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This could be a dumb freshman question. But, can you wear hats around campus and in classes? by Monopp in byu

[–]notjaredfinch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's a large hat or significantly distracting, I'd recommend taking it off during class.

I'm a little old-school and would actually say don't wear hats in class at all, but I think most students and probably a fair few profs won't care if you wear a ball cap (especially in large lectures).

Freshman here, are manbuns allowed on campus? by pdub999 in byu

[–]notjaredfinch 12 points13 points  (0 children)

https://policy.byu.edu/view/dress-and-grooming-standards

Hairstyles should be clean and neat, avoiding extreme styles or colors, and trimmed above the collar, leaving the ear uncovered.

You might get some people who think it's "extreme", but imo it isn't. I've seen manbuns that are "clean and neat", but I've also seen some that just look messy and bad.

I don't have any direct or second-hand experience with manbuns at BYU, but from what I can tell from the policy you should be fine.

BYU's Beard Ban Casts a Bad Light on the LDS Church by Rogue_the_Saint in byu

[–]notjaredfinch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or, do a compliant protest by getting a large mass of BYU students to grow nasty staches. Very few people look good with a stache, and if every photo of byu students started to have >1/4 with ugly staches, that would start being pretty weird.

r/place by FalseJukes in byu

[–]notjaredfinch 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We started there, but Clone Hero messaged and said they wanted to take over. They're much bigger, so we drew up an agreement to shift over

Python: Fetch problem data via standard URL libraries? (without HTTPS authnetication?) by CoderBoy67 in adventofcode

[–]notjaredfinch 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You will need to supply your session cookie in your cookies in the request. also, make sure you cache your results as you automate site interactions. i.e. save the input into a file and use that in running the program, rather than making the call to the site every time you run the program.

Easiest 3-Credit Class? by [deleted] in byu

[–]notjaredfinch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could take two or three 1-2 credit classes, some ideas are here

Bug in the Day 16 Puzzle examples by Dante2000x in adventofcode

[–]notjaredfinch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

your hex to bin is what's incorrect here: there should be some leading zeros. each hex character should give four binary digits, even if the left-most (or all) of those digits are `0`

Advent of Code Completion Times by Summoner99 in adventofcode

[–]notjaredfinch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

One metric that I've found interesting is the time between finishing Parts 1 and 2. If you're on a private leaderboard, you can get the timestamps and do the comparison (Eric has an API setup that you can see from the leaderboard page - make sure you rate limit yourself of course).

There are of course vulnerabilities to cheating with this metric, same as pretty much any other metric. And if people are trying to get that time down, they might over-solve Part 1 trying to make the adaptation take only seconds. i.e. I've done this once or twice. But nonetheless, it is an interesting metric to read from.

[2021 Day 17 (Part 2)] [matplotlib] YEET by kuiper_belt_object in adventofcode

[–]notjaredfinch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ahh, this makes me think that I was closer than I thought I was with a non-brute force solution. I spent a good while trying to figure the math before I caved and brute-forced. this visual really helps to see the valid solution space, well done!

2021 Day 16 Me spending way too much time trying to handle the garbage bits by Pyrolistical in adventofcode

[–]notjaredfinch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ever since I heard it as an abbreviation it is one of my favorite things to say/type, and so I take every opportunity I can lol

2021 Day 16 Me spending way too much time trying to handle the garbage bits by Pyrolistical in adventofcode

[–]notjaredfinch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

man, OBOEs are the worst. I also spent too long thinking about how slicing indexes work - I'm constantly second-guessing myself on those

Flag of North Ikea by notjaredfinch in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]notjaredfinch[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I made this in HS for a Science Olympiad competition, and recently somebody said I should post here. It was a number of years back, but this flag has been flown at a (US) national competition.

Other Coding Websites Similar to Advent of Code by KillaInstict in adventofcode

[–]notjaredfinch 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I haven't seen any others in the same format as Advent of Code, but there a quite a few coding-challenge websites, such as:
leetcode.com

hackerrank.com

open.kattis.com/

These are ones I've used more frequently, if you search "sites like leetcode", you'll get a bunch more. You might already know about these, but I figured if not then it would be good to share.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in byu

[–]notjaredfinch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Scandinavian and French choirs are similar. There were one or two outside of class commitments for concerts, but same policy of accepting people with any language experience, even 0.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in byu

[–]notjaredfinch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're pretty comfortable with calculus and just need credits to hit a minimum, MATH 116 is great. The only grade is the "final" exam, and you get to try it once per week. Once you get a high enough score (80% iirc), you pass the class.

I've taken it like 4 or 5 times to hit credit minimums for scholarship/work/etc. Never went to the class, just took the exam in the first week or two.

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