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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Today's achievement: someone from Intel asked me to review their x86 assembly code.
Today's achievement: Retconned a poem into WoodenPotatoes's LP of the Guild Wars 2 story:
Today's achievement: Someone asked me who to contact to apply to a company that I do not work for.
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Today's achievement: helped to invent a new word
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202 LinkedIn profile views, that's more than usual.
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today's achievement: eliminated a timer from the matchmaking server that was being instantiated for every user in case it seemed they didn't successfully join a server. Technically this was already being handled in other code, but when that was made the programmer forgot to take this out.
Now we won't randomly get alerts that a player who joined before they left failed to arrive.
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My CS teacher explained to the whole class today how they should follow my example, because when there was a problem with the homework autograder, I was the only one who looked closer and figured out what the problem was instead of just emailing him to tell him it didn't work.
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@pie_flavor
Good one! Now 300 people think you are a teacher's pet!
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@pie_flavor "Remember kids, doing other people's work is the best way to succeed in life!"
Goddamn was there ever any tip that a teacher gave to their students that was actually good in real life?
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@Gąska oh, don't worry, there's plenty of fobbing work off on other people to go around.
https://i.imgur.com/4Tgo4OG.png
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@pie_flavor said in Today's achievement:
My CS teacher explained to the whole class today how they should follow my example, because when there was a problem with the homework autograder, I was the only one who looked closer and figured out what the problem was instead of just emailing him to tell him it didn't work.
This is what I always try to teach people. I don't care what is broken or who broke it. I care why it's broken, because that's the only way I can figure out how to fix it.
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@pie_flavor said in Today's achievement:
@Gąska oh, don't worry, there's plenty of fobbing work off on other people to go around.
https://i.imgur.com/4Tgo4OG.pngWait, they actually expected students to submit results from an auto grader program? That sounds even worse than grading code for apparent intent instead of end results...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Today's achievement:
@pie_flavor said in Today's achievement:
@Gąska oh, don't worry, there's plenty of fobbing work off on other people to go around.
https://i.imgur.com/4Tgo4OG.pngWait, they actually expected students to submit results from an auto grader program? That sounds even worse than grading code for apparent intent instead of end results...
My professor had an auto-grader program available for some assignments, but it wasn't in the same AFS directory as the template for the assignment, so I doubt anyone copied it into their directory for no reason whatsoever.
(Come to think of it, the files that were supposed to be read-only might have been symlinks anyway.)
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@ben_lubar said in Today's achievement:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Today's achievement:
@pie_flavor said in Today's achievement:
@Gąska oh, don't worry, there's plenty of fobbing work off on other people to go around.
https://i.imgur.com/4Tgo4OG.pngWait, they actually expected students to submit results from an auto grader program? That sounds even worse than grading code for apparent intent instead of end results...
My professor had an auto-grader program available for some assignments, but it wasn't in the same AFS directory as the template for the assignment, so I doubt anyone copied it into their directory for no reason whatsoever.
(Come to think of it, the files that were supposed to be read-only might have been symlinks anyway.)
The point is, anyone with enough interest can fudge output. Accepting results for a grade unchecked is just asking for abuse. I wonder if the auto grader output is human readable...
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@pie_flavor said in Today's achievement:
@Gąska oh, don't worry, there's plenty of fobbing work off on other people to go around.
LOL, grading yourself. Looks like the TA failed.
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@ben_lubar said in Today's achievement:
I don't care what is broken or who broke it
Obviously, "the forums" and "@ben_lubar" are always the answer to these, no need to rehash.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Today's achievement:
The point is, anyone with enough interest can fudge output. Accepting results for a grade unchecked is just asking for abuse. I wonder if the auto grader output is human readable...
You assume that they're relying on students relaying the output. In my experience, sending it to the autograder was how the assignment was submitted to the teacher, and they'd collect the results from the application directly.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Today's achievement:
@ben_lubar said in Today's achievement:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Today's achievement:
@pie_flavor said in Today's achievement:
@Gąska oh, don't worry, there's plenty of fobbing work off on other people to go around.
https://i.imgur.com/4Tgo4OG.pngWait, they actually expected students to submit results from an auto grader program? That sounds even worse than grading code for apparent intent instead of end results...
