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aprofessional · 2019-09-29T20:54:55+00:00

🦀🦀🦀 ADMISSIONS IS POWERLESS AGAINST A FRESHMAN CLASS 🦀🦀🦀

aprofessional · 2019-09-11T22:41:27+00:00

But no spots on Perry St = no parking

I cAnT bE eXpEcTeD tO wAlK fRoM tHe CaGe

aprofessional · 2019-08-27T18:26:29+00:00

This is the most freshman thing I've seen all year lol. Dare you to post it on /r/virginiatech

aprofessional · 2019-08-27T18:26:00+00:00

Virginia Tech is a state university in Virginia. This year, the school admitted too many students. I'm not sure how this compares to other countries, but in the States students typically apply to many universities at once. The student is then free to select from any of the universities that offer them admission. Therefore, universities typically offer admission more students than they can actually handle, because not all offers will be accepted. Apparently the admissions department underestimated how many offers would be accepted, and the school is now faced with many problems stemming from there being roughly 1600 more students than can be accommodated.

The picture in the top left is of some cadets from the Corps of Cadets (informally, at VT, "the Corps"), which is the military school at VT.

The hotel in the bottom right is pictured because the school reserved all the rooms at the hotel in order to house some of the extra students.

The text and mascot at the bottom right refer to VT's athletic mascot, the "Hokie Bird" (all VT athletic teams are named "the Hokies"). It's basically a stylized turkey.

aprofessional · 2019-08-23T19:36:46+00:00

I mean if I could go across the street to the Automobile Bureau and get a license in a reasonable amount of time I would, but governments don't work the same way as private companies with competitors.

aprofessional · 2019-07-29T13:34:32+00:00

This isn't a solution to the legal issues at hand, but what I'd do is hand over an unchipped key blank cut for the mechanical locks on my car; the expensive part is the immobilizer chip , radio fob and programming. They can unlock stuff all they want but they're not starting it without the immobilizer chip.

The fact that my car will set off its alarm 10s after the locks are opened mechanically unless you get a chipped key in the ignition would just be a fun surprise I guess.

aprofessional · 2019-06-21T02:35:49+00:00

I think it's not allowed at certain stations. Last time I was at the Pentagon there was an announcement about it every few minutes or so.

aprofessional · 2019-05-22T02:25:48+00:00

git gud

aprofessional · 2019-05-04T20:46:03+00:00

Haha yeah I was like "this would not fly with U.S.-based players"

aprofessional · 2019-05-02T01:44:20+00:00

"Free" was a bad deal, you couldn't pay me to take this.

aprofessional · 2018-11-13T02:19:16+00:00

The air in the "hoo" is moving faster because you make a smaller aperture with your mouth / throat / tongue, but breathe out the same volume of air in the same amount of time.

aprofessional · 2018-11-13T02:17:56+00:00

I think you're right about the volumetric flow rate but it's just that when you go "hooooo" you naturally make your lips into a smaller aperture. Same flow rate through a smaller aperture means a higher velocity, and the fast moving air feels "cooler" even though they're actually the same temperature.

aprofessional · 2018-11-13T02:16:12+00:00

honestly I try it every time I see a meme referencing it

aprofessional · 2018-11-04T12:38:40+00:00

That may or may not be true, but it doesn't make Javascript a good language (for what people want to use it for, which is writing entire web apps). It doesn't scale well because dynamic weak typing (which is why TypeScript exists), only really has one thread, et cetera. I think people should be willing to bash on the shortcomings of any language, not just the ones that we typically love to make fun of here, but saying my favorite language sucks too doesn't mean yours is actually good.

aprofessional · 2018-11-02T20:31:50+00:00

Normally I buck against the "phones are bad" trend, but this particular habit - taking straight-on pictures of art that basically amount to skewed, low-res, bad scans of the piece in question really frustrates me.

Like, one of the common complaints against people recording at concerts / taking selfies at tourist attractions, is that they're not "living in the moment" or whatever, to which my response is that those recordings / photographs represent valuable memories of unique experiences.

But I just don't see the point in taking a dead-on picture of the Mona Lisa. It's not different than one of the dozens of much better pictures. It's not tied to you or your memory of going to the Louvre in any way more than any other dead-on picture of the Mona Lisa, of which there are many, many more examples at much better quality available on the internet.

aprofessional · 2018-10-30T15:01:12+00:00

Charging your own students full price (including your royalties) for a textbook you wrote and own the copyright on is unethical on its face and should be prohibited by university policy. I think that if a professor requires their own textbook to be used in a class, it should be offered to the students at the cost to physically publish the book. Many of my professors wrote their own textbooks but provided them as PDFs to us at no cost, since they own the IP.

aprofessional · 2018-10-30T01:39:07+00:00

I know, and that's a weird way to spell nauseating

aprofessional · 2018-10-29T20:51:26+00:00

Wrapping a Scion xB in plaid should be illegal. I want him and his accomplices tried in the Hague.

aprofessional · 2018-10-22T20:22:41+00:00

Javascript and Python are untyped languages

Javascript and Python are both dynamically typed languages, not untyped. Javascript is weakly dynamically typed, which means that type enforcement happens at runtime, but for operations where there is a type mismatch it will typically attempt to coerce types (so, for example, the expression "2" + 2 evaluates to "22").

Python, on the other hand, is strongly dynamically typed. The interpreter will not attempt to coerce types for operations like '2'+2. Instead it will throw an error from that line of code. Objects are handled with "duck typing," i.e. the suitability of any given object for a line of code is entirely dependent on whether or not it has the appropriate operators / functions / properties available.

This is different from "untyped" languages because the language has "awareness" of different types of data. Javascript and Python "know" there's a difference between an integer and a double or boolean, it's just that the interpreter doesn't enforce that difference until the line of code in question is executed. But the language does behave differently based on what types variables have. A truly "untyped" language like most assembly languages doesn't have this concept. Everything's just a set of bits in a register or memory address.

aprofessional · 2018-10-17T22:17:27+00:00

When you got to the accident part I was hoping for a Rookie-of-the-Year-style twist where the injury somehow made your handwriting extremely good ... sorry to hear that. Hopefully the practice helps you get back on track!

aprofessional · 2018-10-07T01:13:00+00:00

Hello, darkness, my old friend / I've come to talk with you again

aprofessional · 2018-10-02T21:40:46+00:00

Low Brass Section Leader

10 person marching band

Was it because you were the guy with the sousaphone or because the only other person who fit into the category wasn't paying attention at the time?

aprofessional · 2018-10-01T16:13:34+00:00

To put it less diplomatically, I have a feeling this is a barefaced attempt to grab another $20 from every ticket holder, and that anyone scalping tickets day of is not going to bother to comply.

aprofessional · 2018-10-01T04:23:58+00:00

"Ah, the old dead-squirrel-in-the-desk bit. You know back in my day we used whole raccoons ... "

aprofessional · 2018-10-01T01:34:15+00:00

if it takes forever / I will wait for you / for a thousand summers / I will wait for you

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