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notfred

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one more problem.... have to find a Maclaurin series representing the function f(x) = ln(1+x) and find the radius of convergence....

Ugh... brain... tired... no... more... calculus...

And no, I'm not asking you to do the problem, I'm just posting here as a break between finding power series.
 
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You'll be craving this sort of stimulation once you've been ground into dust by the drudgery and tedium of life in the real world. Enjoy it while you can.
 
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Originally posted by: jaeger66
You'll be craving this sort of stimulation once you've been ground into dust by the drudgery and tedium of life in the real world. Enjoy it while you can.
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What is this "life in the real world" that I apparently don't understand?
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Originally posted by: Tyler


What is this "life in the real world" that I apparently don't understand?
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When your education stops and grinding out code for a bunch of faceless suits begins. I realize that's probably what you do now, but that degree on the wall doesn't make it go away. It just means you'll deal with a higher level of idiot. You'll realize that you are nothing but an expendable cog in a massive machine and nothing you ever do will make a difference. And then you'll lose your job to some immigrant who will work twice as long for half the money. Your wife will leave you, the bank will foreclose on your house, and you'll die alone in the gutter. Or you'll write a brand new web application that MS buys for half a billion dollars and retire at 25.
 
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Originally posted by: jaeger66
Originally posted by: Tyler


What is this "life in the real world" that I apparently don't understand?
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When your education stops and grinding out code for a bunch of faceless suits begins. I realize that's probably what you do now, but that degree on the wall doesn't make it go away. It just means you'll deal with a higher level of idiot. You'll realize that you are nothing but an expendable cog in a massive machine and nothing you ever do will make a difference. And then you'll lose your job to some immigrant who will work twice as long for half the money. Your wife will leave you, the bank will foreclose on your house, and you'll die alone in the gutter. Or you'll write a brand new web application that MS buys for half a billion dollars and retire at 25.
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So you're basically saying that our lives are ruled by chance, regardless of our efforts otherwise?
 
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jaeger66

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Originally posted by: Zakath15


So you're basically saying that our lives are ruled by chance, regardless of our efforts otherwise?
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No. But hard work and commitment don't always add up to success. Being talented doesn't always mean you control your path through life. Many people don't attain true freedom until they're too old to enjoy it. Saying "you can do anything if you try!" is nothing but escapist crap.
 
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Originally posted by: jaeger66
Originally posted by: Zakath15


So you're basically saying that our lives are ruled by chance, regardless of our efforts otherwise?
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No. But hard work and commitment don't always add up to success. Being talented doesn't always mean you control your path through life. Many people don't attain true freedom until they're too old to enjoy it. Saying "you can do anything if you try!" is nothing but escapist crap.
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Of course it is. However, what else would you say to a five year old?
 
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jaeger66

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Originally posted by: Zakath15


Of course it is. However, what else would you say to a five year old?
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You can say anything you want to a 5 year old, because their brains aren't complex enough to really comprehend life lessons yet. But you can't tell them anything real, you'd be seen as a bad parent. Though once they grow up and realize you HAD to say all those things, they won't hold it against you.

Hell, when I was 5 I used to watch my parents come home, collapse on the couch, flip on a MASH rerun, and slowy watch their brains leak out of their ears. I wondered why they never did anything cool. Now I know.
 
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Originally posted by: jaeger66

You can say anything you want to a 5 year old, because their brains aren't complex enough to really comprehend life lessons yet. But you can't tell them anything real, you'd be seen as a bad parent But once they grow up and realize you HAD to say all those things, they won't hold it against you.

Hell, when I was 5 I used to watch my parents come home, collapse on the couch, flip on a MASH rerun, and slowy watch their brains leak out of their ears. I wondered why they never did anything cool. Now I know.
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Speak for yourself. I grew up in a household grieving over a dead child, split between alcoholism and a divorce. I was in therapy (physical and mental) from when I was three until I was eight or nine, and I'm still attending counseling. Both my parents have deep psychological problems, yet both refuse to seek help.

Life is sh!tty, man, I've known that from as far back as I can remember. How you deal with it or how you perceive it is entirely within your control.
 
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jaeger66

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Originally posted by: Zakath15


Life is sh!tty, man, I've known that from as far back as I can remember. How you deal with it or how you perceive it is entirely within your control.
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I don't know that perception is something everyone can control. You can explain to a child that it isn't his fault when his parents fight, but only time will change that perception. I'd love to perceive the world as sunshine, rainbows, and kittens but it just isn't happening.
 
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Originally posted by: jaeger66

I don't know that perception is something everyone can control. You can explain to a child that it isn't his fault when his parents fight, but only time will change that perception. I'd love to perceive the world as sunshine, rainbows, and kittens but it just isn't happening.
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Of course it isn't, because you have firsthand knowledge of the world around you. To pretend that the world is without pain (or evil, if you will) is delusional. However, does this mean that pain is all encompassing? Does it mean that we are to resign ourselves to the mind-numbing shlop that is pop culture?

This world is chaotic, dark and painful; yet borne out of that whirlwind is beauty, innocence, new life. If all you consider is the dark half, of course you'll see it as depressing. If you accept the duality of our existence, you learn to accept life and death equally.
 
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dabuddha

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Originally posted by: jaeger66
Originally posted by: Tyler


What is this "life in the real world" that I apparently don't understand?
rolleye.gif
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When your education stops and grinding out code for a bunch of faceless suits begins. I realize that's probably what you do now, but that degree on the wall doesn't make it go away. It just means you'll deal with a higher level of idiot. You'll realize that you are nothing but an expendable cog in a massive machine and nothing you ever do will make a difference. And then you'll lose your job to some immigrant who will work twice as long for half the money. Your wife will leave you, the bank will foreclose on your house, and you'll die alone in the gutter. Or you'll write a brand new web application that MS buys for half a billion dollars and retire at 25.
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Damn, why don't I just give you a gun and let you get it over with already.
 
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ATOT is scary in that it seems like a frenzied mesh of people's failures and successes, of people's boring times and exciting times, and all of them portrayed in a predictably cynical light that adds humor to situations that would otherwise be pure drudgery.

That and every bad thing that happens is offset by the joy that one finally has a good rant to post on ATOT and see if anybody else is going through similar things.

I don't see anything like ATOT in the tangible world: I haven't found a community so openly closed, so genuinely fake, so flagrantly dull, so vibrantly morbid as this board. It truly is a paradox in its very existence, and I find that to be scary.
 
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Originally posted by: linuxboy
Cheers, Get yer Cheers here. Cheers, get yer....



Cheers ! :)
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I'll counter your cheers! with a Shalom!

Shalom! Enjoy the beautiful, blustery Northwest day that it is, my friend.
 
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notfred

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Ok, so this morning, I take my homework to class, we go over it, and then the professor says "I don't think we need to turn this in. There's only 3 days left of class, and I won't have time to get it back to you, so we don't need to turn in the rest of the homework"

ugh.
 
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