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You made some bad decisions - you can't undo them. Just take pleasure in the smart/sustainable ones that you do take. Get a little happy thrill when you do something within your means, because you'll always be able to afford it. Like, that's sustainable. It's cool, man - don't stress out too much - if you look too far in the future you'll never make it because it'll just seem pointless. Just take it one day at a time, and make sure those days go well.
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Because Tuyop's future is so in flux, he can't spend the time to invest all of this free time in something really long-term productive. It makes sense that someone (especially with his personality) would have a series of flings with a bunch of "life hacks" that most people could do at any point in their life (if they wanted). There are no set time frames yet, so the lack of a concrete calendar makes career goals much less real. All of these things that Tuyop pursues are basically tweaks to his life - growing plants, making GBS threads in a bucket, building a yurt - that don't alter the actual direction of it. Regardless of what his career is, he can poo poo in a bucket at home. It would be a much more productive use of time for him to pursue things that will actually make him more productive and valuable. Like, I'm a programmer, so I'd watch the Stanford lectures on iOS and work with some XCode (for example) if I had all that free time. But he can't grow in a particular direction, so you see this horizontal sprawl across all sorts of weird poo poo, instead of a more vertically-integrated directional approach to development. If I could give Tuyop advice, I'd tell him to try to figure out exactly what skills he plans on developing post-military and what he can do to develop those skills. That can actually contribute to improving his quality of life.
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Leperflesh posted:I wonder how many tons per year of poo poo each human in a household produces. I don't wonder very hard, because I'm definitely not putting any of the relevant terms into a search engine - I really, really don't want to see the results page for that - but I'm thinking probably at least like a ton of poo poo a year? So two tons of poo poo from two people, plus at least that much more sawdust, is a four-ton pile of poo poo at the end of the year. And you need to leave it another year (because the poo poo you added at the end of the year needs a full year to compost, right?) and of course you need to keep that shitpile turning over to keep it aerated or it won't decompose.
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Mar 5, 2013 12:58
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We just want to take away that thing you have going for you - once you are fat the Schadenfreude will be complete 
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Mar 26, 2013 03:09
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Yeah guys let's diagnose Tuyop's 'food problem', that thing in his life that's actually going well. Why the gently caress not - that's what medicine is for, finding problems where things are working fine, right?
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Mar 27, 2013 23:11
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Dude, I "get" that these were purchases you could justify, but you've just dropped a thousand dollars in, like, the past week. You might want to take a breather for a second. You're still very excited by the concept of buying things so not buying things is going to continue to be a near-constant stressor. Right now it still seems you're happy to be able to get away with buying something that's essential - buying things still seems to make you very happy. The alternative, which I strongly recommend adopting, is being bothered that you have to spend money at all in the first place. Changing your mindset to the latter will make this much easier for you. Have you read Mr. Money Mustache? No Wave fucked around with this message at 14:31 on May 12, 2013 |
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May 12, 2013 14:27
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I understand that that's normal behavior for most people, but you don't deal with a normal amount of bureaucracy in your life - you're trying to get medically released from the military and to get your education funded, which is extremely complicated. The point isn't that you're being objectively inattentive - it's that your circumstances keep indicating that you should be more attentive during this process. IE, your mental framework needs to change a little. If you mentally re-frame it from "the government will be happy to give me what I want if I do the right things" to "the government will do what it can to make this difficult because nobody's particularly enthusiastic about giving me money", you'll have a better time of it.
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May 30, 2013 19:09
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You guys are crazy. I save so much loving time and so much loving money because of the internet. But why wouldn't you just get a cheap used one on eBay for like a hundred dollars? I mean you don't even need a functioning battery. I mean, a hundred dollars for eight hours of access to the internet a day for two months? How is that not worth it? No Wave fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Jul 5, 2013 |
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Jul 5, 2013 16:06
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tuyop posted:And I know that this is ridiculous but I really feel like, so what? I drop 600 bucks on car payment and insurance every month and it's no big deal, what's 1100 bucks on a MBA or 600 bucks on a windows laptop that will last for three to five more years? I agree though that laptops have enormous value. Dollar for hour the only thing that gave me a better return was my forums membership. Glad you get to borrow your dad's, though.
