HexesofVexes

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Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Depends what you want kids to learn.

Propaganda, yes; everything else, no...

It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

That's the real joke behind it all, the use of AI is such a problem because we're turning education into a stamp dispenser - everyone needs an A* to get anywhere.

AI has given every student a path to this - however if industry stopped demanding that universities train their damn staff for them, and instead insist we teach their future staff how to be trained (as well as giving them subject specific knowledge), then we'd see the misalignment vanish. Once the need for an A* to land a good job is gone, then so is the misalignment.

It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (6 children)

Ah yes, goal misalignment at its finest.

The students need high grades to get a job, so they focus on ensuring that happens (AI use being the easy path).

The teachers have progression targets to meet, so they focus on ensuring this happens (keep the AI vulnerable assessments).

If you want to change a module as a teacher, good luck getting that work loaded when you should be implementing AI in your curriculum ^_^

Make love not war in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

The forehead wrinkles say "nope".

Don't ask for more pixels in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Microcosmic example. Take 3 people - a newborn (A), a professor of biology (B) and a professor in philosophy (C).

You're easily able to argue that both professors are more intelligent than the newborn (A<B and A<C). However, you're unable to establish (in any meaningful way) whether B<C, or C<B; even B=C is out. This is because both professors have knowledge the other does not, so trying to meaningfully equate or order them in relation to one another is an act of futility.

This is a fun example of a partial order that most of us see every day (in a less extreme form).

It's coming. in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Shh! Quiet everyone!

...

I can almost make out the words...

Everyone loves some good food! in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago

Someone woke up this morning and chose violence.

Which weekend cat are you? in c/cat@lemmy.world
[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Gaming, reading, and (rarely, when folks visit) drinking!

If only... in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago

"You're not just a regular moron, you were DESIGNED to be a moron. " - Portal 2

Probably the darkest truth - modern moronity is generally by design, not by misfortune.

You just want a break sometimes in c/memes@sopuli.xyz
[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

So do I, but not everyone is so lucky!

Be more professional rule 😭 in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

<_<

>_>

All clear, management have gone on another away day!

^_^

You just want a break sometimes in c/memes@sopuli.xyz
[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (8 children)

"ennui and a trapped feeling ... no control over your own life"

That describes adulthood for a lot more people than we're willing to admit. Adulthood often has the illusion of more choices, but for many those choices have one realistic option.

As a kid, there is at least the feeling of "I'll grow up and it will be great", as a working adult it used to be "I'll retire and it'll be great"; these days it's "well, I hope there isn't teams meetings in the afterlife".

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Clocks forward (infosec.pub)
 

Clocks forward folks; off into BST we go.

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Dual Boots and File Systems (lemmy.world)
 

For the past decade or so I've mostly had a windows rig for gaming, and a dual boot laptop for travel/work (windows for Microsoft Access/PowerPoint, Ubuntu for everything else).

An odd issue I ran across was drive data format; it caused unending issues with steam/lutris when installing games running under wine/proton to drives formatted for windows (they'd just not run, no error messages till one day I tried to force it via terminal and got an error I could search via Google).

In the end I just partitioned off the drive to a native Linux format and that fixed it (had to dump the contents of the drive to a portable which took a while!), but now I am wondering if there was another alternate workaround?

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Sonic Paradox Windows 95 CD (www.youtube.com)
 

For when you need something to test video playback on your old windows 95/98/XP friend (files and instructions in description).

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The Internet in Europe Today (how-i-experience-web-today.com)
 

Not all art shows something beautiful - this really does feel like the internet of today without a lot of browser tweaking.

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Wyrd Sisters - Animation (www.youtube.com)
 

A few years ago I stumbled onto this, and it provided a nice afternoon feature film. Figured the folks here would enjoy it!

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Might and Magic (Merged) (www.celestialheavens.com)
 

Truly a test of patience - this is an excellent modpack that unifies 3 classics together into the way I dreamed of playing them as a kid.

Found it by accident a week ago, and it's been my short nightly unwind (trying to do a solo run because I always wanted to).

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Open Source Emulators (github.com)
 

Thought I'd share this list as it contains many emus I've not heard of before and I'd love to hear people's reviews on any folks have tried.

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Puppy Linux UEFI (alternatives?) (lemmy.world)
 

So, in the past, I used to make a bit of money fixing up comps for folks.

With slightly trickier cases, I used to boot up puppy Linux to check the more essential hardwares (and if it booted, back up essential files for the customer). My students are now asking how to manage similar things.

Alas, puppy is no good for a modern system, as it really does not like UEFI boot. I was wondering if anyone can recommend an alternative.

I'm looking for a very lightweight gui os I that can run some hardware diagnostic tools, runs on a wide range of hardware, that is easy enough to set up on a pen for novice users.

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KGen98 - Emulation is DOS (segaretro.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by HexesofVexes@lemmy.world to c/dosgaming@lemmy.world
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So, kgen98 was one of the first genesis emulators, and it runs on dos.

I use it in one of my ICT classes (paired with a sonic 1 rom) on a floppy disk to demonstrate just how heavily compressed and optimised older games were.

It's an oddball that is definitely worth trying out.

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Gbstudio (www.gbstudio.dev)
 

A handy tool for developing vn style games for the Gameboy and Gameboy colour.

Great for people starting a game dev journey.

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Mednafen - A lightweight emu suite (mednafen.github.io)
 

Mednafen is worth a go if you're looking for a lightweight set of emulators to run your dumped carts.

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Discworld MUD (discworld.starturtle.net)
 

Thought I'd post this up here since I've not seen it mentioned. For those who want to explore the world of discworld, this is a great MUD.

Very friendly community when I hop on every few months, and with a lot of rich detail from the books.

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