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by icepat 4y ago
> face no accountability for it Well, just look at how administrative errors, and professional misconduct by instructors is handled. I had a professor fail half the class because he lost the final exams, and another cohort because he mad
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by icepat 4y ago
> Bone headed move. They must have miscalculated if they think the students will cave to this pressure It´s not about caving, I don´t think. It´s about maximum damage. University administration is one of the most ruthless groups you can
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by icepat 4y ago
Can you explain what makes this account a sock-puppet account, or how they're causing trouble? The comment makes valid points, and provides useful information.
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Estonia isn't even really considered a former SSR if I'm not mistaken. The period of time they were an SSR was mostly considered an illegal occupation, with the legitimate and recognized government being in exile. It's simila
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Not an adhom, it's valid to point out to give context to any sideways ideology that might show up. Often times these "discipline, hard world, grind" bloggers are set in a certain ideological context. So pointing that out help
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I think it's just an endearing quirk of his (likely) elderly mother.
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Yeah, that's what I was trying to get at. Better explanation than I could manage before my coffee kicked in.
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by icepat 4y ago
It worked out, just sent them a copy of the program outline from my university. The whole process was a mess for other reasons, but at least this one got sorted out after a few back-and forth with the department by Email.
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by icepat 4y ago
Just the term 'engineer' is protected in parts of Canada, and it's at a provincial level if I remember properly. The 'software' part has nothing to do with it. That said, the term is protected really weirdly. The st
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> A BSc or MSc in STEM is all 99.997% of immigration Funny enough, I hold a 'general science' BSc. When I was applying for a work permit, the country's immigration office didn't believe my degree existed for a short w
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by icepat 4y ago
Yeah, but that does not mean it's not wildly unethical.
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Having an animal killed for no good reason, other than it caused you problems, is a bit twisted. In situations like this, rehoming them is the ethical thing to do. This is literally saying 'I don´t care if he´s killing kittens'.
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Not sure if you need to pasteurize, but this sounds like a breakdown in the sterile field for the manufacturing process more than anything else. That or a contaminated supply chain somewhere.
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I definitely enjoy them talking to empty rooms, and posed at awkward angles.
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Again, not advocating teaching people with the machines that abstract, just letting them use the machines to help them collect their knowledge and solidify it. My point is very clear, and there's no real ambiguity in what I'm gett
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I think there's a major difference between using something that removes the need for basic knowledge, as opposed to allows that knowledge to be learned in a different way. I'm not advocating not teaching people to write , I'
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I think an important addendum here is that the environment of a lab, and the environment of an uncontrolled classroom are different. So it's entirely possible that the actual real-world effects might be even more different than what we
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That's why I'm not saying to it for everyone. Reverse that logic, and apply it to the regular teaching style. It cuts both ways.
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And I did note that, and address it. This is exactly like the line of reasoning that blocked my access to the tools I needed to learn. Like I said, the bureaucratic process of getting an assessment is often prohibitive. Many educational exp
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by icepat 4y ago
Not saying it is not, but what I am saying is that you should be allowed whatever learning tools work best for you. A blanket ban on computers and insisting on hand written notes, is just no good. Forcing children to manage bureaucracy to g
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> There really are different types of learners, and applying one method to everybody means some people lose out. You get it -- this is exactly what I'm getting at. The second issue here is that many people grow up thinking they&#x27
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> Hard to tune out of a lecture when you are literally writing everything down, at speed. The issue here is what I mentioned above: illegible handwriting. The more pressure I am under, the higher my stress levels, the harder is becomes t
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Active listening is something I'm completely incapable of doing in a traditional way. When I have an activity in front of me, for example code or an interesting task, I listen better and am more engaged. When I was younger, I had a spe
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Why? As a student, giving me access to a laptop improved my ability to get things done by orders of magnitude. I always struggled with messy writing, and being distracted easily. Having a laptop let me pay better attention, because I could
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by icepat 4y ago
Not sure I entirely follow what's going on here. Is there some context behind this that's useful to know?
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For accuracy, it needs negative legibility settings. Anyone who's been in a sprint retro with hand written action points knows this.
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Now I can read it in Emacs
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You do realize that KiwiFarms is named that because of Chris Chan, the person the website was set up to stalk, right? See: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/kiwi-farms-the-webs-... > That's beca
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The sorts of people being "documented" on KiwiFarms are not celebrities. They're usually vulnerable people with some sort of mental illness who are struggling. And I don't buy for a moment the "no touch" policy
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Google not prioritizing 4chan and KiwiFarms is a terrible example "not wanting organic content". They're not just "organic content", they're cesspools of the worst kind of organic content. 4chan is notoriously

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