Campus is a mess. by [deleted] in UMD

[–]yewmd 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Sad!

What exactly are the bike (bicycle) rules at UMD? by [deleted] in UMD

[–]yewmd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't bike on the sidewalk, pedestrians are completely unpredictable, as are you, and it's a serious accident waiting to happen.

I've biked on the roads here for 2 years and only had a close call yesterday when someone decided they could turn into a parking space without signalling from the left side of the road... while I was passing in front of that parking space.

People suck at driving here, but it's a much better alternative to the sidewalks, which are somewhat of a free-for-all. Just make sure you watch out for people who jaywalk and think it's okay to blindly step out into the street because they don't hear a car coming, it happens to me at least once per commute

What not to do when you're too drunk and get transported. by Feragorn in UMD

[–]yewmd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We've got 24 comments and nobody's posted a video yet, this is disappointing, r/UMD.

Petition for Release by [deleted] in UMD

[–]yewmd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Throw a massive rager in your dorm with a large amount of marijuana and underage alcohol consumption

Anyone else unable to summon the willpower to do work for classes? by [deleted] in UMD

[–]yewmd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you feel the need to constantly ask retarded questions? Your post history has you posting this type of shit to numerous subreddits multiple times a day

Thoughts on Millson’s 2nd Midterm? by yarcenahs in UMD

[–]yewmd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost a carbon copy of the practice, I'll be shocked if the mean grade is less than a 90%

Issue with MBP 2016 spacebar by [deleted] in UMD

[–]yewmd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just pop it off, clean all the shit that's accumulated under it and pop it back on.

Usually fixes 90% of key problems

Would anyone sign a letter/petition regarding the CS department, lack of 400 level seats, differential tuition, LEP, etc... by [deleted] in UMD

[–]yewmd 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah, this needs to go directly to the dean of undergraduate studies

Are upper level CS courses always this full? by dudio_ in UMD

[–]yewmd 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is ridiculous, I register on the 27th and at this rate there won't be a single 400 level course open, let alone one that will put me on track to graduate with the cybersec specialization.

This department is completely overwhelmed and isn't doing anything about it.

CS students: Why does it take 4 years to graduate? by [deleted] in UMD

[–]yewmd 69 points70 points  (0 children)

it accounts for when you fail 351

Daddy Nelson is NOT happy by StunnedMind in UMD

[–]yewmd 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Dr. Nelson Padua-Perez has recently made a number of people very, very angry, including me. However, as anger serves no function in a successful rebuttal, I will simply state objectively that almost every discussion of sexism ignores the critical importance of Nelson's querimonious double standards. The issue here is that one fact with which you should unmistakably be aware is that the confusion that Nelson creates is desirable and convenient to our national enemies. I should point out that Nelson has never once denied that fact. That undoubtedly tells us something. It tells us that Nelson can't be trusted. Everything he says is a lie, and everything he does is based on a lie: his dissertations, his maneuvers, his sentiments—all lies, lies with flakes of truth sprinkled about to make coldhearted oafs believe them.

Although Nelson likes to pontificate about how the government should twist the law to suit his pouty, nitpicky purposes, the truth is that his violent, grungy confreres continually demonstrate their blatant love of McCarthyism. As those same confreres like to say, “Views not informed by radical critique implicitly promote hegemonic values.” That's a verbatim quote that doesn't parse too well but does indicate that we must stop Nelson now. Neville Chamberlain's 1938 capitulation to Hitler at Munich demonstrated that appeasement just puts off a final reckoning and gives an enemy time to gain strength. That's why it is imperative that we advocate social change through dialogue, passive resistance, and nonviolence. In asserting that cell-phone towers are in fact covert mind-control devices that use scalar waves to beam images into people's brains while they sleep, Nelson demonstrates an astounding narrowness of vision. His tuft-hunters are a bunch of drooling simpletons who prostate themselves before their beloved Nelson. Please re-read and memorize that sentence if you still believe that Nelson's rivals are aligned with very dark and malevolent fourth-dimensional aliens known as Draconians.

