ranzispa
@ranzispa@mander.xyz
- Comment on Walls within walls 13 hours ago:
I have seen that, but did not understand how to sign up.
- Comment on Walls within walls 2 days ago:
Yes, much better than the alternative system. Look, I found a cool article about a topic. Let’s open it on the publisher website. Oh I need access for this, let’s login. After login I still have no access and get redirected to institutional login. Get back to publisher, now I have institutional credentials, but need to login again. Finally done!
Your institution does not have access to this paper.
- Comment on Whoops! 2 days ago:
I don’t want to be guy who needs to read the NMR spectra of this stuff.
- Comment on Walls within walls 2 days ago:
This is talking about scientific papers. Stripping JavaScript does not work, you need authenticated and paid access to read those.
- Comment on Walls within walls 2 days ago:
I know people who get 12,000€ for a year long research project which includes employing other part time people. I doubt they can pay for open access.
However, the submitted version is yours to do whatever you want; please host it on your website or wherever it may be simple for you.
- Comment on Walls within walls 2 days ago:
Happens often to me. I know nobody in research who would care about it. Most people will likely congratulate you for not paying for access. Nobody likes the way journals do business.
Fuck you Elsevier.
- Comment on Walls within walls 2 days ago:
Papers in Anna’s archive are mostly from sci-hub. There’s something not available on sci-hub, but not much.
Real problem is that sci-hub was the organization doing the archival on large scale and it is now dead.
- Comment on Walls within walls 2 days ago:
I like to keep the submitted version after review but without editing on my public repositories. Even when I publish open access.
- Comment on Walls within walls 2 days ago:
I’d rather use sci-hub than institutional access when the article is available. Fuck publishers.
Really hope someone comes up, recognizes how much public research money is wasted on this bullshit and sets up a public publisher directly funded by research funds which allows people to publish and read freely.
- Comment on Seafood!!! 1 week ago:
Did they have dedicated cat food before WWII? until recently I was convinced people were just giving their dogs and cats their scraps. With cats possibly not even giving them the scraps and just letting them go hunt.
- Comment on There is a heat wave going hard, please stay hydrated 1 week ago:
Sorry, this is not about you; just a reflection. I’ve been in the US a couple times and I got my positive and negative impressions. The more I learn about life in the US, the less it feels like a desirable country to live in. Not talking about the current political situation, just how life works and quality of life.
- Comment on There is a heat wave going hard, please stay hydrated 1 week ago:
Sorry you live in a place where tap water is not good. Wherever I lived, except china and India, tap water was always better than bottled water.
- Comment on There is a heat wave going hard, please stay hydrated 1 week ago:
One sip of water. 3/4 liters of beer, sorry one more glass of water would cover my daily consumption for the next 3 days and I don’t want to spoil that.
- Comment on Survey says... 2 weeks ago:
Mosquitos, all of them. Ecosystem will equilibrate eventually and all will be fine.
- Comment on The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. 2 weeks ago:
Stuck at thermodynamics and can’t even see statistical mechanics at the top of the hill…
- Comment on Ascend 2 weeks ago:
Don’t know about you, but buffet is a terrible way of eating.
I much prefer those conferences where a meal in a restaurant is offered and then everyone gets drunk and young researchers end up talking about their posters at 4 in the morning in a night club.
- Comment on Wiley Coyote 2 weeks ago:
Fuck publishers, the only reason I go along is that it is necessary for my career. If I could I’d publish everything on my own website. You’re very welcome to ask me for any paper I published.
- Comment on Wiley Coyote 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately not, Anna’s archive has got some which are not on sci-hub, but not much more
- Comment on Can someone make sense of this chemical? 3 weeks ago:
Why are resonant bonds pictured as double bonds? I can not make sense of the molecule as it is pictured.
- Comment on Guerrilla plantfare 4 weeks ago:
It does not take hours to change a law, but it is very quick to ignore a law and mow down a field. Now, whether the law will prevent them from doing that is a different thing. Someone would have to notice that they’re going to build in a protected area, notify the police and contact them officially to notify the error.
At this point they may still ignore that, then you’d likely have to start a trial. If you’re lucky and you start the trial before they mow down the field, they’ll likely agree they made a mistake, pay for your lawyer and move to the field besides.
There’s no need to change a law to fix something as simple as paying a couple lawyers.
- Comment on Well said 5 weeks ago:
This researcher clearly eats fries too often.
- Comment on Proof that math is real 5 weeks ago:
We square?
- Comment on Arxiv bans slop 1 month ago:
Indeed, you should trust the other authors but that is the whole point of the response in the original post.
- Comment on Arxiv bans slop 1 month ago:
It’s quite common in interdisciplinary papers that some of the authors cover a part of the paper in which they are expert while others cover another part.
It is uncommon in those cases for all authors to read all referenced papers.
- Comment on Mint 1 month ago:
Unless all you want to harvest is mint, it’s not a good idea to plant mint in the ground. It takes over the whole field.
- Comment on They got us by the balls 1 month ago:
- Comment on All mixed up 1 month ago:
In Italy “Non dare da bere all’acido”
Do not pour a drink to acid.
- Comment on baby blues 1 month ago:
In Italy a pizza is a pizza. Size can vary a little bit restaurant to restaurant, but no way you can ask a different size pizza than the one you’re being served.
Some places may offer slightly smaller ones for kids, but that’s quite uncommon.
As you can see, this is not at all a reliable way to communicate sizes: I have no way to decypher how large a large pizza is.
- Comment on I got 99 problems 1 month ago:
That’s just because you didn’t start looking in the smaller problems yet.
- Comment on baby blues 1 month ago:
What is large pizza? The only size of pizza I know is pizza. How many seats does the school bus have? That can easily change by 15 meters.
