liampomfret

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liampomfret, 7 hours ago to random

Doing some undergrad marking today. Honestly finding these undergrad papers more of a pleasure to mark than the postgrad.

liampomfret, 2 days ago to random

With the current enshittification of search engines, I'm honestly starting to wonder if it's time for large independent websites to start hosting link directories again.

joannejacobs, 2 days ago to auspol

Why are we still even having this conversation? When did the Liberal Party turn into an organisation of "alternative facts"?

And before I get a pile on from everyone, that's really not what the Liberal Party used to be. We may have disagreed with their position, but they were never like the Republicans or even One Nation or Clive Palmer who actually have sought out fringe views as "facts". #insiders #auspol

liampomfret, 2 days ago to random

Students, please use left align instead of justify in your assignments. I don't care how pretty you think it might be, the inconsistent spacing between words with justify makes your paper harder to read.

liampomfret, 3 days ago to random

Ugh. This latest student has cited papers from an obviously fraudulent publisher. As in, a paper on Amazon and e-commerce supposedly published in an Egyptology journal. In what would does any reasonable student think that's credible? How did they even find this muck in the first place?

liampomfret, 3 days ago to random

It's simply absurd to see some people suggesting those helping Ukraine are warmongers because they're not going along with bad-faith suggestions of a ceasefire from Moscow.

If Moscow really wanted a true ceasefire, they could get that at any time simply by giving up on their invasion and withdrawing their troops beyond the pre-2014 borders. But Moscow doesn't want a true ceasefire and cessation of hostilities. They just want time to train and rearm their troops before their next offensive.

liampomfret, 4 days ago to random

Quite frustrating that all the EOFS "deals" on the Synology 923+ NAS I've got my eyes on are more expensive than the everyday price for the unit on Amazon.

liampomfret, 4 days ago to random

....why has this student submitted an essay with their paper in landscape orientation instead of portrait? Oo;

liampomfret, 4 days ago to random

Assignment guidelines: Your recommendations must be something your selected company isn't already doing, and must be relevant to their current business activities

Student 1: Makes recommendations for a market that their selected company abandoned a decade ago
Student 2: Recommends their firm do something that it's already been doing for the past decade.

sigh

jtlg, 4 days ago to random

The fact that Google Search is leaning so hard into AI-generated results suggests that either Google leadership is out of touch with reality (possible), or that they have data that users prefer the AI-generated results (terrifying).

liampomfret, 5 days ago to random

So I presume all these search engines being down (all of which rely on the Bing backend) is because people are jumping ship from Google's AI nightmare in enough numbers that it's causing problems for whatever system that allows them to grab those results from Bing?

liampomfret, 5 days ago to random

Well, that's one company I don't think will be hiring me as a consultant.

Based on the questions they were asking me to comment on in their initial communications, I don't think they're going to appreciate me informing them that AI is simply not fit for purpose for them. Very much got the impression they weren't looking for an actual recommendation, but rather for an opinion that already agreed with whatever they were already proposing to do.

liampomfret, 6 days ago to random

Either retailers are way more desperate than I thought, or this company has made a hell of a typo in sending out this email!
(The amount also appears in the email subject, so that's 3 separate places with this figure.)

liampomfret, 7 days ago to random

Really not impressed with the current EOFY sale offers for tech products. Was hoping I'd be able to get myself a few decent discounts on the NAS I want to set up, plus a new SSD for the laptop, but nothing so far is catching my eye.

liampomfret, 7 days ago to random

I think this might be my last semester doing any teaching or marking. I just don't think I can bring myself to continue here, not when I'm constantly being pressured to pass students who should be failing.

If a student never attends class, if the LMS analytics show they never even listened to the lecture recordings, their failure cannot and should not be placed on the teaching staff.

liampomfret, 7 days ago to random

As soon as I finish marking student assignments and exams this semester, I'm going to properly complete my switchover to Linux. At this point, there's only a few programs I don't have a direct equivalent for, and most of those I'm finding I'm just not using on a daily basis. Everything else just needs me to block out some time to get it set up properly.

lawprofblawg, 7 days ago to random

"When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I want to think about is Rudy in my cup," said no one ever.

liampomfret, 7 days ago to random

So glad that the first thing I did on getting the new laptop was to remove Windows 11. Only a shame that I had to install Windows 10 rather than Linux. Hoping EOFY will see some nice SSD’s with DRAM cache for sale, so I can rectify that.