The example above may have been a bit misleading imo. In some countries the filtering process is put inside the program itself rather than in state wide exams, entrance exams or amount of tuition fees. There is always a filtering process somewhere. Not sure where OP was though.
I think oral exam where you have a student explain and ask questions on a project they did is really good for judging understanding. The ones where you are supposed to memorise the answers to 15 questions where you will have to pick one at random, not as much imo.
To a very limited extent, yes. But you'd need a lot of arrows to replicate what can be done on a computer. The computer completely frees you from worrying about space.
The students don’t want to do their work and outsource it to llms, professors don’t want to do their job and outsource it to llms too, universities are doing amazing.
There is a survivor bias here. It ignores cases where parents or kids failed to be 100% wise. When we are talking about a whole population, we are gonna have unwise or unluck cases when we "set kids loose".
Which may be fine, I don't know whether the tightened control of both parenting and kids nowadays is better. But we have to recognise the cost that comes with doing something like that. There is less risk-taking right now, and bad consequences seem to be taken harder, in a way human life is valued more, which imo part of the reason of the shift. The mentality "let kids make their own mistakes" can be fine, but that comes with accepting the possibilities of negative consequences these mistakes may cause, and I feel that the main issue is that we frown upon these consequences as society much more.
I wouldn't pre-order (from somebody with no publishing track record) but working with publishers/editors you don't align with seems a major hindrance that now does not exist.
If I click on an affiliate link that I want to use and the extension changes that without me knowing, that’s malware for me. The intent of the user may be to use a specific affiliate link.
What's the ratio of people deliberately clicking affiliate links, to people who just click links and have no clue what an affiliate link even is?
I already thought Honey was scummy so I never used it in the first place, but I honestly don't get the particular outrage over these specific practices. You're already using the extension to effectively scam online stores, by using coupons the company gave to somebody else, not you. I see it as barely more ethical than doing that old trick of generating your own manufacturer coupons. Probably it's a lot more legal, but ethically it's in the same ballpark.
That's not how malware is defined - Windows ain't malware just because they occasionally make Edge open instead of what you thought were your default browser. The malware definition is way more specific than simply software that doesn't always follow user intent.
It actually does fall under the definition malware. Specifically, Honey hijacks affiliate marketing tags and replaces them with their own. This falls under the definition of the “spyware” category of malware.
Spyware is software that sends information about the user (browsing history, etc) to a 3rd party.
Many affiliate browser extensions do indeed do this, as an extra revenue stream. In fact, I'd recommend never installing a coupon browser extension. But replacing one number with another does not meet the above definition of spyware.
Well, that's clearly incorrect: software displaying unsolicited advertisements is called adware, and requires no spying at all.
> Spyware is a form of malware that hides on your device, monitors your activity, and steals sensitive information like bank details and passwords [0]
> Spyware is loosely defined as malicious software designed to enter your computer device, gather data about you, and forward it to a third-party without your consent. [1]
> Spyware is malicious software that secretly monitors your activity and collects sensitive information, like passwords, location data, or browsing habits, without your consent. [2][3]
Railroads carried the goods that everybody used. That’s like almost 100% in a given country.
The pace was slower indeed. It takes time to build the railroads. But at that time advancements also lasted longer. Now it is often cash grabs until the next thing. Not comparable indeed but for other reasons.
> I can't think of a game available on GoG that sells on Steam for > $20.
It is easy to check such claims. This shows what kind of games are in gog since 2024 at >$20 (it may change the currency depending on your country though).
Far from complete but also a few big titles are there. Granted this is the price in gog but most of the times ime it is the same price as in steam, or around the same.
> Nobody likes DRM, the game industry didn't used to have it.
Aren't DRMs a pretty old thing at this time? I remember the days when DRM was basically about having to use the cd to launch the game as the game would check for that, even if everything needed to run the game was in the hard drive. People would use cracks or virtual drives even if they actually bought the game to avoid doing that. At least now DRMs are far less obstructive to someone who owns the game.
> GoG is great, but they don't typically sell new games.
Many big studios/publishers avoid gog indeed, but others don't, and definitely a lot of new DRM-free games come out there all the time. Maybe it is because of the types of games I want to play, I usually I have no trouble finding them there, with some notable exceptions of course (souls games, outer wilds).
Both clair obscur and Baldur's Gate 3 (goty 2025 & 2023) were in gog since the beginning (bg3 already since its beta). They both definitely sold very well, despite(?) that. All Larian and Obsidian games get there as they come out, as are quite many CRPGs in general, not even counting CDPR's ones. A lot of great/popular indie titles appear in gog around the same time as they do on steam in the last years.
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