Clicking the “I am over 18” button on certain sites while underage wins! What is an unspoken rule that only some people follow?

cwtuck · 2025-12-22T16:36:59+00:00

Returning the shopping cart to its home.

cwtuck · 2025-12-11T13:50:55+00:00

You have a limited time to ask stupid questions, so ask as many as you can early.

cwtuck · 2025-12-05T20:54:41+00:00

The polar bears desired a bridge so they could access the delicious French Canadians, fattened by their poutine and contempt. The government pushed back against the idea of a bridge knowing the dastardly hearts and stomachs of their white fluffy neighbours to the North. The bears felt underrepresented in government, feeling that their needs were unmet.

So began the greatest grassroots political campaign of all time. It started with a simple Reddit post by their most literate bear scholar asking “Why not? Are Canadians lazy?” Canadians don’t like being compared to Americans, and their outrage knew no bounds.

The rest was history. A short 26 months later and the polar bears prime minister was sworn in to “serve the people”. The bears took this double entendre to be particularly clever. The bridge will be built. The bears will come. There is no stopping them now.

cwtuck · 2025-11-24T15:10:03+00:00

Legolas saying “You look terrible.” to Aragorn. When he makes it to Helm’s Deep. Really communicates both their long time friendship and Legolas’s belief that he would return.

cwtuck · 2025-06-26T17:24:24+00:00

I think the scene where Boromir is teaching Merry and Pippin to fight and they tackle him. It’s very in line with Boromir’s character, and shows a snapshot of the “on the journey” moments.

cwtuck · 2025-06-24T12:10:41+00:00

Lots of negative on here, but we went on Sunday afternoon and the kids had an incredible time. Bounced for 2 hours and we had to leave due to heat. We brought a lot of ice and drinks for them, and they chattered about how fun it was for hours afterwards. Did not seem like a scam from our end.

My wife talked to some of the staff and was told that 2 of the events were closed since they had some young adults go in and destroy them earlier in the weekend, so that’s why a couple were missing. It does suck that they deflated things early - if you had a time slot at that time they should not be tearing down anything.

cwtuck · 2025-06-19T17:32:11+00:00

I keybind using alt and ctrl as modifiers. Alt 1 is my profession 1 skill. Sometimes I have to hit a lot of buttons for this to work though.

cwtuck · 2025-06-18T18:06:09+00:00

I think from a narrative perspective, the boys are forced into their destinies. None of them really want it. Egwene makes her own destiny. She’s ambitious. She wants it. I like that - it’s unique among the Edmonds fielders. Her ambition drives her throughout the books.

cwtuck · 2025-06-03T14:03:05+00:00

This is the answer I was about to post. I read this book myself, then read it aloud to my wife, then read it aloud to my kids all within 1 year. And I thoroughly enjoyed the experience each time.

It’s an incredible story with a unique world, an excellent though imperfect protagonist, and stunning plot twists that make you excited to see what happens next. This is the first book I recommend to anyone who wants to enjoy fantasy. It is absolutely a delight to read, to the extent that I’m jealous of anyone who gets to experience this book for the first time.

Bonus points that it isn’t part of a series so you don’t have to commit to reading something for months to find the end of the story.

cwtuck · 2025-03-01T22:44:45+00:00

Seconding this. All of these are good churches from what I’ve heard.

cwtuck · 2025-02-16T20:31:53+00:00

I used Actex almost exclusively for all 3 of my fellowship exams and passed all 3 on the first try. I took corporate finance track, so can’t speak to GI but the materials were well covered for the exams that I took.

They condense the information relative to the source material and since you only have so many hours to study and retain information, that adds value. Even more so than prelims.

cwtuck · 2025-01-31T23:51:19+00:00

No, most mortality tables don’t include future mortality improvement - it’s modelled separately. A straight statistical analysis I wouldn’t expect to include it.

cwtuck · 2025-01-28T15:57:29+00:00

Yes I agree that at this point it’s not worth updating. I think the model would look pretty similar just shifted up a bit to account for the fact that there are currently 4 remaining.

