mumblerfish

@mumblerfish@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Abstract Ever⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The time around the superluminal neutrino result was crazy. The oddest papers were written on the slimmest chans it would last and their explination would be correct enough for a nobel prize later down the line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiny pocketsies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Woah, hold on there, that is way too much equations for such a small pocket. Surely they must first be put in the differential form notation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ambition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Come on, those are like two things: learn stuff and work out. Pfft

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Open Source is so great...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had that from the start… It cannot distinguish some keyboards, and I have two versions of my layout I have to switch between. All keybords work the same on linux, but mac, nah.

  And updates? Holy shit! They broke ssh! It was broken like a month. Ssh connections just died as ‘corrupted’ all the time. And they don’t hotfix it asap? How can a company trust to use them as a work laptop if they break it and don’t fix it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Open Source is so great...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Slightly worse”. I got a job and was not allowed to use a linux laptop, so I went with mac. I was almost worried that I would like the “just works” aspects everyone have been so exited about. Wow. What a piece of shit it is. Settings items takes forever to load after boot, mouse feels like it is stuck in mud (even if I remove accelleration and increase speed), it cannot wake many monitors up from sleep, it completely disables the keyboard momentarily when activating the screen (and if it fails to wake it, it becomes a flashing, keyboard grabbing nightmare). The window management? I can set up a workspace on this and that keybind, “oh, you disconnected the monitor, well we permuted the keybinds for you” wtf? When I get home and switch to linux, it is such a relief.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Scrolling through I don’t see this tip I was made aware of when going up north: shower in the evening. I’m not sure it makes any significant difference, but the logic seems sound; while sleeing you build up a protective layer of fat on the surface of your skin, face especially. It helps against the cold, so don’t rinse it off in the morning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨critical latex mod⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What are the options here? Can I have them be only visible when printing? Does it mirror itself if I print double-sided? Maybe pdf does not support these things, but to me these are the important questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most powerful brain on Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you! I wanted to make the link to appropriate section and I usually click the section in the toc to get it. But I could not find the toc on the mobile site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most powerful brain on Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… That is not really what was puzzling about mercury. Its elliptical orbit, as predicted by Newtonian physics, was shifting a little each orbit. It was not a trick of the light bending, it actually moves “wrong” according to newtonian physics. He could have just read wikipedia instead of making stuff up to try and sound smart. en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Tests_of_general_relativity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protect Your Dick Data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn. They are automating penis inspection day? What are creeps to do now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sudo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For sudo there is a compile option which taunts you if you enter the wrong password. At least in gentoo that flag is called ‘offensive’. I just imagined another feature to the flag where a guard will show up as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sudo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you compile sudo with the offensive flag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨problem solving⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is called Einstein’s Equation, it is a General Relativity equation describing the spacetime geometry (G) relation to various energy/mass configurations (T) and the cosmological constant (Lambda).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's your problem now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Until the day of the defence…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's gooo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you like mathbf more then at least redefine vec and use vec. Keeps the code more tidy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes bad decisions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Burn After Reading m.imdb.com/title/tt0887883/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes bad decisions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Saw a guy in italy almost ram a cop car atan intersection. I think the driver was running a red light, but could have been the cop running a red. Anyhow, the driver breaks just before the cop car, and the cop on the passanger side just gesticulates his discontent but they just keep rolling on anyway. They could not be bothered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I forget the flags, but I think you can list all formats with the -F, then select the ones you want be downloaded using the id number and the flag -f. and use a + if you want ffmpeg to merge an audio and video track together. Would that help?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The mark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a freckle there, but it is not that freckle. Fake news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tensors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A tensor is something that transform as a tensor. Gtfo Christoffel symbols.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling All Athiests⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is why they can be written really neatly in a relativistic formulation, but look fucked up in a classical one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be an influencer. 💅⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say arXiv would be piracy in the analogy; free, convinient and supported by contributors. Early netflix would be like researchgate; for profit trash scam site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishing Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did get paid for reviewing for a Springer journal though. Next to nothing, but it’s not zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishing Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And sometimes open access costs money for the author too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never skip it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lucky its not a video. It would have been awful seeing all those worms crawl around under their skin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most important map⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess they mean unilever? That is the company that owns that brand at least, iirc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was in academia, my inbox was like 40% emails like “publish your next article here”, " you are invited to conference x", “your article on x”. You get a lot of spam that is generated with text snippets from your work, so it is very targeted. You just have to start ignoring most emails. The other 60% is just work convos from known sources, so it is very easy to separate the two. Or kind of… you could still get an invitation or a review request, but you sort of know peoples names and names of joirnals. I guess its just hard to get by this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the option for some compensation for my reviews. Very little, but still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been the referee for two articles at an academic journal. It said in their agreement that for three or more papers per year you’d be compensated this and that much. But I guess I misunderstood because they emailed me and asked to pay me for just the two reviews. Anyhow, it basically no money. The time you put in to do a proper review is a lot more than what you are compensated for. Your uni still pays your salary, so this is just a bonus, but still, very little. This journal is hosted by a public entity, private ones may be very different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Circle of Life⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a spider in a web right over the fuckin hole in the wall where all the ants enterd. This fucking guy did nothing. Just sat there watching food parade in and out all day all night. Like, come on!