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syntaxfunction posted:I have never taken a university exam here (Australia) that allowed content not covered in class or with directions towards material. What the actual gently caress. I had one class in university on compilers. During one single lecture in the first week we went through the base level do-it-by-hand method with constructing a translation table and then stepping through to find the end result. None of the labs or assignments had that as the material, and we were explicitly told that we would never need it and it’s all done by the computer in a millisecond now. The rest of the class was using tools that handle that part and treating that bit of knowledge like a black box where it didn’t matter if you actually knew how it worked as it wouldn’t affect real world application at all. Then the final exam was entirely on making and using those tables. I got like 12%, and that was about average for the class. (students brought up that we were instructed that this specific material would never be on a test, and the exam got thrown out, which took my mark from an F up to an A)
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generatrix posted:I had one class in university on compilers. During one single lecture in the first week we went through the base level do-it-by-hand method with constructing a translation table and then stepping through to find the end result. None of the labs or assignments had that as the material, and we were explicitly told that we would never need it and it’s all done by the computer in a millisecond now. The rest of the class was using tools that handle that part and treating that bit of knowledge like a black box where it didn’t matter if you actually knew how it worked as it wouldn’t affect real world application at all. I got accused of cheating in a University level test that required us to hand write our coding answers in 'psudo-code' and I thought "why gently caress around, just write the real code that I know" Got dragged aside for cheating and failed. Maybe it was karma for the time I cheated on an assignment in HS copying an article on DirectX coding, and teh teacher showed her dumb poo poo son who said 'DX isnt coding, its graphics driver' so I got failed and couldn't really try to argue it without being caught out.
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https://youtu.be/17NKos-7GCo Pity old mate didn't get to see his dream become reality
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Bug Squash posted:In fairness, ancient humans also cocked things up halfway through but continued on regardless. All I see is the world's biggest tit. And y'all should know I have one of those special non-reflective monitors. Don't have any mirrors in my room, either. Not even a spoon! Plus I made sure my phone's front-facing camera was disabled. Oh poo poo, my phone, it has a screen noooo--
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Lobok posted:All I see is the world's biggest tit. *hovers behind u* a foul bauble of man's vanity
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Data Graham posted:Would have been hilarious if they'd finished it along the original angle. would have been like a traffic cone Hosting a party in the capstone of my new pyramid and there's just not enough personal space. LOTS of room for our animal headdresses though. Edit: picturing hosting a patio party but you invite too many guests and the deck collapses, but a pyramid CJacobs has a new favorite as of 17:00 on Apr 17, 2023 |
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Phosphine posted:The math department at my university (and elsewhere, probably), famously considers students getting max points a failure of test writing, because that means it wasn't comprehensive enough. It was also common for 12/16/20 to be the grade cutoffs (we have three grades, 3, 4 and 5, don't ask), with a max score of like, 35. This was a baffling practice in my physics department. They aimed for averages on exams in the neighborhood of 50% and then would just arbitrarily assign the letter grades in the end (at best some professors actually disclosed a formula to show how it was determined). It's honestly one of the reasons I walked away from my PhD program: I had the 2nd highest raw average in the classical mechanics course (we all compared) at around 72% with the highest having a 76ish. All the little kiddies (fresh out of undergrad) who had full funding failed out of the program that semester (then that money just vanished), somehow I got a B and the professor refused to explain how that was determined. I went to the department head who basically just said, "Trust me, it's valid," which is a hell of a choice for a scientist. The exact same thing happened in my math course that semester, so I decided to bail out. Well, it was mostly because of the funding thing, but I also didn't want to keep banging my head against the wall of capricious grading choices. Given where I'd been in undergrad years ago, I was really, really proud of having a 3.8 in my PhD program, especially when my classmates were whining incessantly about how hard and unfair life was because they had to supervise one whole physics lab a week while I was working full time as a software engineer. Department politics in academia sucks.
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peepin dem glizzy tittys
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Glittzies? Glitties? Gliddiez?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I know fuckos like to trot this out as an example of why the Oxford comma is important when it's not an example of that at all (and we know with absolute certainty that it's not important because other languages manage to do lists without it just fine). What it is an example of is this: do not put a comma where it isn't needed. ("My dog Farty" or "My dogs Farty and lovely" are fine. So is "My dogs Farty, lovely and Nigel". "My dog, Farty" and "My dogs, Farty and lovely" just add an extra comma for no reason and the latter adds ambiguity in an idiotic way.) What are you talking about? Without the Oxford Comma his parents are Ayn Rand and God. The Oxford Comma is necessary for clarity. Man, eat your shoots, and get the gently caress outta here.
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When this was later discovered they were confused as no world records were set. Further investigation revealed the participants were all Irishmen.
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credburn posted:What are you talking about? Without the Oxford Comma his parents are Ayn Rand and God. The Oxford Comma is necessary for clarity. Man, eat your shoots, and get the gently caress outta here. nah
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Grassy Knowles posted:I'm more surprised that Nelson Mandela was 800 years old An 800 year old dildo collector for a demi-god would be a really on brand direction for Elden Ring.
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What is the opposite of a healer? A wounder? That’s a Blue Wounder
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DPS class (damage per sett)
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Beve Stuscemi posted:What is the opposite of a healer? A wounder? That’s a Blue Wounder It's blue heeler. I guess it still works? As in, it will eat your heels?
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Beve Stuscemi posted:What is the opposite of a healer? A wounder? That’s a Blue Wounder
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An Interesting Fact about Blue Heelers is that they are half Dingo. Keep this in mind when watching Bluey.
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Beachcomber posted:An Interesting Fact about Blue Heelers is that they are half Dingo. Keep this in mind when watching Bluey. Are you implying that in the final episode Bluey is going to eat half a baby?
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:not going to watch bluey so I am safe Haha, this reminds me of that episode of Bluey where Choko refuses to go in the ocean cos it’s scary.
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dr_rat posted:That's not heroin, that's a historical epic! It's where the quote "the trick is not minding that it hurts" comes from
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Hyperlynx posted:It's where the quote "the trick is not minding that it hurts" comes from No, pretty sure that was Bluey.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I know fuckos like to trot this out as an example of why the Oxford comma is important when it's not an example of that at all (and we know with absolute certainty that it's not important because other languages manage to do lists without it just fine). What it is an example of is this: do not put a comma where it isn't needed. ("My dog Farty" or "My dogs Farty and lovely" are fine. So is "My dogs Farty, lovely and Nigel". "My dog, Farty" and "My dogs, Farty and lovely" just add an extra comma for no reason and the latter adds ambiguity in an idiotic way.) This is my dog Farty Weston. (Named by my four year old) 
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:not going to watch bluey so I am safe
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D-Pad posted:This is my dog Farty Weston. (Named by my four year old) That’s a drat fine dog right there.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:not going to watch bluey so I am safe you sad man
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fartknocker posted:That’s a drat fine dog right there. A rare turn. I'd expect some criticism from your username
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D-Pad posted:This is my dog Farty Weston. (Named by my four year old) In a few years when some neighbor's kid comments on your dogs name, will you blame your child? Bluntly? Asking for science
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Data Graham posted:Would have been hilarious if they'd finished it along the original angle. would have been like a traffic cone 
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