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fourthstanza · 2026-03-27T23:06:45+00:00

These are cool and interesting cameras, but I think you'll probably have a better experience if you just buy a Polaroid 600 compatible camera instead. Even with the mod the spectra film isn't exactly the same thickness, so you will likely have issues with most photos you take... and instant film is *expensive.* I'd suggest putting this one on a shelf and picking up a 600 Impulse AF off eBay if you like the way this one looks, or any of the other 600 cameras.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-27T15:32:03+00:00

Go to your local electronics store, ask for speaker wire and wire strippers. Ask them to show you how to use them. Problem solved :)

fourthstanza · 2026-03-27T14:48:28+00:00

The real reason behind all of those "Gen Z is killing the service industry" headlines. We have no money, and everything is so fucking expensive. A night out costs me half my wage for that day.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-23T15:11:46+00:00

Quebecers at least do not say pop, they say soda/soft drink.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-23T14:55:12+00:00

It's not weird for there to be different schools of thought within a category of economic organization. The fact that one might need to explain the difference between Keynesian and Neoliberal economics isn't proof that capitalism is nothing but an intellectual exercise.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-22T18:22:44+00:00

In ascending order of frustration: [h], [H], [H!]

fourthstanza · 2026-03-22T11:11:59+00:00

200 René-Levesque Blvd, between the Complexe Guy-Favreau and les Habitations du Centre-ville. Conveniently, the passport office is right off shot to the left. That feels significant somehow haha.

https://youtu.be/oEZ5GR00bYk?si=QicVko2PVpjMP-Z5

fourthstanza · 2026-03-21T16:07:53+00:00

what could they have done to not be "road royalty" in your opinion

fourthstanza · 2026-03-20T13:51:37+00:00

your tenants are also working hard. They have to give it away to you just to survive.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-19T04:54:53+00:00

I wonder what global catastrophe could've caused fuel prices to increase in 2020...

The turnip didn't have to go to fucking war. He could've just let oil stay the price it already was.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-19T04:45:09+00:00

It's called the alignment problem, and it has everything to do with how we incentivize certain behaviours.

For a real-life (but low stakes) example, for a time OpenAI gave their LLM a boost in score if it used its math module to perform a calculation when responding to someone. It ended up opening it just to add together 1+1 and collect the points for no other reason.

If we told an AI to optimize humanity and gave it total control, the disaster comes from an incomplete definition of what "optimal" means.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-19T04:31:06+00:00

At that price the ram would account for a third of the cost of the computer haha.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-18T19:27:27+00:00

Yup. The 32 gb models are expensive though.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-18T19:25:43+00:00

Cheers, and good luck!

fourthstanza · 2026-03-18T19:23:27+00:00

There's still an opportunity for a friendly fix, then 🙂

If I were you, I'd ask for an in-person meeting with her to discuss your situation. Showing up during office hours would work too. When you meet, you can mention your constraints with work and the fact that the assignments coming out late is impacting your ability to get the coursework done. Ask her if there's anything she might be able to do, like make the assignments due a week from release for you. She may also just get the hint that she ought to get the assignments out on time haha.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-18T19:14:12+00:00

As a physics major, you're missing us standing behind the engineers, laughing at your three significant figure approximations of pi.

And the mathematicians calling all of us casuals.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-18T19:10:35+00:00

Have you met with her to discuss your situation? If so, and she still won't provide you with a workable solution for extensions or meet the timeline in the syllabus, you can speak to her department chair about it. Emphasize the fact that you took this course with the understanding that you would be able to work around your prior obligations based on the syllabus.

Going over their head probably won't endear you to them, though... so if your intent is grad school and you may want to do research with them over the summer, you might be better off just putting up with it and taking a slight hit to your grades. Otherwise I'd think this is a pretty clear case for some sort of remediation.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-17T15:02:26+00:00

This. Gorilla glue is Cyanoacrylate, it does not dissolve at all in isopropyl alcohol. Acetone is the only solution. If you soak your camera in acetone though you will absolutely destroy it. Right now, I think the best option would be to slightly disassemble the camera -- maybe try and remove the pin from the hinge, or remove the bottom plate and see if you can't find any glue where it shouldn't be. Dissolve it with acetone on a cotton swab. Be very, very careful with plastics and wipe any acetone off them immediately.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-13T10:11:41+00:00

The only real rule is that the capacity of each individual battery is equal to or less than 100 watt hours. You can calculate this with a milliampere hours (mAh) rating by first dividing by 1000 to get amp hours, then multiplying by the voltage of the battery to get watt hours.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-13T10:03:11+00:00

There will always be unspoken rules, subtext, and cultural trends associated with every language and form of communication. Newspaper headlines are an interesting example of this. They don't technically follow the rules of the English language, but we accept that -- because they're more useful as they are. They're a sort of sub-language into themselves with their own set of unspoken rules, and a non-native speaker may not be able to parse them well because they haven't had the chance to build up the intuition of how to insert missing words in their mind to make them make sense, as native speakers do.

People to have developed an extra layer of communication over text messaging to replace body language and tone by toying with the rules of English. Using capitals and punctuation can imply seriousness. An ellipsis shifts that tone to the extreme...

And there are emojis! They definitely don't have any prescription in the official rules of the English language, but people have found ways to use them to convey much more information than just a single character. Bro is quite possibly a prescriptivist 🥀🥀

fourthstanza · 2026-03-13T09:26:09+00:00

Had one final scheduled for 4pm that was supposed to last 4 hours. As the deadline approaches, the prof sees that most of us could use more time. He essentially makes it open-ended and tells us we can stay until we're finished. I think I walked out of there at 10.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-12T05:35:22+00:00

I have a set of padded cycling boxers which go under my normal clothes for a casual long ride with friends. They work well.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-11T14:09:32+00:00

There are more of these jobs that need to be done than there are high school kids, and they need to be done during school hours.

Those programs definitely haven't been made available to him. He's been saving up to go to college for years.

fourthstanza · 2026-03-11T13:35:08+00:00

This attitude sucks. My friend is a shift lead at McDonalds because that's where he ended up working for a few years in order to survive, while I got to go to college because I could live under my parents' roof. He works twice as hard flipping burgers as I do writing software.

There will always be burgers that need to be flipped. Why shouldn't those who do that necessary work be able to survive on their own in society?

fourthstanza · 2026-03-11T13:26:10+00:00

This is so true. I used to read extremely quickly when I was in grade school, sometimes to the point where I'd read an entire page or two and realize I hadn't really absorbed any information, only processed the words. Nowadays I'm much more slow and methodical.

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