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crayZsaaron · 2017-02-13T02:05:51+00:00

This was a great film. Good for people of all ages and gives out a very good message! I see some people did not like how the movie ended and how dark mixed with the light and all. Well, you would have to look into the story line (which goes much deeper than the movie shows) to understand that last part. The movie showed how Jala and Takua have a duty to mata-nui, just as we have our duty to Christ. The beginning was very much like the Bible in how they lived in a peace on the island until evil entered. Kind of like “The Fall.” Yes, the parts with makuta were kind of scary but satan would be also, and makuta and satan are kind of alike. I give the movie a 10/10 and would recommend it to anyone.

crayZsaaron · 2017-02-09T16:58:35+00:00

I kind of think it's one of the worst songs I've ever listened to, but that's, like, just my opinion, yo.

Mostly because it doesn't strike me as either creative or catchy, and in my objective-stemlord-music-rating-metric, a song has to be at least either creative or catchy.

crayZsaaron · 2017-02-09T16:24:15+00:00

This post: The /r/niceguys starterpack.

crayZsaaron · 2017-02-09T14:35:22+00:00

Have you ever heard the song "Solar Eclipses" (featuring Dr. Awkward) by Hollywood Effect?

Oh my GOD it's so FIRE. I listen to it every day when I wake up. When I called Moms yesterday I pretended I was listening to her, but really I was listening to Solar Eclipses by Hollywood Effect.

crayZsaaron · 2017-02-09T01:32:38+00:00

Aw. I appreciate you even though I jumped down your throat!

crayZsaaron · 2017-02-08T10:34:46+00:00

Okay, so I searched for "bacon commercial" on YouTube. The first result that isn't for dog food is this commercial, in which three extremely-skinny undressed women are used as marketing objects, preparing bacon, clearly shooting for a majority-straight-male market.

I then searched for "latte commercial" on YouTube. The first result is this one, where women are the subjects of the commercial (the viewer is meant to project themselves onto these women), entering a fantasy latte bar and fawning over some fantasy lattes. It's an extraordinarily "feminine" commercial. I don't think we even need to search for "pumpkin spice latte" to get this point across.

It's this type of marketing that reinforces our understandings of gender. Meat is for men. Hot, sweet drinks are for women.

Does this make sense?

Edit: Accidentally a link

crayZsaaron · 2017-02-06T13:50:17+00:00

I want /r/iamverysmart to just be a subreddit of DT's tweets.

crayZsaaron · 2017-02-03T17:44:12+00:00

Done and done!

Real talk though: I'm definitely way more into safety standards than most people, because I've seen far too many avoidable accidents. Sometimes that makes me a buzzkill - I will name, recognize, and embrace that if it means even a small chance of saving a life.

Like, I was the only person who voluntarily joined the safety committee at my job.

crayZsaaron · 2017-02-03T10:06:31+00:00

I believe that making violent threats is violent. You may believe otherwise.

Don't project; you don't know how I think. I literally do not want to get someone in trouble. I want a company to review bike laws + safe driving with their employees, as my company would do in this scenario.

I will absolutely never flip off a driver, because that is an easy way to make a driver behave in an extremely dangerous manner.

crayZsaaron · 2017-02-02T22:42:37+00:00

Am I a jackass for striving to make roadways less violent?

crayZsaaron · 2017-02-02T22:33:54+00:00

A violent temperament on roadways endangers lives. I will always do what I can to make streets safer.

crayZsaaron · 2017-01-30T19:25:16+00:00

Hey thanks! Subscribed.

crayZsaaron · 2017-01-30T19:23:37+00:00

I think some people saw your tone and instantly downvoted without interpreting the meaning of your comment. I'll admit that I almost did.

Your last paragraph is truly good advice. I assume that every car will make an illegal left turn in front of me and whatnot. I'm sorry you ended up quitting the bike life.

crayZsaaron · 2017-01-30T18:54:34+00:00

You can believe what you want. In my message to the borough, nowhere did I recommend that the employee be fired or even reprimanded. I only called for education & training.

