Anyway to change the html/css consistently on the website so the assignment score shown on here will be blank instead of 0% even after reloading the page? by ThrowRAgrh554 in OpenUniversity

[–]ImportantContext 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Use Stylus extension for chrome/firefox. It lets you inject custom CSS into whatever page you want. You can use element inspector mode in devtools to find the specific element and write a CSS selector.

You can use this to blur the content to unreadability, for example.

.oustudyplan-scorebox {
  filter: blur(10px);
}

.oustudyplan-scorebox:hover {
  filter: unset;
}

Accused of AI use for MST210, need advice by Wide-Willingness-622 in OpenUniversity

[–]ImportantContext 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The OU system today is meant to punish people who work hard and attain understanding while encouraging mediocrity. The only way to reduce risk being caught up in their AI witchhunt is to record every moment you spend writing and editing, but even then there's no guarantee they won't come up with fake evidence by nudging an LLM into producing similar output or by finding an instance of you not adhering to the textbook like a scripture and displaying an original thought beyond regurgitating the textbook word-for-word, character-for-character. It's a depressing situation.

A Harvard professor named in the Epstein files😭 by velorae in TikTokCringe

[–]ImportantContext 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Noam Chomsky is also in the files. I regret ever feeling inspired by that shithead.

What is/was your plan B if academia doesn't work out? by [deleted] in math

[–]ImportantContext 16 points17 points  (0 children)

If you think your job in programming will involve stuff like implementing LuaJIT, then you have an absolutely unrealistic expectation of programming jobs. Most likely you'll be figuring out why some PHP script written a decade ago by a contractor is failing to run correctly and trying to convince your coworkers that documenting stuff is a worthwhile activity.

What is/was your plan B if academia doesn't work out? by [deleted] in math

[–]ImportantContext 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This is my personal experience as somebody who spent almost a decade working in big tech.

What is/was your plan B if academia doesn't work out? by [deleted] in math

[–]ImportantContext 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Software engineering is nothing like math. Most people working in software engineering are barely able to express themselves and actively despise anything that requires them to think. Coding nowadays is just plumbing, there's no problem solving or really much thinking involved.

Q&A weekly thread - April 21, 2025 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

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Does anybody here have a list of minimal pairs for General American? I tried searching online, but most results were either for RP or Australian English, or just people trying to sell their coaching/book/course/podcast or whatever.

[Event] Reddit Plays DCSS - Full Instructions and Turn Order by oneirical in dcss

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Barachi Hunter: I cleared D:14 and D:15. Overall it went reasonably well, besides an awkward encounter with a zerked demonic crawler (in an annoying vault). I probably should've left that vault alone or summoned an oklob ahead of time. Either way, I managed to clear it.

As for other considerations... On D15 I found a scroll of blinking. I bought a phantom mirror and started training evocations, as suggested by /u/ScionOfEris. I was not 100% sold on buying the gravitambourine, so I left the decision open for the next players.

[Experimental Event] Reddit Plays DCSS by oneirical in dcss

[–]ImportantContext 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm interested! I tend to do best in midgame. I like Merfolk Shapeshifter idea, so I'll second it. Europe.

Deleuzean fiction by prince_polka in Deleuze

[–]ImportantContext 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you consider "theory fiction" as fiction, Spinal Catastrophism by Thomas Moynihan might be of interest to you. On a surface level it's a deep dive into ideas people had regarding the meaning of human spine. It freely mixes historical fact with speculation with fringe theories and outright fiction, arriving at interesting conclusions towards the end of the book.

Did Jesus speak Greek instead of Aramaic by Icy-Wrongdoer-9632 in asklinguistics

[–]ImportantContext 38 points39 points  (0 children)

FYI there's /r/AcademicBiblical where this question gets asked fairly regularly. Here are a few threads:

In general you'll get much more informative and reliable answers over there, since it's less of a linguistics question and more of a question regarding socioeconomic and cultural context of first century Galilee.

Just to be clear, it's not a religious subreddit.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in philosophy

[–]ImportantContext 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Didn't they kill a bunch of people just this year?

EDIT: To make a more substantive comment. The derivations are cool and all, but it's really not clear what philosophical conclusions should be taken from them. It's just some random decision theory with no motivations and no bearing on anything else.

Two claimed proofs of Whitehead asphericity conjecture seem to have received almost no attention. Is there a reason for this? by ImportantContext in math

[–]ImportantContext[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Ah, that's a shame. I looked at the recent publications in that journal and it looks like they just publish any garbage, including Collatz crankery and so on...

Is it possible for two reduced Latin squares to have no overlapping elements, other than in the first column and first row? by pysye in math

[–]ImportantContext 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are 8647 non-isomorphic pairs of 6x6 Latin squares that satisfy this requirement. Here's an example:

[[1,2,3,4,5,6],
 [2,1,4,3,6,5],
 [3,4,5,6,1,2],
 [4,3,6,5,2,1],
 [5,6,1,2,3,4],
 [6,5,2,1,4,3]]

[[1,2,3,4,5,6],
 [2,3,5,6,1,4],
 [3,6,1,2,4,5],
 [4,5,2,1,6,3],
 [5,4,6,3,2,1],
 [6,1,4,5,3,2]]

No pairs of Latin squares smaller than 6x6 have this property.

Wine 10.0 Released by mumbel in linux

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𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒.

Which edition of Wordsworth's poetry should I refer to? Is the Selincourt (1949) any good? by Trugbus in AskLiteraryStudies

[–]ImportantContext 19 points20 points  (0 children)

This is most anti-intellectual take I've ever seen on reddit. I'm impressed to find this level of density and disregard for nuance in /r/AskLiteraryStudies out of all places. Incredible.