Mr. Grapes! posted:

I am a teacher.


We now have a Special Amazing App to give exams with. It is just like giving a normal exam except I now have to stand there like a doofus taking photos of every kid's work, and then I can squint at the photos in the app to try to determine if it is correct or not, and then enter in individual scores by typing in their answers for each question on the app. Repeat this about 250 times.

We now have a Special Amazing App to get observed with. Previously, an office parasite of some sort who holds meetings by reading off a poorly spelled power-point slide would come into your class and 'observe' (play with their phone) and then bring you into the office to spend 20 minutes telling you how lovely of a teacher you are because you didn't begin and end the lesson by reciting the Lesson Objectives to the children. Now I get observed and I have to log into the special Observation App to find out how bad of a teacher I am. In the past, an office parasite would come to your desk and tell you that you're going to be observed soon. Now you can just check the app every single day to find out!

Previously, kids would take home their test scores and have to get mom to sign it to show how little Pnurtis failed to learn multiplication. Now, with the app, mom gets the score in real-time so she can call her child DURING the class because she checked her very special app and found out that Pnurtis got question 4 wrong.

Previously, if I was calling out sick I would call the office and say "I'm sick" and they would arrange a substitute. Now, I can call out sick using the Special Amazing App and log into it where it then needs to get approval from 3 different office parasites before the request passes through and triggers the Substitute Finding Task. Usually one of them misses it (because the app sucks) and the kids will be sitting in a room with no adult until they go all Lord of the Flies and then the school wildly panics trying to get a sub.

Previously I'd take attendance by looking around and seeing who was missing, then I'd notify the office if anyone was gone. Now, I can use the Attendance App and click each individual student by name to mark them as Present. The attendance app requires that I do this every 35 minutes even if my classroom door is closed the entire time and no one goes anywhere. The attendance app will lock you out if you don't do this within the first 5 minutes of each 35 minute class and then send the data to the office to show that I am a Bad Teacher. Every week we get an email showing who is the Worst Teacher by ranking them on how many times they missed the Attendance Window.

By the way, all of these are different apps that each require their own login, and will often log you out inexplicably and then demand to text you with a special code to log back in, sometimes the code even arrives.

theflyingexecutive posted:

With GPT-4, it can be difficult to know you're looking at not-A until you're halfway down the page and see bizarrely fictional information

tactlessbastard posted:

It seems like everyone was driving around with their brights on 24/7 but I had attributed it to advancing astigmatism

credburn posted:

Maybe it's because I am blessed with 20/20 vision, but I have never needed to use my brights. Not a single time. I don't understand why people need to use their brights, especially when they're driving down the freeway and constantly turning them off for a few seconds after momentarily blinding oncoming traffic. And using them in town? What the gently caress, why? There's plenty of light, why do you need to shine like police helicopter levels of light into peoples' houses? And gently caress me, as a pedestrian, they're not going to turn their brights off for me. I can just go gently caress my blind self.

credburn posted:

Maybe it's because I am blessed with 20/20 vision, but I have never needed to use my brights. Not a single time. I don't understand why people need to use their brights, especially when they're driving down the freeway and constantly turning them off for a few seconds after momentarily blinding oncoming traffic. And using them in town? What the gently caress, why? There's plenty of light, why do you need to shine like police helicopter levels of light into peoples' houses? And gently caress me, as a pedestrian, they're not going to turn their brights off for me. I can just go gently caress my blind self.

euphronius posted:

They are useful to see deer

doctorfrog posted:

I'm convinced that a certain kind of person regards the projection of light from their car as a personal projection of their power

If you're annoyed by it, you should drive faster or get out of 'their lane'

A Strange Aeon posted:

This is a 'good' example where ai fucks up what should be a simple article about the 10 best Damned songs by also including songs by the Cure, AC/DC, and Nas:

https://singersroom.com/best-the-damned-songs-of-all-time/

There's a guy's name at the bottom of the article but considering how poor quality it is, I'm assuming even the name is ai generated.

