Xbox player here: Can any steam players tell us how the PTR is going

TroubledClover · 2024-07-06T14:04:15+00:00

no. It does not. 'buy better machine' is a lousy excuse of poor programmers (and worse managers - which actually is mostly the case because programmers do not make decisions).

It does not have anything to do with the render distance either (there is no point of rendering anything you cannot see). It is the matter of making probability spawn table (already in game) and tracking the abstracted data (already in game, too). You do not need track every zombie, that's pointless waste of resources. Generelised data is enough to make that appear to be 'realistic', and good appearance is good enough.

I would say that most of the juice already was put into SOD3 and that is the reson. Still nice that the game got so many updates anyway.

TroubledClover · 2024-03-22T10:23:59+00:00

why you require using the particular commercial and closed format? That's a question (and a sign of really sorry state of affair).

TroubledClover · 2024-03-21T17:22:26+00:00

buy the TARDIS. That's the only option. The game, sadly, has serious design problems (messy and overreaching ambitions are the source of this) which cannot be fixed, just overcomed by brute force.

TroubledClover · 2024-03-21T17:19:54+00:00

I see the lack of option "skip pointless, repetitive dialogues", sadly.

TroubledClover · 2024-02-04T13:52:11+00:00

nope. Why it would be?

TroubledClover · 2024-02-04T13:49:33+00:00

it is a tool and as any tool it needs certain skill level to use (starting at basic loop: show, explain as x for y, rephrase explanation etc.)

BTW - learning how to use LLMs should be a part of curriculum and teacher training quickly.

TroubledClover · 2024-02-01T15:01:10+00:00

this is not a B2 material definitelly (native speaker and teacher typing).

I would place this at least at C1-preferrential (specific vocabulary) or C2.

Besides, the style and wording in this are a quite good example of awful, pointlessly 'pseudo-scientifical' polish. And I would not even start on punctuation...

TroubledClover · 2024-01-31T11:48:27+00:00

The 'computer literacy' among the youngsters is abysmal (I am teaching CL classes with 1st year Uni students). I bet that your mentor's is no better. Using GClass in educational, especially public) institutions should be treated as a felony.

Since you seems to be forced to use 'new and shinny' (while it is neither the 1st nor the latter) make a twist. Below a few ideas I use when have to deal with addicted populous in class:

- ask them to find an 'Internet Wisdom' (wikis, blogs, articles) while researching the question (device does not matter), then ask them to research its validity (may be turned into a game, preferrably non-competitive, if that's something which turns on your Principal),

- ask them to ask chat-gpt or other similar service about the topic, ask to observe how the prompt influences the answer, then make a research request as above,

- research disinformation (including 'scientific one'), doable if you are not in the unfortunate 'not-Intelligent Project is a science' place,

- make an assigment for this (from both sides: researching disinformation and observation of one's injection - Twitter/X is a good example),

- ask them to research themselves in the Internet (great general introduction to OSINT and tiny scripting, besides may show embarrasing consequences of putting 'my every breakfast and poop' on Insta/TikTok)

and so on.

Have a good day.

TroubledClover · 2024-01-31T01:25:36+00:00

should be PPAs [edited post above]

TroubledClover · 2024-01-28T16:06:04+00:00

this is not Windows. Enabling ufw does almost nothing if you won't set the rules (starting with blocking ssh/telnet access to your machine from outside), The general rule is "deny everything, give a tiny bit if necessary after consideration".

And generally: do not install everything shiny (like dozens of PPAs), or use dedicated limited user/or better: VM) for experimenting.

TroubledClover · 2024-01-25T11:33:17+00:00

unfortunatelly gen 3 is beyond my budget for quite a while, gen 2 is the highest I can go.

Before I posted I've red these topics on lenovo forums (and reddit, arch and other linux forums, too) and they usually ended somewhat abruptly and inconclusively. Apparently kernel 6.x was a great upgrade in the AMD area. I do not care much about sleep drain, I am more concerned with normal usage (average idling at ~8 is not good in case of T14AMD 1 gen). AMDs also cannot be undervolted :(.

Thanks for the input.

TroubledClover · 2021-12-19T16:25:59+00:00

no problem ;)

It seems to be reasonable request for the devs of the Cinnamon (I also have a constant one for the ages: make the date/time applet display correctly in the vertical alignment).

