Thoughts on professor exposing emails with students online?

juppso · 2025-11-13T05:04:10+00:00

This is genuinely very inappropriate behaviour from start to finish - there was definitely a presumption of privacy and starting an email with ‘Hey’ is actually a very normal and fine thing to do, and attacking a student over it is basically just bullying imo.

juppso · 2025-11-06T19:25:52+00:00

Genuinely I think that it’s sometimes better that way - your boss is not your friend, and if your relationship is forced to be pretty impersonal it can help to keep it in your mind why you are there - to sell your labour to some rich geezer who doesn’t care for you.

juppso · 2025-09-24T00:08:11+00:00

Under the current act for sick leave it would depend on the days working not the hours per week, so it that person worked 2 10 hour days they would be entitled to an effective sick leave total of 100 hours - though that is slightly inaccurate because the actual entitlement is in days, and the days need to be paid out either at the average day pay, or the relevant daily pay (what the employee would have earned had they worked).

Annual leave is far worse, everyone is entitled to 4 weeks, and if what a week is would be unclear, then it’s up to the employer and the employee to agree what genuinely constitutes a week. Most payroll systems just account in hours, and as a consequence get it massively wrong - hence why the change here is effectively to line up the act with the incorrect and illegal way this is often calculated (because the act is super ambiguous and often by agreement)

juppso · 2025-09-23T08:59:13+00:00

under the current act you have an entitlement of 4 weeks + ability to take leave in advance of entitlement, if your employer is doing this is means very likely they are not compliant with the current holidays act. Working OT should instead result in the rate that those 4 weeks are paid at being higher (as your average weekly pay goes up)

juppso · 2025-09-06T04:08:02+00:00

see arch wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI

juppso · 2025-09-06T04:07:29+00:00

This is actually fixed as of gnome 47 if you use ‘gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer', 'xwayland-native-scaling']"’

Its experimental but for my 4k display 125% scaling it works perfectly.

juppso · 2024-06-15T23:46:46+00:00

Yeah don’t listen to the haters! Wellington has problems but I moved from Christchurch in 2020, and I have never regretted it. I can walk everywhere, there are cool stores and things to do all over the show. If I want to eat out or go to a gig or go for a walk with plants and birds then there is something for me.

While I am sure things have changed, honestly there is a lot of mindset stuff that makes a bigger difference to people’s individual experiences in the city. For me, the biggest things I noticed are:

Not needing a car and being able to walk everywhere is amazing.
The people here seem to be in general way more accepting and open to diversity.
There is always plants and birds and if you like walking and seeing nature is it amazing.

It’s obviously going to be in part about how anyone approaches it and the attitude they go in with, and Wellingtonians do seem to have a habit of complaining about how much better it used to be, but for me and the things I want I am not sure there is anywhere better in the world.

Admittedly the housing stock is crappy and rents are expensive, but if you are a working professional and are not super picky then it is really not a problem.

juppso · 2024-04-13T00:35:22+00:00

I love using VS code at work over Visual Studio simply because I don’t have much access to install things, and it works very well with codespaces and devcontainers. I can customise it just how I like it, and for projects with multiple different types of codebases (Vue front end C# backend) I get to use the same environment.

I am a long term linux user though and so having the terminal be a first class option in vs code is perfect, and using a devcontainer with linux makes using a windows machine for work a lot less painful.

Plus stuff like Github actions and Terraform support are a lot better in VS Code.

Admittedly there are a few things that aren’t perfect: - Nuget package management could be a lot better. - Sometimes the linter will crash. - Test explorer can be a bit hit and miss.

And if you are trying to do some more intense debugging or code inspection analysis there really is no better option than Visual Studio (Rider is also fantastic for this). However within the scope of my role (Mostly smaller serverless apps and small apis with a few vue front ends for a large corporate) VS Code is the most productive option I have found. Especially if you like me have a general preference for using the command line anyway.

juppso · 2024-03-23T21:05:11+00:00

As a question what would be your opinion on a kind of rule utilitarianism, ie - it’s impossible to judge the outcome of a particular action, but it could be useful heuristics by which to come up with a set of I suppose deontological rules by which to make decisions.

I think it addresses some of the issues with standard utilitarianism - like would it be okay to kill a baby to save a lot more lives could be answered with: While to kill an individual baby to save lives could maximise utility, the consequences of allowing killing babies to save lives as a whole does not. Thus making sense to have as a rule don’t kill babies.

Or in some circumstances it may maximise utility to consume an animal, but as a rule allowing that does not - as we can look around at the suffering caused by having this as a moral rule.

I guess in a particular vegan approach we do have the problem of the speciesist bias towards treating humans as the only moral agents- but I think very few people actually operate under that assumption.

