klemptor
@klemptor@startrek.website
- Comment on Self-reflection 3 hours ago:
Plagiarism detectors aren’t meant to be used in lieu of critical evaluation. They find suspected plagiarized passages and supply links to what they think is the original text. Then you as the professor are supposed to evaluate whether it really counts as plagiarism. You can tell the detector to ignore certain parts that pass your scrutiny and rerun the analysis.
When I was teaching, I always included a “drafts only” TurnItIn link that was for the express purpose of students checking their own work for plagiarism. They were supposed to run it through TurnItIn, evaluate what it picked up on, fix whatever issues were present, and then when their paper was in a good place with no plagiarism, they could submit it to the real TurnItIn link for me to grade. This was to the students’ benefit because they couldn’t be surprised by the results, and also to my benefit because with this system students had no excuse for submitting any plagiarized material. The diligent students used this system. Lots of lazy students did not, and when I found plagiarism I was not lenient because they’d had every opportunity to avoid it. (And also because it’s fucking grad school, and I had no patience for their fuckery.)
- Comment on Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor? 23 hours ago:
What about orange creamsicles?
- Comment on The mark 2 days ago:
You were the blue light special…
- Comment on Has anyone let David Icke know about this? 3 days ago:
Lol yup!
- Comment on Has anyone let David Icke know about this? 4 days ago:
Not as good as the Land O Lakes lady
- Comment on The mark 1 week ago:
Yeah that math works out
- Comment on The mark 1 week ago:
Dude this pic could’ve waited until your poo was finished
- Comment on Oreo 1 week ago:
You gotta exfoliate your pits in the shower, then soap & shave. Nobody needs a nasty deodorant patina under their arms.
- Comment on Was Captain Janeway in the wrong during “The Gift”? 1 week ago:
Oh man I miss Kools.
- Comment on The mark 1 week ago:
Rut roh… I’ve got three of them.
- Comment on Rose Finch 1 week ago:
What a cutie!
- Comment on Anon investigates crime in 2096 2 weeks ago:
Goulash is delicious, not a bad way to go
- Comment on Damn right 3 weeks ago:
I remember learning about bouba/kiki in grade 1… until today, I assumed all kids did!
- Comment on Why 🤷♂️ do users 👨💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭? 4 weeks ago:
YES, emoticons are so much better than emojis!
- Comment on Oh no! I dropped (5£ to) Anna's Archives. Beware the mess, people. 4 weeks ago:
Oh man. In undergrad I had a Thermodynamics professor who used the DRAFT VERSION of his textbook to teach with. It was completely unedited and he expected us to catch any errors. He was also like 80 years old, doddering, hard of hearing, forgetful, didn’t give us a syllabus until halfway through the semester… It’s the only class in undergrad that I got less than a B in. Years later I still resent him lol
- Comment on E, W & F 4 weeks ago:
Burn motherfucker, burn
- Comment on I'm barely hanging on. 1 month ago:
- Comment on I need to survive for 3 days while pooping, and eating as much as possible. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack? 1 month ago:
Whatever mizu did, do the opposite.
- Comment on Tell me Y 1 month ago:
Not the Beatles?
- Comment on What if? 1 month ago:
Similar here. I don’t trust the algorithm and I’m not interested in outsourcing my attention and thinking to it.
- Comment on LaTeX Master Race 1 month ago:
Lah-tek
Anything else is badness 10000
- Comment on Anon ponders the cosmic mysteries 1 month ago:
Holy shit ths is hilarious
- Comment on Before times. 1 month ago:
Yup - I went to Temple University and the whole sidewalk from the train station to campus was lined with these. The leaves are beautiful but the berries are just horrendous. We called them shitberries. It was really hard to avoid them and sometimes you’d step on one, and end up apologizing the rest of the day because that stench sticks around.
I think they got rid of those trees. The students now don’t know what they’re missing out on!
- Comment on Adult pool goers - what do people even do at the pool? 2 months ago:
I bring a book and pace around in the water while I read.
- Comment on You can't act fabulous after a hip surgery. 2 months ago:
Sorry, I must’ve missed where you said that. Haven’t had my wakeup juice yet!
- Comment on You can't act fabulous after a hip surgery. 2 months ago:
Was yours a total hip replacement?
- Comment on You can't act fabulous after a hip surgery. 2 months ago:
Haha are you me? My sitting and sleeping styles are chaotic!
- Comment on You can't act fabulous after a hip surgery. 2 months ago:
I had to really watch these positional restrictions for the first four weeks. After that I could ease back into a more full range of motion, but only to my comfort level (in other words, I couldn’t push anything and had to take it slooooowly). No running or jumping for the first 12 weeks. But now I can pretty much do anything I want. I do still have pain sometimes if I sleep in a weird position or if I go too hard in the gym, but more or less I’m back to normal. Certainly I’m better than before surgery!
My problem was called a femoroacetabular impingement, which is a congenital overgrowth of bone at the neck of the femur. It limited my range of motion (e.g., squatting was difficult) and led to a torn labrum (hip cartilage). The surgery was to sew the labrum back together and pin it down, and shave down the bone overgrowth. They did it all arthroscopically. I’m really glad I had it done, even though recovery was frustrating!
I talked a little more about recovery here if you’re interested.
- Comment on You can't act fabulous after a hip surgery. 2 months ago:
Yeah I had hip surgery in March and these restrictions sucked. They were important but soooo hard to comply with, especially with sleeping. But even harder was not being able to lean forward while sitting - I could have no less than 90° between my legs and my trunk.
- Comment on Linguistics 2 months ago:
…what do you think teetotaler means?