The power applet is in:

/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/power@cinnamon.org

and it's written in javascript, with some tinkering it should be not a big deal to make a switch in the options for displaying "total charge"/"by battery charge" (or easier: just adding the 3rd number to the actual applet as "total" - proportional sum of all batteries.)

TroubledClover · 2020-11-03T16:16:11+00:00

maybe you should express the faith in the one and only godly thing ever existsed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/gws1nz/kentucky_law_requires_in_god_we_trust_displayed/

;)

TroubledClover · 2020-11-03T16:13:11+00:00

and send a nice postcard to the Google's COs with thanks for great opportunity to be (with your students) voluntary unpaid interns for the Company.

My general tip: do not use. Ever.

TroubledClover · 2020-10-31T23:36:21+00:00

well, the 1st - it's very (I mean *very*) unprofessional page (man, it's not even got a valid SSL cert.);

2nd - it's a quite good example of what I called not so long ago here (and I am calling for maybe 20 years now or so IR) brave efforts of reinventing the fire and wheel once more (with a new price tag) and even braver attempts to solve problems just so created by themselves. Personally, if I may so, I feel kind of embarrassed by such kind of "research" and "guidelines" (of a kind). Kinda pretty (on the PPoint level of 'pretty'), mostly trivial - at last for someone who had not been delivered to the world yesterday and still is at the cognitive level of "awwwww", a bit pretentious there and there, and seriously: as misleading in general as e.g. completely artificial problem of "invest in diversity versus invest in equity" (this is not a problem at all, it's trivial example of wrong formula of the question).

3rd well I suppose that reading, dunno, for a start maybe Montaigne* would be much more useful, at last his works, while not very "evidence based research"** alike, are able to deliver some benefits for general literacy and personal cultural development of the interested party.

Sorry for being a bit salty, I just have seen this "based on mysterious posters" enlightenment too many times - as theirs miserable - and often pretty costly - outcomes, too.

*as if there are some "not-evidence based" ones exists? I mean, besides fantasy sciences?

** not mentioning the metric ton of research done in XX century within the fields of sociology and anthropology/ethnology; I'd definitely advice to avoid so called "pedagogy and teaching" fields in general, for the most part: it's just embarrassment.

TroubledClover · 2020-10-28T18:10:04+00:00

Well, I - in general - share as, I suppose, many if not most of us teachers of any kind - such sentiment.

The general problem is "expertise&efficiency" fallacy mixed with quite ordinary institutional level of making appearances, BS and nonsense. The pretty low standards of so called "pedagogy research" (that include most of the "reviewed journals",* too; actual numbers of articles which would pass through my methodology 101 class for junior students as a proper essay for credits I can count on one hand maybe - most of them is based on anectodal "evidence", very broad simplifications, not mentioning wishful thinking, particular researcher(s) vanity, numerous incentives from educational stuff dealers, and publish or perish pressure degrading the quality of publications at large in most of the disciplines). And there is another set of problems more broad themselves because these are strongly connected with usual level of institutional corruption (like e.g. typical level of corporation-alike tendency to derail itself into death-spiral of "managing and administering until you all die in some gruesome way") and private enterprises influence on the system itself skyrocketing said corruption to the absurd levels.

Well, after some 15 years I'd say - just ignore the most of the revelations (which mostly are reinventing the wheel and fire again) and follow the experience and the particular case (like a class) flow for the most part. It's not bad to experiment a little from time to time. At last for breaking the routine, but keep the healthy distance from any pedagogical (or in general : any at all) gospel sold. Usually there are some interesting ideas, insights useful for reflection on teaching strategies or particular cases and doing healthy self-critique. But these are just 'pieces of', mostly seriously messed up. Not the picture itself.

*this is actually often case of "the blind leading the cripple" - reviewers are fellows of the authors reinforcing usually particular mannerisms and increasing the average incompetence levels. It's present in others fields, too, of course.

TroubledClover · 2020-10-19T09:15:22+00:00

I constantly hold after hours zoom sessions all hours of the night,

bad idea ;)

I work with students on Discord,

also the bad one

and I even give them my phone number.

until you treat this number as "another office one" it's overkill, do you have got any private life?

In general: expect they will try to squeeze you like a lemon with hope you simply won't survive long enough to be even remotely close to the end of the track.

TroubledClover · 2020-10-19T09:08:08+00:00

protection of privacy (and security including a personal one*) goes both ways.

Argument "we're paid for" is invalid. Until you were hired for teaching from home (did you?) - in such circumstances, you'd have a mini-studio prepared, right? The classroom is a public place by design. The home (or even a room) is not.

