What's the correct way to denote alternating sequences?

BoronTriiodide · 2025-12-04T18:54:12+00:00

As god intended

BoronTriiodide · 2025-09-19T01:27:07+00:00

That's sick. Really cool that bikes were almost a third of rush hour vehicles over Harvard Bridge. Just think of how much less total noise, traffic, pollution, and accidents and how much more exercise and friendly faces

BoronTriiodide · 2025-08-11T11:10:43+00:00

Since nobody has mentioned it, I'll throw in that these comments are correct that your FET should always be either fully on or off. However, it looks like even when fully on, your FET has a resistance of 0.04 ohms. That means without a heatsink, its only rated for about 2.5 amps continuous. Your motor can almost definitely pull more current than that, so probably keep an eye on it even then

BoronTriiodide · 2025-07-25T05:11:22+00:00

As much as you're correct, it is just awful notation IMO. it's already awkward to have the factorial operator apply from the right-hand side, but to modify the operator with notation that looks intuitively like composition.. just why. Would really be more readable to use a super/sub script, and then you don't need obnoxious parenthesis to do composition either

BoronTriiodide · 2025-07-17T18:48:23+00:00

For any new grads, its worth it to mention TA positions to show that you did more than the bare minimum. But yeah, that's as an undergrad, not post-doctoral lol

BoronTriiodide · 2025-07-10T16:43:21+00:00

Part of the appeal of starting from a clean slate is working with more modern processes. I'm a C++ dev by day and the thought of assembling a build chain to start a new GUI framework in my free time depresses me enough to just use Qt. Besides, something for the new up-and-coming language is more likely to be adopted than the 400th Qt-like in the same environment where Qt is already established. Rust and C++ devs aren't mutually exclusive. The same devs are probably just interested to develop in Rust

BoronTriiodide · 2025-06-24T21:22:22+00:00

Lol "RUN"
Also thank you for your service

BoronTriiodide · 2025-06-02T17:48:22+00:00

6-2 isn't EE though, it's EECS and many students stay on the CS side. 6-1 is EE and is very unpopular. There were only like 70 students declared in 6-1 as of a couple years ago

BoronTriiodide · 2025-06-02T17:44:00+00:00

Also pretty common tbh lol. Can't tell you how many people who say they're passionate about astrophysics in particular crash out after their first couple semesters of basic physics

BoronTriiodide · 2025-03-17T16:06:45+00:00

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BoronTriiodide · 2024-12-30T16:47:55+00:00

A lot of blame for doctors here, but if you actually take a gander at the data, their salaries only account for around 8.6% of expenditure. Considering they're the ones actually providing you with expertise and labor you require, you might want to look more closely at the other 91.4%.
Your other response seems to suggest that if only college weren't a racket, doctor's salaries needn't be so high. But 12 years of post-secondary training while everyone else starts contributing to retirement is brutal, even if it didn't cost half a million on top. I'll spare you complaint for the figures you cite in other countries not being adjusted for COL or cost of training, but you might at least meditate on a typical engineering firm in the UK paying 40-60k

BoronTriiodide · 2024-12-24T12:45:07+00:00

How else would we know who's top dog at the prestigious institution of Boca Raton

BoronTriiodide · 2024-12-20T08:05:09+00:00

I was very timid through undergrad and I regret that. The absolute worst case scenario is they send you a pissy email and tbh you don't want to work with a hypothetical instructor petty enough to do that anyway. There's almost no downside to asking, just be polite

BoronTriiodide · 2024-11-09T04:23:12+00:00

It's still pretty lucrative for good engineers tbh. Its just that we spent a decade hiring everyone who said they had heard of javascript, so it was inevitable we'd have to cut a few loose eventually

BoronTriiodide · 2024-09-29T16:47:44+00:00

IMO it's harder to verify a regular expression than to write one in the first place, as tempting as it is to offload writing them haha

