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[–] [email protected] 231 points 2 months ago (3 children)

For those of you that have yet to embark on your secondary education, this is how you know you've got a champ of a professor

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 months ago (4 children)

One of my professors wrote the textbook we were using. Before the first day of class, he sent out a greeting email. Attached to that email was a .PDF of the textbook. Hell yeah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It’s more of a grad school thing but I’ve had professors just give us all physical copies of their book because they have too many cases of free copies at home.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ha hell yeah. My dad did adjunct work for a while while working for the gov. He declined profits from his textbook and gave it out free to his students as he thought it was unethical. The copies the gov bought for their cont ed courses he gladly accepted the profits from though lmao my dad's a real one.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh man. In undergrad I had a Thermodynamics professor who used the DRAFT VERSION of his textbook to teach with. It was completely unedited and he expected us to catch any errors. He was also like 80 years old, doddering, hard of hearing, forgetful, didn't give us a syllabus until halfway through the semester.... It's the only class in undergrad that I got less than a B in. Years later I still resent him lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I give you permission to stop caring about that grade and to forgive someone who was surely on the way out after your class. The likelihood is that he died years ago.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Entropy man. It's a bitch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Hmm...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Entropy Man!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Entropy Man!

Like Martin Short's character in Pure Luck?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

i first read it as CUCK

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OMG somebody else knows this movie!!! :D

My dad would always laugh to the point of wheezing at the bee sting bit...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My dad would always laugh to the point of wheezing at the bee sting bit...

Are you a brother I didn't know about?!
My Dad does the same thing!

He doesn't even need to be watching the movie. I can just say, 'Hey remember Martin Short getting stung in that movie?' And he'll start guffawing.

Show this to yer Pa!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Hahaha sorry for taking so long to reply!

Thanks for making my day bro. What an unusually goofy thing to connect over. This is why the Internet can be great. :)

Show this to yer Pa!

Man, I can't tell you how much I really wish I could. Thanks for re-unlocking this treasured memory for me, bro. I mean it! 🥲

Please do me a huge favor and give your Ol' Man a big bear hug for me, kay? Or give him a call or whatever. Bet it'll make his day. :)

Haha maybe you can bond over Innerspace too, if you haven't seen it. We liked that one too. XD Martin Short is a legend hahaha.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Entropy Man would be a scary accidental villain. Just random acts of chaos as they go through life until enough shit goes wrong and they become persecuted. The they learn to use their powers for revenge against an unjust society.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm just imagining a very old man in a threadbare cape.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago

That's really rare. Back when I was in school the professor who taught the class and wrote the book would, every year, change enough of it to sell a new addition. Either move the sections around or change the problems.

Just so he could make more money.

It was a calculus class.

Fuck him.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Oh no, it also looks like I've spilled https://www.smartquantai.com/ over there. What a disaster, don't look at that mutual aid community for hard to find papers; it's full of communists and anarchists. Next thing you know, they will be screaming Kropotkin quotes.. Cannot have that kind of radical behaviour in a science community after all.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I know this is a helpful community, but it looks like the biggest scam site of all time lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Haha, I know, but it's a good site!!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The url also sets off so many alarm bells for me. Lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah lol the URL doesn't match the page title which doesn't match whatever wosonhj.com is. According to their DNS, some Chinese organization.

It links to a fake version of libgen populated with ads

(And sadly instead of re-hosting all 550+ TB of libgen for downloads they force the downloads through libgen's servers while throwing ads on top of their fake UI)

It links to a fake version of sci hub populated with ads

(Most of these all flowing into mobang.top, another throwaway url with Chinese DNS)

I'm sure it's a helpful site, but I'd recommend people accessing it:

  1. Don't use your actual personal email
  2. Don't reuse a password you've used elsewhere
  3. Access it through a VPN so your IP isn't exposed
  4. Ensure you are running malware protection (the built in malware protection on windows or mac is likely fine) (and otherwise yes, I know you use arch, and if you use nix you're too busy modifying one of your .nix files to even read this)
  5. Anything you download, upload to https://www.virustotal.com just to be safe

Realistically you should follow steps 1-5 for most online services, but here we are

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It used to be at that URL, and that URL redirects to it. They recently updated it and I am unsure where they are taking it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It makes sense to use throwaway urls, libgen does it all the time, I just wanted to inform people of what I found when looking at the site. Definitely not saying don't use it, just be cautious

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

(Just contexualising.) :)

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm sure glad this isn't a Music Forum

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Oh goodness, looks like I splashed all over here: https://mander.xyz/post/17313841

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

LOOKS LIKE I'LL NEED TO BREAK OUT ZOTERO TO CLEAN UP THE MESS.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Yep, and a good way to make acquaintances in class if you let everyone know you can be the PDF kid. 🤓