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I'm a student at Stanford — this is hitting the whole school hard. Unlike a lot of schools on the east coast that are affected (Brown, Harvard, MIT) we are on t

by eiiot 5mo ago

I'm a student at Stanford — this is hitting the whole school hard. Unlike a lot of schools on the east coast that are affected (Brown, Harvard, MIT) we are on the quarter system so we're just ending Midterms right now. We're also lucky enough to have our CS department entirely independent from Canvas, but most of my humanities classes are not so lucky. One art history class is having us submit our midterm papers by uploading to a google drive folder—another is pausing weekly quizzes. The main thing this has revealed is just how dependent students and teachers are on Canvas... I hope that this re-prompts discussions about moving off of a platform that was already (from a student perspective) not very good.

zuzululu 5mo ago
I really feel like SH fucked up by sinking this low hitting students and Americas young minds like this.... One thing to target coroporations but leave the students alone....
- JCharante 5mo ago
  It's not so bad, I'd say the Christmas PS3 hack was worse
  - zuzululu 5mo ago
    You don't care that students are impacted but your ps3 not being playable for a short period was more important. Heard you loud and clear sheesh
noitpmeder 5mo ago
And what's your opinion on the em dash?
- eiiot 5mo ago
  That it tends to provoke unproductive comments like this one. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments
  - kitsune1 5mo ago
    [dead]
- mizzao 5mo ago
  The fact that one of the em dashes has spaces around it, and the other does not, makes it more likely to be handwritten. I personally love em-dashes and hate that they're a sign of AI writing now.