Thanks, that definitely made it very simple to understand.
Still not 100% convinced on the applicability under various conditions^[and if I want to be, perhaps I should stop being lazy and go read the law], but I understand it from the Government POV. Kinda similar to the country-country hostage exchange we see in stories, which makes sure the other would have a reason not to renege on some agreement, even if they don't have a reason for mutual trust.
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err... I'm finding it hard to understand the meaning of the sentence using the dictionary meaning of this word. Did you mean to use some other word?
Fun to see how this thread stemmed from "no shit".
Students first need to learn to:
The student in question probably didn't develop the mental faculties required to think, "Hmm... what the 'f'?"
A similar thingy happened to me having to teach a BTech grad with 2 years of prior exp. At first, I found it hard to believe how someone couldn't ask such questions from themselves, by themselves. I am repeatedly dumbfounded at how someone manages to be so ignorant of something they are typing and recently realising (after interaction with multiple such people) that this is actually the norm^[and that I am the weirdo for trying hard and visualising the C++ abstract machine in my mind].
Gives me vibes of a second iteration of the OS writing boom. Though this time, the kernel mostly.
They are having to take on the burden of gently letting down other devs who are angry over a simple misunderstanding.
I feel like, if anyone would be happily willing to do that in their free time, they would have been a Politician or an HR and not a Developer.
I'm pretty n00b as a dev, but if I were to see someone misinterpreting my explanation, the most I would do is rephrase the same in a more understandable manner.
Definitely not going to resort to using "people management tactics", specially not in an Open Source Free Work setting, where the expectation is that the other person wants the good of the project as much as I do ^[as compared to a corporate setting, where if they are getting money to sit and do nothing, they will prefer that].
Facts are more important than feelings, specially when written text is the medium, where the reader can, at any time, go back and re-read to make sure they are at the same page, which a responsible, non-sleepy, non-drunk person would do in such a case.
On this note, I went and re-read the above comment and I realise, the "But that’s the thing where you are wrong." sentence is kinda useless. If the previous commenter were to have read the rest, they would realise that's where they were wrong. Mental note to not use useless stuff like this as the first sentence in a reply, because I probably have the habit
Yes, I know I joined both circumstances, this comment thread and the condition of the Rust Linux dev. It seemed relevant to me.
What I find difficult to understand, is that they require said chap to be physically in the country.
Unless said law only works in case the company has a physical presence in the country (which it does, in this case), I feel it hard to get the logic to apply it to an internet service.
It most probably can work directly with satellites, but I don't think some user is going to put the effort into setting up a direct system (∵ high cost), just to use the bloated site, X is (∵ low throughput internet).
your company must have a legal representative to be within our borders
Interesting. Yeah, I was too lazy to look it up and instead cracked a joke.
But, isn't that law kinda expensive? Or does it only apply in certain conditions (like company size or sth)?
And what's stopping Musk from just putting an underpaid intern for compliance?
Well, you have that choice on Lemmy. Even if a mod deletes a comment, you still get to see it in the Mod Log.
And this is how their^[implying X, Reddit etc.] empires fall.
I don’t get why people defend censorship by powerful/monopolistic companies
I won't get that either.
But unlike the Government, which is at least, supposed to care about us when making their policies,
the companies don't. Whatever gets them more money^[No idea about X though, it seems to love losing everything] is what wins.
Well, said companies will realise in time^[once the Federation evens (or at least smooths down a bit) the playing field] when it hurts them where they care about and will have to consider changing stances.
That seems like the worst way of making an exam.
In case the cheat sheet were not there, it would at least be testing something (i.e. how many formulae you memorised), albeit useless.
When you let students have a cheat sheet, it is supposed to be obvious that this will be a HOTS (higher order thinking skills) test. Well, maybe for teachers lacking said HOTS, it was not obvious.