valid4life's comments

R.I.P. - too soon.

I use a wall street canyon NUC to run proxmox (hypervisor), portainer (docker management), pteradactyl (game server hosting panel), pihole (moving off the big point of failure soon :) ), and a handful of random things here or there.

It's been great so far, fans aren't too loud, power consumption isn't killer and there's ton of headroom still, assuming no modded minecraft server taking my ram.

I love using the official copilot plugin with neovim. It has easy rebindable keys and a pretty nice set of features.

As you said though.. It won't compete with 1st party love given to VSC. For example, I have no idea if "neighboring tabs" is a feature in neovim.

It's almost embarrassing typing this but growing up as a "leet cod3r kid writing c++" I used to be a Scratch hater. It didn't dawn on me until much later that the RPG Maker VX I grew up with was just a different version of Scratch and visual programming :)

Keep kicking ass Scratch!

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I did turn the offer down because I didn't feel comfortable with it. I may not be 100% for this strike, but I would not want to be apart of that. I really appreciate your responses here as it is illuminating many things I hadn't originally considered. The TA's clearly have way too many responsibilities for the pay they receive. I just feel like undergraduates are really getting screwed when there has to be other methods... Of course, I have never considered them so what good is it for me to say that lol.

I don't think it is that simple. Associated materials that I am paying for? Additionally, as another commenter mentioned there is an administration aspect no doubt about how crazy it is TAs even have this power in the first place.

_Mad_ is not the word I'd use in this situation. Ive been here long enough to just roll with the punches through every strike. I am just trying to talk about it, but it seems its easy to assume how others are acting.

The aggressive rhetoric this topic brings out like "open up your brain a bit" really is helping no one, including the strike and its cause.

Me along with other students who did well on exams + assignments that were graded and given out before the strikes really gained traction.

Thank you! Been a lurker for a long time now at the suggestion of a coworker. I felt like a could contribute a different perspective in this thread so I made the account. Appreciate the work you do moderating!

You're absolutely right in that they have the resources to get these graded. Another comment I posted down below describes my grade situation and how I've been asked to help grade (for pay). I imagine in six months time I'll have my grades, but the wait is absolutely wrong. Other students are attempting to graduate, but their requirements are not met because of withheld grades by their TAs. Can they afford another quarter or two while the UC gathers new graders? Who knows.

> Name Calling

I did not mean to come across this way or call you any names - can you point where I did so I won't repeat it?

My skin is plenty thick, and this back and forth isn't meant to be whining. I'm just curious about your approach to this and it is fun to hear others perspectives, especially on such a polarizing topic.

I'm a little perplexed on this reply to be honest. How is this constructive? I'm open to hearing how you think I can improve and help me understand how my attitude is reactive or poor.

For many classes, grades were withheld and then released as the TAs did not want to lose their jobs. My TA was not one of them. For a class that needs tests graded, this isn't as much of an issue, but in my case, the class is a Distributed Systems course and the projects we built are quite extensive. My professor reached out to me and other high scorers in the course requesting us to recreate the grading infrastructure as he believes our true grades will never be received from our fired TA. I took the course as a letter grade class, but currently it is marked as a Pass/No Pass which conveniently is not allowed for major courses. It will be a fun time talking to the advising people on campus.

I agree that striking when its convenient is worthless, but at the same time, I have various emails from my direct TAs and the COLA organization as a whole mentioning the intent is to not harm undergrads, but here we are... Additionally, I'm not sure where youre getting the students are "entitled". I work and take loans out in order to go to this school, takes classes, and receive my grades. Am I entitled for wanting what I pay for?

The administration is not withholding grades, the graduates are. I understand that they're doing it as a result of the administration, but why are we (undergraduates) sitting in the middle taking heat from both sides?

I'm happy you would be out there striking as thats your right, but to call me entitled is a tad bit much no? The response on the UCSC subreddit is similar - youre either entitled or a bootlicker if you don't join the cause. I am unsure how that is supposed to make me support the cause?

I'm an undergrad at UCSC right now and have found the entire strike to be more detrimental to their cause. They've lost so much undergrad support after disrupting a STEM midterm and shutting down campus causing us to miss the classes we have paid for. I even lost my grades last quarter as my TA was fired ( of the 54 ) and he has refused to hand them over post firing. What it has done to the undergraduates is a little ridiculous and I felt for them in the beginning, but the strike has made me be a supporter against them unfortunately.