My professor had an auto-grader program available for some assignments, but it wasn't in the same AFS directory as the template for the assignment, so I doubt anyone copied it into their directory for no reason whatsoever.
(Come to think of it, the files that were supposed to be read-only might have been symlinks anyway.)
The point is, anyone with enough interest can fudge output. Accepting results for a grade unchecked is just asking for abuse. I wonder if the auto grader output is human readable...
Pretty sure my professor used a shell script to revoke permissions on the students' work directories and reset the files that were supposed to be symlinks.
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@Unperverted-Vixen said in Today's achievement:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Today's achievement:
The point is, anyone with enough interest can fudge output. Accepting results for a grade unchecked is just asking for abuse. I wonder if the auto grader output is human readable...
You assume that they're relying on students relaying the output.
I assume that's exactly what was being done based on the information shared. It was stated that assignments that didn't have auto grader output were being marked zero, therefore they were relying on the auto grader output that the student submitted (or didn't) to determine their grade.
If it were as you say, then whether or not the student submitted auto grader data should be irrelevant to their grade.
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@ben_lubar said in Today's achievement:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Today's achievement:
@ben_lubar said in Today's achievement:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Today's achievement:
@pie_flavor said in Today's achievement:
@Gąska oh, don't worry, there's plenty of fobbing work off on other people to go around.
https://i.imgur.com/4Tgo4OG.pngWait, they actually expected students to submit results from an auto grader program? That sounds even worse than grading code for apparent intent instead of end results...
My professor had an auto-grader program available for some assignments, but it wasn't in the same AFS directory as the template for the assignment, so I doubt anyone copied it into their directory for no reason whatsoever.
(Come to think of it, the files that were supposed to be read-only might have been symlinks anyway.)
The point is, anyone with enough interest can fudge output. Accepting results for a grade unchecked is just asking for abuse. I wonder if the auto grader output is human readable...
Pretty sure my professor used a shell script to revoke permissions on the students' work directories and reset the files that were supposed to be symlinks.
You had professors that could run shell scripts??? Wow, lucky!
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Replaced the "mechanism" of my desk chair. Took some WD40 and a drilling hammer to get the post out of it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Today's achievement:
@ben_lubar said in Today's achievement:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Today's achievement:
@ben_lubar said in Today's achievement:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Today's achievement:
@pie_flavor said in Today's achievement:
@Gąska oh, don't worry, there's plenty of fobbing work off on other people to go around.
https://i.imgur.com/4Tgo4OG.pngWait, they actually expected students to submit results from an auto grader program? That sounds even worse than grading code for apparent intent instead of end results...
My professor had an auto-grader program available for some assignments, but it wasn't in the same AFS directory as the template for the assignment, so I doubt anyone copied it into their directory for no reason whatsoever.
(Come to think of it, the files that were supposed to be read-only might have been symlinks anyway.)
The point is, anyone with enough interest can fudge output. Accepting results for a grade unchecked is just asking for abuse. I wonder if the auto grader output is human readable...
Pretty sure my professor used a shell script to revoke permissions on the students' work directories and reset the files that were supposed to be symlinks.
You had professors that could run shell scripts??? Wow, lucky!
And his name is... JOHN BOYLAND
[trumpet music]
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@ben_lubar said in Today's achievement:
AFS directory
My professor can't even be assed to put the homework files on the assignment page, or even the homework description in the first place. He just zips all the Java files plus a PDF with the assignment description, and uploads it to the Files section. Doesn't even put the Java files in a folder structure representing their packages, you have to do that manually.
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@pie_flavor Does he also do forum administration?
We might want to keep his contact details in case one of the current admins dies of overexertion.
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@JBert said in Today's achievement:
@pie_flavor Does he also do forum administration?
We might want to keep his contact details in case one of the current admins dies of overexertion.
