I lack the brain power at the moment, but we at U&L should think about what elements we can customize in this new layout -- meta.stackexchange.com/questions/319274/…
So one of these days a Kali OP told us he was coming from Udemy....interesting. That at least explains some of them come from udemy because they do not have the resources or really do not have to explain everything from scratch that is not relevant to the Unit being studied such as networking concepts....interesting.
@FaheemMitha Quality varies a lot, it depends on the instructor. Pre-recorded, you are supposed to interact with the instructor via email/forums, and student fellows are supposed to help you. Though it is impossible a single instructor and in some cases a helper interact with all of the students.
@FaheemMitha Highly depedent on the instructors, the available time and the number of students. I guess it does not scale, and the barrier of entry for a new course is low.
@FaheemMitha In pratice you see the videos, try to keep up with the pratical parts, and if it does not work out, you can expect a minimal assistance, but I guess for the completely initiated, that they are pretty much on their own.
@RuiFRibeiro Two people are better than one, though it depends on the instructor/TA, of course. I hope they're better than the people in universities. Who are often dreadful. Particularly tenured faculty.
@StephenKitt Yes, but they aren't tenured for the online courses.
The problem with tenured professors in a university is that they are very hard to fire. Of course, that's intended as a feature, not a bug. But it can still be a problem if they are terrible instructors. And that is by no means uncommon.
@RuiFRibeiro I was not suggesting that tenure is an indication of anything, one way or the other.
I don't see where I implied that. All I was saying is that if someone is a problem, as a teacher or a person, he/she can be difficult to fire if he/she has tenure.
@RuiFRibeiro I've had good lecturers who were tenured too.
@JeffSchaller No, "cargo cult" is an expression which refers to imitation without understanding, roughly speaking.
@Jesse_b Yes, I think that's probably true. Though I believe my mother had a monkey as a pet once. I think she gave him back to where she got him eventually, though.
More precisely, cargo cult refers to people going to the motions of some procedure without understanding it. And expecting results that then don't happen.
@FaheemMitha "Feeding the monkey" is an expression that means "feeding your addiction". So if you're addicted to alcohol, having a drink could be referred to as feeding the monkey.
Actually, cargo culting is a big thing in Indian education, I helieve. And probably other places. There is a good section in "Surely You're Joking..." which talks about that in more detail. Though in that case, Feynman was talking about Brazil education, I believe.
@JeffSchaller Turns out it's less common than I thought, but I did find references to it by googling just now. You do know the more common "monkey on your back" idiom for an addiction, right?
> a monkey on (one's) back 1. slang A drug addiction. Did you hear? Pete checked himself into rehab to deal with the monkey on his back. 2. A burden. This project is such a monkey on my back right now—I can't wait for it to be over.
Ok. My mother seems pretty bad, but the hospital is continuing treatment like there is no tomorrow. I'm wondering if (a) whether the hospital is messing with me, and whether it makes sense to continue treatment. It's been a straight path downwards in the last month.
And relatedly, (b) whether I should at least get a second opinion about what to do.
And the doctor in charge doesn't seem inclined talk to me, which isn't a good sign.
If there is no hope of her even becoming conscious again, what's the point? She's continuing to be unresponsive.
@PrabhjotSingh Ok, I could do that. What will you do with it? Look at it yourself? Show it to other people? I also have scans and so forth, but obviously that's harder to send by email.
@FaheemMitha Strange, They have ever read doc parient, doc attended relationship. First chapter of Huctchinson clinical methods, Chamberlain tells about these things.
I just wrote to an old friend in the US whose wife recently died of breast cancer. He isn't really talking to me now (I'm not sure why), but I just wrote to him again.
@PrabhjotSingh Perhaps this particular doctor hasn't read those books.
Seriously though, I don't think standards mean much in Indian medicine.
So, there are two separate things. 1) When you write a command, press space, and then tab, you will be given a list of files/dirs in the current directory. 2) When you start writing the name of a command that is in one of the directories in your $PATH, then tab will let you complete that command's name.
When you say "That however is a very credible reason to do so but aren't they sacrificing the consistency of a rule for the sake it?" What rule are you referring to?
But command name completion only works for those commands that are in your PATH. Since the current directory isn't in your PATH, you cannot complete a command name that is in there. You can complete the file name (e.g. ls exe<TAB> will become ls execfile) but that's it.
@FaheemMitha I don't have it very bad and maybe not at all (self diagnosed). I wash my hands excessively. If I walk by a picket fence I am compelled to touch every picket, etc
AD has nothing to do with this. This is caused by ca breast. Pleural effusion often seen in malignancies. Klebsiella inf is not caused by ventilator. This can be nosocomial. Immunocompromised patients are more prone to infections. Second infection is primarily found in ICUs.
I used to wash them all the time but I've reduced it because it ruins my skin, now I only wash after I use the bathroom and before I eat for the most part
@PrabhjotSingh Yeah I think my hand washing thing comes from my grandfather. He used to always stress the importance of washing my hands and would scare me with all the hair brained possibilities of not washing them
I now believe it's more important to maintain healthy skin flora so I avoid anti-microbial soaps and overwashing
But still when in the act of washing my hands I kind of zone out and rub them vigorously for minutes
@PrabhjotSingh Well I believe my desire to touch fence pickets, etc is a symptom. I also will try to blink every time I pass a telephone pole when driving
@FaheemMitha Yeah it's never really bothered me much. In fact I credit my proficiency in networking to it. When I was working on cisco devices I was so anal about the configuration that I could usually spot errors very quickly when going through the show run simply because I configured everything in the most uniform ways
That's the confusion. Look, a command has this basic format:
$ command argument
When you are writing the 1st word and you hit TAB, that is completed as a command. So the shell will look in the directories in your $PATH for a possible completion. When you are writing the second word, the argument—which is often a file name—then hitting TAB tells the shell to look for possible file names to complete and in that case, it looks in the current directory.
You are expecting to have a command name expanded in the same was as a file name, but the two are different things and work by different rules.
