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Apparently chatgpt is a genuine scourge at high schools to the point that some teachers are demanding that all essays come hand written
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Feb 5, 2024 03:02
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The "show your working" thing always pissed me off because they'd want me to show steps that I didn't do. Like, how did I get the answer to 6x9? By knowing it. There's no working. It's 54. It's always been 54 and will always be 54. I wrote down 54. That was my process.
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Feb 5, 2024 03:08
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thetoughestbean posted:Apparently chatgpt is a genuine scourge at high schools to the point that some teachers are demanding that all essays come hand written This is funny to me because if I were still in school, I'd happily write out an original 2 page paper in Word, but if I was being forced to handwrite the same paper then I would just get ChatGPT to barf out something middling and punch it up with my own thoughts while transcribing it.
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Feb 5, 2024 03:09
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Phuo: typing < hand print < cursive < cyrillic cursive
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Feb 5, 2024 03:21
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Phuo: typing < hand print < cursive < cyrillic cursive Arabic has Cyrillic beat by a mile and people other than the person who wrote it can actually read it.
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Feb 5, 2024 03:31
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bawk posted:This is funny to me because if I were still in school, I'd happily write out an original 2 page paper in Word, but if I was being forced to handwrite the same paper then I would just get ChatGPT to barf out something middling and punch it up with my own thoughts while transcribing it. And people wonder why America is no longer a superpower
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Feb 5, 2024 05:40
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Phuo: typing < hand print < cursive < cyrillic cursive < decorative Mongolian calligraphy. Writing my essays with a giant brush so that it makes a picture of a bunny.
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Feb 5, 2024 05:55
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oldpainless posted:Good I would have failed miserably doing that tbh. I needed a computer to make my writing legible due to good old fashioned Dyspraxia. Typing up stuff is useful and helpful, we just need more and better paid teachers to look at the work.
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Feb 5, 2024 08:14
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thetoughestbean posted:We need more songs about other emotions, like being bored at work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WY7Si8Jiqk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYKjfrY8ZJc
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Feb 5, 2024 11:08
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Black pepper is overrated as a spice and doesn't belong in every dish.. Most restaurants would be better off replacing the pepper shakers with garlic powder or chili flakes.
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Feb 5, 2024 12:56
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Nameless Pete posted:Black pepper is overrated as a spice and doesn't belong in every dish.. Most restaurants would be better off replacing the pepper shakers with garlic powder or chili flakes. Everyone should replace black pepper with white pepper anyway. It's the better version of the same thing. There's no good reason to be eating black pepper.
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Feb 5, 2024 13:22
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White pepper smells like fart.
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Feb 5, 2024 14:08
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if you own an appliance or something electronic, you should either keep the manual, or at minimum snap a photo of the front cover with the model number on it before you throw it away. even if you never use it once, ever, it is so much easier to help solve an issue with that thing if i know what it is. if your tv doesnt turn on, and you can't find the power button on the tv itself, and you can't tell me the make/model, why did you call tech support. what are you expecting me to do. i can either figure out how to fix this poo poo, or tell you that it's broke, in like two seconds if you can just tell me the stuff that'd be on the front page of the manual. please, boomers, learn how to practice basic electronics-ownership responsibility
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Feb 5, 2024 17:56
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bawk posted:if you own an appliance or something electronic, you should either keep the manual, or at minimum snap a photo of the front cover with the model number on it before you throw it away. even if you never use it once, ever, it is so much easier to help solve an issue with that thing if i know what it is. if your tv doesnt turn on, and you can't find the power button on the tv itself, and you can't tell me the make/model, why did you call tech support. what are you expecting me to do. i can either figure out how to fix this poo poo, or tell you that it's broke, in like two seconds if you can just tell me the stuff that'd be on the front page of the manual. please, boomers, learn how to practice basic electronics-ownership responsibility Usually tech support can tell you where to find the model number on the device itself. Then they can tell you anything else you need to know.
