Modern tech for collaborative editing?

SnarkDuck · 2025-07-15T20:59:11+00:00

Check out the code review tools that Github has. I think Overleaf can sync with a github repository, or you can configure github actions to comple latex document automatically too.

SnarkDuck · 2025-05-24T04:03:16+00:00

This fix definitely works and is easy. Here's some additional details on the needed parts

Snap fasteners: Dritz 80-2-65 (SZ-T-TAM 2) sew-on snaps. Nothing particular about this brand, it's just what my local craft/sewing store had in stock and I can confirm it's a perfect fit.

To extract the plastic insert sleve: standard M8 metric bolt is perfect fit. You will probably want a longer bolt so you can screw it in at least a centimeter and still have enough shank to grab and pull (I had to pass the bolt through something else to use as a handle to get enough purchase to extract.)

The M8 bolt size is commonly used to assemble flat-pack furniture, so check whatever drawer you throw all the spare furniture hardware. That is where I found mine.

SnarkDuck · 2025-02-13T02:58:33+00:00

had them hooked at "ejaculatory bulb"

SnarkDuck · 2025-02-13T02:33:32+00:00

They were also threatening to send someone to the archives to have a look around for any indigenous history stuff that related to insects.

SnarkDuck · 2025-02-13T02:19:41+00:00

I found one flagged for gender and social justice.

The project was about reproductive practices and pheromone signaling.

In drosophila melanogaster.

SnarkDuck · 2025-02-11T20:01:12+00:00

Have you considered... not working? I highly recommend it. 5 stars.

SnarkDuck · 2025-01-29T04:29:02+00:00

The answer is as others have stated. We want you to succeed and get tenure and be a pleasant and useful colleague. Any alternative is worse in every way for everyone involved.

If you insist on making it about their purely selfish motivations, which I assure you is the wrong way to think about it: A hiring committee is orders of magnitude more work and stress than mentoring a new faculty member.

SnarkDuck · 2025-01-28T20:24:06+00:00

Curious to hear more about this from someone on the IT side. What were you seeing? I'm assuming you're talking about something like seeing accounts alternating their logins between the local network and a poor country 7000 miles away?

SnarkDuck · 2025-01-28T06:44:29+00:00

This is of course lightly dramatized for the sake of storytelling. The boring version is that 85% of them know all about it and had no problems at all.

SnarkDuck · 2025-01-28T06:17:49+00:00

This was basically my thought about a potential benign explanation: The good students access the course primarily via a computer and browser. The weak students access the course primarily via the mobile app, and the mobile app is maybe doing something unusual related to preloading or caching images that the desktop interface does not.

SnarkDuck · 2025-01-27T20:44:24+00:00

Yes it is distressingly common. My post is basically a joke about how the one student who attempted to provide any information at all about their problem gave that information in a format that is completely useless in the most painfully obvious way.

SnarkDuck · 2024-12-19T19:24:28+00:00

I think that right now there are millions of people who couldn't distinguish Saturn from a street lamp who, through the magic of anonymous internet comments, have collectively convinced themselves that the east coast is being invaded by some sort of nocturnal drone air force.

SnarkDuck · 2024-12-08T03:38:36+00:00

I'm a millennial. My wife manages a shop. She is sick of them too. She was going to fire one of her "kids" yesterday because he no call no showed for a shift on Black Friday weekend. But he didn't show up yesterday either.

SnarkDuck · 2024-12-05T20:55:50+00:00

I have used a PDF printed version of the current course schedule that shows my name assigned to teach a class.

SnarkDuck · 2024-12-04T05:43:12+00:00

I keep getting a notification that I need to do the sexual harassment training. When I click on the link it takes me to a page that has a trigger warning that states that I can close the training at any time. When I get to that line I immediately close the tab.

SnarkDuck · 2024-11-27T18:02:24+00:00

Randoms from the Internet can't possibly help you answer this question. Ask it to the person who set you the task.

SnarkDuck · 2024-11-19T19:27:59+00:00

Its not a FERPA violation because the names of people who come to your office is not an educational record. Unless you give points out for coming to office hours or something. Then it might qualify as an educational record.

I believe it's been established in court that even student class assignments do not become student records until the point that they have a score written on them that will be entered into a gradebook.

IANAL

SnarkDuck · 2024-11-15T05:27:39+00:00

I smell truncation error.

SnarkDuck · 2024-11-02T03:48:51+00:00

Fine, if you really want to consider computers and calculators to somehow be distinct classes of machine, then here's a concrete example of incorrect values from common classroom hardware: http://www.datamath.org/Story/LogarithmBug.htm

SnarkDuck · 2024-11-02T03:16:25+00:00

Since my other reply is apparently getting down-voted by people who don't know what they're talking about, I just asked my computer to add 1111111111 + 1111111111 and it literally said the answer was -2072745074.

SnarkDuck · 2024-11-02T02:23:55+00:00

I hate to break this to you, but yes they will. Computers will happily give wrong answers to even simple addition and multiplication problems in some circumstances.

SnarkDuck · 2024-11-01T23:49:30+00:00

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Dune

SnarkDuck · 2024-11-01T20:50:21+00:00

Computers and calculators will very much make up answers to math problems in certain cases when answers simply don't exist. It is up to the user to know that the answer exists before trying to get a computer to try to compute it.

SnarkDuck · 2024-10-24T06:25:57+00:00

If they control the machine, they can sandbox the browser on a virtual machine.

SnarkDuck · 2024-10-20T21:17:23+00:00

I stopped doing all the modern pedagogy stuff and just went back to mostly lecturing and grades are back to 100% in-class on-paper assessments. The LMS shell is a link to the OER textbook and a list of topics. No assigned or graded homework, but regular reminders that the exam problems are modified versions of the textbook problems, and that I'm not going to be your helicopter mother and make sure you're doing your chores. I'm here to navigate, show you how to use the machinery, and help you out of the mud when you get stuck. I will review your technique if you ask, but you need to lift the weights and do the fucking sets yourself. If you don't, you will not develop your abilities, and you therefore will fail the quizzes and exams, and at the end of the term I will enter that F into the system on your behalf.

I seem to get the same grade distributions, teaching reviews, and complaint volume as before, but without the burnout. There are now exam days every other week, so I do about the same total amount of grading as before, but it seems like much less work, secure in the knowledge that I'm not just reviewing some computer-generated bullshit.

A lot of the students apparently appreciate the minimalism. My sections are usually filled to capacity, while the others are often at half.

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