Actually, no. You know what? This is what I get for procrastinating. I had two weeks to do this, so I brought this on myself. I deserve whatever comes out of this.
Nah, that's what you get for not finding out the correct due date. Procrastinating, on the other hand, is easy to get away with.
New Developement: Apparently so many people didn't turn in their essays last night, he's allowing people to turn them in today for half credit.
This morning a VA Employee sent out an erroneous blank email to an email group that pretty much covered every VA employee in the nation.
At first it was hilarious laughing at all the idiots that were using the "Reply All" function instead of "Reply to original sender" function, however after the 100th email of people asking what's going on, or asking to be removed from the list made me turn off Outlook.
There were a few responses telling people to stop "Reply All" and that this was obviously an error, don't reply anymore and just move on.
I just flunked my 'Foundations of Analysis' final, and by extension the entire class. I couldn't answer a single question. I don't know what to do anymore.
This is not so much as a fail of my day as it is just annoyance with the way things at work get done. In an attempt to increase productivity, my company has been applying Lean+ and 10X principles to all the software development teams. For someone who works like do, this has been extremely detrimental. I've only been working here for just under a year, and they started applying these new rules about four months in. Being new, I spent the first couple months taking care of administrative things and learning the system I'm working with before actually doing any coding. In those two months pre-Lean+/10X, I got more things done than I have in the seven months since then. It just takes so long to get anything new that I end up spending many days here wishing that I could be somewhere else so that I could actually be productive. This whole week so far has been like that. Just... annoying.
As a side note, I do not blame this on the management wanting to using Lean+/10X, since for a lot of people it really does help them get things done quicker, but I've always been one of those people who can juggle 10 things at the same time and not have trouble doing them all. It brings me down more than it helps.
I just flunked my 'Foundations of Analysis' final, and by extension the entire class. I couldn't answer a single question. I don't know what to do anymore.
What year are you now? Can you simply take the class over?
I just flunked my 'Foundations of Analysis' final, and by extension the entire class. I couldn't answer a single question. I don't know what to do anymore.
What year are you now? Can you simply take the class over?
I am in my second year of double-majoring in Math and Physics. I can take it over, but I'm not sure I would do any better. I might have to back off to Discrete Mathematics, but that sets me back at least a year on my math degree.
@Asnabel= Have you considered Summer school? I applied for grant funding, did a research project with my advisor, and got a minor by doing it one year.
@Asnabel= Have you considered Summer school? I applied for grant funding, did a research project with my advisor, and got a minor by doing it one year.
They're currently encouraging that heavily... but, what would I research? Who would be my advisor?
I just flunked my 'Foundations of Analysis' final, and by extension the entire class. I couldn't answer a single question. I don't know what to do anymore.
What year are you now? Can you simply take the class over?
I am in my second year of double-majoring in Math and Physics.
I double-majored in Math and Physics. I know what it can be like. Keep working. Take an English or History course every now and then to get an easy "A".
I double-majored in Math and Physics. I know what it can be like. Keep working. Take an English or History course every now and then to get an easy "A".
Umm... English and History are the classes I have done historically worst in. Math and Physics is or perhaps was where I did well.
I double-majored in Math and Physics. I know what it can be like. Keep working. Take an English or History course every now and then to get an easy "A".
Umm... English and History are the classes I have done historically worst in. Math and Physics is or perhaps was where I did well.
If you ever have to take a course in either, I would be willing to help you out.
I double-majored in Math and Physics. I know what it can be like. Keep working. Take an English or History course every now and then to get an easy "A".
Umm... English and History are the classes I have done historically worst in. Math and Physics is or perhaps was where I did well.
America Spends 4.5 Million Per Predator drone. They're heavily armed, have a highly advanced sensor suite, and are essentially tiny, quiet death from the skies. The one problem? They didn't Encrypt their downlink, thus making it not only possible, but almost trivial to piggyback the feed using software that you can get for about 26 bucks.
Some people in western NY protested the use of Predator drones. They say it makes war into a video game.
Dude, isn't it better to send in precise robots piloted at a distance? We can't lose as many human lives this way. Also, every kill is recorded, so there will no longer be the scenario of soldier gets surprised and shoots some little kid who runs around a corner. When people, like fighter pilots, are removed at a distance there is not as much of the feeling of war, but at the same time, not as much fear and paranoia. Those feelings lead to soldiers doing cruel things to local people, just because they are cracking because of their environment. I've heard stories of Vietnam. Plus, there are still humans in there. They damn well should feel the weight of what they do, just as much as a pilot does when he launches a missile.
As in, using remote-control drones further dehumanizes the enemy, and may make it easier for a soldier to commit atrocities, since he doesn't have to be there to do it personally. It's a concern of how the psychology of warfare will evolve.
In other words, if all wars were fought with robots, we could more easily justify war and we might have wars more often. Thus, we don't want to use robots to fight wars, because it simply continues the dehumanizing aspects of war.
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At first it was hilarious laughing at all the idiots that were using the "Reply All" function instead of "Reply to original sender" function, however after the 100th email of people asking what's going on, or asking to be removed from the list made me turn off Outlook.
There were a few responses telling people to stop "Reply All" and that this was obviously an error, don't reply anymore and just move on.
As a side note, I do not blame this on the management wanting to using Lean+/10X, since for a lot of people it really does help them get things done quicker, but I've always been one of those people who can juggle 10 things at the same time and not have trouble doing them all. It brings me down more than it helps.
Genius work, US Army. Genius work.
Some people in western NY protested the use of Predator drones. They say it makes war into a video game.
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In other words, if all wars were fought with robots, we could more easily justify war and we might have wars more often. Thus, we don't want to use robots to fight wars, because it simply continues the dehumanizing aspects of war.