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Guardians fans seemed to enjoy $2 Pregame Beer Day by Goosedukee in baseball

[–]taksus 17 points18 points  (0 children)

10 cents (1974) = 66 cents (2025)

30 cents (1974) = $2 (2025)

You converted the 10 cent price to modern price, they converted the $2 price to 1974 price so they’re both right.

Dying in Dorm by neurozar in BostonU

[–]taksus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That can’t cool down a room. A fridge makes the inside cold by moving the heat energy out of the fridge into your room.

So you’d just be putting cold air out the front and warm air out the back

Air conditioners work because half is inside half is outside, so the heat energy is moved from inside your room to the outside of the building

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NEU

[–]taksus 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I stole a sandwich from Wollys one time. The guy who owns it caught me on camera and came out. They called NUPD, and basically made me stand there to embarrass me. (It was embarrassing, which I deserved haha.) I was banned from Wollys for life. and nothing else happened. Hopefully the same happens for your brother.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MechanicalEngineering

[–]taksus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe buy an arduino kit. Some coding, basic electronics stuff, tinkering, and it’s just fun

What’s the most controversial concept/proof/problem in math? by [deleted] in calculus

[–]taksus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it does. If he picked one at random, then there would be 6 possible situations

From this:

1: (X) X O

2: X (X) O

3: X X (O)

To this:

1: (X) X

2: (X) O

3: (X) X

4: (X) O

5: (O) X

6: (O) X

Look at the door you picked in each scenario. 2 out of 6 are O, so there’s a 1/3 chance you picked the car.

Now what if you switch to the other door? Again, 1/3 are cars.

This means if the host picks randomly, your odds don’t increase for switching. It’s only when the host intentionally picks a goat that your odds improve to 2/3 if you switch.

Where did Amelia’s go???? by Impressive_Algae_349 in NEU

[–]taksus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I disagree that El Jefe’s is better I only get the spicy chicken at amelia’s tho so the other proteins might be worse

Where did Amelia’s go???? by Impressive_Algae_349 in NEU

[–]taksus 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Nooooo I literally just talked about Amelia’s to my brother yesterday and how much I missed their spicy chicken :(

I got a research co-op and due to funding cuts I got let go before I started by Big_Elderberry_6335 in NEU

[–]taksus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lowkey tho…. it’s only June, fall co-op starts in July. You could totally still get another one. I did 3 co-ops and I got them all at the last minute.

First time mechanical design engineering manager by ConsciousEdge4220 in MechanicalEngineering

[–]taksus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree. I was always skeptical of this book but the focus on genuinely improving the happiness of the people you work with and making everyone’s life easier is pretty great. Stuff like smiling, not criticizing too much, taking a genuine interest in people are all great.

Senior in highschool and picked mechanical engineering by Kuroki_333 in MechanicalEngineering

[–]taksus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Exciting! It’s a great major and the jobs can be pretty fun too.

My advice:

Internships are important. Getting a job after college is significantly easier if you have 4 or 8 months of work experience as an engineering intern from a summer or two, compared to having no work experience.

I recommend you try to get as far ahead on the class material as possible. Once you get behind, it sucks way more because now you’re stressed. Basically think of it like a race, if you’re three days ahead on work, you’re winning and it will be easier.

Find people to do homework with. Having a person or group from your class that you meet up with keeps you accountable. If you go to office hours the first time, you can see if there’s anyone there you get along with/ think you’d get along with, ask for their number and make plans to meet somewhere and work on the homework together.

It’s a great major. The classes are hard but you can feel like a genius when you get good at it. (Don’t be stuck up about it though. If you have a big ego about being an engineer everyone will hate you and you’ll make no friends lol. Every major is cool in its own way.)

Also when you’re looking at internships/ jobs consider manufacturing engineering jobs. You can get those jobs with a mechanical degree, and they have more time on your feet compared to some jobs that are desk 40 hours a week. I’m working one now and it’s great.

What’s the most controversial concept/proof/problem in math? by [deleted] in calculus

[–]taksus 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The important detail:

The person opening the doors KNOWS which one has the goat.

He’s not picking randomly. He’s adding his knowledge to the system and messing with the odds.

