Pencilnoob

Ugh I love that book but also completely accurate.

It's an absolute trip that that SICP was used as an introductory text to computer science. What a bunch of absolute legends.

Fun fact, there's about 350 homework problems in the book, so if you do one a day you'll finish the book in a year. Trust me, it's absolutely worth it! After that year it felt like I truly understood all this programming stuff (and this was after a 4 year degree and working as a software engineer for 4 years). The difference before and after was like turning on a light switch in my brain. I improved 5x in that year alone.

It's hard though, don't be ashamed to look up other answers if you get stuck. There's dozens of blogs where people explain every single answer in detail. I had to look up at least 25% of them. Still worth it, best learning investment ever for my career. I seriously think if I'd not done that I'd have left the industry long ago.

Also don't forget to check out the lectures on YouTube. Although to be honest I've not finished them, video lectures bore me too much. They are still really cool to watch.

I still think back to how it felt doing that book and finishing it. I wish I could go back and do it again for the first time. Just so immensely satisfying and empowering. I've tried to find other books like it, nothing quite does the trick. Sigh.

Femboys are good at the bottom and I think 🤔

It's more of a yellow and smells vaguely like urine, but also very acerbic and foul. There's off-yellow crystals at the bottom of the chamber. I'm no expert, just I know I'd rather drink my own urine than drink what's left in that chamber after running a gallon through it. It's revolting and makes me gag to smell it.

I've got one of these, and it seems like it will out live me with minor repairs.

I might one day upgrade to a bigger one that has flushing built in, but for now this is plenty and has so few moving parts it's going to be easy to repair if it ever breaks.

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To be honest I haven't yet seen a study that indicates that it's actually unhealthy to drink distilled water if you're otherwise eating a healthy balanced diet. The only study that seems to indicate that it's a problem is if a person is already seriously malnourished and the trace amounts of minerals in water was actually making up a significant portion of their intake of those minerals.

I eat several cups of green vegetables a day which has a thousand times more of all of those minerals then tap water. I'm not concerned that missing out on a few micrograms of sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium is going to cause a problem if I'm otherwise getting all of those by the milligram in my food.

If you have studies to show otherwise I'd be happy to see them. I did buy a mineral supplement to put in water but it makes it taste pretty salty so I haven't been using it very much.

I got a steel countertop water still a few years ago and it's changed the game for me. The chemicals left in the chamber after all the water is gone is so disgusting, it often takes several minutes of scrubbing to get it all out.

I got tired of scrubbing so I got a timer that stops the device with about 1/6th of the water remaining. I can simply dump out the highly concentrated remainder without needing to scrub the boiling chamber.

I like these devices because they are simple and don't have any plastic components. I suspect this one will last me for the rest of my life with minor repairs. It fully removes everything and doesn't add in micro plastic like almost every filter system does.

Also it turns out I absolutely love the taste of distilled water (if it's stored in glass). It tastes nothing like the gross cheap plastic jugs from the grocery store. It's silky and refreshing. It actually got me to drink a lot more water!

I like it, well done, keep it up!

Memes that lie?! On the internet?! Someone call the Internet police

I always find that last fellow intentionally hilarious. Just avoiding the gaze then he's just got a full on blindfold

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Dear friends,

I have assembled you here on this fine occasion with the hope in my heart that you will all take this opportunity to showcase your talents of the quill and the mind.

Let us cheer each other with prose both flowery and ornate. While the world around us may be filled with horrors and dread, let not our hearts yeild to despair, but rather let us lift each other with turns of phrase meant to delight and amuse.

Yours truly, Pencil_noob

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Ah great, I really don't like Matador. I am sure sometimes it pays off, but it's such a niche scenario.