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by btrettel 7y ago
Yes, I frequently encounter references which have no DOI and often aren't even online. A system which is based entirely around DOIs is going to be of limited utility to me.
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by btrettel 7y ago
Which browser are you using for the Elsevier trick? This doesn't work for me in Firefox. Edit: Middle click doesn't work for me in Firefox, but opening in a new tab via the right-click menu does.
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by btrettel 7y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. My laptop only has enough space for one drive, and I assumed that SSDs wouldn't have enough space for my needs. Glad to see that's not true at all, in fact, I can upgrade the space considerably. I&#x
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by btrettel 7y ago
I don't save tabs. My laptop is from 2015, but not terrible. I use Xfce on Linux. Firefox was a fair bit slower before I upgraded from 4 GB of RAM to 12 GB.
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by btrettel 7y ago
I actually used to run Firefox from a RAM disk back in 2009 or so. I'll give it a shot again, thanks for the suggestion.
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by btrettel 7y ago
I don't save tabs and have about 10 addons. I'll try to see if any of them are the cause. Edit: I should note that Firefox is only slow on the first opening after a cold boot. Firefox is fine after that. Might be some caching issu
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by btrettel 7y ago
Here's one personal irritation on this subject: Programs which appear to be fully loaded, but don't allow you to do anything for a while. I'm solely a Linux user now, but I recall that Windows would do this before I stopped u
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by btrettel 7y ago
There are many programs to automate that, e.g., I use g3data. Unfortunately raw data is still rarely released today. One tip if the raw data wasn't released as a computer file: Look for a dissertation associated with the journal articl
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by btrettel 7y ago
I'm not an expert on optics, but one thing I remember from my high school photography class (using film, perhaps dating myself a bit) is that smaller depth of field basically requires a large sensor. I guess you could imitate this auto
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by btrettel 7y ago
I'll probably be moving to the DC area in a few months. (I'm originally from there, live in Austin now.) I'll send you an email.
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by btrettel 7y ago
My high school gave all students Gaggle email addresses 10-15 years ago. The account was used as part of an assignment in a computer class to send some emails, though I think the teachers expected you to continue using the account for perso
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by btrettel 7y ago
I set up this forum a while ago: https://www.indiesciforum.com/ But I got busy and never launched. I guess this is the launch then? Feel free to join, post, etc. I'd love to discuss this with like-minded folks.
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by btrettel 7y ago
The inability to make long-term investments is a major reason I don't intend to stay in academia after my PhD. Government and corporate labs don't seem better in my view either. At present my plan is the following: Keep the amount
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by btrettel 7y ago
Austin cyclist here. My daily commute is about 4-5 km in total. When I get groceries I'd probably travel about twice that distance in a day.
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by btrettel 7y ago
Cyclist here. I've told people that this can be true in the US as well (taking the exact same route even). I picked my current apartment because it has a relatively short bike commute. Going from my current apartment to where I work ta
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by btrettel 7y ago
I agree that those maneuvers are more dangerous, but they're talked about less often than red light running in my experience.
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by btrettel 7y ago
I've looked at the statistics and cyclists don't break the law significantly more than drivers do. Drivers break different laws that are socially acceptable to break, like speeding. About 2/3 of drivers admit to speeding: ht
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by btrettel 7y ago
Here are some examples of what I'd like to see a neighborhood watch organization do: Proper investigations of crashes, near crashes, and violence against cyclists. The police generally don't care. Keeping statistics. Those Twitter
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by btrettel 7y ago
I've been thinking about starting a cyclist-oriented "neighborhood watch" type organization because the police don't do much anything about violence against cyclists, much less more "minor" issues like parking
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by btrettel 7y ago
I've started blocking delivery truck drivers back. I'll stand directly in front of their passenger side door to block them from returning to their vehicle (not touching their vehicle). Some drivers seem really irritated to have to
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by btrettel 7y ago
This is a huge problem in Austin. There are certain protected bike lanes that I won't use because drivers have no visibility and won't yield to cyclists anywhere near as often as they should even when the visibility is good.
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by btrettel 7y ago
I could have written this comment. I tried awesome around 2012 for a while but found that I didn't like it. My tastes and habits have changed substantially since then so I might try awesome or another tiling WM. Before I used Gnome I u
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by btrettel 7y ago
I started having the exact same problem when I bought my latest Dell laptop. This was infuriating at first, but slowly I got better at avoiding the problem. (Still somewhat infuriating at times.) Periodically I'll disable the trackpad
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by btrettel 7y ago
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this bot. I'll keep your offer in mind.
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by btrettel 7y ago
I've had the exact same problem before. I used to run an old forum that's now just an archive and I've been really meaning to download all the images linked in the posts in case they go offline. At some point during the forum
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by btrettel 7y ago
If I understand you right, you're suggesting that I get Thunderbird to process the mbox file by moving it into another folder. Reasonable idea, as hypermail seems to work on mbox files generated by Thunderbird. I'll give that a sh
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by btrettel 7y ago
About a decade ago I archived many Yahoo Groups I liked with yahoo2mbox. No idea if there are any similar scripts now. I tried using hypermail to convert some of the mbox files into HTML so I could post them online, but for some reason hype
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by btrettel 7y ago
Whoever decided to make cars beep when you lock or unlock them did humanity a disservice in my view. I don't think the small benefit of helping the driver locate their vehicle outweighs the shear number of times that has woken people u
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by btrettel 7y ago
> While it's not a dichotomy, who will be seen as "better"? Someone who spent tons of time to write reproducible clean code with tests, tracked down all minor details and pondered about things that may change the results b
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by btrettel 7y ago
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD, of which climate modeling is a subfield) actually does software testing better than other scientific fields in my experience. That's not to say that all CFD models are well tested, just that they&#x27

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