minor inconveniences that are not struggles

[Joe Molotov]

can we get a timeline and chart of this pooping?

It's like 2 Girls 1 Cup, except there was only one TVC and 0 cups.

[Mupepe]

Bought a pair of Senny HD650's, come to find out theyre 300ohm headphones and my receiver can barely drive them lmao now I'm researching entry level amps. I'm sure this is how this rabbit hole begins, being fuck started by a sense of initial ignorance.

Ok so I’m looking to buy some entry level headphones similar to these. Most of my current listening of any kind is on my home theater set up driven by a Denon X4300H. I was thinking that I’d like a headset I could hook up to this receiver occasionally so I can listen to music or watch movies and play games and my “normal” volume even late at night. Is it out of the question for this receiver to drive those headphones? I assume this is a stupid question but I know nothing about headphones.

[chronovore]

Woke up, tried to make cone-filter coffee, paper cone collapsed, sending coffee grounds into the waiting cup. Then I forgot that happened, and got a mouthful of coarse, foul bean-gruel in my cakehole this morning.

The TV has decided its digital tuner is dead. It's a 10-year-old Sony, so I have to admit that I'm stunned it lasted this long. Every other Sony product has died gloriously the moment its warranty ran out. I always get the store's insurance, because Japan doesn't raise a fuss or dick customers around on them. They just politely return a newly working item. Ages ago, I maxed out my two VHS decks' insurance, as well as the coveted PSX (the PlayStation 2 with the built-in DVR and DVD-authoring). This TV was the first Sony that never required attention.

I'd say "RIP," but the truth is it's going to be the replacement for the 20" bedroom TV, just being driven by my lesser consoles.

can we get a timeline and chart of this pooping?

Bought a pair of Senny HD650's, come to find out theyre 300ohm headphones and my receiver can barely drive them lmao now I'm researching entry level amps. I'm sure this is how this rabbit hole begins, being fuck started by a sense of initial ignorance.

Ok so I’m looking to buy some entry level headphones similar to these. Most of my current listening of any kind is on my home theater set up driven by a Denon X4300H. I was thinking that I’d like a headset I could hook up to this receiver occasionally so I can listen to music or watch movies and play games and my “normal” volume even late at night. Is it out of the question for this receiver to drive those headphones? I assume this is a stupid question but I know nothing about headphones.

"Sennheiser hates this one trick that'll save you money!"
https://lifehacker.com/upgrade-a-pair-of-mid-range-headphones-to-an-audiophile-1456454424

[Corporal]

Today, I ate 3000kcal worth of ice cream because it wouldn't fit in my freezer anymore after I had stashed all my purchases for the week (and I was too lazy to do another Tetris session to sort something more useful out for thawing).

I regret nothing.

Well, no. I do regret everything. A bit. Urp. 



On topic: simultaneous projectile vomit & diarrhoea is the perfect combo of misery. I have experienced it twice so far in my life, and I certainly am in no rush to add a third time. Pooping, then barfing in sequence is easy mode. Disgusting as fuck, but vastly preferrably to the alternative. Still, my condolences for the suffering and mess, TVC.

Also, my ears are too shit to distinguish 50€ and 300€ cans. Those amps are nice, but mostly because of the better volume control. Audio troglodyte life. 

[toku]

Bought a pair of Senny HD650's, come to find out theyre 300ohm headphones and my receiver can barely drive them lmao now I'm researching entry level amps. I'm sure this is how this rabbit hole begins, being fuck started by a sense of initial ignorance.

Ok so I’m looking to buy some entry level headphones similar to these. Most of my current listening of any kind is on my home theater set up driven by a Denon X4300H. I was thinking that I’d like a headset I could hook up to this receiver occasionally so I can listen to music or watch movies and play games and my “normal” volume even late at night. Is it out of the question for this receiver to drive those headphones? I assume this is a stupid question but I know nothing about headphones.

I'd be really surprised if a $900+ receiver couldn't drive a 300ohm headphone.

