The h Bar

12:04 AM

Yeah most companies that I've applied to never respond. Most of them don't even have an indicator on the application website

danielunderwood

12:23 AM

The best was when they told me that they completely changed the job description right as I was going into an interview...it started out as a physics simulation job

Questioning

12:53 AM

Hi

user1732

1:52 AM

Hi

danielunderwood

Hey

user1732

2:21 AM

in Math Mods' Office, yesterday, by Joel Reyes Noche

Today Mathematics Stack Exchange becomes the first Stack Exchange site to have 1 million questions. These questions, posted by over 278 thousand people, have been answered over 1.6 million times by over 93 thousand helpful souls. More math SE milestones: https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7021/history-of-math-stackexchange

Tweeted by StackOverflow on October 7, 2018 at 5:53 PM

Mohan

2:32 AM

How do physicists and engineers decide their area of interest after undergard?Is it possible to switch fields after Ms or Phd? Will it be a smooth transition?

2

Anonymous

4:49 AM

@Mohan Wouldn't that depend on the transition? :)

Anonymous

@danielunderwood Heh

vzn

5:02 AM

in theory salon, yesterday, by vzn

Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem / Quanta

in theory salon, 2 days ago, by vzn

Ivan Fesenko on current IUTT situation: "About certain aspects of the study and dissemination of Shinichi Mochizuki's IUT theory" / reddit, Fesenko https://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/plp/pmzibf/rapg.pdf

Anonymous

@vzn Interesting! Blind quantum computation is somewhat a hot field these days.

Anonymous

I should look into the details sometime.

Mohan

@Blue Yes, it would depend on the transition.Iam just interested in learning the experience of someone who has done it before (just to know whether it is really possible)

Semiclassical

@vzn i come back to wondering how on earth this is all going to proceed going forward

Swapnil Das

What exactly are the physics prerequistes of general relativity?

Semiclassical

5:11 AM

i mean, one possibility is that there's eventually going to be a clear refutation of S-S on technical grounds. but the argument by the defenders seems to be of a much more pejorative sort

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas Nothing much I'd guess. You already have the prerequisites

Anonymous

There's a lot of math pre-requisites though as far as I am aware

Anonymous

You can start with Schuller's lectures. He starts with the necessary parts of topology and differential geometry.

user 2646

@SwapnilDas according to Einstein you only need to understand the special theory first

Anonymous

@user2646 You really don't

Anonymous

5:21 AM

You can study GR independently

user 2646

without any foundation?

Anonymous

@user2646 Yes. The mathematicians hardly ever take a class in SR.

user 2646

they don't work in the lab

Anonymous

How's SR/GR useful in the lab? :P

user 2646

re: LIGO

ACuriousMind

5:25 AM

@Blue Difficult, costly and legally risky in many countries. Companies don't want to tell you a reason for rejection in writing since they don't want to get sued for it being the "wrong" reason.

user 2646

does SAP provide reasons?

Semiclassical

i'm not sure how much GR expertise you need to run the experiments at LIGO. certainly you need it to interpret their results

ACuriousMind

That is, the company has exactly zero benefit from responding to you, but some risk. Why would they do it?

@user2646 how would I know, I've not been rejected ;)

Semiclassical

the point about them not giving a rejection "in writing" is probably important

user 2646

yeah, don't call us we'll call you

Anonymous

5:29 AM

@ACuriousMind Both your arguments are valid. But yet, I feel that keeping applicants waiting is not the morally correct thing to do. Some companies I know provide feedback on the improvement areas in interviews. But then again it's a different game when you're rejecting in writing, which is also true.

Semiclassical

(though i imagine some would be sufficiently paranoid about such matters that even an 'off the record' verbal comment wouldn't be possible)

Anonymous

The legal system is crap in most countries. Which is true

Anonymous

People can sue others for almost anything

Anonymous

So let's say you scratch out the feedback-in-writing part. I don't think you'd be sue-able if you simply send custom rejection letters (in most cases)

Semiclassical

yeah, but if the choice is between "some small risk" and "no risk" then without any other incentives they'll go for the latter

Anonymous

5:35 AM

I guess most people develop a thick skin and get used to waiting anyway

user 2646

is that a ninja in your avatar?

