So, this one is a bit controversial but, when something doesn’t work try running it from terminal.

Unlike windows, Linux doesn’t tend to do “pop up errors”. Running in terminal gives these alerts, and can often give you a hint as to why it isn’t working - be it a missing library, a permission error, or something internal you can quickly search. Usually, someone has a fix!

Three magic words - “Open Note Exam”

Students prep their own notes (usually limited to “X pages”), take them into the exam, gets to use them for answering questions.

Tests application and understanding over recall. If students AI their notes, they will be useless.

Been running my exams as open note for 3 years now - so far so good. Students are happy, I don’t have to worry about cheating, and the university remains permanently angry because they want everything to be coursework so everyone gets an AI A ^_^

10/10 device - it’s a solid laptop though I worry about longevity (they’re a bastard to repair because the arts are all hard to find).

Upside is it’s the perfect machine for travel gaming!

Truth is proof - I can neither prove the number of gods is >0, nor prove it is =0.

Thus cautious agnosticism (since the evidence suggests, if there is at least one god, then they really hate us).

At the root it’s a very difficult topic to address, let me change my language a little to avoid the politics implied by the room.

When you generalise a negative trait to a particular gender, you are making a sexist and hateful comment. The “emotional woman” and the “deceitful gold digger”, the “violent man” and the “potential rapist” - the former would lead to a talk with HR, the latter leads to open agreement and often accolade.

The argument made for this discrepancy is that it is redressing the systemic sexism built into our society, but I think that it has ceased to do so and us now fuelling the misogyny more than it is addressing it.

There is a need to redress societal imbalance that disadvantages women - however hatred only breeds more hatred. The path currently taken is wrong, and history will show that to be true.

Misogyny and misandry, two unhappy twins; one celebrated, the other shunned. Both found their way into this thread.

That’s enough internet for today I think.

Tricky one to weigh up there. It might not be that you’re lazy, you may well just be burned out, not working effectively (i.e. overworking yourself), or it could even be imposter syndrome. On the other hand, yes you could just be lazy, or you might just really hate your job. Hell, there have been times where I’ve felt unmotivated because our leadership team were just arseholes - sometimes a lack of motivation goes beyond just your own choices.

There just isn’t enough data in a short post.

Take some leave, go get checked out by a doctor, talk to a friend/partner, take a look at job ads to see if anything sounds better than where you are.

Shartak - good times that game.

So, years ago, I used to run a PvP guild on an mmo. I rigged up a set of laws that meant, no matter what a person did, they’d be breaking one. Murder and fun often ensued, with the additional psychological element of “you did this to yourself”.

Should I sue Reddit for stealing my idea?

At this point, there is an outstanding opportunity to just gather up a bunch of people and have long discussions about random Luigi’s Mansion lore.

Credit to Putin, it’s a good play. The only counter is for Europe to unite against both Russia and the current US government.

Theoretically possible, but unlikely unless the non-EU states also fall in line early.

Currently snowed with marking - hoping the weekend will grace me with some time to tinker and test.

Thanks, I’ll try a small exFAT this week and see if that works better!

No porn = more horny people = more births

No abortion = more births

The logic driving US legislation everyone, it’s not so much “protect the children” thinking as “make the children have children” thinking.

Honestly, they’ve guaranteed that the US therapy industry is going to have patients for decades to come!

Thank you for the archive link!

I stand corrected, he has had a negative impact!

Brexit was a mistake? Who’d have thought it?

The real irony is that age was a huge factor in voting - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36616028.amp

So the folks getting a lot of the flak today are more likely to be remainers, I wonder how that’s going to pan out in the long run (spoiler, it’ll go as well as Brexit).

The ones cleaning up the mess in the UK are not the ones who voted for it - keep that in mind.

I mean, if the king really wants to become beloved of the people he should indeed make a visit to parliament, and request they dissolve Musk’s UK holdings.

Commuting isn’t cheap - it costs most of us over £100 a week. Offices are rarely, if ever, catered, so be prepared to spend for lunch (or spend your free time prepping lunch,or paying extra for portable food).

Know what no-one factors in, the price of lost sleep for that commute, over the years you’re paying a real premium in medical care as conditions develop.

Bring back genuine office perks (catering, refreshments, a culture of clocking out when done, banning open plan offices, on/near-site child care, flexibility for school runs, near-site medical/dental visits, exercise facilities open before and after hours) and offset the financial stresses by paying a reasonable wage, and you might see folks being less adverse towards RTO.