| ▲ | juusto a day ago |
| Why stop at Claude? Forget computers, bring the good ol' slider projection machine thingie and do super old school. Even better, if cave painting was good enough thousands of years ago it is good enough today. |
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| ▲ | microtonal a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| No need to be so dramatic. There are a lot of things you can do with just speaking supported by a whiteboard with markers. When I was still teaching, I’d do this sometimes. Just do a lecture with a whiteboard and draw data structures and algorithms. It’s often much more engaging than prepared slides. Yes, I know it doesn’t work for every possible presentation, but for many it does. |
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| ▲ | ptero a day ago | parent [-] | | Totally. But today, the room will not be well set up for it, markers may be dry, whiteboard covered in old, settled in diagrams, etc. And half the people dialing in. All solvable, but not in 30 minutes. And for larger work presentations the expectation even 30 years ago was not whiteboards; that is very inefficient. It was transparencies. But try printing those in a pinch. And finding a projector. That's not to say that a key tool outage should kill a presentation (and if it was important, do it early); but it is not a do-not-care either. | | |
| ▲ | clickety_clack a day ago | parent | next [-] | | How does any tech company or team operate without whiteboards? | | | |
| ▲ | microtonal a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's much easier to anticipate dry markers (keep a small stock) than outage of Claude or Microsoft. (Yes, I know that the slippery slope is in jest.) | | |
| ▲ | officeplant a day ago | parent | next [-] | | This is reminding me of a time in school were we thought if we stole all the chalk we might get a day off of Calculus class. The professor came in and looked around for two minutes before shrugging and pulling a fresh stick of chalk out of his back pocket and began writing on the board. This is the same professor who we'd never seen use a fresh piece of chalk ever, he always just soldiered through the nubs and remains littering the board's chalk tray. We had no idea he actually kept a pack of sticks in his back pocket at all times. | |
| ▲ | macintux a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Last time I worked in an office I kept my own private stash of markers exactly for that reason. | |
| ▲ | em3rgent0rdr a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Magnetic drawing boards are also a thing that last forever. | | |
| ▲ | rpdillon a day ago | parent [-] | | Do you have a way to resolve the issue where the surface becomes degraded and much harder to erase over time? I think it's partly due to wear and tear and partly because people try to clean off the boards with solvents that degrade the surface that is erasable. Is there a way to renew it in some way? | | |
| ▲ | microtonal a day ago | parent [-] | | The ones I have usually seen do have some coated steel (presumably because they are cheaper). At home we have a glass whiteboard (tempered glass I think?), which is extremely strong and the surface very smooth. |
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| ▲ | Merrill a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Or whiteboards and blackboards. |
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| ▲ | excannuk a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | thatsabadlook a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Are people seriously so helpless they can't stand up and talk about what they've been getting paid to do anymore? If so y'all need ai detoxes, you arent even people anymore. |
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| ▲ | antonvs 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Standing up and talking is not the problem, it's getting the information into other people's heads effectively. The adage "a picture is worth a thousand words" does have a basis, especially when the subject is very technical. | | |
| ▲ | thatsabadlook 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yea but, you just think about it. Or you ask a colleague to rubber duck. AI usually has really weird takes. |
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