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Cake day: December 19th, 2024

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  • Now, it seems like your point of view is that all the knowledge and experience of a university education is useless anyway.

    I think standardized testing is not a good way to measure if someone has achieved the learning objective of a lesson. I’m hardly the only one to think this way. It’s great for testing how good someone is at rote memorization of facts for a single test for topics that are never brought up again so immediately forgotten. If you do it in person with pens and paper the kiddos can just read their neighbors shit, or sneak in a cheat sheet. Did this not happen in every single class you’ve ever taken from K-12 and then 4 years in a uni? Did for me!!! I promise. I never needed to cheat, but there was always someone within eyeshot doing it. I’m not a snitch.

    why the fuck arent you filthy rich yet?

    Lack of motivation, lack of a million dollar loan from mommy and daddy. You can’t teach motivation really. My upbringing was free room and board until I was 18.

    Tell me when you make your first million

    Already there man… 300k in 401ks, 350k in non-retirement fund investments, 500k townhouse with 50k mortgage left on it as a rental. 600k condo too.


  • Lol, english classes have always been the biggest joke of college for me. All you do is write an outline, pull some bullshit quotes to back up your argument from the source to satisfy MLA, and write enough to satisfy the word requirement. It’s all bullshit. it’s all opinion. Easy A for me, except when i’m forced to write by hand.

    If you really want to make people learn how to write professionally without computer assistance like spellcheck or LLMs, give them a fucking typewriter. It’s how I learned to type as a kid in the 90s. At least the typing skill is transferable and you get a great understanding of why applications like Word function the way they function.


  • I would argue that in person exams with no resources to do research goes against how the world works for most white collar workers.

    Few are unable to research on the internet to verify information, or at least look at say a man page for coding or look up past stuff on stackoverflow, if they are working through a problem.

    Standardized testing is just not as useful as-is. I do great at it and can typically pass exams without really studying the material, but others are not so lucky.

    I’ve met people who can flunk exams but talk about the problems, go into how they would fix it, and work through a problem to implementation and testing in the real world.

    Oh, and LLMs are the new typewriter, for better or worse. It’s unlikely we are going to have a future where they are not readily available. We already have models that run locally and do not transmit data anywhere, and AI customized to your own data that is not shared is already a service provided by Microsoft.

    Education needs to evolve with technology. It’s always been 5-10 years behind the curve.

    Maybe we should be using LLMs to proctor tests and generate interactive testing. Grading can be verified by a professor reading a transcript to verify hallucinations didn’t occur or influence the results. We can even have LLMs monitor the working process of people to help determine what are the most efficient ways to work custom tailored to individuals. This is just one idea of many potential options.



  • I think most people probably have a lifetime plex pass for their plex server, or they are using alternative servers.

    Lifetime pass grants licenses to all clients, at least it used to unless this changes that.

    My server has many users and nobody has paid anything aside from my original buy of $120 in 2019. So far that comes out to about $1.67/mo for unlimited users and unlimited updates.

    I’m not saying I really like the updates though. I think they should have remained slim, but someone is trying to make more and more money by branching out into bullshit beyond private media serving. All that trash should be separate products that are divorced from the private media server / client product.

    All this being said, check out Jellyfin, little reason to use plex over it for private media but it has some limitations if you need subtitles or cannot relocate file structures.


  • Jellyfin is absolute dogshit though.

    Sauce: I just installed it on my media server that concurrently runs plex. I run the app on a fire tv cube to use it… and it crashes* constantly.

    Edit: More stuff :)

    -My media library when imported immediately showed seasons of shows as separate shows, it doesn’t intelligently automatically merge it like Plex would.

    -Subtitle options are not consistent or robust. I MUST have subtitles due to having a multilingual family which is largely ESL, if they speak English at all. This is the problem I tried moving to jellyfin to fix.