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by meej 6y ago
Freedom is a great service; I have a "forever" subscription. In addition to blocking apps, it works on iOS and you can manage all your devices, sessions (which can be scheduled), and blocklists centrally from a dashboard in your p
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by meej 6y ago
That Reddit link is a nice list of resources. I'd add http://workingontologist.org/ to it. The second edition of this book is my #1 reference for learning the basics of RDF, OWL, and SPARQL.
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by meej 6y ago
Agreed. I got my MSLIS from UIUC's online program; I enrolled in 2006 and was a member of their 11th cohort, so they had already been doing online learning for a decade by the time I attended. They really had things figured out. Online
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by meej 6y ago
Businesses want wages to be secret and may even adopt policies that ban employees from discussing it, but in the U.S. employees' rights to discuss pay amongst themselves are protected under the NLRA. https://www.insperity.co
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by meej 6y ago
Yes, this. Before my mid-20s, I thought it was just something people said about aging and not an actual phenomenon, but then I started to notice it actually happening. I realized, when you are say, five years old, a year represents a fifth
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by meej 6y ago
I was around 24 when nonlinear perception of time started becoming really noticeable to me, and it's bothered me ever since.
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by meej 6y ago
Right, the joins are in the graph.
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by meej 6y ago
It's the identifiers that make querying Wikidata difficult, IMO. SPARQL is pretty easy, certainly no more difficult than SQL. It might even be easier than SQL since there are no joins.
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by meej 6y ago
The best way to protect the health of the employees who cannot work remotely is for those who can to stay home. It's appalling that your employer doesn't seem to understand this.
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by meej 6y ago
This is already happening! Not quite "severe" disadvantage, but OA papers are getting cited more often. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/home/open-access-papers...
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by meej 6y ago
And yet much of the work of peer review is done on a volunteer basis.
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by meej 6y ago
A similar phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_log
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by meej 6y ago
This is exactly what my doctor in Oregon does. I've never had to deal with a handwritten prescription.
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by meej 6y ago
Wait, where do you live that doesn't require licensing for cats? Licensing and registration is an important intervention for control of rabies and animal overpopulation, as well as facilitating the return of lost pets. Everywhere I&#
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by meej 6y ago
Meanwhile, it looks like ventilators may not be as beneficial or necessary as originally thought. https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/08/doctors-say-ventilators-...
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by meej 6y ago
Apparently so. Confirmed by his biographer in this item: https://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/13614-john-co...
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by meej 7y ago
China has an industrial policy, the United States prefers to leave things up to the free market. https://prospect.org/special-report/industrial-policy-road-t...
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by meej 7y ago
One good habit is to never import using the browser plugins until the page is fully loaded. Otherwise, papers often get imported as web pages with no PDF attachments.
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by meej 7y ago
EndNote Libraries shouldn't be stored in the cloud, either, for the same reason. See the "General Safety Notes" at http://clarivate.libguides.com/endnote_training/home Also, Zotero just revamped the Web
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by meej 7y ago
Tape it to a brick, for good measure.
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by meej 7y ago
I fell in love with them when I took a class on them in Library School, back in 2007. Like many others in the Topic Maps space, I now work mostly with RDF and OWL.
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by meej 7y ago
Oh wow! I didn't think anyone was using Topic Maps anymore, much less with Python! I'm definitely going to have to give this a closer look. Thank you for sharing!
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by meej 7y ago
Don't ever interview at an academic library, then. It seems to be the only way we do interviews at mine, and I gather it's not an unusual practice in this field. That said, I have participated in group interviews when I still work
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by meej 7y ago
I witnessed a candidate ask a question along these lines in a group interview and I found it extremely awkward, because there was huge potential for disagreement amongst the interviewers, and also because this group consisted of people who
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by meej 7y ago
> Publish your article with accompanying data and programs on sci-hub (github for science). How does one publish on Sci-Hub? I would suggest sites like https://zenodo.org/ or https://osf.io/ for self-pu
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by meej 7y ago
Unions might be able to do something about that.
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by meej 7y ago
My therapist (who specializes in ADHD) says the root cause of procrastination is different in people with ADHD. I gather then that the emotional response explanation is likely true for neurotypical individuals but it may not be quite the ri
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by meej 7y ago
These are all part of the UMLS Metathesaurus. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/knowledge_sources/meta... BioPortal ingests the UMLS twice a year, you can also find them there: http://bioportal
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by meej 7y ago
I used a product called Wean Caffeine to successfully avoid the headaches. It steps you down by 10mg every three days. For anyone wanting to quit, I highly recommend. https://www.weancaffeine.com/
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by meej 7y ago
While I agree that I am privileged, I disagree that biking, particularly to work, is. The data bears this out: https://www.vox.com/2014/7/9/5883823/its-not-just-hipsters-o... Some of your arguments ring

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