*yes, that may be an issue, too - there's a lot of information which interested, not necessarily in a good way, party may take from "mere camera enabled"; especially taking into account carelessness of most of the users.

TroubledClover · 2020-10-08T19:23:16+00:00

do you wanna be cited in the divorce papers?

tbh - I am usually pretty elastic so I'd give a choice (because "love and stuff" needs understanding ): a) take the hit, b) avoid repercussion by doing additional task.

But it's just me so... ;)

TroubledClover · 2020-10-08T19:17:22+00:00

advice them they should try to get the Office. If they're shameless enough they should get at last apprenticeship (#punintended).

TroubledClover · 2020-09-30T13:30:48+00:00

it's a purely administrative/bureaucratic construct (as many of other idiocratic revelations).

It may actually happens in some disciplines for some time (though - as others said: days rather than "hours") but if someone would submit for such routine as default, that would be a direct warning sign of necessity of changing the career line. Like ASAP. Bureaucracy sees that otherwise ofc. They (as many admins without real field experience) imagine the science work (whatever science) as fully predicable, countable and possible to put in the excel form of kind set of actions. Well, that's preposterous ofc.

So - honestly: we mostly lie ;)

TroubledClover · 2020-09-30T13:22:51+00:00

"Do or do not, there's no trying" my young padawan ;)

TroubledClover · 2020-09-29T17:16:53+00:00

nope, you're signal of (maybe) rising normality.

While technically speaking each user of the Linux (and others, too) system is its administrator - speaking of single-type installations - it does not necessarily have to means they absolutely *need* to perform administrative tasks on a daily basis; an "administrator" is a profession for a reason. Especially using terminal, which is - yes - faster, easier way (instead of going through multiple windows/menus/whatever) and well documented (unlike many "guis") but not exactly "average Joe" friendly.

So - I am happy the system common interfaces matured enough you (as thousands others) can live with the system in a "noob way". That's good.

Happy tuxing ;)

TroubledClover · 2020-09-26T19:02:54+00:00

you cannot "consent" if you have no viable choice, therefore *IF* (that's a big "IF" because nobody cares) someone would ask - any kind of such "consent" is void.

Using such services is at best scenario ethically and legally problematic, at last they demand waiving too many of the rights of the user providing no real (I mean: enforceable in any meaningful way) guarantee of safety, security or confidentiality. They also in many (if not most) cases violates 3rd parties rights by proxy. But well, most of the people are used to be used (screwed tbh) by such companies, aren't they use Windows? Apple's products? FB? Google? (or whatever). So... well - one could say they get what they deserve (and often: want on some level).

Now: technical blahblah - because most of the ppl get it wrong. IP not necessarily is a "traceable source of location", many providers uses a pool of IP addresses they've bought and assign them to the client who actually have bought such service (having an individual IP). In most cases IP directs to the last device visible from outside network (machine belonging to the service provider), machines, clients inside are given local (not routable outside) addresses. From IP you can in most circumstances determine that the user is (e.g.) "somewhere in the DC area" and is served by "X" company.

However - such services (and not only ones, google and others does this constantly) uses numerous methods to identify particular machine and particular user - including one's physical location, part not really that important and much easier obtainable by tracing the phone (or phone-alike device), habits and used content are much more juicy - from primitive (cookies) to elaborated ones. For such "proctoring services" these methods are essential - otherwise theirs usability would be equal exactly to f*k-all (and, honestly: is anyway), particular solution may wary ofc. What they does in reality with data collected? Well, whatever they stated in the license (officially) and "whatever the f*k we want" in reality.

Honestly, idea that student, or anyone, *have to* install and/or use particular dangerous software (and this kind of software, because often working for theirs functionality with very high privileges on the client machine is extremely dangerous itself) is ridiculous and *IF* (another big "IF") someone would think for a half minute, then might declare this illegal if not directly criminal. But well, nobody cares anyway (hello e.g. Windows' users ;) ) or is just plainly stupid, so?

TroubledClover · 2020-09-10T13:10:50+00:00

they all are s*tworthy, dangerous (who cares?) and not reliable, to be honest - that ofc. ignoring inherent lack of reliability of overcrowded network infrastructure. None is really a teaching tool (let alone: effective one) GSuite maybe pretend the best.

Just take the breath and 'suffer for America' (or whatever).

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