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Feb 5, 2024 18:31
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Alright everyone, post your stacks of manuals. Smallest stack gets sent to the support hole
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Feb 5, 2024 18:50
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Tiggum posted:Usually tech support can tell you where to find the model number on the device itself. Then they can tell you anything else you need to know. correct! It's on the back of the tv! it doesnt help any if they're 70 and can't physically move their giant-rear end tv on its heavy tv stand. and to be clear, i don't work for the television manufacturer. i work for the isp. i just want to help identify the problem and fix it without rolling a tech on-site because tech visits are billable. phone tech support is not. Punkinhead posted:Alright everyone, post your stacks of manuals. Smallest stack gets sent to the support hole where you belong! E: and yeah, there's usually ways to pull up the model # on newer smart TVs using the "about this tv" section of the settings menu, but if we're having problems identifying the power button on the TV, even if it's already turned on, blindly navigating somebody through a tv's settings menu until we find the right page with the right info is a much shittier alternative than reading off the model # which is prominently displayed on the manual the TV came with bawk has a new favorite as of 20:23 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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Feb 5, 2024 20:17
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Seriously though I can never bring myself to throw away a box or a manual, I'm glad I can call it being responsible now instead of hoarding
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Feb 5, 2024 23:06
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Punkinhead posted:Seriously though I can never bring myself to throw away a box or a manual, I'm glad I can call it being responsible now instead of hoarding I occasionally buy guitar pedals from Yahoo! Japan through Buyer and the number of pedals that are 20+ years old but with the original box and instructions is fascinating. I bought an 80's synth recently that was still in its original box. I keep manuals, but gently caress boxes.
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Feb 7, 2024 03:23
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Look at this goon buying musical gear to actually use. What about the resale value, huh? The resale value
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Feb 7, 2024 05:50
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Pretty much everything people are nostalgic for from the 80s seems like… it sucked? Even the handful of good stuff, like idk Ghostbusters, is wildly overrated. The 80s are rear end and olds gotta get over them. 22 minute toy commercials, cold warriors, afghan war, and a stable of rapey pop stars. The 80s.
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Feb 7, 2024 12:20
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Most 80s videogames are better than modern ones in that you can sit and beat them all in usually way less than an hour
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Feb 7, 2024 13:36
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Most 80s videogames are better than modern ones in that you can sit and beat them all in usually way less than an hour But that’s bad. The ideal video game length is around 8 hours.
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Feb 7, 2024 14:17
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I'm trying to think what my closest time to beat of 8 hours is and upon looking at my steam you might just be right
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Feb 7, 2024 14:47
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Hotline was a great game. Bangin' soundtrack too. Also, the 80's had a lot of cool stuff it just also had a lot of trash. Unfortunately trash tends to be better funded so it sticks around more because Capitalism ruins everything.
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Feb 7, 2024 15:41
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Most 80s videogames are better than modern ones in that you can sit and beat them all in usually way less than an hour At a mall kiosk they had one of those "200 retro nes games on a USB controller" gadgets you can plug into your TV so for funsies I fired up Contra and beat it in twenty minutes after not playing it for decades, all the little gen Alpha kids were like    like I was some kind of speed runner or something.It was one of the few NES games I was able to beat on my own consistently thanks to the Konami code (though at this point can probsbly handle it with the lives/Xtra lives you pick up along the way by default). You also reminded me how much I loved the Game Genie because it made so many more NES games beatable for me by allowing me to bypass bullshit mechanics or unintuitive design choices that held me back.
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Feb 7, 2024 17:25
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The only nice-sounding romance language is France french
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Feb 9, 2024 01:03
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The only neece-sounding romance language is France french
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Feb 9, 2024 01:16
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The only nice-sounding romance language is France french Occitan
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Feb 9, 2024 01:17
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The only nice-sounding romance language is France french Spanish > French in terms of sounding nice.
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Feb 9, 2024 01:29
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Spanish is an S-tier language
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Feb 9, 2024 01:45
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Gendered nouns are a terrible feature in any language.
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Feb 9, 2024 01:50
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Romance language ranking: 1. Spanish 2. Italian 3. Catalan 4. Romanian 5. Portuguese 6. Sardinian 7. French 8. Québécois
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Feb 9, 2024 01:53
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Naw, Spain spanish sounds terrible and Argentina is worse. The rest are mid. Most italian sounds like cartoon characters past Turin. It’s just facts.
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Feb 9, 2024 11:19
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Not an opinion just a preference but I must be in the minority. I really can't stand wearing noise-cancelling headphones. They make me feel disoriented and like my ears are all plugged up, way more distracting than any sound they're blocking. I've been told they're great on planes, but the worst thing about the noise in a plane is not being able to hear anything else.
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Feb 9, 2024 23:31
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Having spent a lot of time on planes… what do you want to hear? -posted while wearing noise cancelling headphones tbh
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Feb 9, 2024 23:47
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Noise-blockers were an absolute must for me as a person who 1. commuted on the NYC subway every day to 2. an extremely noisy open office. At the office I actually had some of the 3M airport employee ones, as a "go away i am busy" signal. YMMV.
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Feb 10, 2024 00:08
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Nerds Gummy Clusters are the first big step forward in candy in the past decade
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Feb 10, 2024 00:22
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They're a pale imitation of Trolli Gummi Rocks
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Feb 10, 2024 01:08
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Big Chewy Nerds are superior to both.
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