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by kleiba 10mo ago
Emacs has a number of packages for AI integration which I haven't tried yet. Have you?
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And here I am, thinking I had a unique comment to write. (I too was excited of that old classic being ported to mobile devices.)
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Very impressive. Here are some other interesting google searches: - "world-wide coal consumption by country" - "countries with the most executions in 2024" - "freedom in the world report" - "world press fr
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There are smaller publishers whose fees are a lot lower than ACM's.
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> and this means the amount of actual typesetting/formatting done by journals can only be minimal compared to in other domains This doesn't follow logically, and even though I don't know how it is in other domains, I kno
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> you have zero privacy Is this data linked to me personally in some way (e.g. though an account) or is it anonymous data?
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> e.g., we handle our own formatting I used to work for a small publisher some years ago, and while this is true to some degree, we spent a lot of effort doing additional formatting or correcting formatting mistakes. For a typical jour
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> * Podcast-style summaries of conference sessions Also AI-generated, presumably.
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To understand the academic publishing process better, it's a good idea to look at the four main groups of people involved in the process: authors, editors, reviewers, and publishers. The authors write up their research results. The edi
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This is difficult in practice. For LaTeX, in theory the publisher would simply provide their style sheet (.cls) and maybe some style guidelines, and all the authors have to do is to adhere to that file and typesetting is done. The reason
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OT, but I just noted that https://www.preppylion.com/about-us/ looks strange in my webbrowser because the text has absolutely zero left/right margins...
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You're right, I'm trying hard to practice digital detox as much as I can. Unfortunately, for job and family reasons I cannot give up an internet connection at home, but I have never owned a mobile phone in my life. It often feels
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by kleiba 10mo ago
I think affordability is another factor, as in, it's not always by choice that people rent.
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> The gentleman wearing the ring (presumably the author) ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen_(usability_consu...
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Even 6 K is enough to hold your secret codes, your credit cards numbers, your driver license, other wallet contents, and even some electronic cash. Sure, but does it run Doom?
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Huh, why is that? Admittedly, I only own older appliances, but somehow they don't require updates. Subscription payments? For household devices you own ? I suspect "phoning home" is a good incentive for manufacturers, but wh
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DBLP, the Computer Science Bibliography(dblp.org)
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Interestingly, more than half the population of Germany does not own the home they live in.
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Germany has the highest proportion of rental tenants in the EU(destatis.de)
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Something is wrong with your keyboard.
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> Are there any good robo-vacuum cleaners that will still clean your floor if the internet is down? What do you mean? Why would you need an internet connection for a vacuum cleaner? (Sorry for asking, I've never owned a robot one,
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Sir, yes sir, will do. Later.
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by kleiba 10mo ago
Nothing, you might have misread my comment.
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My biggest grief with wooden utensils replaceing plastic ones and cardboard(-ish) cup lids replacing plastic lids is the texture - I almost shudder everytime these environmentally friendly replacements touch my mouth, to the point that I ea
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by kleiba 11mo ago
As much as this is not surprising, the extent to which China is in the lead (90%, if it's true) is shocking nevertheless. It's shocking because technological leadership gives you a political edge, too. In the free world, this must
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EU ban on combustion engine cars off table, EPP's Weber says(reuters.com)
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I don't know to what degree this is known to people outside Europe, but has been on the news over here for the last few months: > drones aren’t just buzzing airports. They’re systematically surveilling military installations—often
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One nice side effect of a dict that's immutable is that under the hood, you could employ perfect hashing so that the your dict uses a hash function that is collision-free.
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No need to be snarky, a lot of people are already implementing such changes in the way the buy and consume food.
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If you can send and receive email, why can't you run wget yourself?

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