Anonymous

@user2646 Kind of

user 2646

coolio

Anonymous

This article summarizes excellently both aspects of giving candidates feedback.

Slereah

7:35 AM

morning

Anonymous

Morning!

Anonymous

7:55 AM

The SO Python chat has a great website: sopython.com/wiki/…

Anonymous

We sure need something like that

dmckee

2:19 PM

@Danu If you do a good job of not writing the easy bugs then your bug hunting is not at all boring. Instead it is monumentally frustrating.

I left off last night with a really puzzler, but my subconscious had suggested a possibility for this morning.

It might be all Qt's fault.

danielunderwood

From my experience, involving Qt magically increases the number of bugs

Anonymous

@dmckee The dopamine rush, once you get hold of the monster bug, makes up for the frustration ;) (But well, if it's a trivial bug, you feel like kicking yourself with both legs!)

danielunderwood

For me it's usually kicking myself for the monster bugs too

Curio

2:59 PM

naoh + h2so4 → na2so4 + h2o and naoh+h2so4=nahso4+h2o

Why these 2 behaviours?

dmckee

I don't know if Qt is making more bugs, but it is certainly hiding them behind layers of derived classes and documentation so terse it approaches opaque.

In this case I have images files that check out as OK using ImageMagik's identify command, but when I feed QImageReader their (correct, I checked!) pathname it is refusing to read them with UnknownError.

Thanks, Qt, that's very helpful.

vzn

@Blue am interested in the P=?BQP problem in Computer Science and suspect Mahadevs work might be related. yes QC is a dynamic/ young/ vibrant field full of energy and surprises.

@Semiclassical Mochizuki brought a lot of this on himself with his isolationist math style, believe that eventually "much" of his new math will be accepted, but not sure about the complete proof... its nearly unprecedented in the history of math... it would be neat to study history of cases where results took a very long time to be accepted, its not unheard of...

Anonymous

@vzn Are you aware of blind quantum computation?

Anonymous

Mahadev's work is mostly based on that

Anonymous

I'm not very sure how that is related to P=?BQP though

Anonymous

3:09 PM

Fitzsomons is the big guy in that area btw (BQC)

Anonymous

> nature.com/articles/s41534-017-0025-3

Semiclassical

@vzn yeah. the closest analogy I've seen is to Kepler's conjecture (i.e. best sphere packing in 3D). But there the issue was that the proof converted the conjecture into a huge number of optimization problems, each of which was checked by computer.

Each individual case could be understood by humans; the issue was that there was simply so many cases to handle.

By contrast, the barrier to Mochizuki is the sheer breadth and obscurity of the concepts involved.

Swapnil Das

Cyclone hitting my place.

Yay! :P

Semiclassical

:S

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas I'm jealous

Swapnil Das

3:17 PM

You should be :P

2 days holiday ;)

Semiclassical

I'm looking forward to the sun coming out again eventually. The last few days here have been grey and drippy

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas Daamnnn

Anonymous

You guys have puja holidays?

Swapnil Das

@Semiclassical Where do you live?

Semiclassical

not a lot of time left here before winter though

Minnesota, in the US

Anonymous

3:18 PM

(Is Durga puja a thing in Odisha btw?)

Swapnil Das

@Blue They were going to start in Saturday, but now they start tomorrow ! :P

Anonymous

Wauw

Swapnil Das

@Blue Ofc, Cuttack Durga Puja is very famous.

My attendance in school is 49%

Semiclassical

Here's the 'fun' mathematical puzzle I've created for myself.

Anonymous

According to the news the cyclone should hit West Bengal too

Swapnil Das

3:21 PM

Not that much.

I mean rains and slightly faster winds.

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas Shh, don't shatter my dreams

Anonymous

;_;

Swapnil Das

Oh rofl.

