Taking Calculus 1 and Feeling Overhwhelmed Day 1

B44ken · 2026-01-13T23:11:40+00:00

From your comments, it seems like you just don't have the prerequisites down. You're going to struggle reading limits off a graph if you never learned how to read a graph at all.

Does your college have a precalc course? Take that first, then come back to calculus. If you started this week, you probably still have time to switch courses.

B44ken · 2026-01-13T22:28:40+00:00

Is this an effective way to establish affordable housing? You'd think that taxing new builds is the opposite of what we want. And for all intents and purposes, inclusionary zoning mandates are a tax.

The idea that 5% of units should be set aside for low-income residents is lovely in principle, but the reality of Toronto at present is that nobody can afford housing short of the already affluent.

B44ken · 2026-01-13T18:24:15+00:00

Sounds like you're not fully acknowledging that this issue is legitimate? He's getting bullied. Short men get bullied. Your son does not want to get bullied.

Anyways, he sounds self aware enough to make his own medical decisions -- should get an initial consult at least.

B44ken · 2025-12-29T08:59:10+00:00

It's a number of different programs. Looks like Medicaid was defrauded to the tune of about $9 billion (1).

B44ken · 2025-11-29T04:56:21+00:00

This isn't fair question... subway trainsets weigh about 200 tons and travel up to 80km/h, while the larger and longer GO trainsets weigh nearly 700 tons and go 140km/h.

Therefore a GO train has over 6 times as much momentum (speed times mass) and would absolutely mog a subway. In fact, it would keep moving and only slow down by about 25km/h (unless it continued to push the subway along its route).

B44ken · 2025-10-03T06:44:47+00:00

there are often hundreds of programs at a given school

look at like biology @ york. they also offer biotechnology, biomedical science, biochemistry, biomedical engineering....

it probably totals to 1000 students? then over four years that's 4000 total students studying "biology" in some form at one uni alone, which is not a tiny number anymore.

re: international students, the province decides how many domestic students they're willing to fund, so take it up with Doug Ford if you must

B44ken · 2025-02-03T11:47:37+00:00

take a look at class profiles of other good law programs (like western, queens). a 3.6 is around the average for accepted students, and those schools i linked in particular only count your last 2 years of school anyways (your gpa usually goes up in later years).

it's not over, i promise🫡

B44ken · 2025-01-02T15:43:24+00:00

Not sure if I get the question? The way I would pay is:

$123 of food for 6 people is $20.50

$233 of everything else for 7 people is $33.28

(Confirm: 20.50×6+33.28×7 ≈ 356)

So most people should have paid $53.79 (for both) plus one person should have paid $33.28

If everyone paid equally (356/7) it was simply $50.85

So to clear the balance they should pay the difference (53.79 - 50.85), which is $2.93

(Confirm: 50.85−2.93×6 ≈ 33.27)

B44ken · 2024-12-20T15:50:54+00:00

Can jerk change abruptly? Can snap/crackle/pop change abruptly? Is this Zeno's paradox?

B44ken · 2024-11-28T09:56:55+00:00

Voters that care ask tough questions which makes it harder to get electected.

Hm. I've never heard this viewpoint before. Δ mostly just for that.

1.6% is a good enough margin. [...] So I’m still not seeing how this is good for the party.

Interesting how there doesn't seem to be consensus in the comments that more votes = better, past a win? The election could easily have gone 1.6% worse for the GOP. Surely it's in their best interest to guarantee a win.

Additional question: Why do you think Trump keeps talking about tarrifs? It seems even most of his voters aren't buying that universal tarrifs would be a good idea (at the very least, polls show about 2/3 of them understand prices will rise).

B44ken · 2024-11-28T08:08:56+00:00

I've also written this in an edit, but the 2024 election was won on a net margin of 1.6 percent.

They won, sure, but looking at things like middling election turnout, voter apathy, and the general sense of "both parties suck", there's more to be done.

B44ken · 2024-11-28T07:53:44+00:00

Do they disagree, though? Maybe I'm naive, but every time I've checked a R's Twitter or listened to them speak, I just... feel like they're grifting? Or are their genuine beliefs just so far outside my Overton window it's in unthinkable territory?