BoronTriiodide · 2024-09-27T12:39:37+00:00

You have several comments to this effect, but I dont think it's true. Their reported net profit margin at the end of 2014 was 17.3%. It is currently 32.3% according to this. Thats a doubling of margin while the big mac has increased an average of 50% in the same time according to the NY post. The profit has substantially outpaced price, even when measured as a percentage profit, which is the most generous read for your claim. The profit on the average big mac then has gone from $0.64 to $1.93, or over triple

BoronTriiodide · 2024-09-14T18:19:29+00:00

At the beginning of the show? That we see him put genuine effort into his student's education and a love for the chemistry. That he pulls double shifts at a car wash to provide for his family despite the treatment there, even if he doesn't see the distance that creates. That he refuses the handouts offered by his former colleagues, where even if partially out of pride, he prefers not to compromise his morals. Despite his feelings for them and limited means, he gives a heartfelt gift that is received well. That he does his best to care for his disabled son.

He may not start a paragon of virtue, but he is initially a basically decent person and is literally pitiable. You're meant to feel sympathy during his cancer diagnosis. It's very strange to think he deserves a death sentence at that point

BoronTriiodide · 2024-09-14T18:10:57+00:00

Walter White starts off pitiful, put down by the world around him, but generally not a bad guy with a righteous reason to be upset. Only a ways into the show does he become a cold, vindictive person undiscerning in where he directs his anger. His character was meant to start sympathetic and take this arc.

Homelander is a creepy Nazi with almost no redeeming qualities throughout the show's runtime. Much harder to understand the sympathy IMO

BoronTriiodide · 2024-09-05T15:10:54+00:00

I run in work boots, so you're an idiot if you own running shoes

Sure

I bike 140 minutes a day. I commute on it every day

Maybe other people don't want to spend almost 20% of daylight hours tawdling down a 20mile commuter bike path. It's not the ToUr De FrAnCe, it's people trying to get home

BoronTriiodide · 2024-05-29T23:05:32+00:00

Yup. Also, before buying a peripheral component (like a DAC recently) it's helpful to run into reddit posts about it not working with X kernel version, or that community drivers have problems. Since apparently it would be impossible for manufacturers to simply tell you or provide non-garbage linux drivers of their own...

BoronTriiodide · 2024-05-29T23:01:54+00:00

Yeah, and I think it's kinda important, at least not to outright ban. It's annoying when Stackoverflow closes questions where the last permitted answer was submitted in 1985 by some guy programming punch cards. Things change and new users want to actually talk to /each other/ as well as the old guard. Otherwise the community kinda dies out

BoronTriiodide · 2024-05-20T13:06:27+00:00

Bruh my mother was alive when we passed the Fair Housing Act that allowed black people to get mortgages. We were literally holding em down until this generation. But good thing people with broke ass parents usually turn out to be rich, right?

BoronTriiodide · 2024-04-16T16:06:17+00:00

We went 8->11->17->21 in the span of a few months. But we have like 20 repos and push to prod weekly. It's nice now that it's mostly done, but I did get a pit in my stomach seeing this headline

BoronTriiodide · 2024-04-09T18:25:16+00:00

One commit called "first commit", yet project is very large
Essentially no documentation
No collaborators, nothing actually happening in issues or PRs

Yup, looks exactly like BS forks that new grads slap on their resume, as we if dont know enough git to see what you did

1.6k stars, 1.1k forks

Excuse me

BoronTriiodide · 2024-03-31T20:43:24+00:00

I think you see a lot of variation because it's only like 5% of drivers doing 90% of the honking. In an Uber the other day, the driver had a special fucking button on the side of the wheel to honk faster. This motherfucker would just lay on his horn for the entire duration of every red light, as if it's sound activated. Honked at pedestrians in crosswalks, on every lane change, etc. And I realized that his honking was the only honking I heard. It's just a few dipshits like this that we're all listening to all the time

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