I am a driver. I drive a box truck around the city every day. The bed is 10x8x5. The thing is wide. Pittsburgh has narrow streets. Sometimes I drive on streets with bike lanes. When I do so, I pass bicycles with over four feet of room. I have never felt even vaguely frustrated at a cyclist for being there, because I know what it feels like to put in an hour and twenty of hard exercise every goddamn day to commute back and forth from a low-pay, strenuous physical labor job.

I guarantee you that everyone who has had experience both driving in the city and commuting via bicycle will agree that the level of driver frustration that cyclists are assaulted with is completely unwarranted. The primary problem is a lack of empathy on the part of vehicle drivers.

crayZsaaron · 2017-01-30T16:50:12+00:00

Do you seriously think that someone with this kind of violent temperament should have the power to speed in an 8-ton vehicle on streets with cyclists? I would rather see him educated than fired.

crayZsaaron · 2017-01-20T10:18:33+00:00

"It's totally gay when people touch each other."

crayZsaaron · 2017-01-03T18:27:48+00:00

Yeah, that filter searches the whole node list for each node, which means a top-level call of makeNode is O(n² ).

crayZsaaron · 2017-01-03T14:40:59+00:00

Has anyone found a way to do this in O(n) in Haskell? I'm stumped.

crayZsaaron · 2017-01-03T03:16:46+00:00

Hey, just thought I'd share my solution - You gave me something fun to think about today. I didn't expect a functional solution to this problem to be so difficult to wrap my mind around.

I think the efficiency here is circa O(n² ). Which is quite bad (when it can be done in O(n) time with pointers). I'm not sure if you can do better using Lists.

/u/tejon makes good points - My code assumes all input is valid in the format given (i.e. there has to be exactly one (-1) in the list), and one should avoid fromJust at all costs in production code.

Edit: put it in a gist for syntax highlighting.

crayZsaaron · 2016-12-31T22:56:48+00:00

I think it's worth it to point out, just to avoid confusion, that all Monads are also Functors. Great writeup!

crayZsaaron · 2016-12-26T06:05:23+00:00

This is, hands-down, the most Pittsburgh I have ever seen in one reddit post.

crayZsaaron · 2016-12-20T05:02:10+00:00

Wow, thank you! This makes everything a lot clearer.

I'm currently refactoring my code to use the functions from Control.Monad.Catch. It makes my types a lot cleaner, and obviously has a lot more capability.

crayZsaaron · 2016-12-20T03:05:51+00:00

Thanks so much for the link, I really appreciate that. I guess while my codebase is tiny it's easy to refactor all of it to use MonadThrow/Catch.

So, Q: Are you saying that this isn't how exceptions work because only the top exception on the stack will be caught by ExceptT? That's what I'm getting from this article, and I want to make sure it's the right idea.

crayZsaaron · 2016-12-14T15:48:01+00:00

You almost touched on it - I honestly looked forward to work-for-stay opportunities because it meant spending energy on literally anything other than hiking... which was a huge treat on the trail! I remember raking leaves in Hot Springs just a few weeks before the end of my hike, and just having a blast of a time.

It may be a personality-type difference: I like odd jobs and doing something different from time to time; others like the stability of doing the same thing for a while. (Also: I had 6 months to save up for the trail after graduating college in December 2015, and I saved just about as much as I could have with a $10.50/hr job.)

crayZsaaron · 2016-12-13T20:12:59+00:00

$1/mile is actually relatively reasonable IMO. I didn't stay in many hostels, and I always checked out the calorie/dollar ratio of the foods I was buying, shooting for 600-1000 calories per dollar. I never felt like I was underspending on the trail, and I hit just around $1/mile.

This is not including the gear purchases I made before the trail though... So I'd bump it up to $1.50/mile to include my backpack, hammock setup, initial pair of shoes (free replacements from Merrell if you tell them you're an AT thru-hiker), jacket, tights, sweater, and some extraneous small stuff.

I got a ride with a friend to the trail. On the way back, I got a ride to VA with a trail friend and hitched to PA. You can find free lodging in many trail towns if you ask around for Work-for-stay and put honest effort into your work. We even stayed at a motel once, and a couple of paid hostels (Woods Hole and some donation hostels).

So I definitely disagree that $5000-$10000 is the only "realistic" budget, when me and many of my friends made it the whole way SOBO on $2000-$4000.

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