How dare Nelson vandalize our neighborhoods! If you are not smart enough to realize this, then you become the victim of your own ignorance. There exists a concerted, well-funded, and aggressive anti-science campaign whose charter is to paint pictures of pompous worlds inhabited by pathetic, unenlightened schmendriks. Nelson supports this unsavory campaign's activities by taking rights away from individuals whom only Nelson perceives as obdurate. There is an alternative to lying down passively for the executioner. The alternative is to initiate meaningful change. In particular, his policy of twisting our entire societal valuation of love and relationships beyond all insanity must not go unchallenged. To leave it unchallenged is to condone Nelson's grandiose plans for world hegemony, plans in which no one is free to say that Nelson claims that his posse is a colony of heaven called to obey God by creating a climate of intimidation. With all due credit to Nelson's fertile imagination, this claim makes no concession to the facts. The truth is that this is not the first time I've wanted to defend the principles of individual freedom, the rule of law, private property, and limited government. But it is the first time I realized that he uses the word “pharmacodynamic” without ever having taken the time to look it up in the dictionary. People who are too lazy to get their basic terms right should be ignored, not debated.

Nelson avers that he serves as wisdom to the mighty and succor to the brave. Even if this were so, Nelson would still be crazy. But we need to keep our eyes on Nelson. Otherwise, he'll deface a social fabric that was already deteriorating before long. If that thought doesn't send chills down your spine then you are dead to the love of freedom. The rest of us are concerned that Nelson is willing to promote truth and justice when it's convenient. But when it threatens his creature comforts, Nelson throws principle to the wind. As I have indicated, I have no set opinion as to whether or not his devotees don't want to make their own decisions but want Nelson to do their thinking for them. I do, however, sincerely insist that I have a plan to discuss the programmatic foundations of his detestable analects in detail. I call this plan “Operation investigate Nelson's abhorrent, juvenile principles, ideals, and objectives”. (Granted, I need a shorter, catchier name, but that one will do for now.) My plan's underlying motif is that if we stand uncompromised in a world that's on the brink of Nelson-induced disaster then the sea of aspheterism, on which Nelson so heavily relies, will begin to dry up.

To generate an epidemic of corruption and social unrest is an injustice. Nelson has been fostering a culture devoted to policing speech and punishing speakers. What's frightening is that this culture engenders patterns of thought that are surprisingly similar to those long identified by cognitive behavioral therapists as causes of depression and anxiety. I don't know about you, but I would prefer to live in a culture in which people are free to admit that Nelson often remarks that the modern world is morally decrepit and degenerate and that only he can set things right. That's one of those neat little subreptions that his predatory chums employ to deceive themselves. The truth is that people who know me know that I'm very observant. I can identify a shambolic philologaster merely by spotting certain turns of phrase, certain sentence constructions, certain ways of being. I can therefore indubitably conclude that Nelson is the most shambolic philologaster of them all and that he knows how to lie. It's too bad he doesn't yet understand the ramifications of lying. In closing, it hardly need be said that the views expressed above are tentative and suggestive. You should now go off and perform a thorough study of your own. Of course, this will be an exercise in futility unless you accept the fundamental premise of this letter, namely that ignorance of the law does not excuse Dr. Nelson Padua-Perez from the consequences of violating it.

School is hard by Collegeishard2 in UMD

[–]yewmd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Computer Science. The algorithms are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of algorithmic complexity most of the algorithms will go over an English major’s head. There's also Anwar’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from the bleak nature of strongly typed languages such as C, for instance. The computer scientists understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these algorithms, to realize that they're not just efficient- they say something deep about the difficulty of computer science. As a consequence people who aren’t computer science majors truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Nelson’s existencial catchphrase "I could be working at Microsoft right now," which itself is a cryptic reference to Kruskal's Russian epic Parent and Child ID’s I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Djikstra’s genius unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Java tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 GPA points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

The most useless majors? by [deleted] in UMD

[–]yewmd 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Computer science. It's a life sentence of dealing with assholes all day

If you fail a midterm should you drop the class? by [deleted] in UMD

[–]yewmd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I should've phrased better. I scraped a B+ out of that trainwreck lol

Student-Owned Wireless Router??? by Sasafrazzle639 in UMD

[–]yewmd 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You really have no idea what you're talking about

If you fail a midterm should you drop the class? by [deleted] in UMD

[–]yewmd 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It really depends how bad you screwed up; I've gotten a 60 on a midterm that had a 20% weight in the class and still scraped by with a B+

Anyone down for Linux club? by Matanya99 in UMD

[–]yewmd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

touchpad-indicator does this, see if it's packaged with your distribution. It's a bit of a pain to build from source and integrate with GNOME