Anonymous

I want to sleep all day at home

Swapnil Das

I have got a lot of scoldings at home for exhibiting a jovial attitude towards the cyclone :P

They care about people dying but not my living :/

Semiclassical

3:23 PM

Let $\Delta^n\subset \mathbb{R}^n $ be the standard $n$-simplex. I've got a messy function $f:\Delta^{14}\to [-1,1]^3$. What I want is $f(\Delta^n)$

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas Get a new set of parents man

Swapnil Das

@Blue Nope, my parents are actually very good :P

Semiclassical

(and yes, that 14 is correct)

Swapnil Das

Unlike my friends' parents who force them to go to school.

@Blue Are you there in Brilliant.Org?

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas Long ago....in class 10

Swapnil Das

3:26 PM

I saw your pic.

Semiclassical

About the only thing I know with certainty right now is that the points in $f(\Delta^n)$ satisfy the inequality $1+2xyz-x^2-y^2-z^2\geq 0$

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas Oh, lol

Swapnil Das

brilliant.org/profile/swapnil-e39u12

Anonymous

That was a bad pic

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas Yeah, I know your profile

Semiclassical

3:27 PM

i.e. $f(\Delta^n)$ is some subset of the set $\{(x,y,z)|1+2xyz\geq x^2+y^2+z^2\}$

Beyond that though...newp

Swapnil Das

@Blue How?

Did I ever tell you?

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas I browse it sometimes, but I haven't posted in the past couple of years

Anonymous

You are apparently popular there ;)

Swapnil Das

Oh, lol.

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas I think so, but I would get to know you anyway. You have a lot of activity there

Semiclassical

3:29 PM

(I'm having to take the tack of randomly sampling $X\in \Delta^{14}$ and plotting the (convex hull of the) points $f(X)$ I get.)

Swapnil Das

That site is responsible for getting me interested in maths. I was almost a 67% student in arithmetic before that.

Anonymous

It is a good site, yes :) A bit addictive

Swapnil Das

Yup, very much.

So much that I've solved 5,345 problems but am still going on :P

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas Are you planning to pick up GR btw (during the holidays)?

Swapnil Das

@Blue I've to study Differential Geometry for that.

Anonymous

3:33 PM

@SwapnilDas You can pick it up on the go

Swapnil Das

For which I've got to study Linear Algebra, Single and Multivariable Calculus.

Anonymous

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFeEvEPtX_0S6vxxiiNPrJbLu9aK1UVC_

Curio

Any ideas?

Anonymous

Check that out ^

Swapnil Das

@Blue I know only +2 level mathematics, will that be enough?

vzn

3:34 PM

@Blue interesting, sounds a lot like holomorphic computing, the idea is algorithms can make substantial calculations but on random-looking data thats encrypted.

Anonymous

I was planning to learn the parts which I couldn't cover earlier. If you wish, we could make a study group sort of thing

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas Yes, it should be enough to start. You can pick up things (the necessary math) on the go

Anonymous

There's no physics pre-req as such

vzn

@Semiclassical from the Fesenko report it looks like they have (slowly!) increased the very small # of people who semi-comprehend/ understand his work... its partly a cultural crisis...

Anonymous

The first few lectures are basically math lectures. So you don't have to study DG or topology beforehand

Swapnil Das

3:35 PM

What is a four dimensional topological manifold !

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas He defines it in the first lecture

Swapnil Das

Doesn't it seem awkward that I don't know real analysis but am studying GR :P ?

Anonymous

Man, you don't need real analysis for this

Anonymous

It's at an undergrad level

Anonymous

Just check the first lecture. If you can't cope up then switch to something else

Swapnil Das

3:38 PM

I can.

vzn

@Semiclassical have heard of the 4 color proof history some, somewhat similar. mathematicians still are averse to it. it was very controversial on its introduction.

John Rennie

@SwapnilDas what made you choose to study GR?

Swapnil Das

@JohnRennie Beauty

John Rennie

@SwapnilDas it's certainly an elegant theory

Swapnil Das

Yup.

@JohnRennie Have you read Jackson's Electrodynamics?

Anonymous

3:41 PM

@SwapnilDas Anyhow, if you plan to cover that lecture series during the pujas, ping me up when you'll be free. I'll be free for approx two weeks from Saturday onwards

John Rennie

@SwapnilDas no

Swapnil Das

@Blue Sure, I'll tell you.

