@RydwolfPrograms which ap tests? i just got finished with ap stats yesterday lol

my parents paid $399 for an online course from uc scout (basically a university that has college credit online courses) in janaury..... and i speedran what was supposed to be a semester long course in within a week. i procrastinated hella on it and then realized last friday that oh shit, the test is next week and idk anything.... so yea

it was actually the 2nd semester of the ap stats course they offer, they split the semesters into two different courses weirdly enough. i actually took the 1st semester course during last summer

then i didnt feel like doing it during the fall, and now i procrastinated so long that i speedran through it within a week lol

and i somehow have a 90.5% grade in the course despite me putting the videos on 2x speed the entire time

and literally i didnt open up any practice frqs until 30 minutes before the test, during school

but like i actually felt pretty confident the entire way through the test, maybe im too overconfident and im just failing the test lol

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@AidenChow US History and Art History today

oh ye apush lmao, literally only had 4 students in one of my classes today cuz everyone went to take apush lol

Turned in my AP Research paper last week, and I've got English and Physics C Mech next Tuesday, Bio the day after, and European History on the 17th

damn those are a lot of aps

@RydwolfPrograms Pretty sure a few months back you posted in TNB or TST about it

And since then I've seen you use --- all the time

@RydwolfPrograms Yeah Green Day's most popular songs are emo and I'm not going to stop listening to them (idk if the band itself is considered emo)

@RydwolfPrograms damn physics c? u senior or junior

The emo classification is pretty slippery

There's a huge overlap between MCR and Green Day, MCR's like, the (third wave) emo band, Green Day's typically not considered it despite sounding similar fairly often

@AidenChow Junior. But since I took calc last year and colleges don't take the algebra-based ones there's literally no reason I'd take the algebra-based physics tests

i taking physics 1 this year lol

I subscribe to the Hayley Williams school of thought that "everything is emo"

@AidenChow This year as in 2022-2023 or 2023-2024?

@RydwolfPrograms like next thursday

Ohh right the test lol

Was thinking you meant the class and I was like "sure you can learn it all in one thursday?"

Unrelated but for some reason one of the diners here really likes playing that "abcdefu" song

I've heard it at least thrice in the past week

@RydwolfPrograms LOL nah if i could even be remotely close to managing that i would be taking more aps than what im doing currently...

Mildly surprised that they didn't get a cleaned-up version (not that a censored version is even possible without removing like half the song) given that people go there with their kids sometimes

@user Why're you accusing Unrelated? :p

also how u doing physics c mech without physics 1, i thought physics c followed physics 1 content?

No, it's just the calculus version of physics 1

@RydwolfPrograms I know Unrelated is secretly controlling the speakers at the diner :P

Same class basically

That threw me off too

wait actually

yup

wtf im doing with physics 1 then this whole year

I got tricked the same way

my school be playing some tricks on me nah bro, they said physics 1 was prerequisite for any physics c class

I've spent all year in normal physics 1, luckily I figured out early enough to switch to the C test

@AidenChow Same

dude naaaaah i literally registered for physics c next year as one of my class

so i basically wasted the year on physics 1

naaaaaaaaaaaaah bruh

I'd go check right now if the colleges you want to go to even take the physics 1 test

Most don't

Whereas even MIT takes the C ones

What I'd do is take no physics next year, then take both physics C exams

They're meant to be taken in the same year, and they're short tests, so it's totally doable to study for them both

And you know 90% of Physics C Mech already if you've taken physics 1

well too late to change my courses now, they closed that a while back in my school

so im stuck with physics c mech next year, at least thatll help me prepare for the exam better lol

If you tell them you're going to be put in a class you've already taken they should be able to make an exception

If they can't then just hope your teacher's cool and lets you use the class for learning physics C E&M

bruh ik my school administration they will 99.9999% say no, they will see physics 1 and say ye that looks normal physics c is the next step after physics 1

the hard deadline for course change requests passed a while back and they will be sticking with it

@RydwolfPrograms well lets see there are a couple of physics teachers at our school, tho idk which ones teach mech

ik one of them is pretty strict so hopefully he dont teach mech lol

I set up a service on my server to auto-pull and restart the bot whenever you push to a production branch

I also make it so that you can SSH in and diddle with the config files

so whenever you need to make a config change you just SSH in before pushing to prod

This is... BS.

You could play on IRL uses of math in war if you're looking for suggestions (e.g., the calculations for indirect fire with artillery)

So excited for pink trump, hope that's something we get to see

@RydwolfPrograms What does this mean?

It just separates monologues

Going from math in artillery to pink trump would be quite the whiplash

Oh

I bet Worldbuilding SE cannot answer this kind of question anyway.

It'd be too opinion/story based

Ikr

It's kinda luck based tho

Sometimes way unclear questions hit HNQ and sometimes perfectly clear ones get closed

Yet, to think about it... What if our physical universe was something other than R⁴?

As in the number of dimensions?

I think I've seen a chart

As in anything. What if our physical universe wasn't metrizable?

Something like Sorgenfrey plane?

Fuck, lightning hit something like 10 feet from my house and fried my router

Guess I won't be talking to y'all much for the next few days

D:

Hopefully it'll fix itself with some restarting but probably gonna have to get AT&T out here

That's a rather awful situation.

