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[–] Jay@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Who will explain the concept of a regular printer to him?

[–] DavidGA@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who will explain the concept of a plotter to you?

[–] Jay@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DavidGA@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or knives! Or inkjets! There are all kinds of bastards, I used to work with the knife variety (huge Roland thingamabobs) and also sell them.

[–] Jay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, I've never dealt with that before. But from what I've read, a regular printer would still make more sense for such a task.

[–] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Benefits of a plotter in this case:

  • easier to align with the existing lines on the paper
  • the ink doesn't look printed (depending on the pen; I would use a blue ball-pen to make text look more authentic)
  • there are pressure-marks left on the paper, you wouldn't have these on regular printers
[–] Jay@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And as I found out in this thread, you can also adjust the handwriting. That's cool. But in the picture, the writing looks so artificial that the person could have used a normal printer.

[–] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

You can plot anything.

I use it mostly to print drawings onto birthday cards.

(btw, I totally agree that OPs results are far from look handwritten; just wanted to stand in for some benefits of plotting in general. If I would try what op does I guess I would try things very differently)

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait shit I just use one as a printer for bigass drawings. I didn’t realize it used a pen

[–] amminadabz@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Most modern "plotters" are just bigass printers. The word used to only mean pen-based vector-drawing machines, but the overlapping use in architechture and engineering meant that as cheap inkjets supplanted the pen plotters they co-opted the name.

[–] ssboomman@lemm.ee 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Teachers are starting to enforce hand written assignments to stop the use of chatGPT

[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Could one not just copy a chat got essay by hand?

[–] WiildFiire@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't jack off, play league, and write your homework with just two hands

[–] SnipingNinja 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why the first popular body mod will be more hands (also you can then designate hands for clean and "dirty" work)

[–] Plswrk@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As soon as we get interchangeable genitals no one will give a fuck about the gender wars anymore haha. Like come on, can't tell me you wouldn't try a vagina on, even the most bigoted bastards must think about it.

[–] SnipingNinja 1 points 1 year ago

For sure. I just suddenly got too many thoughts on this…

Some people might take the "my hand is my gf" meme too far

There will be people with both genitals, no genitals, entirely new types of genitals (I thought of one, a penis which acts like a sleeve vagina)

If we can remove the need for excretion or release it as particulates from our feet, some might replace their butthole with a vagina

(My mind really decided to overthink this)

[–] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That would actually help to learn the subject

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Sounds like a disability act lawsuit waiting to happen tbh. Some of us have very poor fine motor skills or worse and would be severely disadvantaged by having to do even short hand written assignments..

[–] Kolrami@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If someone actually had a disability, they wouldn't have to do it or would be given other accommodations. That's basically how it was for thousands of years before people had word processors.

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, except many schools don't have the tools to properly do such accommodation, meaning that the students with disabilities are inevitably left behind.

Especially the ones like me with hard to detect disabilities such as ADHD who would have to fight tooth and nail to get their disability acknowledged in the first place and then to convince them of the fact that ADHD, while being mainly mental, DOES significantly impair fine motor skills used for hand writing.

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmy accidentally deleted my comment right before I was going to post it, I had to rewrite it.

I've fought for years to get accommodations that I was legally obligated to, (504 Plan) fought with a school, (they were actively refusing to give accommodations, illegally) for 3 years, before giving up and switching schools.

The next couple of schools I tried were not well equipped to provide accommodations, albeit not malicious, (in one case not telling anyone until two months in)

Even after I finally got what I was legally owed, I still had to put up with often writing assignments by hand, (I have fine motor coordination disorder, as the commenter above mentioned), including an entire test. (One of the end of year ones for my sophomore year)

I also have CAPD, which allowed me to skip taking Spanish class, after two years of fighting for it. (I failed the first year of Spanish for obvious reasons, I had to retake it the next year.) (This was at the first school, I don't know why I was able to get this accommodation but not the others, I was in middle school)

[–] ylai@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Germany traditionally is quite shocking in their practice of segregating children with disabilities into special Förderschulen. Whereas the U.S. has the Individual’s with Disabilities Education Act since the 1970s, Germany was basically forced into integration recently after the country signed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2009. And even then, they are taking their sweet time to integrate. See e.g. https://www.aktion-mensch.de/inklusion/bildung/hintergrund/zahlen-daten-und-fakten/inklusionsquoten-in-deutschland as how currently, slightly less than half of German students with disabilities go to a regular school (the Inklusionsanteil).

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

They would almost certainly make accommodations. I saw many such examples throughout my years of schooling.

[–] u202307011927@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

What the actual ...

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun fact, fine motor skills are taught differently in different countries. In some countries, children spend a considerable time improving their writing skills and even the less gifted reach a reasonable level. Of course, I am not talking about children with central nervous system or physical disabilities.

Also, spending so much time on fine motor skills reduces their ability to work in other, somewhat more relevant skills.

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not talking about students who haven't done their cursive exercises, I'm talking about students with disabilities making hand writing inherently much more difficult than for other students, especially the ones who'd have to fight tooth and nail to prove it because their handicap is generally thought to be "only mental" in spite of being more complex, like ADHD.

[–] Jay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but you can clearly see from the result that it's not handwritten. The person could have used a normal printer.

[–] SirAtomic@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This video says it's possible to make it look like a human wrote it.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

If you’re wondering if this is more work than writing the actual essay, we don’t talk about that here.

[–] Jay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

That's really cool

[–] protist@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (26 children)

They want you to hand copy what ChatGPT outputs and turn it in? That's a terrible response to AI. If they want to hold you accountable, they should have you write it right there in front of them.

[–] ssboomman@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

It’s a deterrent, not an end all be all solution to end cheating.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Ok, so hand copy all your assignments from ChatGPT all semester and I, the instructor, will count them as 50 percent of your final grade. The other 50 percent is based on a hand-written final essay written in class. How do you think you will do?

I am old so all of my formal university education was completed decades ago, but people cheated back then too and in my experience it's usually way more effort than it's worth as opposed to just doing the work and coming out with the skills you'll need to be successful at the next level.

That's my dreary little bit of moralizing for the day.

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[–] starman@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Theoretically it could be 3D printer but used like a plotter here.