blackbirdbiryani

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

One thing that doesn't seem to be mentioned is that practically everyone is cheating on online assessments when they can. I've personally seen probably 60% of my masters cohort cheat this way discussing exam questions on WhatsApp.

Grifting is so common and accepted in mainstream media people genuinely don't see the harm in cheating during assessments. To them that's part of the university experience, to win at any costs. And that's why we have nitwits who cannot tie their shoes or write a for loop without having to ask chatGPT.

Anyway where I'm from many exams have returned back to in-person, which is a shame because online exams were so much more relaxing which probably gave a better assessment of people's understanding vs their ability to cope with stress.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

My theory is that there's a tonne of push back online about people coding without understanding due to llms, and that's getting absorbed back into their models. So these lines of response are starting to percolate back out the llms which is interesting.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lmao, when have age checks worked on any site ever

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tea has theanine which sort of counteracts the effect of caffeine, which is why tea generally has a milder effect. In theory if you switch to decaf coffee long enough you shouldn't get withdrawals (which is dependent on the concentration/frequency of caffeine use).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

2024 lol. Maybe senior dev is an overstatement, he was just more senior than me. He also left a database where the main table had one varchar, freetext column that users wrote multiple fields into because it was a 'simpler user experience' . Was a pain to extract all those fields with regex...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lmao. I once had a senior dev put database passwords into documentation, and then was about to email those out to interview candidates with the passwords 'blacked' out. I caught it quick enough before it could be sent thankfully.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

God this show was incredibly boring.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yea at that point just cook it yourself lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I cannot for the life of me get any of those dongles to work for more than 6 months. It always turns into a glitchy disconnecting mess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yea it's way too optimistic to presume these companies will not lash out in their death throes. They'd destroy as much as possible on their way out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

RIP to the poor guy in the velociraptor suit.

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