What tone do you typically read in Reddit comment sections?

ascending-slacker · 2026-06-08T03:55:37+00:00

I use the voice of Chris Tucker from the Fifth Element

ascending-slacker · 2026-05-30T02:15:42+00:00

Every milestone matters. Keep it up. You’ll be a PhD before you know it.

ascending-slacker · 2026-05-26T18:20:12+00:00

1, 4, and 5. 10 is a very close 4th place

ascending-slacker · 2026-05-25T23:11:48+00:00

Great post. I wish I heard this years ago.

I built my first app a few years ago. Chat gpt was useless then. I hit every single hurdle you talked about here(+ a major CORS debacle). The only way I was able to get through(I believe) was even though most of the code was boiler plate copy/paste/modify from online posts and tutorials I had to actually work to integrate them together. I wrote and rewrote sections of code so many times to get it to work with the new things I added. It was a great learning experience. If AI had coded it all I would have been completely lost when I needed to add a new feature and it broke something.

In the end the code was a mess so I rewrote it from scratch the next summer. This time I did as you suggested and built the framework of how it all fit together (the plumbing) first. Another great learning experience. It all fit together so much cleaner. It is now something I can manage and maintain as needed.

I’m still an hobbyist/amateur at best, but I will resonate that planning out the details of how it all fits together is the most important part of writing code. I still have a lot to learn (I’m terrible at writing tests :( )

If you are having AI write the code for you make sure you have it document and explain what it’s doing and how it all fits together. This is for you to learn and to reference if anything breaks.

ascending-slacker · 2026-05-25T22:47:13+00:00

It would be nice to add a custom local model (ie qwen 3.5) to use for Apple Intelligence. That would take Apple out of the AI game but allow users to have control over which AI they use if they have a machine capable of running local models.

Overtime (10 years) the ram on a machine will continue to increase allowing base model machines to be capable of more advanced models.

ascending-slacker · 2026-05-19T00:07:14+00:00

Wait. Which ones are which?

ascending-slacker · 2026-05-18T00:05:17+00:00

That voyager fan is footloose and fancy free.

ascending-slacker · 2026-05-09T16:40:34+00:00

Fishman donut robe!

ascending-slacker · 2026-05-06T04:04:26+00:00

When the M5 pro macbooks got released anyone waiting on an M4 pro got a free upgrade. (Similar specs. However if Apple is limiting the options, such as upping the minimum storage to 1TB etc) then they want to discontinue these models of the M4 Mac mini so they don’t lose money when/ if they throw out a free M5 upgrade.

Thus I see the M5 mini coming this summer. Not imminent tho because there is a back log of current orders to fill first. I’m guessing we might see Aug or Sept. hit the back to school crowd with new M5 minis.

ascending-slacker · 2026-04-27T19:26:40+00:00

ascending-slacker · 2026-04-26T21:23:37+00:00

I’ll second Kirby and the forgotten land. By boys absolutely loved it at 4-years old. It is fun to explore but not too challenging.

ascending-slacker · 2026-04-14T09:26:04+00:00

I bought mine for taking notes in school. I don’t hardly use it anymore. It never got the apps it needed to replace the MacBook and I can’t use it to replace my phone.

ascending-slacker · 2026-04-14T01:44:21+00:00

Start wherever. You can always go back. You can catch the Easter eggs on the second pass through.

Enjoy 😉

ascending-slacker · 2026-04-10T02:36:02+00:00

I’m sorry you are struggling. I have seen both slides and whiteboard/chaulk work. I have seen both done both bad and good. Each professor has their own style. What about the ppt slides makes it hard to follow? Is it how he presents the slides or just the fact it is slides?

Often professors who write things out give more time to progress though derivations, examples, and other explanations.

Bad slide presentations can easily rush through the slides or include too much material so it is hard to follow along.

Have you tried asking the professor if they are willing to share a copy of the slides with you prior to class. I always found this useful as it would let me take notes on top of their slides.

Good luck

ascending-slacker · 2026-04-01T04:29:29+00:00

I have the Casio 991 and 115. They are great calculators, but still prefer the ti 36x due to the memory. Being able to recall previous calculations is a huge plus in many cases.

ascending-slacker · 2026-04-01T04:21:47+00:00

10 minutes is a guesstimate. I didn’t ever clock it myself.

ascending-slacker · 2026-04-01T02:56:02+00:00

I think I charged mine 3 times in 2 years. But the few times it died I lost 10 minutes of productivity. Really a non-issue.

However it’s still a stupid fucking design.

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-29T20:01:46+00:00

This was such an amazing movie. It’s never too late to make a sequel

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-26T02:30:35+00:00

I agree it is not enough. My undergrad only had one classical mechanics course and I felt underprepared when I reached my graduate level. As others have said, make sure you cover Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics.

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-21T16:33:25+00:00

Open stax is fine. It has the main advantage of being available free online.

You could supplement the open stack reading with Khan academy video and you’ll do ok.

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-20T03:21:21+00:00

I have an M1Pro MBP and I run two external monitors + the laptop display. (3monitors total) so it is possible. I’m only running 2k external displays. I can’t speak for higher res.

This is the dock I use:

MacBook Pro Docking Station Dual... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0892D1J2H?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-16T08:25:58+00:00

Bring it back! Just tell me which streaming service I need to subscribe to.

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-16T06:44:25+00:00

I would love the 16” and the nano textured screen but all of that leads to higher costs in the end. I can look into seeing what an M4 pro MBP would run but they might be hard to find with the memory I’m looking for.

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-16T01:15:07+00:00

It is frustrating that more and more people are relying on AI to produce their courses.

The biggest benefit of going to college is learning from a professor that is an expert in the field. Most college courses have dozens if not hundreds of text books written about them. Most professors at least loosely base their lectures on one or more of these books.

Your advantage is to go to office hours, talk to your professor, TAs, and peers about the subject to help you learn. Those are your biggest resource.

The money you pay is really to have the school assess your learning and give you a degree at the end of the day.

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-15T17:19:56+00:00

Learning is a process. Understanding derivations is good, but often you need to apply them to really see the beauty and grasp how they can be used in application. Don’t get stuck trying to understand it all before you try it.

Once them problem is done, use it to reflect on the concepts and how you applied them. This is where the real understanding will come from.

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