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I hate how I'm always being tracked. Reddit is the least subtle about it, but I'm sure all the big tech companies are very enthusiastically tracking me and sharing data between them. I was talking to my cuber friend, and I went on Reddit afterwards and would you look at that, it's suggesting all these random cubing posts that it never does. It also suggested a dance subreddit- I don't dance, but one of my relatives does, and I hate how Reddit knows that and exploits it specifically to get me addicted. Modern advertising is freaking creepy and is always listening to me, trying to get inside my brain (and succeeding so much more than I'd like). I feel like these days there's no practical other choice, either. If you don't want this I feel like you'd probably need to like delete every single account of yours and your family's and your friends's, force them all to use some UNIX-based OS (on which nothing works without an hour of debugging) and never touch any social media ever again, make a million user data deletion requests, and innumerable other practically impossible things.

I just bombed the absolute hell out of my calc bc practice test.... if i do that badly on exam day it's joever for me

"The game has different names in different parts of the UK: 'tig' in Yorkshire and Scotland, 'tick' in the North West of England, and 'it' in the South of England. In the United States of America, however, the game is usually called 'tag'. In 2018, the popular internet meme "How old were you when you found out ____" began circulating, which stated that the origin of the word tag was an acronym meaning 'touch and go'. Investigation by snopes.com found this to be false. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the origin of the name 'tag' is unknown, while the Oxford Dictionary of English speculates it to be a variant of 'tig', which itself is possibly a variant of 'tick'." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(game))

"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast" - Navy SEALS

Anyone know the name of the song playing at 2:35 in this video (which is very cool and that you should watch the entirety of)?

Floor 4764: You are in an American city, where everyone for some reason has 4 fingers. Curious about Ned, you find a nearby convenience store and ask if anyone's heard of Ned, and the Indian man in charge of the store points you to a house in the suburbs. You go there and find a very religious and righteous family, right next door to a relatively dysfunctional family consisting of a donut-loving nuclear power plant worker, a housewife with very tall blue hair, an unruly son, a very ruly daughter, and a baby.

When I experience this I try to find some fun or joy in it. It's hard, but coming at it with the attitude that these are tasks you hate and have to slog through makes it so much worse.

I guess I was unclear in the OP- I don't want to intercept the target with the robot's chassis, I want to shoot the target with a previously unmentioned shooter. Thanks for the help already given, though- they are interesting reads.

I'm programming a robot with a shooter on it and I want to hit a moving target (well, hit a stationary target while the robot's moving, but it's just a matter of reference frames). It's got a holonomic drivetrain (so it can detach its heading from its direction and thus aim anywhere while moving) and the shooter's angle is adjustable. The velocity of the shooter is also adjustable, but I'd rather not use that feature (too inconsistent on this robot) Anyone got any advice on doing this?

I got Covid, imported from Arizona! For the third time! And my robotics team's next competition is Thursday, so I'll have like no time to program an autonomous script! Hooray!! It could be much worse, though. On this team, I have the support of many other capable programming peers and mentors who can certainly write a autos, unlike the team I captained where I was the sole programmer and the lead pretty much everything.

Here's a nice little guide to flag making that I found interesting: https://s3.amazonaws.com/ClubExpressClubFiles/622278/documents/GFBF_English_1964413892.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIA6MYUE6DNNNCCDT4J&Expires=1711751756&response-content-disposition=inline%3B filename%3DGFBF_English.pdf&Signature=oUQYZkTaq5n0r1y8d%2Fy3Zq%2B%2Fbec%3D

This song has been stuck in my head since me and my hotel roommates played it at 2 in the morning before a robotics competition while working on the robot... in a hotel room: Hopefully my team's media lead lets me make a season recap- if she does, I'll use this as the music. Such a beautiful piece!

I doubt it'll actually get banned, just out of pessimism. I mean, they couldn't even stop Daylight Savings time. But if it does get banned...

I've been investigating photography a little but am confused on how lenses, and focal lengths, really work. This question has been with me since I was a little kid playing with magnifying glasses, actually. So, many pictures show light entering a lens as straight lines: But if only light rays parallel to the lens could enter, you would only be able to see an area equal to that of the lens, right? Since you can see the entire sun, and not just a lens-sized portion of it (pictured), through a magnifying glass, this type of diagram must be incorrect. Other images (below) show straight lines through the lens, which kinda confuses me; don't lenses specifically bend light? And what are the lenses in these pictures supposed to be doing? So, what exactly is a lens doing, and where are the light rays coming from, how are they being manipulated, and how are they ended up?

"SR-71, half off!" Also, this thing looks reasonably cool... ... It's called the NASA Mini-sniffer.

schaudenfreude, I guess, or just the feeling of winning...

"Keep It Simple, Stupid!" -Anonymous

Dont think so. The less imagination you have the more kits you buy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I made panettone and am making ciabatta bread for Christmas. Panettone is a labor of love if there ever was one- I even thought I broke our stand mixer and pored through the dough looking for a tiny piece of plastic. To have it for breakfast, you have to start it the day before and wake up at like 5 AM. It was intense. Now I'm making the ciabatta. It is SO MUCH EASIER. Ahhhhhh.......

Ah, the Torment Nexus. Just found out that Soylent is the name of an actual product, which reminded me of this concept.

Also, yewtu.be No ads, and a much more time-friendly design. Don't know about you, but I can waste so much time on the default Youtube interface. This cut down my time waste tremendously.

i just made one of the most stupid mistakes of my life, up there with writing calculator syntax on ap calc despite being explicitly told not to. i procrastinated my final assignment till it was due in an hour (i had a first draft so i thought the changes would be small) but i couldnt finish it till 00:15 (it was due at midnight) and now it looks like i might get a c. do you think the professor will have mercy? holy **** i am such a numskull

My team's robot completely crapped out... the night before competition. "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time". Thankfully, we fixed it just in time with some Boy Scout torture. (The robot uses lots of string and knots, which Boy Scouts are great at). Here's hoping the fixes will work through comp.

For the good of all of us except the ones who are dead...