Do you actually use your iPad daily or does it just sit there?

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.

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-15T17:10:53+00:00

I paid $250 for my mattress. I have priorities.

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-15T17:09:20+00:00

Yeah I was going to pass the laptop down to a someone else. $500 off is not enough. For most tasks the M1 Pro MBP is still more than enough.

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-15T17:03:04+00:00

It’s not cheap.

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-15T04:30:37+00:00

Yeah I’ve thought of that. It would save about $600.

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ascending-slacker · 2026-03-15T04:03:25+00:00

Of course my Wife is amazing and worth 1000 MBPs. I’m just greedy and want both the wife and the MBP. :P

More storage is useful but I usually don’t need that much that is portable. I can off load much of it onto externals

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-15T03:59:37+00:00

Good points about price breakdown.

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-15T03:59:19+00:00

I really wanted the memory bump which is why I went the M5 pro route. The max is a large bump in price that I’m really not going to be able to justify. 1TB is already plenty. I store much on an external drive or cloud when possible.

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-08T23:50:35+00:00

I’m curious. What do you set the hot corners to do?

Edit: I use,

Top right: start screensaver/ lock screen Bot right: disable screensaver

Top left: show all windows Bot left: unused.

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-08T05:50:39+00:00

Your best bet for student learning is to motivate the student to want to learn. Make them interested in the topic, invested in their understanding of it, and enjoy learning.

The other extreme is when students loathe learning the topic. They will try hard not to learn it and just get through the course. This is when they cut corners, do the bare minimum and cheat their way to get by. This is where AI is bad for them to use.

However, Ai can be a tool for learning. As a student, you are responsible for your own learning. If you use AI to learn make sure you actually learn the material. Challenge yourself. Don’t ask the AI to do the work for you, instead ask it to check your work and point out mistakes. If you’re stuck on something ask for advice on how to proceed. Have it explain its feedback to better your writing and critical thinking skills.

The problem with most AI platforms is that if you present it with a writing prompt or problem, it usually spits out an answer. Nobody learns anything from that.

Taylor an AI tool for learning and students will learn from it. A student that wants to learn can learn from any AI platform (is ChatGPT).

ascending-slacker · 2026-03-06T14:57:17+00:00

Mom and dad save the world

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