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by agiacalone 2y ago
Apple ][ for me, but essentially the same game. https://archive.org/details/hitchhiker-guide-to-galaxy-manua... I tried so damn hard to beat the game...but in the end, I needed the Invisiclues guide. I was also 9 years
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by agiacalone 2y ago
I totally forgot about this Taco Bell. I used to go there with my dad in the late 80's/early 90's (I grew up in that area). I don't recall them selling alcohol in those days (I was also much too young to drink then) but
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California companies wrote their own gig worker law. Now no one is enforcing it(apnews.com)
83 points by agiacalone 2y ago|60 comments
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by agiacalone 2y ago
Interesting, and I don't disagree that it can be faked...but that's a whole other issue. For example sake about one of the jobs: it was for a project management position in a big old tech company with three letters.
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by agiacalone 2y ago
> Does AI cheating in school matter much? The primary party that loses out from the cheating is the cheater because they will fail to learn Sure, I suppose. But the secondary effect is that others with the same Uni degree now have thei
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by agiacalone 2y ago
> > Cheating is widespread because there are people in those courses who aren't interested in the material This is only part of the issue, IMO. Students (especially CS/Engineering students) are usually overloaded with work.
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by agiacalone 2y ago
> Why not use more oral exams? ... I understand time is probably a factor We do this, actually. Usually in the form of project demos when students complete a longer project. But also consider: I have ~200-250 students a semester. Even at
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by agiacalone 2y ago
Uni CS lecturer here: It's not the writing itself that is important, it's the ability to communicate ideas and express one's own thoughts. I use writing on exams as a way to determine what the student actually knows about a p
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by agiacalone 2y ago
This is neat! Kudos to your grandma. Edit: I got it in 18 guesses
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by agiacalone 2y ago
https://archive.is/8LB7U
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X (Twitter) Sues Former Advertisers(variety.com)
36 points by agiacalone 2y ago|24 comments
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by agiacalone 2y ago
It's anecdotal, but my wife was a Disneyland cast member for ~5 years. She claims that the words 'thank you' were a rare occurrence to hear from guests...
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GoofCord: Highly configurable and privacy-focused Discord client(github.com)
3 points by agiacalone 2y ago|0 comments
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Pet parrots prefer live video-calls(phys.org)
81 points by agiacalone 2y ago|29 comments
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by agiacalone 3y ago
Current CSU Lecturer here, working for one of our largest campuses. Since I started 10 years ago, my department (CS) has seen more than double the amount of enrollment. Projections for us are to double again in the next 4 years or so. The d
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Cat-GPT(cat-gpt.com)
2 points by agiacalone 3y ago|0 comments
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by agiacalone 3y ago
Ahem. https://nestflix.fun/sick-sad-world/
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Icewind Dale 2 Enhanced Edition(forums.beamdog.com)
2 points by agiacalone 3y ago|0 comments
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by agiacalone 3y ago
It just means that services that allow bad actors get blocked. Like Google Groups. I have and enjoy using “public” Usenet servers like eternal-september and SDF which disallow spam and hold users accountable for their actions.
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by agiacalone 3y ago
Killfiles are the generally accepted way of combating spam on Usenet. With only a few lines, I see very little of it even on the wider Usenet groups. Generally blocking public services (like Google Groups) is enough to block 90%+ spam
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by agiacalone 3y ago
Small newsgroup services that use NNTP, like Usenet, still exist as well—not to mention the “big” services. Tilde operates one, as does SDF, the two *nix communities that I belong to. https://tilde.wiki/wiki/NNTP (SDF
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by agiacalone 3y ago
It happened to me on Arch during the switch from init to systemd. Update was documented, but I didn’t look. Did my `pacman -syua` as I normally did on a daily, and rebooted to a totally borked system. This is when I was a grad student and r
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by agiacalone 3y ago
I have a close relative who works for the beast, and he claims that everyone there "eats the dogfood". Knowing what I know of him, I believe it and he certainly lives the company life. He even used to have (and claimed to like) a
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by agiacalone 4y ago
Preferences are preferences, but mine would be Cinnamon DE. Simple, fast, lots of functionality. Reminds me of all the best parts of Windows XP and the focus is on tasks/programs and not full-screen apps like modern Gnome. And almost a
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by agiacalone 4y ago
I’m confused. Are you advocating for complexity regardless of need?
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by agiacalone 4y ago
I feel like there’s some unsaid intrinsic value to having text-based files versus a compiled format like parquet. Size and speed aren’t nearly as critical when size is small, and this seems like adding unneeded complexity for all but some s
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by agiacalone 4y ago
I've used some form of *NIX since 1999, almost exclusively. Began with Red Hat 5. Moved on to Slackware for my server at the time, and Debian for workstations (I also had various MacOS machines as well). Dabbled with Arch for a few yea
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by agiacalone 4y ago
From the article: “They released an early spreadsheet tool called Multiple [sic] in 1982. But Lotus 1-2-3 was the first killer application for the PC.”
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by agiacalone 4y ago
Same. Let the GNU fight this fight and we benefit. It's about choice.
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by agiacalone 4y ago
Shouldn't the credit go to VisiCalc instead of Excel? Excel rode on the popularity of VisiCalc and Lotus 123 for years. https://thehistoryofcomputing.net/visicalc-excel-and-the-ris...

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