HexesofVexes

You just captured the daily life of a UK academic after the catastrophically low recruitment numbers this year.

"My dear, monogamy is an entirely relative concept with no fixed frame of reference!’

I need a pasta of this for when I get asked to man the open day stall on a weekend…

I absolutely don’t use notepad++ as my main IDE… Honest.

I feel personally attacked by this!

Badger on the left just saw his healthcare bill. Badger on the right ate some bad beans and is contemplating the nature of regret.

“Oh so that’s where my remaining mental health and self esteem are!”

Beat me to it!

Oh I definitely believe they won’t make a wise decision - these past few years have been devastating when it comes to decisions.

Come visit academia some time… Copyright laws ensure we do all the work and get nothing in return;)

I rather think the point is being missed here. Copyright is already causing huge issues, such as the troubles faced by the internet archive, and the fact academics get nothing from their work.

Surely the argument here is that copyright law needs to change, as it acts as a barrier to education and human expression. Not, however, just for AI, but as a whole.

Copyright law needs to move with the times, as all laws do.

“Humans engaging in tongue combat to determine fitness of mate. Note the closed eyes, scientists believe this is because of how bloody this ritual could become; humans closed their eyes to keep the blood out.”

Ah, I see we’re burning the Library of Alexandria again… Just as with last time, the survival of texts will rely upon copies.

while(True):

staffNumbers-=1

staffWorkload*=1.1

staffWages*=0.95

executiveWages*=1.2

And they wonder why…

Control panel largely accrued content - it is generally navigated via left and right click which works great and is stable. Things don’t vanish.

Settings, on the other hand, is left click only navigation mostly. It also changed constantly (usually for the worst) - tutorials written 2 years ago are no longer valid because access to that setting was removed. This makes using settings to fix things a real nightmare.

Damn, just saw this after posting the same link XD

“Ok class, remember that after geology we’re going to be doing astronomy”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dtmRmOHK78

Hi ho, hi ho, it’s down the mine you go.

Not toilet trained, and no wages gained!

Hihohiho hi ho, hi ho, it’s back down the hole you’ll go.

Now swing that pick you little di-

I think that’s enough Disney today

Really neat post, I’d not heard of a few of these (never knew libre office draw could edit pdfs!).

Couple of extra ones:

Note taking and pdf annotation: Xournal++ is amazing, it’s also great to use on larger whiteboard screens. Plug and play support for scribe tablets on both windows and Linux.

Emulation (up to ps1): Mednafen is lightweight and comes with a gui. It also supports recording, though not netplay.

Ebook management/reading: Calibre - allows easy importing and exporting of ebooks to devices, also has a great built in search letting you find DRM free versions of a book.