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by zwayhowder 8y ago
My uni uses TurnitIn to scan all assignments; it provides a report with the word count in it to the grader. My pet peeve is we still have to use double-spaced lines even though I haven't had an assignment printed and marked up in over
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by zwayhowder 8y ago
Try working in an enterprise. I click links from emails to Jira/Confluence/Sharepoint all the time from Outlook. Do I want to use any of these tools? No, but I and tens of thousands of other employees have to on a daily basis in m
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by zwayhowder 8y ago
The only change I make to this process is my security questions are stored in a separate password manager to my passwords. That way if I lose access to my passwords and actually need the stupid (ahem, security) questions I can find them.
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by zwayhowder 8y ago
I made a hardware DIY Book scanner and run it off a Rpi using https://github.com/Tenrec-Builders/pi-scan with two Nikon J1 cameras. If you're not an experienced handy-person be prepared for frustration and spendin
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by zwayhowder 8y ago
I had a fellow masters student in tears during a group project once because she had already failed our first assessment. Apparently in her 4 year undergraduate degree in Nepal she had never once had to cite sources. All work was from proscr
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by zwayhowder 9y ago
I forgot the 3 USB ports, RJ45 & SDcard reader too. (And the 24 hours I can get with the extended battery). The X280 doesn't look as good to me. More limited range and IIRC soldered memory.
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by zwayhowder 9y ago
I appreciate the seek option isn't much use generally, but this was about 3 minutes in during the intro. I have no problem shouting you guys a couple of cups of coffee for the service (assuming I like it).
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by zwayhowder 9y ago
Lenovo X260 running Linux (doesn't matter which one really, I am happy with Fedora (25 to 27) for desktop, though I've been a Debian/Ubuntu user for far longer than I like to think about). I use i3 Window manager and now find
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by zwayhowder 9y ago
Just finished the first session, feedback so far: No offline option, I live in a poor service area so that's a long term deal breaker for me. I tend to queue up everything when I'm at uni. (Coursera, Lynda, Pluralsite, LinuxAcadem
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by zwayhowder 9y ago
I invested last year in two Elecom left handed trackballs (find them on Amazon). One at work and one at home.
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by zwayhowder 9y ago
And now I find that you can do regex searches in filters, so a filter for orders_(. *)@... works. Although Google Apps routing still allows more cool things like hidden headers that filters can't search on, but App Script can... I&#x2
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by zwayhowder 9y ago
As an extension to this on Google Apps you can do mail routing based on regex rules. I have an email address bs_(. )@... that forwards to my primary inbox. You do have to be the admin to set these up. I did this as a lot of places don'
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by zwayhowder 9y ago
3 million paying g-suite "businesses" (Assume 3 customers per business as that's the minimum and you have 9 million accounts) and 1000 comments? Or 0.03% of customers or 0.01% of accounts. Seems pretty specific and isolated t