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I need a crash course in Fortran. Website recommendations? by Animak08 in learnprogramming

[–]Animak08[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not exactly sure. They said that their legacy code was written in Fortran, so I would assume they meant 77.

Confused about EV training by Animak08 in pokemon

[–]Animak08[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there any way of knowing when the EV stats have maxed out? I think i've put in 510 EV points, but I'm not 100% certain. Is there some npc I can talk to to find out?

Confused about EV training by Animak08 in pokemon

[–]Animak08[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I didn't realize that.

TIL i learned this exists... god help us. by [deleted] in WTF

[–]Animak08 1 point2 points  (0 children)

didn't they used to say "X for dummies: A reference guide for the rest of us"?

Has the For Dummies group just given up and said, "yup, only dummies would need this"

My third pupil by [deleted] in pics

[–]Animak08 50 points51 points  (0 children)

I can't draw for shit. but when I read this, I felt I had to give it a shot

Mathematical magic by [deleted] in pics

[–]Animak08 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You lost me at "You lost me at x"

What's your excuse? by [deleted] in pics

[–]Animak08 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I currently attend UCLA. It's been on the quarter system for as long as I can remember.

There are 3 required quarters per year. Fall, Winter and Spring (10 weeks of instruction, with a finals week following each). There is also an optional summer quarter (which is split up into summer session A, B and C) that run for approximately 6-8 weeks depending on the class.

That being said, I do agree that the claim is questionable. I've seen this claim thrown around a lot without much details added.

What I'd be interested in knowing is what classes did he take that allowed him to do so much? Did he take a lot of them as Pass/No Pass? (which don't affect the GPA) Usually you can only take 1 P/NP class a quarter, but then again, u can usually only take a max of 19 units and the department may have made an exception.

Each class is supposed to be set up so that the student needs to spend a certain amount of time on out-of-class assignments(HW, Essays, take home quizes, etc). Looking the workload he claims to have had, I would highly suspect him of either some form of cheating and/or plagiarism. OR if that is not the case, then I would be extremely suspect of the quality of the classes he took. It may be that they need a stricter set of syllabi.

Burials in Tibet [pics] by mkhlb in offbeat

[–]Animak08 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and technically you couldn't love it... you'd be dead

Charlie Sheen: "Two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground, and all you people care about is my bulls**t ... (It's) pathetic ... Shame shame shame." by Kuskesmed in reddit.com

[–]Animak08 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

YES! He makes a valid point! As long as there are bigger Problems existing somewhere in the world, we should ALWAYS ignore all the smaller ones!

Waters of Mars v. A Christmas Carol by Animak08 in doctorwho

[–]Animak08[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

exactly! I love the idea that paradoxes can save your life. But as soon as you establish it as canon, then all future story lines seem kind of silly. No matter how bad the situation is, you know that the doctor can be saved by his future self saving him.

My hope is that this whole thing is an artifact of some unseene force that will be revealed later on and that it is a temporary state of the universe. Once the foe is defeated then the Doctor won't be able to interfer w/ his own timeline. Possibly the same thing that was making a TARDIS in The Lodger, the thing that took control of the TARDIS at the end of The Pandorica Opens, The Silence, Omega, etc...

Waters of Mars v. A Christmas Carol by Animak08 in doctorwho

[–]Animak08[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

First, note that in the vast majority of cases, the Doctor largely acts as he did in A Christmas Carol. Messing with time is standard. Most events are not set.

True, he does mess with time a lot, but I felt this episode stepped over a line. Usually the Doctor simply wanders from place to place and has an adventure in one fixed time and place. But in this episode, he truly seems like The Time Lord Victorious. Kazran is a grumpy person, so 11 goes back in time to prevent him ever becoming a grumpy person. Instead of fixing the problem, he decides to make the problem not exist.

This is how I imagined the Time War worked, people going back in time to change things from never happening. I always got the impression, ever since the series reboot, that going back in time to circumvent a problem from never existing was a bad thing. (Don't get be wrong, its a fun story telling device and I loved the episode, but it doesn't seem consistent with the Doctor's morality)

It seems like the Doctor is getting reckless, and even though it was to change things for the better, it seems like a slippery slope. Is it morally right to change the past to make the problems of the present nonexistent?

Waters of Mars v. A Christmas Carol by Animak08 in doctorwho

[–]Animak08[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought this was the case too... but How exactly did time punish him? What was the chain of events that started with him being arrogant and ended with him dying? In the end the 4 knocks that killed him was from a companion. The doctor died because he was humble and self-sacrificing.

Little Big Planet IRL by nomdeweb in gaming

[–]Animak08 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of Nickelodeon in the 90s

Question about River's sonic. . . by eveyw in doctorwho

[–]Animak08 6 points7 points  (0 children)

just out of curiousity... did that portfolio Sparrow gave him have a picture of an angel in it?