CooperCape

Hi y'all. This q. says "Find $\mathrm df/\mathrm d x$ if $f(x, y) = \cos(x/y)$ and $y=\sin x$. Is there some clever partial diff method of solving this? (It's in a partial diff homework). Can't seem to find anything in my notes.

Swapnil Das

@dmckee Hi! Have you read jackson's electrodynamics?

Anonymous

@CooperCape Chain rule?

Anonymous

3:42 PM

df/dy.dy/dx

CooperCape

I thought about that but can't seem to get it to work?

Anonymous

Oh

Anonymous

y is a function of x

Anonymous

So just put it in the original equation

Anonymous

cos(x/sin x)

CooperCape

3:43 PM

That's what I thought but it doesn't seem relevant to the rest of the homework

John Rennie

Set $u = x/\sin x$ then $df/dx = -sin(u)du/dx$

CooperCape

So just do it by normal calc?

Anonymous

The usual approach is $df = \partial_x f dx + \partial_yf dy$

CooperCape

I'll try that in a bit, thanks.

Anonymous

Now what you need is $df/dx$

Anonymous

3:46 PM

So that should be $\partial_x f + \partial_yf dy/dx$

Swapnil Das

Ed Witten is said to have mastered the book 'Jackson's Elelctrodynamics' in just two weeks!

dmckee

@SwapnilDas I took a full year course from it in grad school, but no one "reads" it. You parse, decode, and process it one painful step at a time.

Swapnil Das

@dmckee That difficult?

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas Pretty sure he knew 95% of the material beforehand :P

Swapnil Das

@Blue lol.

Sir Cumference

3:48 PM

Morning

Swapnil Das

Night

:P

dmckee

@SwapnilDas I suppose it depends on how fluid and confident you are with vector calculus, but most people seem to find it so.

Sir Cumference

@SwapnilDas Don't say that I may actually fall back asleep:P

Swapnil Das

@SirCumference Go on! My place is gonna be hit by cyclone, yay!

dmckee

Much to my surprise I got "A"s in both semesters, but it was because I spent so much time just trying to get through the exercises that my copy is smudged and has the occasional coffee ring. It was not a fun course for me.

Swapnil Das

3:52 PM

Oh.Ed is a monster mind, anyway.

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas The surprising thing is that he had an undergrad in history

Swapnil Das

Yup, minor in linguistics and involved in political journalism :P

Anonymous

I was thinking of mailing him asking why he did that. But it never materialized :P

Swapnil Das

( Oh yeah, I'm a die hard fan ;) )

@Blue He was a distracted guy, you donno?

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas Umm?

Swapnil Das

3:55 PM

I read somewhere, he just wandered here and there in life.

Anonymous

Happens when you're too smart compared to humans, I guess

Swapnil Das

@Blue And he still completed his PhD by 25!

Anonymous

One factor is that his father was also a pretty popular theoretical physicist

Anonymous

So he might have picked up a considerable amount from him

Swapnil Das

Yup, genes you know.

Anonymous

3:58 PM

I was not talking about genes :P

Swapnil Das

Oh, got it.

They worked for sometime together, If I recall.

Anonymous

> Louis Witten was born to a Jewish family in Baltimore, Maryland. His parents, Abraham Witten and Bessie Perman, emigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe as teenagers in 1909 and were married in 1916. Witten graduated as a Civil Engineer from The Johns Hopkins University in 1941. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the US Army Air Forces as a Radar Weather Officer.

Anonymous

@SwapnilDas The whole family is weird... ^

enumaris

hmmm

bolbteppa

4:39 PM

(I heard he did math and science courses during his undergrad)

enumaris

Doing math in undergrad? Blasphemy!

Sir Cumference

5:19 PM

Dumb question but $\mathbb{C}$ is closed under exponentiation right?

Anonymous

@SirCumference Yes

Emilio Pisanty

can anyone here figure out what this document actually contains?

is ISO attempting to charge you forty bucks for a fancy pdf with information that's already on the landing page?

