fakeBeerDrinker (u/fakeBeerDrinker)

fakeBeerDrinker commented on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit creators.yahoo.com/lifest... · Posted by u/anderber

epistasis · 3 months ago

The FCC chair threatening your broadcast license is a pretty good "excuse". There wasn't a public outcry, it was a government outcry along with threats along multiple lines of leverage.

fakeBeerDrinker · 3 months ago

He was last averaging 129K viewers per episode in the 18-49 demographic, I'd say that is a far better "excuse" than a threat from the FCC. As if DIS doesn't have a legion of attorneys. Give me a break.

fakeBeerDrinker commented on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge businessinsider.com/anthr... · Posted by u/pyman

hellohihello135 · 5 months ago

BI decides who can access this content and who will get the paywall. The link to archive page allows people to access this content without permission. That’s called stealing.

fakeBeerDrinker · 5 months ago

When I hop on a VPN and enter ingconito mode from a clean browser session, bypassing their paywall, is that stealing? This doesn't meet the definition of stealing that I'm familiar with.

fakeBeerDrinker commented on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge businessinsider.com/anthr... · Posted by u/pyman

hellohihello135 · 5 months ago

It’s easy to point fingers at others. Meanwhile the top comment in this thread links to stolen content from Business Insider.

fakeBeerDrinker · 5 months ago

How is it stolen from Business Insider? When I visit businessinsider.com/anthropic-cut-pirated-millions-used-books-train-claude-copyright-2025-6 I get the same story. My browser caches the story, and I save it for archival purposes. How is this theft?

fakeBeerDrinker commented on Infomaniak comes out in support of controversial Swiss encryption law tomsguide.com/computing/v... · Posted by u/BafS

Bengalilol · 6 months ago

Switzerland is the oldest democracy in the world. Your comment certainly doesn't fit the way this country handles its citizens. There is the Law, the "what is tolerated" and what isn't. That's the "boundaries on actions". But any malicious mind won't bow down to those intentional principles.

fakeBeerDrinker · 6 months ago

I don’t believe that Switzerland is the oldest democracy in the world, but I could be mistaken. Iceland has had a democratic-ish parliament since the 900s[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althing

fakeBeerDrinker commented on Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine solarshades.club/p/dispat... · Posted by u/notarobot123

Balgair · 7 months ago

I think you've identified the main issue here:

LLMs aren't destroying the University or the essay.

LLMs are destroying the cheap University or essay.

Cheap can mean a lot of things, like money or time or distance. But, if Universities want to maintain a standard, then they are going to have to work for it again.

No more 300+ person freshman lectures (where everyone cheated anyways). No more take-home zoom exams. No more professors checked out. No more grad students doing the real teaching.

I guess, I'm advocating for the Oxbridge/St. John's approach with under 10 class sizes where the proctor actually knows you and if you've done the work. And I know, that is not a cheap way to churn out degrees.

fakeBeerDrinker · 7 months ago

After a short stint as a faculty member at a McU institution, I agree with much of this.

Provide machine problems and homework as exercises for students to learn, but assign a very low weight to these as part of an overall grade. Butt in seat assessments should be the majority of a course assessment for many courses.

fakeBeerDrinker commented on Ask HN: CS degrees, do they matter again? · Posted by u/platevoltage

qwe----3 · 8 months ago

WGU course content is a complete joke- I would look negatively on that if I saw it

fakeBeerDrinker · 8 months ago

I was a faculty member there for a few years and I completely agree.

fakeBeerDrinker commented on Ask HN: CS degrees, do they matter again? · Posted by u/platevoltage

orionblastar · 8 months ago

I have a CS and Business Management degree. What got me hired was my knowledge and experience, and I worked with coworkers without degrees. You have to prove that you can do the job.

Then again, I've seen $15/hr jobs that require a Master's in CS. That management is crazy.

fakeBeerDrinker · 8 months ago

What was the role? What region was this in? Outside of a PhD student or something similar, I can't imagine this would be in the US, Canada, most of Europe.