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Re:Strengths Are Your Weaknesses on Friday April 11, 2025 @07:58AM (#43652832)
That’s funny; My biggest strength is that I don’t.
Re:How University Students Use Claude on Thursday April 10, 2025 @02:27AM (#43641226)
I want to take an exception to the term cheat. Because it is only cheating the student in the end. I didn’t learn my times tables in elementary school. Sure, I can work out the answer to any multiplication problem, but that’s the point, I have to work it out. This slows me down compared to others who learned the patterns, where they can do the multiplication in their fast automatic cognitive system and possibly the downstream processing for what they need the multiplication for. I have to think through the problem. I only cheated myself.
All those abbreviations on the block diagram make it very difficult to interpret. A key map in the image would be great, or at least some markdown directly below it.
Re:macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a. why I left macOS on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @12:17PM (#25267219)
What's he talking about when he says `date(1) is outdated`? I see nothing about deprecation in the man page.
Re:Sperm Count Dropping in Western World on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @11:59AM (#14857353)
This could be due to population size. Isn't there a species of fish where a male becomes a female when there are no other females left? It seems plausible that some mechanism is in place to self regulate.
Re:The Illusion of Competence on Monday May 22, 2017 @02:38PM (#14395910)
It's called the Dunning-Krueger effect. I'm not trying to be silly. The geek you describe thinks his ability in this area is better than it is.
Re:Visualizing Apache Log Data with Minecraft on Thursday March 24, 2016 @08:15AM (#11352161)
Is that a UNIX filesystem?
Re:$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details on Sunday March 20, 2016 @12:41AM (#11321839)
Why is that even a thing? Maybe people who don't know much about computing shouldn't be selling computing products.
Re:1000+ Programming Bookmarks 2012 to 2015 on Friday January 08, 2016 @06:20AM (#10864150)
Web search is a good alternative to a massive collection of bookmarks, with the added benefit that it automatically updates.
Re:Do you have any application or service ideas? on Friday January 08, 2016 @06:12AM (#10864126)
I completely agree. However, in the interest of being unbiased, I also offer an alternate perspective: No.