[Mupepe]

Ok so I’m looking to buy some entry level headphones similar to these. Most of my current listening of any kind is on my home theater set up driven by a Denon X4300H. I was thinking that I’d like a headset I could hook up to this receiver occasionally so I can listen to music or watch movies and play games and my “normal” volume even late at night. Is it out of the question for this receiver to drive those headphones? I assume this is a stupid question but I know nothing about headphones.

"Sennheiser hates this one trick that'll save you money!"
https://lifehacker.com/upgrade-a-pair-of-mid-range-headphones-to-an-audiophile-1456454424

   

I'd be really surprised if a $900+ receiver couldn't drive a 300ohm headphone.

Gracias a los dos. 

I kept getting vague responses when I tried googling last night where it wasn't really addressed on a technical level and kind of brushed aside - but I couldn't tell whether it was because it was silly to think it could or silly to think it couldn't... I guess I know which.

Any recommendations on an all around pair?  I started thinking i would be nice to have something that I could take with me on long flights to drown out noise, and also something I could hook up to my home receiver to get the Atmos and hi fi music experience even while my wife is asleep. 

It kind of seems like there isn't.  I understand to play off my phone I'll probably need a portable amp and that's okay with me.  But it seems like open back is the best for a good soundstage at home while sound leak would kill it for a flight.

I think I'm going to end up with two pairs 

[Mupepe]

oh and my struggle for the day.  Received an email yesterday (didn't see it until today) saying that I needed to set up a payment plan for this semester and my courses or I was going to be dropped from my classes.  The problem is that I already paid in full and my first class is Saturday.  Yesterday was the deadline for payment before being dropped so I hope they didn't do anything stupid already.

[fistfulofmetal]

I have a pair of Sennheiser HD 598's which have a relatively low impedance so you don't need as much power to drive. They work pretty well with a phone:

http://a.co/21QM5Bv

[I'm a Puppy!]

Wife's friend is having relationship problems. And she came over and saw me playing with my kids while we were cleaning up. And she sighed and said, "I wish MY husband would help around the house like that. I don't know how some women are so lucky to have men that help like that."

Without thinking I blurted out, "It's simple. They pick men that will help around the house."

Wife gave me the  face her friend the face.
Yeah, not the best thing to say.

[Valkyrie]

I dunno, man. Sometimes people just change, or become lazy/take others for granted.

[I'm a Puppy!]

I dunno, man. Sometimes people just change, or become lazy/take others for granted.

Oh totally. But this guy was always like that. I knew him before they got married. So it's not a surprise.

Either way, totally the wrong thing to say. I have shame.

[toku]

I have a pair of Sennheiser HD 598's which have a relatively low impedance so you don't need as much power to drive. They work pretty well with a phone:

http://a.co/21QM5Bv

Yeah, If you're looking for a general movie/gaming pair of cans mup, the 598 are great. I owned a pair for like 10 years and they're still the most comfortable pair of headphones I've ever owned. You'll forget about them on your head. They're open though so expect sound leak but you should be fine (don't watch porn in your living room). I was actually gonna recommend these lol. If you wanna flex some more cash you can go up to the HD-600s as well:
https://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-Open-Back-Professional-Headphone/dp/B00004SY4H/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1516389586&sr=8-2&keywords=hd600

I dunno, man. Sometimes people just change, or become lazy/take others for granted.

Oh totally. But this guy was always like that. I knew him before they got married. So it's not a surprise.

Either way, totally the wrong thing to say. I have shame.

A lot of ppl, but men especially, have a hard time appreciating things. That plus some never realize shit is constant work.

[Brehvolution]

I always feel bad when I'm sitting in my lounger watching tv while the wife is cleaning or folding laundry. So I always make sure to have a beer so I'll forget about feeling bad about not helping.

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Kidding. I do plenty of cleaning/folding.