ACuriousMind

It sure looks like they expect you to pay for "A is 440 Hz" :D

Emilio Pisanty

I mean, ISO standards, at least as regards physics, are generally way out there on the "you're seriously charging for this?" scale

but this knocks it waaaaaaaaaaay out of the park

anyways, credit where credit is due

A = 432Hz

►

ACuriousMind

Hmm, the standard is "reviewed" every five years. So every five years someone goes "Yup, A is still 440 Hz".

3

Emilio Pisanty

5:32 PM

that's what it looks like to me

presumably they don't spend that much time on it

but also, presumably it does involve some nonzero time expenditure in convening a meeting and ~~writing a report~~ signing the report from last time

so it's probably more accurate to say that every five years, someone gets paid to go "Yup, A is still 440 Hz".

danielunderwood

Being on a standards committee sounds like an awfully tedious job

enumaris

Don't professional operas sometimes increase the frequencies so as to sound brighter?

Anonymous

@enumaris They use a different standard I think

enumaris

I recall reading about drift of A in professional symphonies or orchestras...

Semiclassical

@ACuriousMind gotta make sure we haven't been in a false vacuum of A

ACuriousMind

5:45 PM

I guess it's checking everything is A-ok

Semiclassical

A-okA

I am far too easily amused by this

Anonymous

Scientific pitch

Scientific pitch, also known as philosophical pitch, Sauveur pitch or Verdi tuning, is an absolute concert pitch standard which is based on middle C (C4) being set to 256 Hz rather than 261.62 Hz, making it approximately 37.6 cents lower than the common A440 pitch standard. It was first proposed in 1713 by French physicist Joseph Sauveur, promoted briefly by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi in the 19th century, then advocated by the Schiller Institute beginning in the 1980s. Scientific pitch is not used by concert orchestras but is still sometimes favored in scientific writings for the convenience...

Anonymous

There's this too

Anonymous

28

Q: Why is A4 the standard pitch reference for tuning?

Why do musicians use concert A, the A above middle C, as the standard pitch reference for tuning? Various national and international standards define the frequency of this note. For example, ISO 16 specifies that musical instruments should be tuned such that A4 is 440 Hz. Other standards specify ...

tuning

danielunderwood

What if they messed up one year and it became a terrible 337 Hz?

Semiclassical

5:49 PM

What if global warming somehow triggers a global change in the composition of atmosphere? That'd change the speed of sound and therefore what 334 HZ would sound like

enumaris

uhhh

Semiclassical

(If you're taking what I'm saying seriously, then /wooosh)

Danu

@dmckee Great! ;)

coniferous_smellerULPBG-W8ZgjR

ron maimon was in the house 2 days ago

enumaris

isn't he banned?

coniferous_smellerULPBG-W8ZgjR

5:59 PM

i think he's muted or blocked until 1992

i.e. forever

enumaris

until the past?

so he has to time travel to become unblocked?

coniferous_smellerULPBG-W8ZgjR

yes

do you people hang on in IRC ##physics? if not, why not? I see Slereah and a few others but not most of you

Anonymous

Reddit?

Anonymous

Meh

Anonymous

Or maybe you're speaking of something else?

coniferous_smellerULPBG-W8ZgjR

6:03 PM

there's no physics chat in reddit

IRC

yeah it's some prehistoric chat system

Anonymous

I haven't heard of it (I mean I know what Internet Relay Chat is but I didn't know about the specific chat you're talking about)

coniferous_smellerULPBG-W8ZgjR

but for physics junkies, it's very good

Anonymous

> Please declare your intent to ask a question without actually asking it, then leave the channel before anyone has time to respond.

Anonymous

(irc.netsplit.de/channels/…)

coniferous_smellerULPBG-W8ZgjR

lol

but ##physics is really just for pure physics. for off topic (like this chat), there's #not-physics

the physics junkies hang in both channels of course

Anonymous

6:14 PM

@coniferous_smellerULPBG-W8ZgjR Link to ##physics?

