Exactly - And there is the interesting part. The typical angry response does not allow for any deviation from the idea that people who work from home are the most competent, most productive employees who will have the world beating a path to their door.

Yes this is true. There are of course some good remote jobs, but not enough. The first part is obviously true. So why not the second part? Well it must be an army of incompetents and quislings like you and I not just standing in their way but actively fighting them.

Certainly some people do work better alone.

It's certainly true that some people can work better alone. And it's also true that some people can figure out what the right thing to work on better alone. The intersection isn't close to 100% though, and I think quite a lot of people can end up working effectively on a task that's not especially important. It's the useless interruptions which can let you know what the important problems are.

Another thing is despite what appears to be the norm on Slashdot, most people need a bit of actual humanity around them. Or perhaps most people are cowed into silence by their histrionics if some dares to disagree. But humans are by and large social creatures. Introversion is not the norm. Nothing wrong with introversion, but there seems to be a conscious effort to force on others these days.

Also introversion isn't absolute in most people.

Finally, a person who wants to slack off ie, a lazy person - will have a marked tendency to love WFH. Just sayin'!

Yeah, and not just that. I've noticed a tendency among a certain sort of programmer to also convince themselves that say upgrading from yesterday's must have web framework to today's must have web framework (while incidentally learning all about today's must have web framework) is really really really important actually so guess what gets done on the WFH days? The big boss is in an idiot you see and doesn't understand the pressing need to update a working, relatively bug free and lightly used end point. So they might be working effectively in as much as writing company code, but not usefully.

Also slackers. Slackers love WFH.

Yes, some people have the need to make shit up

This comes back to your first point about the presumed superiority. Providing counterexamples attacks their presumed superiority so it is equivalent ot a deeply personal attack. So you get the kind of response as if you've insulted their mum or whatever.

That hasn't been my experience

No one EVER replies as quickly by text (I'm guilty too). The in person-ness does some effective filtering. Person not there? Well, wait. Person busy? You may be able to judge if your needs are higher priority and they better be if you interrupt. Every text system I've had always gets a high proportion of near spam which necessitates mental filtering which stop instant responses often.

What you describe sounds a little like that.

Yeah could be. I wouldn't class myself as either introvert or extrovert. I can do and enjoy people stuff but it does completely knacker me after a while.

OOW! This will go nicely with my illusion of choice.

Indeed. There is also a second aspect: This is not a lottery win or the like. It is important that the students actually have the skills or they may just fail their exams later. There is no sanity in trying to litigate your way in.

No? Remember those 32 of 35 Students being provably caught just a few days ago?
Here is a link: https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

So 58'000 cheaters is quite plausible. Also note that these 58'000 students are only asked to prove their competence a 2nd time in person, they are not expelled or denied.

I had some discussion about the "locked down exam browser" in the software used here with my IT Security students. Apparently it is a complete joke and you can just set some OS variables and then run it in a window or a VM without any problem or any detection by it.

Well, this made the news, so, by definition, it is some rare peak-stupid event.

Not everybody is like that. But there is a localized peak in mortality from 16-19 year old people that have no sense.

More like common sense. As in "We are half an hour in and pretty much wiped. Lets turn around." Critical thinking is advanced level and out of reach for most people.

Yes. Parenting failure is pretty much in there. Good parents make sure to show and explain and demonstrate most common dangers to their kids. Going into nature unprepared certainly qualifies. Well, most parents these days do not have a lot of time for parenting and maybe should not have been parents in the first place.

I disagree. The root cause is not AI, but essentially mindless trust in computers. But, as LLM-type AI makes you able to get statements "from computers" on far more topics easily, LLMs make this problem worse.

Funny how you are hedging here and calling them only "hints". Shows a lot. And no, with the wrong query and just a bit of bad luck you can get very dangerous "advice" from LLMs.

Only that this was in Canada.

Yep. I had that suspicion 25 years ago when I was involved a related EU project. All the senior people with actual teaching experience involved though pretty much the same. Most of the others had a no-proof "Technology makes everything better!" mindset, which I found quite problematic. Turns out that intuition was pretty much correct and the senior folks with teaching experience had it all right. (I did not have a lot of teaching experience back then.)

Because the big advantage of Chromebooks is that they are generic and you can even turn an older laptop into one. If it is all web-based, it may not matter that much as well.

Indeed. Nothing new in human behavior, always the same crap with most of them.

And now waste some more. Makes it entirely clear you are dishonest and have no honor.