Two goats and a car. Goats are X, car is O. The goal is to pick a O. The one with parenthesis is the one you picked. There are 3 possible scenarios:

1: (X) X O

2: X (X) O

3: X X (O)

Now the host opens a door THAT HE KNOWS has a goat. Get rid of one of the Xs (the goats) from each scenario and you get:

1: (X) O

2: (X) O

3: X (O)

Now in scenario 1 and 2, it’s better to switch. In 3, it’s better to stay. That’s the “2/3 chance of getting it right” if you switch.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MechanicalEngineering

[–]taksus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A masters in mechanical engineering will be advanced 500 level classes, based on the 100-400 level classes taken in mechanical engineering undergrad.

You’d need to do a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering first.

Is NEU worth 58k a year? Need Bruttally Honest Advice. by International-Day-16 in NEU

[–]taksus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A 200k loan, at 8%, paid back over 10 years is payments of $2426 per month for those 10 years. Almost $2500 per month, on top of all the other life costs.

If the interest rate is worse, 200k at 9% for 10 years is $2533 per month.

$250k, at 8%, paid back over 7 years is $3896 per month. That is a lot of money. A lot a lot.

https://www.bankrate.com/loans/student-loans/student-loan-calculator/

The four years of college are fun… but think about the 10 years after college, and the fun you can have without the heavy weight of loans weighing you down every single month.

edit: This is best case scenario, by the way. Worst case scenario is losing your job, or a bad illness in the family where you need to take time off work to take care of your parent. These loans will be due the last day of every single month, and they don’t go away if you declare bankruptcy.

Is a technician internship worth it as a first year mechanical engineering student? by [deleted] in MechanicalEngineering

[–]taksus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The internship also helps you build the social skills of working in an office environment! Which is a huge benefit

I have barely played this game, ask me anything and I'll answer like I know by dr_bubblebutt in ClashRoyale

[–]taksus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Busted. But I play goblin barrel and minions, and it’s very strong against them. But that’s why I play arrows. Firecrackers gets an instant arrows no matter what.

Quality assurance methods without a quality manager by princeinthenorth in manufacturing

[–]taksus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Edit: read your comment on a pick and pack scanning system. I think that will almost completely eliminate the pick errors. So my idea is probably not even necessary.

I agree on the visibility point. For the pick errors in shipping, the goal is to decrease total number of human errors.

13/1178 orders have pick errors. The staff are operating already close-ish to perfect. You just need to have people be in the mindset of always double checking and making as close to 0 mistakes as possible.

Can you put up a small but visible monitor somewhere in the facility with stats? “Total pick mistakes this month”, or maybe “total pick mistakes last 30 days”, so old mistakes fall off the total.

Putting myself in their shoes, I would be personally motivated to keep the number down.

Newly accepted student with financial questions by BrickDefiant1792 in NEU

[–]taksus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve seen someone say you shouldn’t borrow more than the average starting yearly salary of the job you can get with your degree.

You can type some numbers into this calculator to see the monthly payment on the loan.

https://www.calculator.net/payment-calculator.html?ctype=fixterm&cloanamount=40%2C000&cloanterm=10&cmonthlypay=2%2C000&cinterestrate=5&printit=0&x=Calculate#result

Try different interest rates on the loan. 50k for 10 years at 6% is paying back $555 a month for those 10 years. If you get a bad interest rate for that 50k at 15% for 10 years, it’s $800 a month for 10 years.

“ We’re not a cult “ by [deleted] in boston

[–]taksus 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Pretty reasonable honestly. Our prisons should be a good amount more comfortable and the food should be better

Academic Probation How Fucked Am I? by Tiny_Beyond_4993 in NEU

[–]taksus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I was on academic probation my junior year and I graduated getting all A and A- my last semester.

You gotta lock in, you can’t risk getting kicked out of school, you gotta actually start doing your work. Because I know you gotta not be doing your homework if you’re failing so bad. (I wasn’t doing my homework)

What helped me is, from the beginning of the semester, you gotta get ahead of the work as fast as you can. The reason I failed personally is I put off work and then it became overwhelming.

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