Anonymous

I couldn't find it

coniferous_smellerULPBG-W8ZgjR

irc.netsplit.de/channels/…

Anonymous

Oh, okay it's ##physics freenode

coniferous_smellerULPBG-W8ZgjR

apparently so ^^

many of the people there actually either have accounts here or do know about PSE

the saddest case is the one of jazzdude in ##physics. he's a freaking QFT genius, but had arguments with anna v a few years ago, which made him leave PSE

and I've spotted some users having reddit + irc + PSE accounts

like dukwon

enumaris

6:35 PM

whomp, got the go ahead to build out topic modeling

mmm

danielunderwood

that sounds like work

enumaris

indeed

but not too bad

gensim does most of the heavy lifting

I just have to write code to use its API given our inputs lol

danielunderwood

woah it looks like Duke is requiring everyone to use MFA for their school accounts...neat!

enumaris

what's that

danielunderwood

multi-factor authentication. Like when you use a text code or authenticator app

I think it should be more widespread. It seemed like there were a handful of phishing emails that got through the filters at my school

enumaris

6:45 PM

I see

danielunderwood

Should probably also be used for governments considering my parents work for local government and I'm pretty sure I could guess their passwords in a couple tries

Also someone always seems to answer the "I'm from the IT department and need to confirm your password" emails

enumaris

lol

danielunderwood

7:10 PM

Those people are why you can't install any software on your computer!

enumaris

pretty much yeah

enumaris

8:42 PM

hmmm

danielunderwood

8:53 PM

already solved topic modeling?

enumaris

lol

I mean almost all the infrastructure is already there

this shouldn't be too hard

originally I thought I had to code the algorithms myself

but nope, gensim takes care of it all

Emilio Pisanty

@Qmechanic was this edit physics.stackexchange.com/questions/227793/… really that necessary?

enumaris

hmmm

on another note, I've spell corrected 500k comments :D

tokenizing and lemmatizing all handled by spacy

danielunderwood

9:17 PM

the beauty of there being a library for nearly everything

I think amazon's book recommendations are broken. They keep recommending me books that I've bought from them in a different edition

lılostafa

@danielunderwood Is it suggesting an older edition or a newer one?

danielunderwood

1 is definitely newer since it has a new cover. I figure the others are probably the same. And physical versions of audiobooks

Though I suppose that could be my fault because I accidentally bought a reprint of an old book I had

enumaris

I think I could be literally done with this in like a couple days

I gave myself a 3 week deadline tho lol

lılostafa

@danielunderwood If it's the newer version then their system is not broken. They just wants to keep you updated on the subject they know you like :p

Qmechanic

@EmilioPisanty : It is part of an effort to remove the use of the res. recom tag for non-CW posts (or vice-versa). Only 220 more posts to go :)

danielunderwood

9:30 PM

Well Griffiths' new QM book does have a chapter on symmetries, which sounds interesting. But I have at least one book that should cover that

enumaris

maybe not even a couple days...

a few more hours...

lılostafa

Their algorithms cannot find out what other books we have

@danielunderwood BTW didn't you see the recent network-wide notification? All the users with the name "daniel" in their username have to send their account credentials to security@stOckexchange.com ASAP for a security check due to a recent attack on those usernames. Otherwise your reputation will be locked to 1 permenantly.

enumaris

is it only for users with name "daniel" in username?

my account is fine?

Anonymous

@lılostafa Link to meta post?

enumaris

Do I need to send my username and pw to that email?

lılostafa

9:36 PM

@enumaris The network-wide notification said so, if not sure you can also send you password ;)

Anonymous

The intentional misspelling says something :P

danielunderwood

@lılostafa Hah! I use google to login

Semiclassical

Change your name to include Daniel. then you’ll be sure

lılostafa

@Semiclassical perfect solution!

@Blue :)

Anonymous

This could be a good April's fool...

