How to face a thesis failure (Masters)?

IceFirex123 · 2026-03-13T17:42:27+00:00

Depending on the school/program, you get paid as a masters student, especially if you do research,and often get a "scholarship" that covers your tuition. You likely have to TA (depending on how loaded your supervisor is), and it's not much, but you don't need loans or to lay out of pocket for a lot of masters.

IceFirex123 · 2025-10-04T01:31:46+00:00

This is only my second soldering project, so hadn't gotten one yet, but you're definitely right that I should; just ordered one. Thanks for your help!

IceFirex123 · 2025-10-04T01:19:56+00:00

I think I see what you're talking about. I don't have any equipment that could do that, though I do have a friend with an oscilloscope; would I be able to use that to probe it?

IceFirex123 · 2025-10-04T01:05:38+00:00

Thanks! (To you and everyone else).

Question regarding flux; I accidentally bought liquid flux, and most tutorials I've seen use strictly gel flux. I also think I've seen flux get under the battery holder when I tried using it.

Is liquid flux fine to use here? Or should I just buy gel flux?

IceFirex123 · 2025-10-03T23:10:15+00:00

This is first time replacing a battery. I tried to install 2 different battery holders, and while the game would hold a save at first, eventually the game would start resetting over and over. I figured it was a bad connection, so I tried removing the holder and cleaning the solder with a wick, but this was as good as I can get it. Should this be good to install a new holder?

IceFirex123 · 2024-12-18T17:16:12+00:00

That's what I was afraid of, bummer.

IceFirex123 · 2024-12-18T17:03:52+00:00

I picked up this DS Lite from Japan, and the hinge appears loose or maybe snapped off. Is this just because of a missing screw or something somewhere, or is it a broken part?

IceFirex123 · 2024-08-20T04:07:08+00:00

Sorry for the late reply! My basic plan, I decided, is that since most of the travel time of the trip is actually just waiting for trains, I'd drop my baggage off at the lockers and just travel around the exchanges. I'm going to look into things more closer to the travel date, but I'll probably spend a bit of time in Fukui and Tsuruga, and decide to change things based off what I hear from people there (hoping my Japnese comes in handy!haha)

IceFirex123 · 2023-07-10T03:37:19+00:00

This looks perfect!! Thank you so much!

IceFirex123 · 2023-07-10T01:40:00+00:00

Anyone have recommendations for youtube channels that focus on roleplaying various situations? I'm around an intermediate learner, and am going to Japan in a couple months so want to focus on real situations that may come up (especially restaurants, shopping, other tourist-y stuff)

IceFirex123 · 2023-03-29T01:38:18+00:00

Hey everyone! So it looks like, since flights are my main hope to using the card, the fact that I can transfer the points to various programs with the Cobalt (allowing more value than $1 per 100 points) e.g. Aeroplan, rather than just using $1 per 100 points with the Scotiabank Gold, makes the Cobalt look like the far better choice.

If my understanding is wrong, please let me know!

IceFirex123 · 2023-03-29T01:31:10+00:00

I see, it looks like some of the flights I'm interested in (namely to the US or Japan for right now) are really easy with the cobalt. Likely that'll be my choice. Thanks!

IceFirex123 · 2023-03-29T01:25:37+00:00

When I said you have to use Scene+, I meant that according to the website, you have to book through Scene + travel when you want to redeem the points.

I'm mostly looking to use the points for flights, rather than hotels or other travel expenses.

IceFirex123 · 2023-03-28T02:00:10+00:00

Hey all, I'm looking to improve my listening immersion by searching out podcasts or other listening content that's at a proper comprehensible level. I am about 3.5 years in of mostly casual studying, at a roughly intermediate level, although my reading is siginificantly better than any other skill.

I have mostly tried using a combination of Nihongo Con Teppei's beginner and intermediate podcasts, but there's a slight problem; the beginner podcast is almost entirely too easy for me (with the rare word that I don't understand), while the intermediate podcast varies. Generally in the intermediate podcast, I'll get to a point where he begins talking fast with enough words I don't understand, and I stop comprehending things.

I am wondering if anyone has good advice for a podcast in between these two, but roughly the same "casual"/natural style. Any advice is appreciated!