Nah that's just simulating real world conditions.
"Here's the project"
"But it's just a bunch of .java files"
"Yeah. $stupid_coworker couldn't export a project with SnowflakeDeveloper 1.4 Standard Edition so he just copied all the code into notepad. The file names should be correct though, although one or two might be wrong "
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@sloosecannon said in Today's achievement:
@JBert said in Today's achievement:
@pie_flavor Does he also do forum administration?
We might want to keep his contact details in case one of the current admins dies of overexertion.
Nah that's just simulating real world conditions.
"Here's the project"
"But it's just a bunch of .java files"
"Yeah. $stupid_coworker couldn't export a project with SnowflakeDeveloper 1.4 Standard Edition so he just copied all the code into notepad. The file names should be correct though, although one or two might be wrong "These days, you'd just get photos of the source, and will have to retype it all yourself because the picture was probably taken of something that uses a weird font that throws any sane OCR system for a total loop. (Why do our students try this when asking us for help?!)
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@dkf Yeah, or is way too JPEGified.
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@pie_flavor said in Today's achievement:
My professor can't even be assed to put the homework files on the assignment page, or even the homework description in the first place. He just zips all the Java files plus a PDF with the assignment description, and uploads it to the Files section. Doesn't even put the Java files in a folder structure representing their packages, you have to do that manually.
I guess that being up at 2AM on a Saturday to prepare assignments in time and to make sure that they actually work would be doing it wrong, then.
*sigh*.
*wanders off towards the bed*
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@cvi said in Today's achievement:
wanders of
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@pie_flavor said in Today's achievement:
@cvi said in Today's achievement:
wanders of
Are you making fun of towards the bed?
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@ben_lubar You can't go around fixing everything. It's more effective to learn to get others to fix their shit.
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@pie_flavor said in Today's achievement:
wanders of
Post at 2am. Brain no compute engrish good. Proof read mode disable.
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Today's achievement: filed a bug report with a Go debugger because it mishandles a Visual Studio-specific hack in a C++ library.
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I made traction happen on a years-old issue.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Today's achievement:
I made traction happen
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@anotherusername said in Today's achievement:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Today's achievement:
I made traction happen
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Today I learned the basic file structure of an ASP.NET application. Now I can make websites! As long as they don't require any HTML because I don't know that part yet.
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@anonymous234 said in Today's achievement:
Today I learned the basic file structure of an ASP.NET application. Now I can make websites! As long as they don't require any HTML because I don't know that part yet.
I'm pretty sure you can just put HTML files in the project and it works through some form of dark magic.
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@ben_lubar said in Today's achievement:
I'm pretty sure you can just put HTML files in the project and it works through some form of dark magic.
It's called "Internet Information Services".
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@ben_lubar Usually the point of ASP.NET is to have dynamic websites.
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@ben_lubar Ben, have you found yourself an Internet girlfriend?
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@pie_flavor said in Today's achievement:
@ben_lubar Ben, have you found yourself an Internet girlfriend?
Can't be, she's a Lynnesbian.
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@Unperverted-Vixen said in Today's achievement:
It's called "Internet Information Services".
Or often "Preventer of Internet Information Services", Mordac of the web server world.
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Today's achievement: oops
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@ben_lubar said in Today's achievement:
Future generations will tell of that time that Ben made a pull request to Mastodon and it somehow deleted the Debian repository mirror.
Will they though?
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Today's achievement: I invented facebook.
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Today's achievement: I hit a "this should never happen" condition all throughout the day...
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Today's achievement: SOMEONE ELSE STARTED A CONVERSATION ABOUT DWARF FORTRESS
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@ben_lubar said in Today's achievement:
Today's achievement: SOMEONE ELSE STARTED A CONVERSATION ABOUT DWARF FORTRESS
That's not technically your achievement though... Or can we sparkle other's achievements?
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Today's achievement: 120 volts of pure :@aliceif:
https://toot.dev.120v.ac/@lady_jellypotato/101039637423970521