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OK - realistically I think the posters have been stressing about stuff more here in the past few pages because it seems like recently Tuyop's been losing sight of the fact that he's poorer than dead broke by tens of thousands of dollars. If you're changing to a different framework than "the roof's on fire", that's fine, whatever, but I don't recommend it. No Wave fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Jul 10, 2013 |
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Jul 10, 2013 17:57
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tuyop posted:That $1200 is equal to five weeks of car expenses in our budget. It's not like buying luxury laptops is the reason I got into debt or the thing holding us back from our wild savings goals.
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Especially because you will absolutely have to get AppleCare, and that's another $250.
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tuyop posted:Regarding the laptop, I've read lots of reviews, looked at the laptop recommendation thread, and I'm pretty set on the Macbook Air, probably 13" with the 256gb upgrade. I don't want a Lenovo Thinkpad regardless of how cool and business chic the silly touch nub is. This was bound to happen - once you found out that you have a guaranteed income stream for two years, you're already spending future money in your head (like by justifying an outrageously expensive trip by saying that future-you won't go on vacation, like that matters). No Wave fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Aug 18, 2013 |
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Clean slate. Good time to dump 1/8 of my yearly income into a 1 week trip and a computer.
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Aug 20, 2013 03:51
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Nippashish posted:Living in tyool 2013 without a smartphone or something similar is basically just being a stubborn luddite. Ignore these goons telling you to live in the dark ages.
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I still cannot believe that you're doing college in 2013 without a laptop. But with an iPod touch. Have a good cheap plan in place for when you cave so that you don't impulse buy something overpriced. I mean what if you take a class that uses... any type of special computer program? I'm biased because I majored computer science but I just cannot imagine what the heck is going on here.
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Haifisch posted:Realistically speaking, unless your course very specifically requires you to have a laptop in class, you don't really need a laptop. It's nice, especially if you hate taking notes by hand, but it's far from a requirement. Doubly so in Tuyop's case since he already has a computer at home. No Wave fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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Haifisch posted:He made it sounds like he only had 10 minute breaks between each of his classes(hopefully with a longer break for lunch). Depending on his campus's layout, most of that time could be eaten up by travel; even if it's not, it's still not a ton of time. But I guess this problem's harder to answer without Tuyop being more specific about his schedule. No Wave fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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Have you considered a more lucrative career path? Your propensity to take things to extremes in every direction is actually a kind of useful attribute for a programmer to have (and, to be a dick about it, bad for an educator where constant gentle pressure is about all you can apply). Plus, code is made to be unbreakable - thanks to github you can just roll back any fuckups, so what really counts are the periods in which you're productive (and the periods when you're destructive matter much less). Anyways. Just something to think about.
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tuyop posted:And yeah, it's not like having a smartphone gets you out of paying for voice, just that all of my old plans used to have like 400 voice minutes and I never used that much. Though I think I may use more than the 100 minutes per month that we pay for now that this is my only phone.
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I cannot understand the appeal of an iPad. I don't understand what it allows you to do better than a laptop. It's just... shiny? A TV, however, is a different matter entirely - to watch a movie on a large TV in a dark room in HD is a very different experience from watching it on a laptop. Some objects do enrich your life by being things that you use on a regular basis. They are worth owning on that basis, and attempting to not desire them is fairly pointless unless you're becoming actively ascetic for some reason (which, to my mind, is different from frugal). I think that your consumer desires do have an end, and if you really figured out what you want to own and sat on that list a while you could have a plan to be done with it. There's no reason for you to live in tension your whole life. My assumption was that the point of all this was to live the best life possible.
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tuyop posted:I want one for reading PDFs, which I kind of use my phone for now but nicer. Also, shiny. And games. The part that you can excise from your brain is reason 2, as it is pure fetishism. Old Fart posted:Then again, some people are still angry that the command line was phased out of common usage. No Wave fucked around with this message at 13:43 on Dec 6, 2013 |
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Old Fart posted:This isn't really on topic, but there's nowhere else to post it. I'm an American living and working in Canada, and I just finished my first full year. Looking now into RRSP and holy crap is it poo poo-tons better than the IRA system down south. In the US, you can invest $5k a year and that's that. In Canada, you get up to ~$20k a year, and if you don't max out one year, you can make up the difference later. Holy smokes!
