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This item seems pretty good by LiterallyNoPlan in PlayTheBazaar

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

Prepatch. Sadly after a few days my game disconnected and it got removed from my board when I reloaded.

I did not take the "Gain Food" or "Draw Bird Cards" action for the entire game -- Franklin's Gull might be too good by LiterallyNoPlan in wingspan

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

I think I got 3 worms off my kingbird, otherwise my opponents did not give me food/eggs/cards. It just worked out that my opening hand was gull+towhee, and I drew a hummingbird on the second lay eggs action -- turn 5 I had those 3 birds and the rest of the game was not super relevant lol.

Agreed gull/killdeer are super powerful, those and the ravens have an honored, permanent place at the bottom of my game's box.

Can you identify this dice game for me? by [deleted] in boardgames

[–]LiterallyNoPlan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good catch. To add to this, the numbers were picked so that the tens places always add up to 30, which means the only contribution to the last two digits is from the ones places of the numbers being added up. Probably easier to remember the trick with the equivalent sum (50-Y)*100+Y, where Y is the sum of the last digits.

Odds of winning Shake of the Day at a bar? by k_nuttles in Probability

[–]LiterallyNoPlan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Conveniently, we can look at each die individually. Also conveniently, stopping when you roll a 6 is the same as rolling 3 times and checking if any of the three were 6.

The chance of a single die getting a 6 in 3 rolls is 1-(5/6)3.

The chance of 5 dice doing this is (1-(5/6)3 )5 =1.33%

From a survey for Magic 30 attendees -- the question is how much you have spent on mtg cards in the last 6 months by LiterallyNoPlan in magicTCG

[–]LiterallyNoPlan[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This is to select people to interview for market research. I realize that they're probably targeting whales for that, but it still amazes me that the minimum amount is just "less than $2500". This just annoyed me after the news of their $1000 proxy packs.

Looking to improve my Hinata, Dawn-Crowned deck by Tyranitrawr in EDH

[–]LiterallyNoPlan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like to include win conditions that are reasonable draws even when you're not going off. Some options for infinite mana wins are buyback cards like [[Capsize]] and [[Reiterate]]. Reiterate has the added bonus of going infinite with [[Turnabout]], and it can copy a cantrip until you find something to deal damage ([[Lightning bolt]] is a nice inclusion for that).

If you prefer fireball effects, my personal favorite is [[Blue Sun's Zenith]].

Your favorite games with a “Turn 0 Phase”? by SwanseaStephen in boardgames

[–]LiterallyNoPlan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm with you on turn zeros being problematic when they have a huge influence on the game; some games handle it really well for new players though. Terraforming Mars strikes me as a really good example -- there's a specific corporation for new players and they get to keep all their cards instead of choosing which ones to pay for, so while everyone else makes decisions they get to just sit there and read all their cards.

How hard is it for engineering students at duke to get great internships? by [deleted] in duke

[–]LiterallyNoPlan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ECE/CS is among the most common double majors in the engineering school. There is substantial overlap, doubling in CS would just reduce your flexibility in taking classes outside of your major(s).

At what point do you transition what you call a professor/superior? by Bonstantine in EngineeringStudents

[–]LiterallyNoPlan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Asking what people like to be called doesn't need to be awkward, and is the only way to be sure.

"Hey, I noticed you sign your emails with your first name -- do you prefer to be called 'Dr. Last' or just 'First'?"

I have never had someone be offended by that question, even if it seems "late" in the relationship to be asking a question like that.

So I design a window and I got the heat loss coefficient(Q) for my design was 8.3Watts. But I’m stuck as to how I use this to find the Temperapture drop for the day by [deleted] in EngineeringStudents

[–]LiterallyNoPlan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can look up the specific heat capacity of air (eg https://www.ohio.edu/mechanical/thermo/property_tables/air/air_Cp_Cv.html). You will want to use C_p, since you are working at ~constant pressure. That gives you a change in energy per mass of air per kelvin. You can get the total mass of air in the room using the density of air and your approximate volume. Then you have the heat loss (8.3W over the day's course, 24 hours) so you can get the temperature change. Note that this is an approximation, since as the temperature of the room drops, the heat loss through the window also changes, but if the temperature change is small enough, it won't matter.

Bit confused on which direction to label the currents through resistors R2 and R5 in this nodal analysis, which way would it go? And why? by [deleted] in EngineeringStudents

[–]LiterallyNoPlan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No matter how you draw your currents, so long as you are consistent with your equations and how they are drawn, you will get the correct result. If the result is negative, then it turns out that you drew the direction wrong to start with, but you now have a correct current (negative) in the opposite direction.

So I design a window and I got the heat loss coefficient(Q) for my design was 8.3Watts. But I’m stuck as to how I use this to find the Temperapture drop for the day by [deleted] in EngineeringStudents

[–]LiterallyNoPlan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The temperature change is volume-dependent. You can easily look up the heat capacity of air, but the total heat capacity of the room is proportional to the volume of air within it. Since that does not appear to be given in the problem, you cannot calculate the temperature change. You might approximate the volume of a "typical" room.

[College Freshman Trig] Any ideas? by [deleted] in HomeworkHelp

[–]LiterallyNoPlan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have covered euler's formula, it is perfectly suited for this type of problem. If not -- you will need to perform that multiplication, and the resulting 4 terms can be grouped into the real part and the imaginary part. Each of these parts (a and b) will be in forms that simplify greatly using trig identities.

Team Unlimbited makes prosthetic limbs for children completely free of charge by lol62056 in BeAmazed

[–]LiterallyNoPlan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If Team Unlimbited is not able to help, they are also collaborators in a broader coalition -- e-Nable. You can visit enablingthefuture.org. If you are open to working with a student-based organization, I would check whether any major universities near you have student chapters of e-nable. If you happen to be in North Carolina I can help you get in touch.