I'm sure some did, but, unfortunately, those people aren't the ones making the business decisions.
The "line must go up" people are in charge because "line must go up" investors are saying the "line must go up".
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Not OP, but I feel like every time I come across a thread like this, someone is recommending a different version of Linux. It makes it really difficult to decide, and I can't exactly just "try out" Linux on my computer the same way I could try out other programs.
Yes, I could install it on a thumb drive, but that's not persistent, so I couldn't try it out for more than a few hours. Takes longer than that to decide to completely switch OSes.
My university used something called Lockdown Browser. It was free to download for students. On Windows (can't remember if there was a Mac, and it definitely wasn't available on Linux), it could only run after a UAC prompt. It used the webcam and microphone on a computer to record the student. It also used facial detection. I'm pretty sure it also recorded the screen, at least inside the browser window.
It also had options that instructors could enable that had us students have to record a video of our immediate surroundings and have to take a picture of a photo ID with our name and picture (preferably our student ID).
If you did the three-finger touchpad swipe (which I've done accidentally before) to change to a different window or minimize the program, it'd refocus itself immediately, a warning would pop up and tell you that, if it happened a second time, the exam would be closed and the instructor would be notified.
If it detected certain applications running (ex. Discord, WhatsApp, Xbox Game Bar, etc.), it would ask to force close them or it wouldn't run.
Barring a situation in which cheating was possible (ex. the three-finger swipe mentioned above), the browser could not be closed until the exam was submitted.
If instructors chose to use Lockdown Browser, students wouldn't be able to open the exam unless they were using that browser.
So it was still possible to cheat (not that I did, but I'd heard of people who did and how they did it), but still difficult.
Found the thread on HN. Here's what (I'm guessing) a mod had to say:
It set off the flamewar detector, got flagged by users, and got downweighted by a mod.
The 'customer support of last resort' genre is common and not usually a good fit for HN [1]. If people feel this story is unusually relevant and interesting, I'm not sure I agree—long experience has taught us that one-sided articles like this nearly always leave out critical information—but I also don't mind yielding in an occasional specific case, so I've rolled back the penalties on this thread.
The issue from our point of view is not about story X or company Y—it's a systemic one: the most popular genres of submission (especially the rage-inducing ones) get massively over-represented by default, so countervailing mechanisms are needed [2] if we're to have a space for the more intellectually curious stories that the site is meant for.
Supermarket: Shocked pikachu face
Actually, supermarkets typically factor theft and other types of damages (ex. product broke in transit, came open, etc.) into their projected sales.
Well, they finally finished the shopping center they were building for like 15 years.
Some company bought some land and had it all setup for construction (giant mounds of red clay and everything). Then they ran out of money. And it sat there for years, visible to everyone who drove by. A few years back, some company bought the and created a shopping center.
I'm not quite that young. Netizen is a "citizen of the internet", IIRC. More specifically, it's a portmanteau of "internet" and "citizen".
I had also heard what the meaning of GIF was, though not so often that I could remember it off the top of my head.
I'm not quite as old as the JPG format, but I do still remember using dial-up. I still remember accidentally logging into the internet when my dad was on the phone one day. I could hear his voice through the computer speakers. I immediately closed the browser. It was something that'd, surprisingly, never happened while I was on the computer before.
Yeah, but it's almost always used for animations. Seeing one that's not animated just feels... weird.
When driving, being predictable is being nice. Being nice is an accident waiting to happen.
... That sounded better in my head.
I've read in a few different places that, unfortunately, more recent Windows bootloader's can break dual-boot setups.