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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 9789207 times)

kaijyuu

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #43425 on: February 17, 2012, 12:28:41 am »
Hardware doesn't really "slow down" before dying. If it's malfunctioning, your computer will likely just fail to work at all. To speed things up, you might wanna try defragging or reformatting. The latter's the most surefire way.
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For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #43426 on: February 17, 2012, 12:30:20 am »
A total wipe and re-install of the OS is usually best.  Most techy people I know tend to do this at least every couple years with their desktops just to keep them sharp.  I think I'm overdo for it myself.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #43427 on: February 17, 2012, 12:37:32 am »
Thanks, I'll be sure to keep that in mind. It's about time I upgraded to Windows 7 or something.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #43428 on: February 17, 2012, 12:41:55 am »
Total wipes and re-installs don't always work though. You may have intermittent hardware issues, like how the graphics card of my old laptop would randomly die, and the processor would occasionally freeze up completely even when nothing was running. These problems persisted after a total wipe, so I'm pretty sure it was a hardware problem.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #43429 on: February 17, 2012, 12:49:51 am »
Try defragmenting your drives if you neglected doing that.

And delete useless registries.
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« Reply #43430 on: February 17, 2012, 12:56:43 am »
I just realized season 3 of Adventure Time has ended. It's probably going to be months before I see another episode.  :(
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« Reply #43431 on: February 17, 2012, 01:51:42 am »
Eh, called my mom up and bawled again.  I'm beginning to see a pattern here... but I've been in a pretty weepy mood all day, so I guess it doesn't surprise me.  I feel a lot better.  I'll probably turn in one of my problem sets half-done and take my main Hard Math Course P/NP, because there is no fucking way I am going to pass that class (at this point, definitely better to just retake it later and deal with the massive body shots to the self-esteem), but I'm looking forward to

a. having more time to

b. work the ass off building the elusive mathematical maturity.

Seriously, I'm reading more, I'm eating better (and regularly, which is crazy because this is probably the first time in four years or more), drinking more, exercising more (not much, but more), and my mom was downright happily shocked that I went in for "flagstone therapy" (read: found a church and spent about half an hour kneeling and thinking about humility, wishing my enemies well, etc.--she's not into doctrine AT ALL, but she is into prayer and reflection).

I don't think I'm actually sick-sick, but in that one horrible course I'm now so incredibly behind that I'm never going to catch up.  Like... I would try, but it actually just isn't going to happen.  I've got a midterm in two weeks and I've gotten 0's on three problem sets, largely due to lingering depression that is just finally starting to clear off and turn into genuine motivated spirit.  I'm not passing that course.

And on the other hand, if I change the grading option for that class and thus don't have to fret over it anymore, I'll be on-target or ahead in all of my classes as of tomorrow, and I'll be able to spend the weekend studying abstract algebra :B

Dunno.  I feel like an ass, but fucking up the beginning of this semester could easily turn into the best thing that's ever happened to me.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #43432 on: February 17, 2012, 02:26:01 am »
Better'n fucking up the end, that's for sure.
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“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
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« Reply #43433 on: February 17, 2012, 02:27:33 am »
Quote from: Bauglir on February 17, 2012, 02:26:01 am
Better'n fucking up the end, that's for sure.

Yeah.  I wish things hadn't happened this way, but it looks like my lucky break, when I look at it more seriously.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #43434 on: February 17, 2012, 02:30:03 am »
Vector, you really need to learn to do things for Vector. To hell with everyone else, to hell with their expectations, to hell with their jealousy, to hell with them all. Enjoy life. What's the point of doing stuff you don't enjoy or doesn't make you better? If you need someone to talk to, I'm here, and most of the rest of B12 feels the same way, I'm sure. I mean, yeah, we're mostly faceless people on the internet, but we don't judge, and we have enough courage to tell you the truth about the data you feed us...most of the time. (I mean, no one wants to be beaten with a shinai, but hey.)

I'm sorry if this cheapens things, but please don't mind me. I'm very drunk right now. I've had a bad day, and the Kraken called my name.

Anyway, I hope you feel better. If not, we should go drinking sometime. You can gnaw my ear off about imaginary numbers, and I can smile and nod, knowing that I'll never know what the hell you're talking about.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #43435 on: February 17, 2012, 02:41:21 am »
Quote from: MaximumZero on February 17, 2012, 02:30:03 am
If you need someone to talk to, I'm here, and most of the rest of B12 feels the same way, I'm sure. I mean, yeah, we're mostly faceless people on the internet, but we don't judge, and we have enough courage to tell you the truth about the data you feed us...most of the time.
Seconded! Except I'm going to sleep now, but it's seconded in principle. So I'm there for you, but not really. Unless my phone starts ringing or something. Sucker is pretty damn loud. Can't sleep through that. Can't turn it off, either, I get just enough late-night-crisis phone calls to require keeping it on... Okay now I'm rambling good night and good luck
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In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #43436 on: February 17, 2012, 02:43:13 am »
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Quote from: Chesterton
For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #43437 on: February 17, 2012, 03:01:09 am »
Honestly, everything I'm doing right now I'm doing for Vector.  I've finally stopped being depressed to the point where I just can't take care of myself.  It's been years (and years, and years) where I just didn't care and refused to pay enough attention to my body to say "enough is enough, I'm going to sleep" or "I don't want to eat that because it's shitty food, so I'm just not going to eat it now that I know I don't need it" or "I'm thirsty, let's go get some water."  I used to not shower or change clothes for a week and not notice at all that my hair was greasy or anything... I just didn't care.  It's been years since I've felt any honest, genuine curiosity about something rather than working at stuff like I was trying to fill off a progress bar.

I love math.  I love it so much it hurts, and I'd like to spend years doing it, along with working on a number of projects on the side (I actually can't see myself working for some corporation on someone else's Big Project.  Not even if it meant working on Metal Gear or doing art-assistance for Toriyama or any other similarly far-fetched idea, which is frankly saying a lot).  The truth is, though, that I have to accept that my brain hasn't had the easiest time of it for the past bit, and I have to live with the fact that it's going to need time to work itself out.  Or rather, that it's needed time to work itself out.  Uh... that it's working itself out.

What I'm saying is that the core of myself used to be a very sad person, and now, although the person I am has been shaped by sadness, that's not the core of my being anymore.  It's more to the outside, where I can deal with it.  Stuff is getting better.  I may not be able to handle one of the courses I'm taking right now, but stuff is getting so much better.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #43438 on: February 17, 2012, 03:18:09 am »
Hear hear! Is good to hear that Vector is shedding the depressing stuff that she no longer needs. We should still go drinking sometime. Sake is a wonderful brew.
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Holy crap, why did I not start watching One Punch Man earlier? This is the best thing.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #43439 on: February 17, 2012, 03:19:22 am »
Quote from: MaximumZero on February 17, 2012, 03:18:09 am
Hear hear! Is good to hear that Vector is shedding the depressing stuff that she no longer needs. We should still go drinking sometime. Sake is a wonderful brew.
You sir are one drunk bastard.
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