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[hampster]

I moved and started a new job - I went from a small office place with its own bathroom to a small office place in a big building that shares its bathroom. God its disgusting

I didn't realize how good I had it at my old job. Now I dread every trip there. What used to be a nice break became the worst part of the day. Don't get me wrong, its not public bathroom at an amusement park bad or anything, but still :'(

At least focusing on the bathroom helps me ignore the crippling imposter syndrome

[CatsCatsCats]

Found my birth mom on Facebook a few years ago and now every year I have deal with weird messages from her on my bday

[Huff]

Happy birthday

-not your mom

[bork]

One of the buildings in my complex has a water problem.  They would up shutting off the water to entire complex and said it may not be back on until late sometime this evening. 

Maybe this is for the struggle thread-- I GOTTA TAKE A SHIT NOW 

My parents said we're good to go their house to use the facilities until it's back.  Was gonna wait for my wife to get home, but even if I go now, I'll be sitting in traffic for a while.  FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[chronovore]

Wife's friend is having relationship problems. And she came over and saw me playing with my kids while we were cleaning up. And she sighed and said, "I wish MY husband would help around the house like that. I don't know how some women are so lucky to have men that help like that."

Without thinking I blurted out, "It's simple. They pick men that will help around the house."

Wife gave me the  face her friend the face.
Yeah, not the best thing to say.

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I dunno, man. It's sad she's having relationship problems, but it's probably easier for her to restart than "fix" her husband. My Mom started over again at 50, found the best guy in her life. No regrets. While what you said wasn't kind, it was true. Sometimes people need that.

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[chronovore]

Ok so I’m looking to buy some entry level headphones similar to these. Most of my current listening of any kind is on my home theater set up driven by a Denon X4300H. I was thinking that I’d like a headset I could hook up to this receiver occasionally so I can listen to music or watch movies and play games and my “normal” volume even late at night. Is it out of the question for this receiver to drive those headphones? I assume this is a stupid question but I know nothing about headphones.

"Sennheiser hates this one trick that'll save you money!"
https://lifehacker.com/upgrade-a-pair-of-mid-range-headphones-to-an-audiophile-1456454424

   

I'd be really surprised if a $900+ receiver couldn't drive a 300ohm headphone.

Gracias a los dos. 

I kept getting vague responses when I tried googling last night where it wasn't really addressed on a technical level and kind of brushed aside - but I couldn't tell whether it was because it was silly to think it could or silly to think it couldn't... I guess I know which.

Any recommendations on an all around pair?  I started thinking i would be nice to have something that I could take with me on long flights to drown out noise, and also something I could hook up to my home receiver to get the Atmos and hi fi music experience even while my wife is asleep. 

It kind of seems like there isn't.  I understand to play off my phone I'll probably need a portable amp and that's okay with me.  But it seems like open back is the best for a good soundstage at home while sound leak would kill it for a flight.

I think I'm going to end up with two pairs 

I've got the Sennheiser 595, which I converted to 599s via the insanely easy "hack" - removing a stupid piece of foam. They're comfy. Open-ear means better situational awareness, airflow, ambient sound.

For planes, I've got a pair of Bose Quiet Comfort 2. These are great for drowning out repetitive environment noise, like planes or trains, but they're also a bit warm. When I wear them at home when I have to work undisturbed, I can get kinda sweaty ears. :-/

On top of that, I've got another half-dozen earphones, because I can't seem to not buy them. I've just found my pair of Etymotic ear isolation earbuds, that were frequently preferable for traveling, have finally succumbed to cable-rot.  :'(

[toku]

Headphones are cool, i like owning multiple at a time. I hope to continue a deep dive into gear lust once I became a rich artists.

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[Mupepe]

Yeah it looks like I’m going to have multiple pairs. I went and tried some out tonight.  I love the Sennheiser headphones for their soundstage and quality (tried 559, 579 and 600s) but the open back design leaked way too much to use on a flight at volumes I enjoy. They didn’t have any Sennheiser wireless models but I haven’t liked what I’ve read about their wireless offerings anyhow.

I think it’ll be a pair of Bose QC35’s for flying and 600’s or 650’s for the home. I’m going to be doing A LOT of long flights this year so I’ll do the Bose first unless someone has a better recommendation for that purpose. I’ll pick up the Sennheiser after I can find somewhere to do an in person comparison of the 600s and 650s.

