smichel17

The pattern you want here is branding.

Someone I know went to a college where the final exam was 100% of the grade, in most courses. You could retake it as many times as you want, but only if you scored below 70% (presumably to limit the amount of retakes). The result was that if people weren't feeling confident on the test day, they would recycle their test (not hand it in), thereby receiving a zero and guaranteeing the ability to retake.

Designing systems of incentives is hard.

That said, several of the mentioned problems seem like they have solutioms.

- Excessive detail: keep both or several sets of instructions. The detailed version is authoritative in the case of a dispute by the student, but as long as they don't dispute, it's fine if they follow the spirit of the instructions.

- Deadlines: Give X "extension tokens" per semester, which allow students to submit one day late, no questions asked. Max 2 tokens per assignment (48h extension). My undergrad CS department did this and it was great.

I would guess the latter would work well for regrades as well. A generous but bounded number of regrade tokens. You could even do something like make unused tokens worth 1 bonus % on the final exam, if you want to further disincentive abuse.

How cold is coldish?

How can one find, or measure, the SSI of a given light bulb?

I used freetaxusa last year after using turbotax previously. I found that the experience of using turbotax was more like giving my information to an accountant and having them prepare the forms, while freetaxusa was more like sitting there with an accountant explaining what each box means, while you fill out the forms yourself.

I'd say the turbotax approach was easier to fill out, but freetaxusa was much easier to look up additional information when the guidance fell short; when I wasn't sure how to fill out turbotax's questions, figuring out which box it applied to so I could look up more information was supremely frustrating.

Specifically, I was freelancing the previous two years, and I was looking up information about itemized deductions.

Similar story here. The worst part is that the locked bootloader means that I can't upgrade it myself, either.

Psst. Try PaperWM. It allows quick resizing and tiling.

Perhaps find an open source project they depend on and donate to it.

Can you elaborate on how GPLv3 is enterprise-hostile? My impression was that the main change was fixing the tivo loophole.

Or to anyone who uses an old-fashioned audio receiver ("amp") with wired speakers. Turn the dial, both speakers change volume. Obviously what I want.

I have not read anything besides this article, though, so it's possible the patent is being misinterpreted here.

(I'm a different person)

Vertical alignment. When you press the down arrow, you don't know what position your cursor will land on because it's not visually aligned with the character above. Kind of defeats the purpose of a monospace font (within that one line where it's applied).

In my experience, Linux, Windows, and MacOS all have their own separate warts. When switching between desktops, you will be supremely frustrated dealing with issues you Just Didn't Have™ on your old OS. Stick with it for long enough before switching back, and you'll be just as frustrated with the annoyances you'd gotten used to working around and forgotten about in your old system.