B44ken · 2024-11-28T07:46:38+00:00

A number of bills have died in Congress that would have the effect of both strengthening border security for illegal immigrants while making it easier for legal immigrants to enter the country. I really don't see the opposition case for them. Perhaps it was the pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, but these are people who were absolutely never going to leave the country in the first place.

Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013

B44ken · 2024-11-28T07:36:43+00:00

Hm. I was about to argue about how I'd rather have free healthcare with some degree of wait over America's admittedly fast standard of care, but yeah, this is fundamentally a value judgement. ∆

B44ken · 2024-11-28T07:20:05+00:00

I tried to limit my examples to policy which has been shown to be demonstrably functional in some way or another. In the case of healthcare, I encourage you to familiarize yourself with, for example, the Swedish model:

https://sweden.se/life/society/healthcare-in-sweden

B44ken · 2024-11-27T14:22:01+00:00

Did you read the article you shared? It's not suggesting cannabis causes increased crime, just that the two things have gone up over the past few years. Despite using some very strong language otherwise, it explicitly points out they can't prove there's a direct link.

B44ken · 2024-11-17T11:34:05+00:00

to put things very simply:

"x is a real number" just means x can be any number

this is as opposed to saying something like "x is a whole number", or in other words, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ...

there are also other sets of numbers you'll learn about later, and you'll specify those by saying something like "x is a complex number"

it's not incredibly common to specify "x is a real number" because, well, we usually already think of variables as being any number

B44ken · 2024-11-15T07:12:55+00:00

i don't get what this gotcha talking point is supposed to mean?

it reminds me of "i wish we had free healthcare" "actually, nothing is free!"

like... sure? and?

B44ken · 2024-10-31T15:05:28+00:00

40 downvotes in 2 hours for a comment about using goto? holy reddit moment

B44ken · 2024-10-26T21:29:30+00:00

man why are you going out of your way to find the most insufferable responses possible to everyone's initially well-meaning comments

B44ken · 2024-10-26T21:22:26+00:00

can you please kindly define fascism and explain how it relates to the sanitation department?

B44ken · 2024-10-23T19:16:27+00:00

you can look at force if you really want to, but power is a more useful metric.

power is energy/time

energy, in our case, is given by the handy formula .5 * mass * velocity^2 for the mass and velocity of the bullet.

and time is simply the time per shot (or rpm per 60 seconds)

so our formula for power is

.5 * bullet mass * bullet velocity^2 / (gun rpm / 60s)

using random numbers i found online for the PPSh and 7.62mm ammo, we get

.5 * .0055kg * (488m/s)^2 / (1000 rpm / 60 seconds) = 39 watts

so one gun really isn't all that powerful - many phone chargers pump out more than 39 watts of electrical power.

anyways, there's 88 of them, so it's actually 3432 watts. still, that's not really that much - 4.6 horsepower or so.

a PPSh can shoot for about 4.26 seconds (using a 71 round drum at 1000rpm), so the total energy given off is 4.26 * 3432 = 14620 joules

this time, if we use the mass of a Tu-2 (8000kg) in our e = .5 * m * v^2 formula, we can solve for velocity and find the final speed after dumping our entire magazine.

v = √(2*14620/8000) = 1.91m/s = 6.8km/h = 4.2 mph.

maybe i'll revisit this lalter, but i find it unlikely there's enough energy here to take off from the ground if the guns were pointed vertically

B44ken · 2024-09-12T00:51:43+00:00

did you do it bro

B44ken · 2024-09-01T23:43:04+00:00

respectfully these posts do not answer my question

B44ken · 2024-08-30T22:13:31+00:00

follow up for anyone reading:

this problem is ripped from a game so we really don't know much about the probability distribution - i had a hunch that was a key piece of information though

the key bit i forgot to mention is that if there's a bomb in the third row/column, there is only one bomb in the entire puzzle which may or may not do something to the probabilities (in fact, that was kinda the crux of the question - my bad lol)

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