a second or two - I'm sure caird will say something :p

user