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    Quote Originally Posted by Godfather View Post
    That's awesome, sounds like a cathartic project. What's the long term plan for the property, going to keep it in the family? I'd love to own a place like that one day.
    All thanks to my parents who were quite intrepid explorers.

    Yes, hopefully will keep it but I don't want to do all the work. I'm giving my younger siblings a little time to come of age and pitch in

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    convince them they will appreciate it when they age, i didn't appreciate shit when i was younger

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    and late happy thanksgiving all

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    My secondary drive on my PC died again, 1tb hdd. I had it backed up and the cost of hdd's is so cheap I don't really care, but this is the second HDD that has died on this PC since I built it 2 years ago. Maybe just bad luck but it seems really odd, never had a PC chew through hard drives like this before. I don't even use it much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Godfather View Post
    My secondary drive on my PC died again, 1tb hdd. I had it backed up and the cost of hdd's is so cheap I don't really care, but this is the second HDD that has died on this PC since I built it 2 years ago. Maybe just bad luck but it seems really odd, never had a PC chew through hard drives like this before. I don't even use it much.
    Switch to an SSD. Yeah they are more expensive than an HDD of the same size, but the prices have come down and the reliability has gone way up. Plus SSD's are quiet and don't generate heat like HDD's do.

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    #3 Michigan beat #2 Ohio State

    Michigan looks like the read deal. Scary.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Switch to an SSD. Yeah they are more expensive than an HDD of the same size, but the prices have come down and the reliability has gone way up. Plus SSD's are quiet and don't generate heat like HDD's do.
    That's what I'll do. I have an SDD as the primary and an HDD as the secondary but the price on solid states seems to have come way down so I just ordered a 1TB SDD to replace the old HDD on black Friday for $100. Not bad at all.

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    I just got a hardcore math textbook and the author put a dedication in the beginning:

    To my loving wife, who read this entire book except for the math parts.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    I just got a hardcore math textbook and the author put a dedication in the beginning:





    Wait this shouldn't really be a surprise but you just read math textbooks for fun? Do you do the math in them to challenge yourself or just read through them and learn new stuff? I'm so curious how a mathematician approaches a new textbook.

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    Put up all our Christmas stuff today. Christmas is tacky but my wife loves it so much I can't help but absorb her joy for it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Godfather View Post


    Wait this shouldn't really be a surprise but you just read math textbooks for fun? Do you do the math in them to challenge yourself or just read through them and learn new stuff? I'm so curious how a mathematician approaches a new textbook.
    I read technical manuals for fun, which I guess makes me a weirdo. Everybody has their "thing" I guess.

    I'm actively reading with pencil and paper, just like I did back in school, learning new things. Sometimes I review old stuff or get other books on topics I already know. In my opinion, if you have only one book on a particular topic that you're "supposed to know" in your area of expertise, then you could be missing out on something that another author might cover, or another author could cover better, if it's information you learned in another author's book. I've got a pretty big personal library. I like to have at least three books on the various topics that I'm "supposed to know" as a mathematician. On stuff I really enjoy, I tend to have more. I have six Differential Equations books, and believe it or not, they're not all the same (differential equations is a pretty active area of research), whereas I have three Calculus books, and they pretty much say the same thing between all three of them (Calculus hasn't changed in over 200 years), although they present things differently in their layouts. I also have Physics books, various types of engineering books, and a bunch of computer programming books, mostly in the C family of languages (C, C++, C#), although I do dabble in Python and R as well.

    Believe it or not, I have a bunch of investing/trading books, except they all seem to say the same thing, if they're any good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    I'm actively reading with pencil and paper, just like I did back in school, learning new things. Sometimes I review old stuff or get other books on topics I already know. In my opinion, if you have only one book on a particular topic that you're "supposed to know" in your area of expertise, then you could be missing out on something that another author might cover, or another author could cover better, if it's information you learned in another author's book.
    I do this with every recipe I use. I take 3 and mix them how I think will work best






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    Why am I looking at this stuff? I don't need it, and I don't really need to spend anymore money.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    Why am I looking at this stuff? I don't need it, and I don't really need to spend anymore money.
    Buy it

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