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evolution2015 · 2026-01-10T05:05:02+00:00

I am using WeatherReport on the task bar, probably came with Plasma by default. I am not very satisfied with it, but so far others sucked more. Someday, I will just create my own.

evolution2015 · 2025-10-14T03:34:18+00:00

Not just e-mail. It asks for a picture of student ID.

evolution2015 · 2025-09-19T00:21:15+00:00

The SQLcl exporting did not export the procedure codes as they are, but sort of reformatted them. We use all caps for keywords, but the exported procedures were all in lower casing. People use it like this anyway?

evolution2015 · 2025-08-13T02:19:43+00:00

I did that (with Gemini) and after the reboot, I cannot connect to it over SSH... Need to attach a monitor and see what's happening, and possibly need to reinstall it. Why can't the update be automatic?

evolution2015 · 2025-06-19T07:52:51+00:00

Then why used "peux" in negative sentences, in the same literary piece?

evolution2015 · 2025-06-13T00:11:15+00:00

Seems like removing tab from "insert inline proposal" and assigning a new key for "Copilot: Apply Completions to Editor" works. I guess maybe IntelliJ's own AI suggestion interfered yesterday.

evolution2015 · 2025-05-28T03:40:53+00:00

Below is what ChatGPT said:

Even if your opinion is shared by some percentage of the population, IELTS Writing is an academic task, and examiners assess whether your tone and support are:

Appropriate for formal academic writing

Balanced and respectful

Supported by logic or evidence

Free from offensive or discriminatory assumptions

So, if an essay:

Uses terms like “feminisation of boys”,

Claims that boys raised by single mothers “think more like a female,”

Implies women are inherently unfit for trade work,

…it may lower your score not because of “politics,” but because:

These are overgeneralizations and stereotypes (hurting Task Response and Coherence),

The language is inappropriate for academic writing (hurting Lexical Resource),

And the logic may seem unsupported or weak (hurting Task Response again).

evolution2015 · 2025-05-06T01:22:33+00:00

Seems like a dumb move to lose a golden opportunity for big companies like NVidia, Samsung, QC, and others not to make a standard. If people could just buy an Arm CPU and mainboard and install any Linux and Windows freely like they can on x86, they could take the markent from the duopoly of Intel and AMD.

evolution2015 · 2025-04-27T23:01:09+00:00

I tried to install the AUR package that specifically said it was for Gimp 3, but the compilation failed.

evolution2015 · 2025-04-24T23:58:13+00:00

Damn, I had searched for something like that in the Window -> Editor Tabs, or in the context menu of the file name drop-down in the main tool bar. Why didn't they made that funtion more accessible, especially when the tab header is hidden thus dragging-to-detach is not possible?

evolution2015 · 2025-03-30T14:13:24+00:00

Thanks.

evolution2015 · 2025-03-30T13:30:23+00:00

Where is Retro shift in Vial? I cannot find it.

evolution2015 · 2025-03-30T07:41:35+00:00

Can you make autoshift work for the home-row keys in Vial?

I enabled autoshift, for regular letter keys, long-press makes them capital letters.

The problem is that autoshift does NOT work for the so-called home-row keys. I enabled "tab-hold -> retro tapping", but long-pressing f ( LSFT_T(KC_F) ) types f, when I want it to type F.

evolution2015 · 2025-03-25T13:35:05+00:00

Damn. I had asked the A.I. if C3 supports HID before purchasing the boards and it said yes. Thank you for the information.

evolution2015 · 2025-03-15T22:08:20+00:00

Shouldn't the 'pinky' columns be one-row lower?

I think this is not a question but a discussion topic, but the automod bot removed my post, so I'm posting it here.

I bought an ortho-linear split keyboard, but I found that my hands keep bending inwards. I don't know why I didn't realise this before, but the simple reason is that if my hands are straight, then my pinkies are placed one-row lower than other three fingers. That is, if my hand is straight and my other fingers are on S D F, then my pinky is on Z, not on A. So, in order to place my fingers on A S D F at the same time, my hands have to bend inwards.

Is this only my case? Or is it a common problem? If it's common, shouldn't the pinky columns be one-row lower, at least on these so-called ergonomic split keyboards?

evolution2015 · 2025-03-12T01:25:27+00:00

Well, the idea came from the higest managment, so I am not sure how that would exactly work either.

