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[King Zultan]

It felt like it was gone for ages.

[dragdeler]

Fuck talking no seriously fuck talking, people getting into your head in real time stopping from thinking plainly, a lot of fucking noise and spam and realtime pressure only to yield supbar sentences and see dictionnaries clash. Text supremacy.

[LordBaal]

Toriyama's death. Man, is really sad.

[nenjin]

Toriyama's death. Man, is really sad.

R.I.P. Brave Warrior.

[StrawBarrel]

Spoiler: DRAGON BALL OFFICIAL (click to show/hide)

https://twitter.com/DB_official_en/status/1765935471971213816
https://en.dragon-ball-official.com/news/01_2499.html

[Great Order]

Fucking 4000 word write up man.

I can't be the only one thinking that's excessive for second year of university can I? A non-literature review based dissertation is expected to be 5000-8000 words, going 4/5ths of that seems absurd.

I mean, I know why the lecturer did it. She loves, loves, *loves* stats and literature (Especially her own, about 2/3rds of her lectures ended with her talking about her studies on mites). I swear if I had a snoop around her home I'd find her using rolled up research papers as a dildo. She, like a few other lecturers at this place, doesn't seem to have the concept in her mind that other people might not be so interested and might, as a result, struggle with that kind of wordcount.

[Frumple]

A heavily researched and cited one of that length would definitely be pretty silly for year 2. A half-ass cited one that's more appropriately shaped babble and number inflation than actual substance...? It's poor form for the prof to be asking for that*, but it's not entirely out of line unless they're actually looking for dissertation quality. Has its place for learning to meet dumbass word count requirements on other stuff, at the absolute least.

*One thing I definitely learned in the later years of my bachelor, that my professors started harping on fairly heavily, is that you want to have your essay done -- if you can actually do that in 500 words, then use 500 words. If it takes 2k, use 2k. If you're so bloody good you can do it in a sentence then use your damn sentence and stop writing afterwards. Brevity is a blessing and succinct communication is (supposed to be) the gold standard for academia. Specific wordcount is a red herring in academic writing, and a bad thing to be focusing on in general... for all there's a lot of (perverse) incentives out there to do so, unfortunately.

[hector13]

Yeah I always had 1500 word essays for university, though I left midway through year 3 of 4.

[Great Order]

A heavily researched and cited one of that length would definitely be pretty silly for year 2. A half-ass cited one that's more appropriately shaped babble and number inflation than actual substance...? It's poor form for the prof to be asking for that*, but it's not entirely out of line unless they're actually looking for dissertation quality. Has its place for learning to meet dumbass word count requirements on other stuff, at the absolute least.

*One thing I definitely learned in the later years of my bachelor, that my professors started harping on fairly heavily, is that you want to have your essay done -- if you can actually do that in 500 words, then use 500 words. If it takes 2k, use 2k. If you're so bloody good you can do it in a sentence then use your damn sentence and stop writing afterwards. Brevity is a blessing and succinct communication is (supposed to be) the gold standard for academia. Specific wordcount is a red herring in academic writing, and a bad thing to be focusing on in general... for all there's a lot of (perverse) incentives out there to do so, unfortunately.

We already have to learn dumbass wordcounts because we're penalised for going 10% over/under the limit set for them.

I'm glad it's not just me finding it absurd.

[hector13]

Yeah I had the 10% lee-way too. I always found myself putting unnecessary gloss on my language because I was usually underneath and filling it with actual content was clearly out of the question, whereas my wife usually asked me to edit her’s down because she usually went over the limit.

[Frumple]

We already have to learn dumbass wordcounts because we're penalised for going 10% over/under the limit set for them.

But yeah, this? This is bad academic writing guidelines, just kind of flat out and especially on the lower end. If someone can fully answer your prompt in fewer words you seriously want to be encouraging that in academic writing, not discouraging it.

There's probably some reason for it that's not entirely terrible, but incentives like that pretty fundamentally make for bad practices. Stuff under and over a general goal should probably be targeted for stricter scrutiny, but necessarily penalized? No. That's how you poison academic writing, blech, both in terms of succinct and complete writing.

[dragdeler]

I have a mountain of problems and time is running away as I'm unable to heal in a timely manner, but few things make me as suicidal as giving the old linux a walk. It's for when you want to feel dumber than the average invertebrae.


When I set this thing up to challenge me, and to widen my toolkit a little because I was browsing a bunch of different githubs for different reasons... I was pleasantly surprised that it actually managed to set up all the hardware hassle free, but that's about it.

Hey chatgpt how can I run a thing? Nono I swear it's a linux distribution blabla just how do I do the fucking thing double click is obviously not working. Like 15 attempts later I'm shown ./ and chmod x... how gracious. Worked for that thing, these days I can even double click it.

But why would it apply to the next github that is structured in a similar manner right?! I have never figured it out.

Oh yes why not just type git blabla into the console sure right this sounds like it's going to work.

I am not admin. When I set up the OS I allready rolled my eyes so hard when he insisted on differentiating user and admin. Well here we are. Hey internet how can I log in as admin? You'd think that is a simple enough question right?!

sudo -s
sudo -i
sudo -u

I don't remember all the ways my user account was not or could not admin I just wanted to be admin, tried a bunch of others, those I'm just reasonably sure they made the list. Type password every attempt. Which pw btw good thing I picked the same defeating the purpose just adding extra steps down the line.

sudo -

Oh that's the one yeah sure like I still care to know or remember after you exasperated me for 10 minutes on ridiculous stuff

Mkay install git?

Nah man can't because blabla

Presumably same blabla than synaptic package manager.

git clone maybe, would you still love me if I was a worm?

Understandable, I'm going to go stand over there in the corner and look at the dust for a while, have a nice day linux.





Allmost as embarrassing as that time I download like 25gigs worth of visual studio and frameworks that sounded important to try and compile something that was badly documented, wind up with a broken executable that somehow manages to get a lightbulb moment going and I figure out how to use the project in it's intended manner... It has been a while I don't even remember what it was, but I still have visual studio installed to prove my shame.

[Great Order]

I'm bordering on an anxiety attack right now.

I'm going to call by the doctor's on Monday, they said they'd contact me this week to let me know I've been temporarily registered with them, but they haven't. I don't know if I somehow fell through the cracks or what, but I need to be on some anxiolytics yesterday.

[zhijinghaofromchina]

Hoping that your anxiety could be relieved and have a good rest , Great Order .

A few days ago one 13-year-old boy was murdered  by his classmates with a shovel , after a long time 's school bullying . From one foreisic appraisal image , the victim's skull was destroyed severely . The boy was buried alive in a wasteland, when he was buried ,his eyes were all missing , his face was messing and his throat was filled with dirt because when the boy waked up from insensible underground , he tried to breathe .
I'd watched the film and novel edition 's godfather , but I couldn't believe that the famous scene of Bonasala came to my life, came to my country which is famous for its security ! However , according to the law , the three murderers would get 10 year 's set term of imprisonment at most .When they get free they might revenge to the victim's family , that's horrible .Besides , the murders' families were all poor , they couldn't afford the indemnification , the victim's family would only get tiny amout of money .
Maybe CHINA NEEDS A GODFATHER !!! I am feeling shameful about my country . 
In China , one individual murders the kid or another individual --death penalty , 3 kids murder another kid -- finally get free .
Hell is empty and all the devils are there .--shakespeare        RIP the boy .

[ChairmanPoo]

Honestly if they are minors 10 years of imprisonment is probably far more than what they'd get in most countries.