• candyman337@sh.itjust.works
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    I understand cheating is shitty but it would make a lot more sense for the teacher to make this a teachable moment about cheating, and to promote collaborative solutions, but also checking work you get from others.

    A huge part of development is copying code and reusing code from libraries. The important part is that you know how the code you copy works.

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    when a professor does this they’re “based” and “brainpilled” but when I pretend to sell crack on the benches outside, all of a sudden the judge claims it’s “entrapment” and “illegal” smh…

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      At this point I’m only hoping to emerge from the other side of the “based” fad although I’ve never understood what it meant. WTaF is “brain pilled”?

      Groovy. Tubular. Fetch.

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        Here’s the real answer for based:

        “Based” (corruption of base head - from someone who smokes base - street name for crack cocaine) was popular as an insult in rap / African American circles in the early 00s

        Rapper Lil B got called it and decided on a whim to pretend the meaning was changed to mean something positive, started using it in this way, it caught on - mostly through the new York scene and its attendant twitter following

        As all slang does in the last ~100-150 years, passed from black people to everyone.

        
        Brain pilled is a reference to The Matrix f/t Keanu Reeves in which Morpheus - whose namesake is the God of dreams - offers to wake up Neo from his fake reality by taking the red pill - leading to the phrase "red pilled" meaning (a right wing variant of) "woke." 
        
        Over time [x]-pilled became slang like how Watergate/ [x]-gate became a suffix to imply an imbrolglio.
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      Teacher’s Assistant/Teaching Aide

      Basically an older student helping teach the younger ones as a parttime job. Generally involves a lot of crappy work like supervising labwork, helping out with grading and answering the same question 18 times.

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        Can be real fun though and often you get deeper insight into the subject than just attending a class or gain valuable connections into the institute.

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      At university most teachers have serious dedication. It’s just not for teaching, lmao.

      But once you do your thesis, discussion in their respective fields of research or general expertise is really awesome.

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        It’s just not for teaching, lmao.

        Exactly. The “Ugh, these annoying students are keeping me from doing something useful” is very strong with some of them.