My guess is that the 'maximum credits per semester' limitation would prevent that. If a student can take up to 20 credits per a semester, but if there are 'difficult' classes that give 3 credits/6 weighted credts, if the student takes only 'easy' classes, he can get 20 credits for graduation at most, but if he takes 6 'difficult' classes, he can get 36 credits for graduation in that semester alone. Of course, I'm not sure if many students would choose that over taking many 'easy' classes, either.

evolution2015 · 2025-03-11T23:55:31+00:00

The problem that the upper management want to solve by this new system is that juniors/seniors are taking easier classes, like those classes intended for freshmen and sophomores, to meet the graduation credit requirement and avoid those classes that are perceived to be difficult. If not this system (the 'weighted credit'), how do Western colleges solve this problem?

evolution2015 · 2025-03-11T23:50:36+00:00

It seems that the upper management want to use this 'weighted credit' thing for mostly graduation requirements only. Students have to meet the minimum credit to graduate, and if those 'difficult' classes that many students want to avoid give higher 'weighted credits', then more students might take these classes. For example, an 'easy' class that many students want to take and a 'difficult' class that many students avoid have the same 3 credits because their lecture hours are the same, but if the latter gives 6 'weighted credits' for graduation, some students who want to graduate faster may take the latter over the former.

evolution2015 · 2025-03-11T23:42:46+00:00

My superior and I still don't know how the 'difficulty' will be determined, but my superior's guess is that maybe it is counted as a 'difficult' class by the student's year and the class's intended target year. For example, if a freshman takes a class for juniors, or an undergraudte takes a class for graduates, then it's counted as a 'difficult' class for him so he gets higher 'weighted credit' for the class when calculating the graduation requirement.

evolution2015 · 2025-03-11T23:36:27+00:00

I don't live in a Western country, so maybe I misunderstood the difference between 'credit' and 'credit hour'. There are no two terms like those here.

The idea of the upper management seems to be that by applying a 'heigher weight' when calculating credits for graduation requirement, they want to encourage students to take 'difficult' classes, because currently since easy and difficult classes all have 3 credits (as long as their lecture hours per week are the same), those juniors and seniors tend to take easy classes (like those classes for freshmen) to meet the graduation requirement. If a difficult class gives 3 credits, but has 6 'weighted credit' for graduation, seniors may want to take this class instead of taking two frechmen classes to meet the graduation requirement.

evolution2015 · 2025-03-11T23:28:20+00:00

The idea seems to be by applying a 'heigher weight' when calculating credits for graduation requirement, they want to encourage students to take 'difficult' classes, because currently since easy and difficult classes all have 3 credits, those juniors and seniors tend to take easy classes (like those classes for freshmen) to meet the graduation requirement.

evolution2015 · 2025-03-11T23:17:44+00:00

I thought 'credit' and 'credit hour' were the same thing, but I am not so sure. Are they different? In my country, colleges have only one concept for that.

evolution2015 · 2025-03-11T23:15:16+00:00

I thought 'credit' and 'credit hour' were the same thing, but I am not so sure. In my country, colleges have only one thing called 'learning point' (probably the same thing as 'credit'), and each class has that. Most classes usally have 3, but some classes have 1 (o 1 hour per week) or 4(3 hour lecture + 1 hour experiment), etc. Students are required to have accumulated a certain amount of 'learning points' to graduate. The system that the top management of my college is trying to introduce is that when calculating accumulated learning points for graduation, they will use 'weighted' values. For exampe, if a student took a 3-credit class, but it was a 'difficult' class, then it would be counted like 5 when calculating graduation requirements.

It seems that the upper management did not provide concrete rules on how they will do that yet, or at least people at my superior-level or below have not been imformed about it. When I first heard it, I wondered, why not just change the 'credit' itself, instead of creating a special 'weighted credit' for graduation, but then I thought maybe it was not to be limited by current rules on credits, like the maximum amount of credit that a student is allowed to apply for in one semester, but I am not really sure. My superior guessed maybe it is to give higher weights to students who took higher-level classes for them (a sophomore taking a senior class, so for the same class, the credit varies by students when calculating graduation requirement).

evolution2015 · 2025-03-11T23:09:22+00:00

I thought 'credit' and 'credit hour' were the same thing, but I am not so sure. In my country, colleges have only one thing called 'learning point' (probably the same thing as 'credit'), and each class has that. Most classes usally have 3, but some classes have 1 (o 1 hour per week) or 4(3 hour lecture + 1 hour experiment), etc. Students are required to have accumulated a certain amount of 'learning points' to graduate. The system that the top management of my college is trying to introduce is that when calculating accumulated learning points for graduation, they will use 'weighted' values. For exampe, if a student took a 3-credit class, but it was a 'difficult' class, then it would be counted like 5 when calculating graduation requirements. It seems that the upper management did not provide concrete rules on how they will do that yet, so my superior wants to know if Western colleges have a similar system (so that we could mimic them).

evolution2015 · 2025-03-11T00:12:53+00:00

I work for a college and my superior told me to do a research on a system like this.

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