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Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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Post by nekusar »

necovek wrote: post #343
mort96 wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They did seem to think that it's a problem for schools to fail students.

They didn't say that either. What they did say is that the school sometimes fails students to get more money — supposedly implying that this was not because they did not meet the passing criteria. This does not preclude failing students when they deserve it. It is ok to question of what makes them believe they would have passed the exams without this financial motivation for the school, but they were pretty clear IMO…

Lets use names.

Western Governors University. Online 4 year degree. Classes are passed when you pass the "high stakes" (read: proctorio test). This means if you know the material, then you can pass a class in 1 day.

HOWEVER, when you do your final test, they only tell you pass or fail. They do NOT show you what questions you got right or wrong. If you fail, you have to wait 5 days and go through professor hoops. Of course, you naturally never actually talked to the prof. Its all online through ZyBooks.

But WGU benefits on failing people, and by hiding what you failed at. Because the longer you attend, the more they charge. Their response is basically "Get Gud Scrub but we're not gonna tell you how".

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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Post by mghackerlady »

jon-wood wrote: post #311
mathstuf wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heh…I once was in a state-level coding event (it was a small portion of a larger competition) where half of the test was turning in code on a CD during the competition, with the written half during the event. My CD was deemed unusable for whatever reason (it had worked on XP and Fedora 6 or 7 at home) and didn't count towards my score. I still got second in the event. I declined to continue because I couldn't trust t…

I dropped out of college (the UK version, I guess equivalent to senior high school in the US) shortly after discovering that the final assessment of my Computing project would be performed by the examiner reading a printed version of the source code, without ever executing it, because the exam board were so scared of examiners computers being destroyed.

When was this? If this was before virtualisation was common I can maybe understand that but any time in the last 20 years is pretty dumb and the last 10 so braindead I question if they would've been able to judge things properly

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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Post by arrty88 »

lionkor wrote: post #334
arrty88 wrote: post #203

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Why not? Surely you’re putting a cdn in-front of it still.

Tell me you don't know when a CDN is needed without telling me you don't know when a CDN is needed

> The primary purpose of the Cloudflare DNS Proxy is to act as a reverse proxy that sits between your website visitors and your origin server. When enabled, Cloudflare intercepts incoming web traffic, processes it, and shields your server from direct connections.

Maybe you are not up to date on latest trends, but modern CDN purpose is to shield the origin from the public writ large.

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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Post by mghackerlady »

rogerrogerr wrote: post #237
mathstuf wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heh…I once was in a state-level coding event (it was a small portion of a larger competition) where half of the test was turning in code on a CD during the competition, with the written half during the event. My CD was deemed unusable for whatever reason (it had worked on XP and Fedora 6 or 7 at home) and didn't count towards my score. I still got second in the event. I declined to continue because I couldn't trust t…

Does high school attendance matter for anything? Genuine question. Always seemed like pre-college schooling always wanted you to think everything was more important long-term than it really was.

Not really, but you can get in trouble for truancy if it becomes a big problem (where I'm from, that was 3 unexcused absences or any absences without a doctor's note after 10. In practice, however, this wasn't that enforced)

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Post by mghackerlady »

DonHopkins wrote: post #134
goldenarm wrote: post #35

Remember when the .tk TLD became free 20 years ago ? Every hobbyist took one, then scammers followed, then Facebook and antiviruses started blocking it. I remember publishing a website for a class on my .tk domain, the teacher couldn't open it and I almost got a failing grade because of it.

At least https://tcl.tk redirects => https://www.tcl-lang.org/

that's the first thing I thought of when I saw .tk. I may just be too tclish, however

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Post by jon-wood »

mghackerlady wrote: post #352
jon-wood wrote: post #311

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dropped out of college (the UK version, I guess equivalent to senior high school in the US) shortly after discovering that the final assessment of my Computing project would be performed by the examiner reading a printed version of the source code, without ever executing it, because the exam board were so scared of examiners computers being destroyed.

When was this? If this was before virtualisation was common I can maybe understand that but any time in the last 20 years is pretty dumb and the last 10 so braindead I question if they would've been able to judge things properly

Oh this was in 2000, when virtualisation was only just becoming accessible so I can get of get the justification. It still made the entire exercise in writing some software feel pointless when I knew it would never get executed by anyone but myself.

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Post by toast0 »

rogerrogerr wrote: post #237
mathstuf wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heh…I once was in a state-level coding event (it was a small portion of a larger competition) where half of the test was turning in code on a CD during the competition, with the written half during the event. My CD was deemed unusable for whatever reason (it had worked on XP and Fedora 6 or 7 at home) and didn't count towards my score. I still got second in the event. I declined to continue because I couldn't trust t…

Does high school attendance matter for anything? Genuine question. Always seemed like pre-college schooling always wanted you to think everything was more important long-term than it really was.

Many states pay school districts based on attendance.

Attendance typically correlates with classroom success.

Attendance avoids truancy proceedings.

One of the kids in my elementary school got a hat for perfect attendance through 6th grade.

I've never seen attendance shown on a transcript though, but you could fill some space on a resume with it, especially if you have the hat to show for it.

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Post by moduspol »

Cpoll wrote: post #172
mort96 wrote: post #169

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A friend almost failed an IT class because his website didn't render at all in IE6. This was during the time of IE9. The teacher just hadn't updated their browser in a long time. I don't get how you get to be an IT teacher without knowing the most basic troubleshooting steps to get assignments to run.

I had a similar class where they threatened to fail us if we didn't use Dreamweaver and instead wrote our own html.

Hmm. Dreamweaver must be what the cool kids were using instead of Frontpage.

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Post by L_226 »

jon-wood wrote: post #356
mghackerlady wrote: post #352

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When was this? If this was before virtualisation was common I can maybe understand that but any time in the last 20 years is pretty dumb and the last 10 so braindead I question if they would've been able to judge things properly

Oh this was in 2000, when virtualisation was only just becoming accessible so I can get of get the justification. It still made the entire exercise in writing some software feel pointless when I knew it would never get executed by anyone but myself.

Reminds me of Lord Vetinari from Discworld, reading sheet music instead of listening to adulterated performances by fat sweaty men squeezing the music through some tubes.

Executing the code in your head removed from the nuances of hardware, CPU architecture and compiler versions seems like a virtuous pursuit (?)

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Post by nl »

quotemstr wrote: post #225
nl wrote: post #193

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Disagree with this. RISC Zero is useful for crypto use-cases: Other people need to verify an exact program was run. The identity use case is about connecting sources of trust (document issuers) with consumers of that trust ("this is a real person") in ways that don't release more than the minimum information required ("the passport office has signed that this is a real person so we can trust that"). Single purpose ci…

RISC Zero verifies that an exact computation was performed. What would be the point of the system otherwise? If you're starting from this incorrect premise, you're going to arrive at an incorrect conclusion. > Single purpose circuits make a lot of sense for this No, they don't. They lock your system into a single set of trade-offs without an advantage to offset it. They're premature optimization. How do you think ZK…

> if your ZK vocabulary is limited to stupid BBS-style selective disclosure and nothing else

I don't understand what "BBS-style" means in this context, but selective disclosure is exactly what the requirement is.

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