preacher37

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Google may soon let users 'link' Android devices for calls and more in c/[email protected]
[–] preacher37 5 points 1 year ago

Maybe we'll finally get a serious update to Google Voice for the first time in 5 years?

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Found a legit use for ChatGPT in academia (self.professors)
 

Writing those bullshit memos admin makes you write when you want to get around some stupid university policy. I've used it twice and it's great. The recipients could care less about the details or accuracy of the memo, they just want the piece of paper.

ComicList: New Comic Book Releases List for 07/26/2023 in c/comicbooks
[–] preacher37 1 points 1 year ago

Ribbon Queen #1 (Ennis and Burrows) was the best book this week, hell, this year that I picked up.

Blackboard Ultra in c/[email protected]
[–] preacher37 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never really went too far down the rabbit hole of these things. I use them to post PDFs and little else. Can you get so locked into these CMSs that it's hard to teach a course without them?

Tesla was dealing with 2,000 cases a week amid a surge in driving-range complaints from frustrated customers, report says / in c/technology
[–] preacher37 4 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: if you floor the car 100% of the time your range is less. Also fun fact: if you drive a gas car uphill your mileage is less than the posted.

Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges in c/technology
[–] preacher37 13 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Is WhatsApp open source? Even Signal I'm a bit on edge, why would you trust WhatsApp which is owned by Facebook?

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/r/Professors (self.requests)
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Anyone ever appealed an annual evaluation? How did it go? (self.professors)
 

I'm considering appealing an annual eval (we got merit raises this year so it matters a bit). I have grounds and even a title ix case to back up my request, but I'm unclear if these things ever change. Thoughts?

Goodnight, RIF in c/redditwasfun
[–] preacher37 4 points 1 year ago

Just uninstalled mine after about 10 years. RIP RIF.

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"Quiet quitting" revisited -- ever get loud about being quiet? (self.professors)
 

I'm curious -- those of you (like me) who have withdrawn from extra work outside of your defined workload (e.g. no extra service or teaching), have you just shut up about it, or have any of you loudly drawn attention to it? How did it go?

I'm in a situation where I've been volunteer teaching a course for years, but I've learned the department doesn't care (even if the university does) so I don't plan to continue doing it -- I'm curious if I should let my chair know the reasons I'm not doing it anymore, or just shut up and recover some free time, and contribute to a general "decline" of offerings to the university.

As an FYI I'm a tenured assoc. prof at an R1, so my time is largely my own without consequences -- I was enjoying helping the students and university out with this course until my department decided to be shitty about teaching.

Good news, everyone! in c/[email protected]
[–] preacher37 2 points 1 year ago

Kept my username from reddit. I'm an R1 STEM associate prof. I've been previously posting any department and college dysfunction.

Solo parenting and conferences in c/[email protected]
[–] preacher37 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Team up with a colleague at the conference who has a similarly aged kid and trade off watching them? At least you could do half the conference.