[Tasty]

I heard Sony's latest cans are slightly better at noise cancellation than the QC35s but the QC35 is still probably the gold standard in that price range.

[Reb]

I can fully recommend the QC35s. I wore them for about 12 hours on my way to China.

[Tasty]

Yeah, my QC35 IIs are amazing at toning out the screeching of the T. Really good battery life too (IMO.)

Only thing I dislike is some aspects of the design. I really wish it was easier to wear them around my neck when not listening to music.

[TVC15]

It feels like a sea urchin crawled down my throat and took a shit.

[Raist]

It feels like a sea urchin crawled down my throat and took a shit.

I would have expected you to post that in the triumph thread tbh.

[jorma]

so my high performing unit (three people strong) was merged into a big unit with a lot of other smaller teams.
Those teams don't function nearly as well, and after the employee survey the big team got shit scores on aggregate.

So now i have two years worth of team building exercises ahead of me. And i fucking hate team building shit. It always ends up with me standing in the rain on a Thursday night with two hours of public transport to look forward to. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[chronovore]

Sho Nuff is repeatedly bringing up the ST:TNG episode where Beverly Crusher fucks a ghost and it's making me doubt the validity of the series.

[Tasty]

Ghostbusters has a ghost BJ, so that's not an automatic quality killer.

[Joe Molotov]

I saw a preteen wearing a Kony 2012 hoodie today. 

[VomKriege]

I saw a preteen wearing a Kony 2012 hoodie today. 

African charities shipping back to downtrodden countries merch of the losing option in neo-imperialist contests.

[TVC15]

I had to see an improv troupe open for another act on Friday and I still feel like I have the gay AIDS. Improv troupes are the fucking worst.

[chronovore]

i made the mistake of buying premade pasta sauce

supermarkets are disgusting

What's wrong with pre-made pasta sauce?

[Madrun Badrun]

Struggling with a class assignment.  Its for a machine learning class and I'm in the machine learning group.  Feel kind of embarrassed.  Doesn't help that I haven't done real math in years. 

[Madrun Badrun]

Its on gradient estimators

[TVC15]

You can do it. We believe in you!

[benjipwns]

I don't know, this seems like it may be his one weakness finally.

[Madrun Badrun]

Sure, can you tell me what a gradient is?  Also what an estimator is?  And finally what a gradient estimator is?

[TVC15]

Uh, can I change “believe in” to something like “are like totally agnostic or whatevs about”?

[Madrun Badrun]

Too late.  Your sentiment is on the record.

[Madrun Badrun]

Thats a well-informed answer.  Whats your background?

[TVC15]

Thats a well-informed answer.  Whats your background?

unemployed recovering alcoholic

Me too! For the moment. Hopefully.

[Madrun Badrun]

I'm guessing engineering given the mention of Kalmen filters and alcoholism. 

[chronovore]

I'm guessing engineering given the mention of Kalmen filters and alcoholism.

Nope! Just the alcoholism. No "background".

You write well, in any case.

Congrats on being in recovery. It changed both my parents lives for the better.

[Raist]

Sure, can you tell me what a gradient is?  Also what an estimator is?  And finally what a gradient estimator is?

Hopefully this is in jest Picture a mountain terrain, aka a function f: ℝ² -> ℝ. There are classes of problems where we're less interested in knowing what f is and mostly interested in what ∇f is, its gradient. What is a gradient? Pretend you are standing at some arbitrary point (x, y) on the mountain. The gradient of f at that point is the direction one would walk in to get to the top. You could take any path to the top of course but the path that always follows the gradient is the shortest such path (to the local maximum). This is also actually equivalent to saying that the gradient is always perpendicular to the level curves (e.g. the elevation lines on a topographical map.) So if you have the gradient (even if you don't have the original function), you can always "get to the top", optimizing the value of the function.

Estimators are approximations of functions. The functions are messy (because of error and observation), the estimators are clean...er. A regression is an estimation of a continuous function (like a line or a quadratic). A classifier is an estimator of a discretely valued function (e.g. the set of objects seen is either a person, a cat, or a dog). A Kalman Filter is an estimator for a vector valued time varying function + process noise using only sensor measurements with known (or guessed ) statistical error. Monte Carlo is an estimator for a single value! Etc.

