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Re: My graduation cap runs Rust

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Post by fwipsy » Wed, May 13, 2026, 3:47 PM UTC

imgabe wrote: post #80

> Warning: the following video contains rapid strobing of light. I’ve written this out so people who are reading this with a screen reader know not to watch the video! Uh...if you need a screen reader are the strobing lights really going to be a problem?

Some people have very blurry vision, so they might be using a screen reader but still watching videos. Some people might translate the page to another language, which wouldn't apply to the warning embedded in the video. Probably there are other edge cases.

Re: My graduation cap runs Rust

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Post by fwipsy » Wed, May 13, 2026, 3:48 PM UTC

dhosek wrote: post #8

0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #4

If you go to a bigger school, they have multiple graduation ceremonies. Split the rental amongst anyone who does not share a time slot with you. That’s what I did and people acted like this was a genius move. No, I am just broke.

I skipped the graduation ceremonies for my BA and my first master’s degree. For my second, apparently the cost of a cap, gown and hood was included in the tuition so I have academic regalia sitting in a box somewhere should I ever find myself in need of such, a scenario I cannot imagine ever coming to pass.

Halloween costume?

Re: My graduation cap runs Rust

#83

Post by fwipsy » Wed, May 13, 2026, 3:49 PM UTC

dhosek wrote: post #8

0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #4

If you go to a bigger school, they have multiple graduation ceremonies. Split the rental amongst anyone who does not share a time slot with you. That’s what I did and people acted like this was a genius move. No, I am just broke.

I skipped the graduation ceremonies for my BA and my first master’s degree. For my second, apparently the cost of a cap, gown and hood was included in the tuition so I have academic regalia sitting in a box somewhere should I ever find myself in need of such, a scenario I cannot imagine ever coming to pass.

Halloween costume? Or perhaps you could donate it to someone who would otherwise have to pay the fee.

Re: My graduation cap runs Rust

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Post by rirze » Wed, May 13, 2026, 3:52 PM UTC

avhception wrote: post #41

> Are you actually going to wear this to your graduation? > Heck no. What? That would have been so much fun!

A lot of graduation ceremonies have restrictions on how you can decorate your cap. I would be surprised if this was allowed.

Re: My graduation cap runs Rust

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Post by fluffybucktsnek » Wed, May 13, 2026, 4:31 PM UTC

nDRDY wrote: post #50

fluffybucktsnek wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you go on every project that announces itself to be written in C/C++/Zig/Fil-C/Java/etc. and make those same complaints? That must be tiring.

No need!

Which begs the question: what was the need for OP's comment? How did it bring anything deep or insightful to this thread?

Re: My graduation cap runs Rust

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 13, 2026, 6:56 PM UTC

Basketb926 wrote: post #71

tekne wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it? My issue with this type of thinking is it assumes "transport cost lots of things in a modern supply chain. The cost of moving the gown between users -- in the form of the user needing to give back the gown to the service, who must then clean it, inspect it, etc. -- may in fact be far higher than the cost of manufacturing a new gown and only needing your supply lines to be "one way".

trash doesn't disappear, everything has to go somewhere

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Re: My graduation cap runs Rust

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Post by xp84 » Wed, May 13, 2026, 7:05 PM UTC

rustybolt wrote: post #36

> Fun fact #1: you rent your cap and gown in the US. You have to return them. And they’re expensive, too! I paid $94 just for the privilege of renting mine, which is insane because they probably cost way less than that to manufacture. Ah, yes, of course this is how it works in the US.

High school lets you (makes you?) buy them. My HS and college had almost the exact same color, so I probably could have gotten away with reusing mine!

Re: My graduation cap runs Rust

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Post by xp84 » Wed, May 13, 2026, 7:08 PM UTC

morpheuskafka wrote: post #78

rustybolt wrote: post #36

> Fun fact #1: you rent your cap and gown in the US. You have to return them. And they’re expensive, too! I paid $94 just for the privilege of renting mine, which is insane because they probably cost way less than that to manufacture. Ah, yes, of course this is how it works in the US.

I don’t doubt that some offer and charge for rentals. (I think mine only charged $130 ish for purchase though.) However, I am shocked to hear that there is not even an option to purchase them at OP’s university. Many people like to keep them, especially the cap at least, as a souvenir, or their parents will keep it. Besides, couldn’t they make more money selling them?

At my college you rented the gowns, or at least that was the default, but I think the cap was bought and yours to keep.

Also, as a souvenir, the tassel, which is decorated with a charm showing the year graduated, is also always (obviously) yours to keep.

It’s very common in America for young people to hang that tassel from their car’s center rear-view mirror.

Re: My graduation cap runs Rust

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Post by CyberDildonics » Wed, May 13, 2026, 7:12 PM UTC

rustybolt wrote: post #36

> Fun fact #1: you rent your cap and gown in the US. You have to return them. And they’re expensive, too! I paid $94 just for the privilege of renting mine, which is insane because they probably cost way less than that to manufacture. Ah, yes, of course this is how it works in the US.

It's insane, why doesn't the school just store a bunch of them.

Re: My graduation cap runs Rust

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Post by CyberDildonics » Wed, May 13, 2026, 7:13 PM UTC

keybored wrote: post #65

rustybolt wrote: post #36

> Fun fact #1: you rent your cap and gown in the US. You have to return them. And they’re expensive, too! I paid $94 just for the privilege of renting mine, which is insane because they probably cost way less than that to manufacture. Ah, yes, of course this is how it works in the US.

We are by all concievable measures living in the best timeline and under the best economic system. Just look at the graphs. Just consider what an American symbol the graduation cap is. We don’t really know why, but I think a likely reason is that making graduation caps under most economic systems is too labor intensive. Some families might not have even been able to send their children to universities since they coul…

What in the world is going on here?