mumblerfish

@mumblerfish@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Whats the LaTeX code for that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to get a massive dump of memory stuff off my laptop by uploading it to a torrent? If so how and can I make it private just for my access?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are not uploading, others are downloading. The direction of traffic is the same, but the incentive is different.

  Before torrents, there were services where you just announced “there are all my files just download what you want” and some places had quotas on how much you should make available for download. People were sharing all kinds of random trash and also downloading that trash.

  A joke was – was it on like bash.org? – that you have some file you want to backup, you have to make people want to download it, so you just call it leaked_celebz_nudez.zip or something and it would be downloaded forever, even if it did not work because so much trash was shared and if could help your quota.

  So you’d have to use the strategy in that joke. Make a torrent of your stuff, just encrypted so it is trash for anyone who wants to download it, but you’d have to make the torrent content so imcredibly desireble that even if the comments and ratinfs of the torrents goes to shit, people will still be downloading it in the hope it works. What would be that desireable though, I do not know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of those two in the upper right

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  (But also I just saw Michael Jackson at first)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ooo.ooo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Hi there, sir, I’m on the tour… Where are the toilets… uuuh reads name tag uuuh Mr Trump…?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my peers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reviewer 2 also tags it “minor revision” with a one month deadline just to be able to write another reply with the same vibe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SciHub great, it really is something else though. ArXiv does cover a bit more than just math and physics, there is some biology, compsci, finance, and economy. But yeah, would be lovely for it to branch out. But that is probably also related to how the fields functions. If the fields do not have an open preprint process, I can imagine quite a bit have to change first.

  It is a preprint site, because that is what the researchers need. It’s a great tool to “publish” inofficial books and lecture notes in addition to actual articles for journals. For the public, I see no issue. You can see it right there on the arxiv if the article is published in a journal or not (unless the authors are sloppy), and, you can go back to earlier revisions, to get a more detailed view of what the referees and editors did not allow to be published (implied by the changes made).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cathy, do the math.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what Swedish unions did even more directly. A company hired labour from Latvia I think it was. The union showed up and said that thats all fine, but you have to pay them properly. None of them were members. They picketed the company for the sake of non-members wages. Why? To avoid social dumping down the line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨see the joke is that someone else does the work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  An attempt at a generalized joke:

  • We are recuting you for the GOP. It says here you are a conservative force?

  • Yeah. I go around in circles and do no work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Shared, Then Deleted X Post Absolving Hitler, Stalin and Mao of Genocide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure that at the trials “just following orders” did not work as an argument. When receving an order for participating in genocidal action, you have to not follow that order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are rich expats more likely to pay taxes in sweden in the future than expats who could not afford tuition?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was around when they introduced it. They basically killed some programs because it went from a few students to none. Because why would you pay for a Swedish uni noone heard of instead of a bit more for a famous uni. It was a stupid policy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conferences⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my PIs when talking always mentioned the people he worked with and their job status. So he’d basically

  this work was made in collab. with all of these… The names in Black are permanent, ignore them, the ones in blue just got new postdocs, they are ok for now. The names in green: they will be applying! Keep an eye out for them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That explains a lot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they drop “analogue” or “simulated” from the title?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My chemistry professor after explaining that helium is colorless, odorless, non-toxic, and inert [Day 67]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a bit of cheating, speaking as a phycisist. We say “if we add enough energy to system X thing Y will happen” about almost everything. :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nostalgic, thinking of the bad times while living the worse ones.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For any time t with worseness w(t) there exists some time t_0 < t where worseness was less, w(t_0) < w(t). Proof: duh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Abstract Ever⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Open Source is so great...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sudo⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you compile sudo with the offensive flag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨problem solving⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Until the day of the defence…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's gooo⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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