I second this. A lot of technical people struggle with Linux, and I think a lot of that is because they have a way of working and they want to force whatever they use to work like that. While less technical people just use whatever they're given. My father and my grandmother both use Linux, and they don't even know it and there are no issues.
I do IT for free for anyone in my city (its small), and I tend to just give people elitedesks with Linux on them to replace aged Walmart PCs. YouTube and email is what most people do at home, that and Amazon/whatever.
I got to thinking in this thread I can even convert the "gamer" types to Linux - I need to make sure Facebook games work on chromium... And show them Steam.
Right, it's better to dictate how things should be when the user doesn't care and doesn't have the background. Which is probably why most people in the category are using iPhones and Chromebooks, not Linux mint.
I think you're making my point for me. Isn't it "taking crazy pills" if you use it incorrectly, and then stand on that experience as proof that other devs are insane? :-)
I dont think so. We might not like dealing with them, but even the most horrible of middlemen still provide liquidity to a market. Amazon got its start as a middleman for books, and was hated for what it did to the retail bookshops, but it did inject liquidity to the betterment of consumers.
A few of my high school teachers in the early 1990's made our final paper into a big project.
It was not just "turn in the paper at the end" but turn in your topic with a paragraph describing it. Then make an outline, then bibliography of the sources we were using. During the process we had to use 3x5 index cards with various points, arguments, facts, and the specific pages in the books listed in our bibliography. We did this because this was later used to make footnotes in our paper.
By structuring the project this way and having each milestone count as 5-10% of the overall grade it made it much harder to cheat and also taught us how to organize a research paper.
I suppose you could ask ChatGPT to do the entire paper and then work backwards picking out facts and making the outline etc.
No, but we had to write essays in class during exams.
There's a good question about the future and utility of long at-home research paper projects in school, but it's not a cornerstone of education.
In 9th grade I procrastinated the semestral paper so much that I bought an essay online that explored unexpected gay themes in Ray Bradbury's corpus of work. I was so lazy I didn't even read it first, only skimmed it, and then back to Runescape. So it's not like this is a new problem due to LLMs, and I think take-home semester projects are all quite bad for these reasons that predate LLMs.
(It turned out to be such a phenomenally audacious essay that my teacher started fascinated email correspondence with me about it and I was forced to not only study the essay but also read the quoted parts of his work. Ugh, backfire.)
Some of my experience of exams comes from a history degree where around eighty to ninety percent of the overall grade came from final exams. I can only speak of my experience but I don’t think this is atypical depending on educational system.
One of the reasons I mentioned the viva was an example of how we can decouple production of some work from an assessment of quality and some reason to believe that some candidate is capable of the work without assistance.
It would be unreasonable to spend five or so years working under examination conditions. But that doesn’t mean we can’t subsequently examine a candidate to determine likely authorship amongst other things.
We had in class essays in my history class in highschool. “Write everything you know about the triple entente” or something like that was often the prompt. You were merely expected to pay attention in class to pass not bring in outside research.
All of this looks and feels like C#. That doesn’t look unreadable or a completely different language. In fact they end up making C# more readable by removing boilerplate
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