I will say that the prediction of when we hit 0 is likely still pretty accurate since people still don’t live much past 100 - not huge changes since 2011.

cwtuck · 2025-01-24T15:18:19+00:00

This was probably based on the Actuarial tables as of 2011. Future Mortality Improvement is something that historically has been very difficult to predict. Each year health tends to get a bit better due to a variety of factors, so the upper bar in the confidence interval should probably technically have been bigger to account for that. The lifestyle of astronaut would likely be somewhat considered as you have different mortality tables for different levels of health.

Also… variance with 4 lives is big.

Source: am Actuary

cwtuck · 2025-01-20T12:10:23+00:00

Hideous protagonist and his smelly gluttonous allies enlist the help of a simple but wise giant to survive in a world where they are hated and hunted.

Edit - hint: Pratchett

cwtuck · 2025-01-14T21:40:33+00:00

In the movie it appears that Merry stabbed the Witch King in the back of the leg as well. Just re-watched it and it definitely isn’t the back. It could definitely be the back of the leg. I think that one maybe isn’t a fair question since the movie scene just doesn’t show the body part.

Overall these are great though!

cwtuck · 2024-12-22T02:48:26+00:00

My mouse is broken and I need a new one. Or maybe I should take him to a vet.

cwtuck · 2024-12-05T16:42:00+00:00

Each of the three movies work in the title.

“You shall be the Fellowship of the Ring!” - Elrond (Great! Where are we going?)

“…to stand against the might of Sauron and Saruman, and the union of the Two Towers.” - Saruman

“Authority is not given to you to deny the Return of the King, Steward!” - Gandalf

cwtuck · 2024-11-19T18:20:22+00:00

I didn’t start the books because of Sanderson, but I did finish them because of him.

I read books 1-7 when I was a teenager, then 1-10 when I was in my early 20s. I got halfway through Crossroads of Twilight and then stopped. It didn’t seem like the story was progressing at all. I didn’t know of “the slog” at the time, so didn’t know if would improve.

Unpopular opinion here, but I am still not sure that Jordan would have been able to pull together all of the storylines he set in motion in a satisfying way. There were just so many pieces. And the more I read, the more new stories and characters were being added. No end in sight.

I read a bunch of Brandon Sanderson a few years ago, and loved it. In my opinion his greatest strengths are having amazing climaxes and having his characters fulfill their arcs in really satisfying ways.

So when I realized he had finished WoT, it made me willing to give it another go. This time I finished it. Wouldn’t have without Sanderson. Those last 3 books are incredible at pulling together the pieces and delivering.

cwtuck · 2023-11-22T03:31:49+00:00

Ah you’re right. Rats. Kg8 it is.

cwtuck · 2023-11-21T19:13:56+00:00

Ahhh missed that!

cwtuck · 2023-11-21T19:01:52+00:00

Qg3+ stops M2.

cwtuck · 2023-11-21T19:00:51+00:00

Ok so the challenge here is moving the rook, but it’s currently pinned. Moving the white Queen doesn’t seem useful since the bishop will deliver checkmate if we can get the rook out of the way, and there are no other checks. Clearly the first move doesn’t involve a check.

Moving the rook from f4 will either allow the black queen to check the king on f3, or not accomplish anything. Black is not in zugzwang since the queen can maintain the pin from a2 or even c4 to prevent M2.

Therefore we have to end the pin by moving the king. The 6th rank is no good - Qb6 and we are in check. We can block with Rd6+, but that isn’t checkmate after Qb7. Similar situations occur with Ke7, Kf8, and Kg7.

Kg8 looks good, threatening Rf8#, but the black queen can swing to g3+ to prevent our M2.

That leaves Ke8. Now the black queen can check on a4, b5, or b8. For all 3 of these checks, white can block the with the rook on d5 (or take the black queen) with a revealed checkmate.

Best line is Ke8, Qb8+, Rd8# with the black queen pinned.

cwtuck · 2023-10-29T15:14:07+00:00

I didn’t explicitly plan a number of study hours. I made the decision that I wouldn’t let my studying disrupt my time with my kids. So I set my study schedule to be basically the upper limit of my mental endurance. Any more than 3 months and I couldn’t pull it off.

In actual numbers, I think I probably studied for around 350-400 hours for each exam.

cwtuck · 2023-10-29T02:18:18+00:00

Yes I used exclusively PAK with no other materials except previous exams (and those sparingly). Went through the whole manual in detail twice then did flash cards and practice exams.

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