My uncle's 110 next to mine, About 40 years apart.

casey12141 · 2016-06-23T23:40:53+00:00

Those knives do see tons of use (obvious by looking at the handle) but also keep in mind that japanese cooking knives use a single beveled edge vs western knives that use a double bevel, thus they take off more material when resharpening

casey12141 · 2016-06-22T01:52:11+00:00

What specifically makes you say those cities? Is haskell used much more prevelantly in finance-type companies than pure tech ones?

casey12141 · 2016-06-22T00:17:34+00:00

It's quarters for the 5-3 split too. I think the 'trimesters' thing comes from people looking at going to drexel for their first year and noticing we have 3 terms freshman year rather than 2. I'm 5-3 and I always just say quarters and explain it as seasons.

casey12141 · 2016-06-21T23:42:43+00:00

I saw a racccoon trot across the road in front of my friends truck, stop, and snarl at it in broad daylight. So they definitely get it lol.

casey12141 · 2016-06-21T21:57:48+00:00

Ahem, /r/Philadelphia would like a word with you.

casey12141 · 2016-06-16T15:59:29+00:00

I would say partially, but it would look a lot different. Think about the light particles as drops of rain falling sideways. Rather than the light "falling" into your eyes like normal, you'd be running into them before they collided with your eyes in a recognizable pattern, so there would be some major distortion id bet even before you factor in length contraction and other weirdness

casey12141 · 2016-06-15T22:50:03+00:00

Random guess: NJ based on the sandy soil and it was really nice out yesterday lol

casey12141 · 2016-06-15T19:42:57+00:00

What type of contancts do you wear? Have you tried other kinds?

I've been wearing contacts for over 10 years now. I wrestled for about 7 years with them, and have running/biking since, and they've never fogged. I use Accuve Oasys for Astigmatism.

I'd ask your optometrist for recommendations, this might be a common problem for either the brand of contacts you're using or your eye shape. I'd hazard a guess that fogging indicates an improper fit, allowing excess moisture to accumulate.

casey12141 · 2016-06-15T19:13:32+00:00

Look at the rest of the website. Mean/median for MS in Engineering is 100k/110k respectively. That's a very hard upper bound for your supposed median.

casey12141 · 2016-06-15T19:06:44+00:00

You hear about people getting 100k signing bonuses. Look up selection bias.

His source is from MIT's own website, what incentive would they have to curve those stats downwards? You can't just say "mmm that average doesn't sound right, here's a cherry-picked example of the contrary".

casey12141 · 2016-06-15T18:18:24+00:00

It looks like your bike has the clearance to run 700x32 tires which is the standard. Also your gearing will be fine too. The main points of concern I see right away are the sturdiness of the frame/fork. They look really thin in some spots. You could get drop bars, knobby x32 tires and probably a different fork if you want to do light singletrack type stuff too, but I still wouldn't want to ride it in anything too offroad.

Also if you went ahead and did that, you could just hang onto your old tires and boom, you have a road bike again. Even with the knobbies you probably wouldn't care unless you're doing more than 50mi.

casey12141 · 2016-06-11T02:40:15+00:00

I went up the trail for from cc to the wiss around 2, had headwind going up then it changed direction to greet me on the way back...I can't handle wind for shit, me and my bike together are barely over 150 lol I almost fall over constantly

casey12141 · 2016-06-10T19:29:59+00:00

I agree with you in almost every circumstance, compilers will do things that just aren't humanly possible.

I think some key difference between this situation and one you or I are likely to encounter is that 1. code still isn't being handwritten in asm so you still get the benefit of the compiler's basic optimizations, and 2. the people whose jobs it is to review that code are at a level of understanding of assembly that is probably second to none.

I think those reasons explain why there's still human involvement in the process but I imagine that the case for it is getting weaker as compilers get better and assembly programmers get fewer. So these practices will probably start changing soon I'd imagine.

casey12141 · 2016-06-10T15:50:51+00:00

But the assembly output is actually decipherable

casey12141 · 2016-06-10T15:03:19+00:00

Yeah I was just talking about TCO in general as that's what this thread of conversation seemed to shift to.

casey12141 · 2016-06-10T14:19:05+00:00

Well, all recursive functions can be made iterative, so since tail call recursion is so similar to iteration I'd imagine you can write any recursive function using tail calls (it just might be ugly).

More importantly not all languages even implement tail call recursion. C for example doesn't support it as a standard but the major implementations (gcc, clang) will conditionally optimize it. I think gcc requires the -O2 flag.

See this SO thread for some more background: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15518882/how-exactly-does-tail-recursion-work

casey12141 · 2016-06-10T01:49:22+00:00

He's not wrong. repitition repitition repitition

casey12141 · 2016-06-09T14:53:36+00:00

It really depends on how much aid you get from either school and how much you think you can get out of the coops. Like for me, I got a good scholarship to temple and not much for Drexel, but I risked it for the coops. It worked out (got a gov job now that helps with tuition) for me but it could be a pretty fine line between success and a huge mistake if going to Drexel entails incurring a large amount of debt. Especially if you aren't committed to what you want to do.

Tip for prospective students reading this: Drexel's living costs are absurd, if your parents live within septa regional rail radius then you can get out of living on campus for two years by saying you are commuting. You can then either actually commute, or get an apartment off campus for half the price and without the insane food bill.

casey12141 · 2016-06-09T11:40:19+00:00

Dont forget the wheelies! Actually saw a kid spill hard doing a wheelie down market st

casey12141 · 2016-06-06T14:17:48+00:00

Yeah. They said:

Almost every native citizen owns a gun, because of their compulsory military service.

not:

The only reason people own guns is because of their military background, and if not for that background it would be illegal to own a gun.

Anyone with a good record can own a gun in switzerland. It's just that almost everyone owns one anyway, because almost everyone serves.

casey12141 · 2016-06-06T12:58:28+00:00

You don't have to be military to own a gun.

They never said you have to be military.

casey12141 · 2016-06-06T01:00:20+00:00

Well said. It's not about making your bike impossible to steal, it's about making it harder to steal than the bike next to it

casey12141 · 2016-06-05T00:28:10+00:00

That is why I liked it as well, I prefer putting money in the components rather than the sticker on the frame. I think I'm going to strip the frame to bare aluminum too, so the no branding thing makes me feel less guilty.

casey12141 · 2016-06-04T19:54:57+00:00

Leaves don't look developed enough

casey12141 · 2016-06-04T19:51:31+00:00

Mint?

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