It's like "content" is this generic thing now that can't exist for its own sake or have any actual qualities, it can only serve advertising.

quote:

#10 “Don’t Cry Wolf” is a song by British new wave band, The Damned. The song’s lyrics speak of a person who is being warned not to make false accusations or create unnecessary drama by “crying wolf”. The metaphorical warning references the fable of the boy who cried wolf, in which a young boy repeatedly lies about the presence of a wolf, causing people to ignore him when a wolf actually appears. The song’s catchy melody and upbeat tempo stand in contrast to the cautionary message of the lyrics, creating a sense of tension and irony. “Don’t Cry Wolf” serves as a reminder to always be truthful and genuine in our actions, and to be aware of the consequences of crying wolf.

StormDrain posted:

They're good for dark country roads and highways, they project higher so you light up further down the road. Outside of that, no they're not really very necessary unless the car has poor performing headlights to begin with.

Also auto dimming hi beams are becoming more common so you may see that happening around town. At least with those you're less likely to get blasted with them if you're in a car.

Well Played Mauer posted:

I saw an F-150 from the 90s at a red light next to a modern F-150 and the new one was a foot higher and wider. I know trucks and SUVs are marketed at insecure people but how soon until people are just buying an Abrams tank with cup holders on a 120-month financing plan?

Well Played Mauer posted:

I saw an F-150 from the 90s at a red light next to a modern F-150 and the new one was a foot higher and wider. I know trucks and SUVs are marketed at insecure people but how soon until people are just buying an Abrams tank with cup holders on a 120-month financing plan?

Animal-Mother posted:

Well Played Mauer posted:

I saw an F-150 from the 90s at a red light next to a modern F-150 and the new one was a foot higher and wider. I know trucks and SUVs are marketed at insecure people but how soon until people are just buying an Abrams tank with cup holders on a 120-month financing plan?

His Divine Shadow posted:

Driving in Finland without high beams outside lighted up areas in winter wouldn't be fun, and there are alot of those areas here and in the other nordic countries too, the main road for commuting here is not illuminated except when it runs through a village, most of it is forest and fields.

At this time of year it's full night darkness in the morning when you leave home, and daylight has come and gone again while you were at work. So yeah high beams are important here. Now that we have snow and cold they are a little less important actually, it's that early winter period when things are pitch black, but there's no snow and everything is wet that's the absolute worst kind of darkness to drive in. It's everything being wet that's the worst, everything is dark and reflective, the road in particular...

How & when to use high beams in traffic is part of drivers ed as well because it's so important to driving here.

Biplane posted:

They don't have drivers ed in America, you just show up with 75 dollars to a parking lot and you're a driver.

redshirt posted:

Back in MY day, Drivers Ed and passing the test was this grueling ordeal many failed.

Biplane posted:

Drivers ed here is a minimum of 10 hour-long drives with an instructor, night driving, long driving, several sessions on theory, a written test, and a practical test. It takes six to twelve months and costs thousands of dollars.

MrQwerty posted:

in NM you have to go to classes and do a ton of driving with an instructor and someone with an issued drivers license... if you're a teenager getting a learner's permit

if you're over 18 you gotta pass the eye test at the dmv

redshirt posted:

That explains alot lol

Well Played Mauer posted:

I saw an F-150 from the 90s at a red light next to a modern F-150 and the new one was a foot higher and wider. I know trucks and SUVs are marketed at insecure people but how soon until people are just buying an Abrams tank with cup holders on a 120-month financing plan?

StormDrain posted:

Exhibit A, poor performing headlights.

Larry Cum Free posted:

What about things getting shittier for reasons? Reasons that are lovely?

https://x.com/LeeHepner/status/1728818448778895597?s=20

Biplane posted:

Drivers ed here is a minimum of 10 hour-long drives with an instructor, night driving, long driving, several sessions on theory, a written test, and a practical test. It takes six to twelve months and costs thousands of dollars.

Cerekk posted:

A 2023 F-150 is 4.6 inches higher and 0.9 inches wider than a 1995 F-150.

Cerekk posted:

A 2023 F-150 is 4.6 inches higher and 0.9 inches wider than a 1995 F-150.

kreeningsons posted:

Oh word? How are the sight lines?