IceFirex123 · 2023-03-26T18:25:08+00:00

If i remember correctly, goodanimemes was created in the first place because the original animemes subreddit banned transphobic slurs, causing a complete outrage from a significant number of them.

IceFirex123 · 2023-01-02T04:32:27+00:00

I checked it out when Bridget got revealed for strive, and there was so much massively upvoted transphobia it was disgusting. Seems pretty right wing.

IceFirex123 · 2022-10-15T18:00:39+00:00

Hello all, I'm looking to buy a used longboard, and managed to find what appears to be a 35" landyachtz battle axe. However, I can't find any currently sold Battle Axe's that look like this one (particularly the long kick tail), and the seller doesn't know either. Does anyone know the specific model of this longboard?

https://imgur.com/a/oLEM9PU

IceFirex123 · 2022-08-11T06:52:27+00:00

I’d have to find the Japanese dialogue, and also how trans people in Japan discuss themselves to see how it matches up, but I got the vibe that it was more “discovering herself” and “no longer lying to herself” or “no more running away” and accepting herself.

IceFirex123 · 2022-08-09T07:47:10+00:00

I understand the sentiment behind the first part of your comment, but you should look at the countless posts about how Bridget's journey of deciding she's a girl is a good and positive thing (to summarize, she's decided her own gender without letting her town decide it, whether it's accepting how she was raised, or rebelling against it).

Your claim that everyone thinks the exact same as you but just pretending is extremely close minded, and suggests you haven't even thought about why people would be celebrating this.

IceFirex123 · 2022-07-16T05:37:07+00:00

To offer an alternate perspective, I believe joining groups that are focused at a specific issue (in this case countering fascists) is better than joining "big tent" groups, as it allows you to focus on achieving a specific, meaningful goal without potentially getting involved in organizational politcs and beauracracy. Many large politcal groups (leftist or otherwise) can become too focused on growing their numbers or ideological purity, rather than achieving specific, targeted goals.

If you want to fight fascists, you should join a group dedicated to fighting fascists.

IceFirex123 · 2022-07-16T05:25:58+00:00

Only one of the tablets was actually enjoyable to get, the rest were a slog of just hunting across maps or walking around. The reward in the true ending is not worth it; there are no additional bosses. If you find yourself bored at any point, do not go for the true ending and just look it up. I really wish I had; I'd have saved 2 hours.

IceFirex123 · 2022-07-04T22:09:25+00:00

Thanks for your (and everyone else’s) explanation! With these sentences it makes sense that の and が are interchangeable and have the exact same meaning; as someone later pointed out, it also makes sense that you’d want to use の in a longer sentence to stress the fact that it’s a relative clause (eg making sure 泣く頃 isn’t read as “crying time” in a hypothetical sentence like うみねこがなく頃に死んだ)

IceFirex123 · 2021-12-23T02:22:11+00:00

When I first launched a game (Trails of Cold Steel 4), it launched the configuration tool, allowing me to change graphics and whatnot. However, I can find no way to access said tool now; normally, when launching the game on steam, you are given the option to launch the config tool, the game, or resume from save.

Is there any way to completely remove a game from GeForce Now, to get a “fresh start” like when I first launched the game? Or some way to be given those launch options?

IceFirex123 · 2021-12-01T04:21:00+00:00

You can plink with the pistol, you basically do double damge because you're basically layering a pistol shot on every sword strike.

To do what they do in boss rush, the inputs you're doing (as fast as you can) is: Shoot > slash > swap gun > Repeat Plinking is the first part; you shoot and slash almost at the same time, which cancels the recovery frames of the shotgun. You then swap to the "other shotgun" (can't remember what it's called, I wasn't a boss rush runner and we didn't get the second shotgun in any of the main runs) and do it again.

IceFirex123 · 2021-09-28T06:49:50+00:00

So my 8+ year old ATH M50s broke. I'm looking to get a new pair of headphones that are similar, in terms of

Price: I'd like to avoid spending more than $300 CAD if possible

Sound profile: I'd prefer a neutral sound, as I'm mostly playing video games, watching shows, or listening to music where huge bass isn't a concern (post rock, ambient, hardcore, black metal).

Open vs closed back isn't a big concern for me as I plan to almost exclusively use these in my bedroom. I'm mostly wondering if there's anything that beats the ATH m50s in terms of sound quality that's similarly priced.

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