It blew two AFCI breakers too which is slightly concerning

I love it when websites let me do things like that

it just keeps going and going

it's even more densely packed

this is on an FSM creation website

madebyevan.com/fsm

@RydwolfPrograms well, I suppose that explains why the server's down :p

Oh

lol didn't realise that might be the because

you know what I don't get? news headlines that be like "oh it's official now Charles is King of England". Like duh what did you expect? The guy placing the crown on Charles' head to say "haha jk it's just a prank bro look see there's the camera"

That's like the whole point of a coronation

it's a pretty obvious outcome that he's gonna be made king

now of course, if you hadn't previously posted like 20 news headlines that the coronation was happing today, and this was your first headline about the event today, that's understandable

but after you've alerted me that it's happening today to the point where I'm feeling apathy towards the notifications it seems overkill

@Ginger That sounds perfectly fine to me!

Would also be a good idea to make it so I can manually stop and restart the bot if needed

There is a hornet in my living room

@Bbrk24 cool

@Bbrk24 can do, probably

Hi guys

My employer threw away a shirt of mine that I'd left in a locker in the break room by mistake

Which makes me mad (especially because it could have been one I really cared about if I'd been unlucky)

In your own locker?

They're not assigned

Aren't you allowed to leave stuff in your own locker?

Oh

F

They left a warning they were cleaning them out a few days later, but after six hours of doing work outside I think I can be forgiven for forgetting to pick up my shirt from the locker

And they could, y'know, not throw them away immediately

The complete disrespect seriously irks me

Like, I've got less than 10 shirts

What if that's been my MCR shirt from the concert?

*that'd

It almost bothers me enough to finally push me to get a new job and finally tell them to fuck themselves

do you have a headache?

Yes, from dehydration

Clearly the solution here is to become more zen and not worry about shirts and stuff

@RydwolfPrograms yikes

Your employers are simply Buddhists who are trying to teach you their philosophy

dehydration sucks

They also only gave me one shirt for wearing to work

@user go to work topless?

My job involves

working in the sun for six hours

So guess who smells like sweat times a million by the end of the week

Just waiting for someone to comment on that

that's a pretty tricky question, I dunno :p

@Ginger Actually, school. That shirt was what I'd worn to school and I went straight from school to work. So school topless :p (way more boring of a proposition than it could be since I'm a guy tho)

Also thanks Apple for suggesting "weed" after "smells like" lol

My job does kinda suck in a lot of ways tho

For one, the shifts are incredibly inconsistent and there's never enough to go around

For two, they're always on my case about stupid shit like selling candles or scanning things faster

For three, the water in the break room is wayyy too cold and there's no cell service (first one's mostly a joke but second is a serious issue)

For four, it's very difficult to get rid of a shift you can't work without getting punished

@Ginger bruh no I meant being like "oh well I'll just make do with my other shirts"

Unless you only have one shirt, which would suck

For five, they're terrible at communicating, refuse to train anyone worth a shit to save $30, and do some fairly shady things

@user Tbf I also interpreted that as "don't wear shirts" lol

I guess I should have said stoic rather than zen

E.g., to get our items-per-minute numbers up, they'll have the people subbing in for our breaks keep using our accounts

If they're faster than us ofc

Which is hella shady since it means my name is being printed on receipts with alcohol purchases when I didn't actually authorize them

Meaning if one of those people subbed in for me sells a bilingual of alcohol to some 17 year old who then gets drunk and kills someone in a vehicle accident, it's me who's listed as having sold it to them

*bunch

They've had me do some mild OSHA violation stuff around heavy machinery, nothing bad but I was literally only in that job for one shift and they still managed to do multiple slightly illegal things in those four hours (what if I'd been there longer?)

Wish blackmail worked IRL

@RydwolfPrograms That is enough of an issue to me that if management was unwilling to do anything about it I’d quit

Wait, @Ginger is the server you were offering to host it on your own, or the one that was just struck by lightning?

@Bbrk24 the one that was just struck by lightning :b

@RydwolfPrograms for a moment then I thought a bilingual of alcohol was some fancy term for a package size

Which wouldn't surprise me

Someone needs to invent a microwave that can have simultaneous timers so people can appreciate the other numbers more

Like if I want 2:30 I have to choose between 1:96, 1:97 and 1:98 for appreciation of unused numbers

But two timers that both count down at the same time would allow me to have 1:98 on one screen and 2:37 on the other

The timer with the longest time is how long it stays in for

Because obviously 1:98 and 2:37 don't go the same amount of time

But it'd be nice to use more numbers more often

Regarding that... Do physicists or chemists actually need microwaves whose timer is adjustable by milliseconds?

I don't know if I understand what you're talking about but I would really like the ability to set multiple timers at once

My phone only lets me set one timer at a time, which is annoying if, say, I have one load of clothes in the washer and one in the dryer

@DannyuNDos Like, microwave ovens?

@user Yeah.

@user only one timer gets used. The other ones are for display purposes and using extra numbers only

I doubt physicists and chemists eat special food that requires that kinda precision :P

@lyxal ...that's less useful

I thought you meant for like experiments and stuff

@user but it means I get to use the other numbers more often

I heard that chemists actually use microwave ovens to heat water and other polar substances.

I doubt you'd need a timer that precise for that

There's gonna be differences in your sample each time so a millisecond's worth of difference probably wouldn't matter?

@lyxal You can just do a countdown in your head to make them feel appreciated