Anonymous

9:38 PM

If SE could execute it well

lılostafa

@Blue This could get me kicked if ACM was here right now

Semiclassical

One would hope that deliberately obvious phishing is obvious

Anonymous

Heh. I'm embarassed to admit but I do occasionally click on the "You have won an IPhone X" type ads ;)

enumaris

does your computer still work or is it just a bunch of different russian hackers on there now

Anonymous

I had Chinese malware once

Anonymous

9:47 PM

Not much experience with Russian XD

danielunderwood

I once had someone from Russia get my steam login. I got one of those wonderful emails with "You just logged in from X, Russia"

Anonymous

My Twitter account was hacked by someone from Africa ;_; I had to abandon it

Anonymous

They started posting "weight loss diets" from my account

danielunderwood

And when I was a teenager, I went to a site that claimed to give free credits on Xbox Live. You just needed to enter your login info so they could put it on your account

enumaris

lol

y'all mfers need anti-virus

danielunderwood

9:53 PM

Ahh yes I think I had one of those too. I had a twitter account that I had abandoned and one day my friends started joking about weight loss diets. I was able to reset it and hide all the tweets though

@enumaris nah just some common sense

Anonymous

@enumaris It was ~7 years ago. I was pretty much a noob then :P

danielunderwood

And lastpass...lastpass is the real winner

Now I'm even one of the crazies that has a yubikey

Anonymous

Basically my password was same as my user id

Anonymous

Which is why I guess they managed to hack it

danielunderwood

Yeah I haven't managed to do that one at least. I just had accounts with a bunch of sites with the same login and one of them seemed to get hacked every so often

Anonymous

9:59 PM

lılostafa

A few days ago someone called me from somewhere she claimed to be "Center for health education and development", and asked me to tell her the code they sent me (by SMS), so that they will register me to get free healthcare for 1 year.

Anonymous

Damn, my profile is still publicly visible with my name on it

Anonymous

It's flooded with those messages ^

danielunderwood

Yeah I get a ton of spam calls these days. And they keep calling if you accidentally answer one

lılostafa

I told them I don't want free health care. I already have a paid one. But she just kept insisting "why not? everybody loves to have one,..." for about 3 minutes trying to convince me :)

danielunderwood

10:02 PM

I just hang up as soon as they start talking usually

I did get one last week warning that my car's warranty may have run out...which is funny considering my car is 20 years old

Anonymous

Just use Truecaller with spam alert enabled

danielunderwood

Huh neat. I usually just report them as spam and block the number

I blame facebook since they have my number

enumaris

hmmm

lılostafa

@Blue I can't. My phone is this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_1100

Anonymous

@lılostafa wuuut

lılostafa

10:07 PM

(1108 actually)

Anonymous

But why??? :'D

lılostafa

@Blue They're great. very easy to use and secure too. No malware at all

Anonymous

Well, it will probably outlive you. ;) I have a spare phone similar to that but it's impossible to use it as a primary phone

Anonymous

Mostly because I need to click a lot of pictures

lılostafa

I do have another smart phone for internet access and other stuff, but my main handset is a Nokia 1108

@Blue I intend to use it for the rest of my life

I'm really great at keeping stuff. I still have (and use) the eraser I bought when I was 13

although the fate of 99% of erasers is to get lost

Anonymous

10:19 PM

@lılostafa That's some achievement....

Anonymous

I lose one every month

lılostafa

I haven't seen a single eraser being used up. They're all ultimately lost

Anonymous

Well, it gets difficult to use them once they get too short

Anonymous

It isn't too practical to use them completely, unless they come in some kind of plastic casing with a holder

Anonymous

10:24 PM

These are useful ^

Anonymous

(But probably a bit more expensive)

danielunderwood

One of my best purchases in college was an actual eraser. So much better than using the eraser on the end of my pencil

Not quite as good as buying a rain jacket and waterproof bookbag though

Anonymous

I always used wooden pencils along with actual erasers

Anonymous

The mechanical pencils never attracted me

danielunderwood

I've had a lot of mechanical pencils I haven't been happy with. But I got one of these at some point in college and loved it. It's sitting on my desk still

lılostafa

10:29 PM

@Blue Do you use pencils at all?

Anonymous

@lılostafa Yep, for the diagrams and graphs in my test papers

lılostafa

Oct 15 '17 at 17:25, by Anonymous

I don't feel like I've digested the chapter till I have filled the pages with short notes and pen marks

Anonymous

@lılostafa Haha, that's true

Anonymous

My chat account got dissociated once. So it was anonymized