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pinball1970 replied to the thread Studying Why did I struggle so much in high school?.Ouch. On behalf of my people! Not everyone can be a scientist as the members have pointed out. You can be a good technician though... -
pinball1970 reacted to symbolipoint's post in the thread Studying Why did I struggle so much in high school? with
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Be careful of that. If you are interested, then you study! Your level of intelligence mostly has far less meaning than interest and... -
pinball1970 reacted to berkeman's post in the thread Studying Why did I struggle so much in high school? with Like.
Back in undergrad when I was talking with a senior HP engineering recruiter, he said he was looking for "goal-oriented achievers". That...
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pinball1970 reacted to PeroK's post in the thread Studying Why did I struggle so much in high school? with Like.
Not everyone is suited to academic learning. You may not have done anything wrong. Just struggled with something you find hard. Some...
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pinball1970 reacted to Astronuc's post in the thread RIP Walter Koenig, Ensign Chekov, original Star Trek with
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Walter Koenig has passed away at age 90. https://apnews.com/article/walter-koenig-dies-ad6aed51fc41417a8812bffccec1393c -
pinball1970 reacted to ohwilleke's post in the thread Undergrad Gerard 't Hooft on the incompleteness of quantum mechanics with Like.
Even if QM were fundamentally deterministic, and I agree that there is experimental evidence suggesting that pre-collapse that the...
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pinball1970 reacted to pines-demon's post in the thread Undergrad Gerard 't Hooft on the incompleteness of quantum mechanics with Like.
Did you watch it? what did you find worth discussing? There is something specific you don't understand? What did you find interesting...
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pinball1970 reacted to PeroK's post in the thread Undergrad Gerard 't Hooft on the incompleteness of quantum mechanics with Like.
Where is the evidence for determinism in the real world? There is none. The laws of physics may be deterministic, but that's a model of...
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pinball1970 reacted to Greg Bernhardt's post in the thread Suggestion Major PHP security alert with Like.
The PHP update was small, no blast radius. Your response reads like AI.
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pinball1970 reacted to Point Conception's post in the thread Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better? with Like.
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pinball1970 reacted to Point Conception's post in the thread Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better? with Like.
What about The Clash. Should I Stay or Should I Go
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pinball1970 reacted to A.T.'s post in the thread Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better? with Like.
"We must be new wave, they'll like us next year" as The Adverts sung in "One Chord Wonders", a (meta) punk song that explains the genre...
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pinball1970 reacted to Hornbein's post in the thread Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better? with Like.
I'm from Ann Arbor where punk was invented, though no one knew it at the time. So when the punk era dawned we thought it was old hat...
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pinball1970 reacted to Hornbein's post in the thread Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better? with Like.
I'd say this is far superior to the original pipe organ version. Pipe organ is one of my least favorite instruments. They were popular...
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pinball1970 reacted to Hornbein's post in the thread Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better? with
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This is one of the first records I ever had at age ten. I have the whole thing memorized. I can't recall how we got it. Alan Sherman...