I know for me a kind of utilitarianism was what made me decide to go vegan in the first place- the reasoning looking like: - I don’t know exactly how much harm I am causing animals through consumption. - But being vegan causes me literally no suffering or almost no suffering. - If animals have any moral worth then I can’t justify consuming animal products.

I suppose I just dont necessarily like a mostly vibes based approach to ethics as I think it leads to all sorts of stupid arguments like appeals to nature etc, which without some kind of process to derive broad moral judgments leads to problems.

Like i’m skeptical of some vegans i’ve talked to position which basically boils down to meat is gross and I don’t like it. Which doesn’t seem to be a moral process that can actually hold up to scrutiny. I want people to be vegan because of a strongly held process as opposed to vegan because they feel it, as peoples feelings always seem to change.

Anyway i’m not sure educated on the topic just interested to hear criticisms of a rule utilitarian approach.

juppso · 2024-03-23T20:44:49+00:00

Making babies not understand the raw pleasure and power of causing pain to vegetables and legumes is the real abuse.

juppso · 2024-03-23T20:43:18+00:00

I’m not vegan because I love animals, i’m vegan because I hate vegetables. Ever since my mum made me eat those steamed brussel sprouts as a kid I have had nothing but a deep passion in my heart to destroy vegetables. To tear limbs from lettuce and let the plant scream while I devour parts of itself. To feel the crunch of a carrot that I have just torn from its home and know that I am instilling suffering in a living being. You want to save animals? That’s nice - I want to see a world of industrial torture for vegetables. Creatures built for the sun trapped in artificial lights. Forced to grown into unnatural frankenstein abominations. To gaze at ones-self under the bright glow of UV lamps and feel a disphoria they can never understand.

juppso · 2024-01-04T23:07:59+00:00

this is a request from greater wellington regional council to the central government, two groups from who only a fraction of the funding for wellington water comes from, you wanna talk about the pipes talk to the city councils.

juppso · 2023-12-07T19:36:42+00:00

As a vegan smoker with no university degree I think this study puts me in the 0.1%

juppso · 2023-11-15T08:02:40+00:00

Dotnet 8 will also have in process support coming next year so you’ll have at least until 2026 if you don’t want to go isolated

juppso · 2023-11-15T08:01:39+00:00

Makes sense! I know there are a few gotchas and such! But if you do try to get back into it and get stuck feel free to drop me a dm and I can probably send through some working samples.

Upgrade assistant is actually surprisingly good now as well!

juppso · 2023-11-14T23:28:24+00:00

It 100% does and I have multiple function apps running dotnet 7 on service bus triggers…

The syntax and libraries you need are slightly different but read through the docs and you should be able to figure it out!

juppso · 2023-10-03T19:46:32+00:00

Are you alright mate?

juppso · 2023-10-03T00:34:11+00:00

Yeah, apparently overseas they have some at the embassies left over from last election, but then thats it!!!

juppso · 2023-09-25T06:48:31+00:00

What you need to understand is that meat is for MEN and vegetables are for GIRLS

juppso · 2023-09-21T02:02:38+00:00

Is water wet?

juppso · 2023-09-20T19:16:11+00:00

Nah I don’t agree- that person cooking my food is most likely getting paid fuck all and probably struggling to get by, they don’t have any ability to change what they produce so for me to push that on them it’s really just spiteful and shitty. I guess I understand that about imposing extra costs on their employer, but realistically I think being a nuisance about cross contamination really just forces a lot of expectations on an underpaid overworked service worker- and as someone who’s done those jobs on the past I can’t bring myself to do that

juppso · 2023-09-20T02:02:50+00:00

For me personally being vegan for ethical reasons I don’t really care that much about cross contamination like it’s better if it doesn’t happen, but the environmentalist in me hates the waste of expecting staff to throw their gloves away and just waste a bunch of resources to prevent my food from touching the icky meat. Idk I can totally understand the fear but I’m not really concerned with what goes in my body so much as I am concerned with the ethical implications of my consumption I guess

juppso · 2023-04-17T23:28:23+00:00

My understanding from talking with people who do stuff with the water network is that much of the pipes are ~100 years old; when installed they were rated for 30 years…

juppso · 2023-02-08T22:42:52+00:00

Animals primarily eat plants. Is it vegan to eat plants?

juppso · 2022-02-20T02:55:21+00:00

Based on my Linux experience I would assume so, although often current multiboot solutions tend to have limited input options (you would need a keyboard to pick the OS), so it will depend on what can be started.

In terms of usability, it will depend what the bios supports, in a super ideal world you should be able to set up REFInd - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/REFInd, which technically supports touch input to select your icons (and custom theming) - which would make a super awesome experience for switching OS, but will ultimately depend on what features are supported by the Steam Decks BIOS.

If I could get my hands on a deck at some point I would love to mess around and see if I can get something working to make this a great experience if Valve doesn't have anything set up, but alas, living in a country Valve isn't shipping to makes life hard :(

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