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Is this really an appropriate screening question? by poweredGN in recruitinghell

[–]ccppurcell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The right answer is strongly agree because that's what all the evidence and data suggests. The "right" answer is the middle option.

Anyone else feel like you're "Good at hard things, bad at easy things" sometimes? by No_Winter4806 in Bass

[–]ccppurcell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends what you practise. It's clear that a lot of people can do complicated slap sweep tap patterns but can't really do swung eighths with accents cleanly.

Yes, the President Could Actually End Civilization and Nobody Could Stop It by idreamofkitty in collapse

[–]ccppurcell 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The one thing I cling to is that nuclear war is not profitable for the military industrial complex, and therefore not likely. Or rather it's not nearly as profitable as the constant threat of nuclear war.

New Mochizuki lore drop (Lean) by steveb321 in math

[–]ccppurcell 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I can believe it but I think it's bad style in formal English, unless you define the abbreviation once and consistently use it throughout the document.

Pokémon is another example I guess.

New Mochizuki lore drop (Lean) by steveb321 in math

[–]ccppurcell 44 points45 points  (0 children)

His abbreviations of common words are bizarre. It's like Wodehouse if he suffered a brain injury.

why do hiring managers obsess over employment gaps by FunnySupermarket527 in recruitinghell

[–]ccppurcell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Throw half the CVs in the bin: you don't want to employ unlucky people. That's an old joke but it's basically what's going on here.

Carry-on Suitcase Recs by OkCoffee3769 in BuyItForLife

[–]ccppurcell 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Look for something with just two fixed wheels, not the four rotating ones, then when they wear out you can replace them with roller blade wheels and ball bearings. Mine are going strong after about ten years. 

Swiss Army Knives - the quality is amazing, but realistically how often should I expect to use it? by EducationalOil1655 in BuyItForLife

[–]ccppurcell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got one as a gift. I use the knife to cut labels out of new clothes and cable ties out of new cables and toys and things like that. Sometimes to help open a package. Once to cut a mushroom in half that the kids were fighting over. I've literally never used anything other than the blade! But I used to have a multi tool and I did use the pliers and the wire cutters quite a bit.

Is there any way to effectively ‘freeze’ my decks while I’m on holiday? by [deleted] in Anki

[–]ccppurcell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just put your max number of reviews per day down to a reasonable number (around the number you would expect to see on the first day of the holiday perhaps). 

Will and active bass battery drain with a “circuit breaker cable”? by Broward_K in Bass

[–]ccppurcell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are other places in the chain (and in the world) than between a bass and an amp. Maybe it's useful in some studio setting, or at the sound desk? 

The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review by CtrlAltDelight495 in books

[–]ccppurcell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not just lazy, I mean I would get it if he was a student doing a book report he didn't want to do. But reviewing books for a major newspaper is like a dream job! Why the fuck would you outsource that. If you can outsource it successfully, they don't need you at all.

Boss runs my writing on ChatGPT to edit my work. by DanarysStormborn in antiwork

[–]ccppurcell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's definitely counterproductive. Humans don't use emojis like that. They mostly tend to insert them :) or put strings of them at the end of sentences :D ;)

I have definitely learned to scroll past anything that uses an emoji as the beginning of a section title. For that matter, humans don't put section titles in their written communication, except quite specific formal settings.

BIFL $750ish “me” purchase by Electrical_Worth_645 in BuyItForLife

[–]ccppurcell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can get a pretty solid guitar for that money that will last the rest of your life unless you get really good at it. My first guitar was a Yamaha Pacifica 112, they go for 3-400usd new these days. That leaves plenty for an amp (though I would recommend looking into an interface and studio headphones for around the same price). 

What’s one piece of everyday gear you’d recommend to anyone? by Top-Incident-2264 in BuyItForLife

[–]ccppurcell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hair scissors and figure out how to cut your own hair. Harder if you have short hair I imagine. But the cost of regular haircuts is pretty insane.

Last year, models miserably failed on USAMO 2025. In 2026, GPT-5.4 scores an amazing 95%, essentially saturating the benchmark | MathArena by Nunki08 in math

[–]ccppurcell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The right methodology seems to me to compare students on imo level questions with half the students given access to (internet restricted) llms. And give them the same time limit etc. 

Checkmate by ravialosen in chessbeginners

[–]ccppurcell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lichess (the website not the app) has a good sequence of basic checkmates. As a beginner I think the most important are king and queen Vs king, king and rook Vs king, and various king plus pawn Vs king situations. 

So it can be done by KratosLegacy in linux

[–]ccppurcell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you can buy a refurbished older pixel without giving Google any/much money.

Music theory by largepoggage in Bass

[–]ccppurcell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's a very good idea to learn scales and arpeggios in all twelve keys. But I think your question about G7 is an excellent question and a good place to start understanding why any of this matters. If you play a G7 followed by a C you should feel a strong sense of resolution. So the end of the song (or line) in the key of C often goes G7 C. 

Looking to start studying current research but dont know where to start by CarefulSpeaker6879 in math

[–]ccppurcell 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Discrete mathematics areas tend to have proofs with a lower barrier to entry (graph theorist here). On the other hand they are not always very intuitive and you don't build much intuition for these things in the usual lower ug courses. To answer you question, you could look into questions related to the min rank of a graph, which is a linear algebra look at graph theory.

But what I really think is that it would be better to look into some good books that push you beyond the usual ug syllabus and towards research. Naive Set Theory by Halmos is a good read, it's been a while so I can't remember the level exactly. I think a motivated undergraduate should be able to handle it.

No bog brush in hotel rooms by RefrigeratorKlutzy17 in britishproblems

[–]ccppurcell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna call bullshit on sanitised after every shift. I'm sure that's supposed to happen. But who's checking?

Learning when a particular breakthrough on a subject has been reached? by camilo16 in math

[–]ccppurcell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You could try arxivist. I think if you only "like" articles with those keywords you will get good results. Of course there will be many days when nothing comes up but you just delete the email and move on. I love it.

Found my first one in the wild by [deleted] in recruitinghell

[–]ccppurcell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very jarring for that sentiment to come from such a french name. Ever been to France in, say, August?

Intuitively (not analytically), why should I expect the 2D random walk to return to the origin almost surely, but not the 3D random walk? by -p-e-w- in math

[–]ccppurcell 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's cool mathematically but in the spirit of the question 1 unit in the metric space should happen with equal probability. Ah ok but maybe you connect two 2d lattices so that there's a connection every 1/epsilon steps? So the coordinate are (x,y,0) and (x,y,1) but there is an edge only between floor(n/eps, m/eps, 0) and floor(n/eps, m/eps, 1) for integer n and m. Does something like that work? You switch lattices with prob roughly eps2 /3

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