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I'm going to NC in Feb for an undergrad applied math thing. I'm bringing my high school friends.

Such rebels we are.

It's great since they pay for travel expenses and stuff.

user315433

Is this a NCSSM thing?

12:40 AM

SAMSI

user315433

@bjb568 "Hey kid, the first dose is free."

stats is the best drug

user315433

> Participants are expected to arrive by Sunday evening (Feb 26th), and the workshop is expected to be completed by 1:00PM on Tuesday (Feb 28th).

user315433

Kind of short.

user202362

I am going into total wildness in 2 months time, the nearest landmass due west is Argentina, some 18,000 km away.

user202362

12:48 AM

rarely touched sand, panoramic view of the ocean, wildlife

user202362

I am ditching software development - written once, work for 10 days then it becomes obsolete when the next ~~downgrade~~ version comes out

@zaq Meh, I'm still missing skewl for it :D

Speaking of that, I missed skewl today because of an inch of snow.

People have such thing skin… not that I can complain about free time being inserted into my life.

user315433

Your school starts the year way too early... our first day of semester is 17th.

user202362

Ok, fine, I am paying a couple hundred dollars so I get to carry 15kg bag to walk 20km a day, drinking dirty water, sleep on rocks and not able to take shower for a week. I am such a masochist, no wonder I chose to be a software developer

1:04 AM

@zaq wat

user315433

> y'all'll

user315433

I wonder if @Jon tried to pronounce that.

Q: Too many shogs when viewing the close reason in the iOS app

All y'all'll'd-a been there a lot sooner if there wasn't a snowstorm.

user315433

(from Let's design and get some Physics Stack Exchange swag)

Jon Ericson

@zaq I just transcribed what my brain told me to say.

y'all'll

== English == === Contraction === y'all'll (colloquial) Contraction of y'all will....

user315433

1:11 AM

No phonetic transcription there

Jon Ericson

/yôl-ôl/, I believe.

user315433

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This questions appears to have been closed by three shogs: Does this happen when a mod closes a question as a dupe of multiple questions? App Version: 1.6.3 Device: iPhone 6 OS Version: Version 10.2 (Build 14C92)

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user315433

Something to do with multiple duplicate targets, I guess.

Trick question, there can never be too many shogs :)

Jon Ericson

Only 1/3 the number of Shogs I'd have expected.

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1:21 AM

ha!

user202362

:D

user202362

design a hat?

user202362

but this is a hat ... kinda

user202362

1:33 AM

just need add logo

Somebody needs to combine that with the butt equation.

user202362

is it physically sound though?

user315433

When a recommendation letter is due at 3:00 pm on January 5, it'd be nice to get the request a little earlier than at 2:08 pm on January 5. :-/

user315433

I'm afraid my recommendation consists of "oops, too late" this time.

Rec letters are usually due after the stated due date, at least for college apps.

My math teacher submitted them 4 days late.

user315433

1:44 AM

Yeah, I'll write anyway of course.

@zaq I wrote recs for some of my old interns. I had to fax most of them. I couldn't believe people still did that

I only trust recs for my personal assistants delivered by carrier pigeons.

user315433

All of mine are electronic, so at least there's that. The downside is that most of them have forms with several questions, and those are different for different schools. :-/

jk, I'm not a person

user315433

1:50 AM

These should be disjoint. :-E

user315433

And after all that, a giant text box with instructions "There is no limit on the amount of text you can provide".

user315433

I take that as a challenge.

wow, I didn't have to do any of that. Just a generic letter

user315433

These are for graduate schools.

Ah, makes sense

1:54 AM

@zaq Both MIT and the CommonApp has that but with more categories and the addition of "top few" and "among the best" (5%) tiers.

user315433

Institution website: ___ Referee website: ___

user315433

What are those for?

user315433

I guess they want to know if I'm a real person at a real school. "Having a website" looks like a confirmation of that.

user315433

Tempted to enter shog9.com for the website.

user315433

Just to see if they visit. :)

1:56 AM

ha!

I don't even work for an institution. They were interns when I was a developer at an agency and I wrote the recs when I was working at Abercrombie & Fitch

as an engineer, not a model

lol

that must have been fun for the reviewers though

"This letter is from Abercrombie"

instant acceptance ;)

user315433

2:12 AM

I see, they ask for a website in case the letter is from a model.

A: Let's design and get some Physics Stack Exchange swag

ha

user202362

2:41 AM

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I will go with the simplest idea, a hat: The shape of it might need some modification for it to be practical. But you get the idea.

user202362

shamelss self promotor is shameless!

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i.stack.imgur.com/XshJ6.jpg — Mikhail 9 mins ago

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:/

3:17 AM

:p

like-whoring teachers

user315433

That should have been: +10 for liking, but 100 point penalty for having a Facebook account.

It's schoology.

user315433

What is "optioning" for which one meets with "counselors"?

Q: Why was Apocalyptic Defense closed?

Choosing classes for next year.

By "meet with counselors", they mean being talked at in the auditorium.

user315433

3:51 AM

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Safe & Secure

Proposed Q&A site for keeping people and property safe from attack, theft, accident. If it can take your life or property this is the place to ask experts how to keep it Safe & Secure

Currently in definition.

user315433

> What is the minimum depth of dirt that should cover an underground fallout shelter?

user315433

One of "hottest" proposals on Area 51.

Shog9

64

That was really disappointing. If this whole Stack Exchange thing is going to be community-driven, then one and only one rule should apply to site proposals: if one of them can fulfill the requirements and clearly show a good community would follow it, then it should be opened, no matter how sil...

discussion area51 close-reasons site-proposal

It's kind of disturbing that people have the attitude of "I can be prepared" towards events like nuclear war. When people have the idea that they'll come out on top in the event of nuclear war, they are desensitized to the destruction it would incur. That's why people support an orange demagogue that threatens nukes.

4:07 AM

I'm pretty sure that community migrated to Lifehacks.

user315433

Well, if "bypassing life's everyday physical problems with simple tricks." includes surviving nuclear war...

user315433

What have you got against Sith? Building Death Stars provides infrastructure jobs and will make the Empire great again. — Martin Beckett 25 mins ago

user315433

Predictable turn of conversation.

The image title is priceless.

Shog9

4:22 AM

cough

Oh, fine.

Those two dips at the end though. That's after Brexit and the US election, so we're about where we should be.

How can I do my own graph? Is that a mod tool?

user315433

data.stackexchange.com can do a lot for main sites. Doesn't have chat data

user202362

Please have evils thoughts about how you could steal your enemy's cat, rob a couple of grocery stores after the apocalyptic and live happily ever after on the cruise ship you steal

user315433

If chat had a "cough" option, in addition to flags, would that make things better or worse?

user315433

"Cough" would be shown only to the author of the post.

user315433

4:26 AM

Which would make it very different from flags, and maybe people would react better... ??