Notices by halcy​:icosahedron: (halcy@icosahedron.website), page 46

music...................... is good?

@tom tru

@tom store hummus sucks anyways :|

how tf is rapgenius the only lyrics site that isn't absolutely terrible, anyways

https://soundcloud.com/itsmelvv/strange the original song is really good already but this remix is just amazing

@theoutrider I grade presentations a lot which is why I basically have a bunch of canned feedback because somehow literally every student gets these things wrong and they waste time :| (like no slide numbers -> "I have a question about the slide with the graph no not that one the other one can you go two slides forward no that was too far")

@theoutrider (other things to keep in mind are:

* the projector is PROBABLY very bad at representing colours so never ever use only colour to transport information, especially not colours that are similar like red and orange
* your (young, healthy) small and your audiences (a professor, old, has spent 50 years staring at a monitor) small are probably different things. make your text bigger. even in your graphics.
* if there aren't slide numbers I will _literally_ give you a very annoyed stare

@theoutrider this is verbatim what I give students as feedback if they submit 16:10 slides for, well, anything.

It's unfortunate honestly because 16:10 slides can look neat, but if you present at any conference or even in a room you don't know, 16:10 slides with normal size text might turn into very small 16:10 slides with very hard to read small text, and That's Just Not Good

@theoutrider 16:10 slides look terrible (tiny) on a 4:3 projector, 4:3 slides look just fine on a 16:10 projector. Unless you know that the projector your slides will be shown with is 16:10, 4:3 is the correct choice, and since projectors are not switched out often, you generally have to assume it could be a 4:3 projector, making 4:3 almost always the correct choice.

@muffinista are we ever

oh, also: https://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Street-ebook/dp/B004KKXMZQ/ref=sr_1_fed0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355517682&sr=8-1&keywords=a+random+walk+down+wall+st we have basically known all of this for multiple decades

* so far, on average and over long time periods, the world economy has generally grown
* however, literally nobody actually has any idea about the stock market. like, literally nobody. every analyst that exists is full of shit.
* double if it's weird stuff like crypto or whatever
* the performance of any single stock is basically a random walk
* financial media reporting is essentially tea leaf reading and post-hoc justification
* lol

@codl I think the funniest thing I have heard is: if the hash rate goes down too fast, it's actually possible that the difficulty adjustment can't keep up since that requires blocks to be mined, which is hard when the hash rate is low but the difficulty is still high, so if that happens, bitcoin just kind of... grinds to a near-halt for a while

currency of the future

@codl I heard 3600 dollars to the bitcoin is china breakeven point and it's been officially below that for a few days now

here's hopin'

any of y'all crypto people wanna unload a 11GB 1080Ti or two to me for like, 50 eurons plus whatever shipping from china is?