One hell of a hook

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[–] 43 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

This is no laughing matter. There used to be a Wikipedia category for scientists who committed suicide. (With a subcategory: Mathematicians who committed suicide.) Probably removed because it got overly broad or something.

Submitted it to Reddit's r/MorbidReality once, they just fucking removed it. Reddit mods are assholes.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    So are lemmy users now that I’ve been here for a while!

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  • [–] 14 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    "The Ring" movie was based on this book, with Japan and Hollywood taking their usual liberties and slightly changing it.

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  • [–] 52 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

    I like how the bottom panel adds nothing and detracts from the humor.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 hours ago

    I had a professor who called it "Sadistical Thermo-god-damn-its"

    When i took it it wasn't that bad but maybe our professor went easy on us.

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    I would wager that any fluid dynamics book is cursed and it is rather forbidden knowledge not meant for mortals.

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  • [–] 17 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    "States of Matter" by David L. Goodstein

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  • [–] 9 points 15 hours ago

    what book is this?

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  • [–] 7 points 14 hours ago (8 children)

    Well, at least it isn't transfinite set theory. Or AI research.

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  • [–] 10 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    won't the libs stop! now they're turning the finite set theories trans!?

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  • [–] 6 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

    Both of those are pretty tame in comparison. Thermodynamics isn't for the faint of heart.

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  • [–] 7 points 13 hours ago

    I personally wouldn't call the former particularly tame, and the latter of the two comes with the additional burden of knowing that you're the engineer of our collective end rather than just a student of it.

    But I'm not going to argue that grappling with Thermodynamics is easy either. I'm not that far gone.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

    Like half my ME courses in college were basically the same Thermodynamics stuff repacked in a new way.

    (Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, IC Engines, at least 2 others I forget the name of).

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  • [–] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    Theoretical Thermodynamics and Statistic Physics is different from applied thermodynamics. The latter is fiiinnnneeee. The former is mind melting. I don't know how deviously engineers get tortured. The gloves come off for physics students for sure.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago*

    Engineers probably don't get it that hard. Like 90% of the thermodynamics stuff was using those little tables with the crooked rectangles (it's been like 25 years, I don't remember what they are called).

    Plus MEs are like a weird "Jack of all trades" for stuff. We did a little Civil Engineer, a little Electrical Engineering, a little Physics, a little Chemistry, but none of it goes super super deep. And I don't think it's as reversed for these individual things. Like, at least at the time, I could do "basic to mid CE and EE stuff, but I don't think CEs and EEs could do anything but CE and EE stuff.

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