So a gradient estimator is...

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a class of techniques you are learning for figuring out how to optimize any function at any given point without knowing what the actual function is. thus you don't even have to estimate the function, just its slope.

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Why are gradient estimators important? For Stochastic approximation, aka approximation of time varying processes. Think of a physics simulation. A program simulating physics takes states and then applies a derivative to it to change its position, temperature etc. For a really complicated simulation, if you have an estimation for how it will change at any point in the state space, you can simulate it despite not knowing the underlying (complicated) mathematical model.

He posted some maths stuff. Ew. Mods pls.

[VomKriege]

What is this ? EXCEL ?

[Beezy]

Finally tried mint chocolate chip ice cream. My stomach almost rejected it immediately. I don't wanna hear about this nasty ass flavor combo ever again.

[hungrynoob]

what an absolute waste of matter you are. /jk

[Tasty]

Mint chocolate chip is the best usage of the flavor "mint."

It's almost as good a flavor combo as pineapple on pizza.

[hungrynoob]

In the uk we have these mint aero chocolate bars which are amazing, they have a yogurt based on the bar. I buy it thinking it will be similar to the bar, as in, a lot of chocolate, and a lot of mint. The yogurt is a bubbly mess of 98% mint and 1% chocolate and the rest is unknown, its fucking gross.

I have fallen for this more than twice.

[toku]

Mint chocolate chip is the best usage of the flavor "mint."

It's almost as good a flavor combo as pineapple on pizza.

favorite ice cream flavor

[CatsCatsCats]

Mint chocolate chip ice cream is ril ril gud, what I do hate is when you have like a mixed bag of candy and the peppermint flavor of some hard candy bullshit taints the chocolate

[chronovore]

You said "taint"…

[hampster]

Finally tried mint chocolate chip ice cream. My stomach almost rejected it immediately. I don't wanna hear about this nasty ass flavor combo ever again.

Was it a version with green or white colored ice cream Personally, I find the versions with green ice cream much better.

[Beezy]

Finally tried mint chocolate chip ice cream. My stomach almost rejected it immediately. I don't wanna hear about this nasty ass flavor combo ever again.

Was it a version with green or white colored ice cream Personally, I find the versions with green ice cream much better.

This one:


They were half off at the Walgreens nearby, so I picked up a bunch of flavors.

[Corporal]

Ew. That looks like frozen spunk.

Or Gorgonzola ice cream.

Well, at least you got it for half off, I guess.

[Valkyrie]

Seems like I'm the only one in the world who hates anything mint flavored. 

[Forgotten A. Turnbuckle]

Why doesn't logitech make a mouse that's both wireless and shaped/feels exactly like the G500s?

The braided cable on this and other mice I've used can be a pain in the ass.  It'll bunch up or whatever and add resistance when I try to move it sometimes.  I've tried a mouse cable bungie but didn't really like that.

I tried the G903, but that felt uncomfortable as all hell.  Like I was being forced to use a claw grip.
I just got a MX Master 2S, but don't like the way it feels and the buttons on the side are placed stupidly.

So I'm back to my wired mouse. 

Any recommendations for something different?
I only use it for work so I don't want any crazy gaming mouse or anything.
But most of the best mice for actual office use are also gaming mice.  I just don't like the ones with 20 buttons or some stupid crap.

[Brehvolution]

Mint chocolate chip is the best usage of the flavor "mint."

It's almost as good a flavor combo as pineapple on pizza.

favorite ice cream flavor

It makes a great milkshake. Maybe the only one that you can chew.

[Forgotten A. Turnbuckle]

The best ice cream I've ever had is at this little gas station in a town of about 200 people in BFE, Michigan.

COW TIPPIN’ - Fields of caramel-filled chocolate cups in sweet, vanilla ice cream, near a river of caramel.
It sounds pretty basic, but those carmel filled chocolate cows feel divine biting into them.  Way better than Moose Tracks (and I love Moose Tracks)