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tuyop posted:Really though, it's the best part of the last semester, and not only for the fun of playing volleyball in the middle of dry lecture courses, but because it's the first thing in school I've really sucked at. It was so frustrating and dreadful to go into an evaluation knowing that despite my practice and whatever else I'd done, I'd still get a mediocre or failing mark. It was like I didn't know the language or something and it really helped give me a sense of empathy for students who don't read good or do other stuff good. Now I know I'll never run a class so that it favors students with academic or physical aptitudes in an unbalanced way if I can help it. Like, if 30% of a course is a standardized written exam, most of the other 70% will have an option for some other form of evaluation like a dance or play or debate or rap or something. What's harmful is the idea that having less aptitude is something to be ashamed of, and trying to hide these differences only makes this sensation of shame worse. The sort of class you proposes awards convincing the teacher you tried, not actual accomplishment. No Wave fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Jan 11, 2014 |
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tuyop posted:Well, no. The goal is student engagement, I don't really give a gently caress about subject matter because if you can successfully engage a student they'll take the subject matter into their own hands intrinsically. Students are more likely to be engaged if they have a stake in determining how they're evaluated and that evaluation uses something that they feel they're good at and has some sort of purpose. I'll probably have some students who are awesome at essays and multiple choice exams, and some who are musically inclined and so on through a huge array of interests. All of those things can be leveraged to show that a student has met the outcomes of the course, and the odds of engaging a student increase as you give them more choice in how they're evaluated. Do we have to learn about WWI? You can write me an essay about something, like the consequences of a battle, or a war poet's life and impact, or you can make a video on your phone with some friends reenacting something relevant, a group can cook some of the stuff that soldiers would have eaten and talk about what that meant for their lives and the war, and so on. If I just assigned an essay or exam, I'd see a much more "normal" bell-curve of achievement and very few students would be engaged. But the written word in general is by far the easiest way to show that you've synthesized information. If history, roughly, is about trying to create a narrative from a collection of aggregated information, obviously one can demonstrate that through many media. But it's much easier to display that with the written word than with anything else, and reasonably someone would have to put in much, much more effort to display the same level of understanding if you're not using the written word to communicate it. I certainly encourage getting students engaged by any means possible. The current formula of telling people literature is great and then asking students why it's great even though they don't like it is completely insane. But some people, independent of medium, will have more aptitude for, even in the case of history, synthesizing disparate information into a narrative. And that's what you're testing - for the student, engagement is a means, not an end. tuyop posted:Nothing really changes. Your role is to engage your students, in a secondary STEM context the disciplines available to you are just narrowed a little bit. Look at Crash Course Chemistry, I did terrible in my high school chemistry class because it was all about memorizing and regurgitating valences and poo poo. If I could have been graded for making a video like Crash Course I would have learned a ton more because I would have wanted to get my poo poo right. The onus is on the teacher to do the hard work and reflection to figure out how they can trap their students into falling in love with their subjects. In chem or bio I'd be totally open to student-lead outings if they were willing to explain natural stuff in the context of the course. Or something silly like like writing and performing a play where they're roleplaying different elements or molecules. There are thousands of ways to trick students into doing the leg work, usually it's not through the same old boring experiments and lectures, though. The other danger with this approach is that you're allowing students to identify as not being very good at "writing", for example, instead of focusing on the fact that pretty much all skills are teachable (barring a literal physical handicap such as your volleyball example). It can't really be worse than the status quo, so it doesn't really worry me the same way your approach to child-rearing does, so whatever. No Wave fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Jan 11, 2014 |
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tuyop posted:And I'm not even convinced that grades are important. As Bill Ayers puts it, I kind of want to run a grade 1 class with seventeen-year-olds in it. tuyop posted:Yeah, this is a problem. Grammar and spelling are the BEDMAS and quadratics of the social sciences, and our schools are really shifting away from the rote memorization and repetition that those skills require, and you can see it now in new university students who lack the vocabulary and grammar to follow and comprehend primary or complex sources. You also have to figure out how to get students out of their comfort zones so that they can actually grow. I don't know how to solve that without sacrificing some engagement. I have a nightmare where my practicum mentor teacher has a student writing "definitely beautiful" on the board 100 times while the other students watch in silence and I have to teach that way to do well in my practicum. The trick is to give them material/present it in such a way that they have an opinion/perspective that they want to express.
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