azimir

@azimir@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re a professor with a doctorate in Germany, the official way to refer to you is Professor Doctor [last name]. If you hold two doctorates it’s Professor Doctor Doctor.

  Professor is also a serious and registered title in Germany. You can’t just start a school and start handing out professorships without oversight and approval.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Citation Ascension⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all about biblatex. I only write using Word/docx if they force me to for publication, otherwise I use LaTeX for typesetting. It’s vastly superior for serious publications, especially technical ones.

  I use JabRef for managing my citation databases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Citation Ascension⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did some work In a field with a total of 6 papers over 30 years. It was niche as all get out. Did my second paper cite the first? You betcha. I literally cited every research paper ever done on the topic, including mine.

  Now there’s 7 papers on the topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need the voters. You need the states.

  We’re about to find out what happens when states refuse to recognize the winner of the Electoral College. Georgia, Arizona, and likely other states are going to fuck the state votes and refuse to certify.

  If you can get enough state reps and congressional reps to vote for you each cycle (as VP), then take over from the sham president, you could effectively be president forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. No it doesn’t. Never has. Never will, and it’s really easy to show that to doesn’t with just a few people and scrambling the astrological fortunes or mis-labeling their astrological signs. It’s all bunk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows just changed the desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t had time to seriously game in a decade now (single dad killed my free time), so I’m by no means well versed beyond a few things. My kids do game a lot and most of them are on Linux machines. They use a combination of Steam and standalone installs to get things working.

  I don’t run into a lot of complaints. They’re well aware that not all games run on their Linux setups, so they pick and choose games a bit more. I’m fortunate that they’re not always jonesing for the latest AAA games, but they’re also getting new ones with some regularity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows just changed the desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also does it so that you no longer hit the bootloader. My one last dual boot machine is normally a Linux setup, but every so often I have to use the real MS Office tools (some collaborator or publisher demands it), so I boot windows. Then windows patches and stops actually hitting grub so it acts like a windows only machine until I fix whatever Microsoft fucks up yet again.

  It’s time to move to a VM for this garbage. I just don’t neet it more than once every other year so I never seem to get around to nuking it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if we’re not immune to how the culture grows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to go with my gut on this one and say you’re spot on.