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by qsi 8mo ago
Elsevier editor published his own papers in the Elsevier journal bypassing peer review.
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Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel(chrisbrunet.com)
561 points by qsi 8mo ago|108 comments
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by qsi 8mo ago
Heh. I grew up writing C code and had real trouble adapting to Matlab's 1-based indexing. Much later I tried Python and was constantly confused by 0-based indexing. I don't think one is better than the other but my mind is current
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by qsi 8mo ago
Some of the best ST software came from Germany, where the it had a high market share driven by DTP applications. IIRC at one point the ST had a bigger installed DTP base in Germany than the Mac. There was an annual fair in Düsseldorf, the A
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by qsi 8mo ago
Ah, it was actually STeve: https://ataricrypt.blogspot.com/2024/03/steve.html An application that was more a random selection of tools than a cohesive whole but some people swore by it.
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by qsi 8mo ago
I still have the printed documentation and floppy for Tempus, the editor which I think is the predecessor to the linked word processor. It was blazing fast because it had been written in 68000 assembly IIRC. Even then it would handle giant
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by qsi 8mo ago
Signum! was highly opinionated. It ran on the Atari ST but did its own thing for the user interface. You could access a lower layer of drawing primitives and obviate GEM. In those days multitasking did not exist. There were a good number of
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by qsi 8mo ago
Signum! (don't forget the exclamation point!) was an amazing piece of software. The key to its incredible print quality: carefully hand-crafted pixel fonts with incredible attention to detail. With a 24-pin printer the output beat vect
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Inside OpenAI's Decision to Kill the AI Model That People Loved Too Much(wsj.com)
3 points by qsi 8mo ago|0 comments
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by qsi 8mo ago
Well-written and it expresses a mood, a feeling, a sense of both loss and awe. I was there too in the 8-bit era, fully understanding every byte of RAM and ROM. The sense of nostalgia that can turn too easily into a lament is powerful and re
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Volvo Will Make You Safer with Only a Font(motortrend.com)
3 points by qsi 9mo ago|1 comments
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by qsi 11mo ago
That reads differently to me. The company is doing the letting go. Like letting loose. Or letting fly. It's agency on the part of the company. Letting them see. All of these will have euphemistic overtones as no company will want to sa
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by qsi 11mo ago
Correct. There's nothing vague about "the burglar was shot by me." It's passive but crystal clear.
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by qsi 11mo ago
Cause in this context specifically refers to the employee having done something wrong or illegal and means the employee is guilty of misconduct.
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HSBC unleashes another "qombie": a zombie claim of quantum advantage that isn't(scottaaronson.blog)
1 points by qsi 1y ago|0 comments
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by qsi 1y ago
Data is the plural of datum so using the verb in the plural is arguably not wrong. I wouldn't use it like that but I think in certain Englishes it's acceptable (British?). Some mass singular nouns in British English idiomatically
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Participation in Phase I Clinical Pharmaceutical Research(astralcodexten.com)
2 points by qsi 1y ago|0 comments
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by qsi 1y ago
Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. [0] Virgil. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix,_qui_potuit_rerum_cogn...
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Pre-Sputnik Earth-Orbit Glints(overcomingbias.com)
19 points by qsi 1y ago|19 comments
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by qsi 1y ago
Is that because Brazilian regulations prohibit it? Or lawyers being too cautious?
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Hong Kong Bans Video Game in Further National Security Push(bloomberg.com)
3 points by qsi 1y ago|0 comments
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by qsi 1y ago
The actual problem as explained in the first two paragraphs of TFA and shown in the first picture, is that the light and dark blue sides of the Finder icon have swapped sides. For the first time in its existence of many decades, the dark si
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Designers Do a Double Take at the Lettering on Pope Francis' Tombstone(nytimes.com)
4 points by qsi 1y ago|2 comments
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by qsi 1y ago
This is sad... I've been using Synology for a very long time (over 15 years?) and have been pretty happy with my experience. The one time I needed their tech support also left me with a good impression... This however is a deal breaker
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by qsi 2y ago
That would be a poffer, as the interstitial t is added to words ending in r when forming the diminutive. And no, I didn't know what a poffer was either. :)
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Can We Please Get EV Motors Out of the Actual Car?(motortrend.com)
2 points by qsi 2y ago|0 comments
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by qsi 2y ago
Also from TFA: "Thanks for your patience in waiting for this article! After publishing my piece on EgyptAir 804 in December, I moved half way across the country in a long, messy relocation process fraught with other struggles along the
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The Borda Count Is the Best Method of Voting(marginalrevolution.com)
11 points by qsi 2y ago|1 comments
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by qsi 2y ago
I suspect that mold is not as narrow as you think. I bought most of my Sonos setup over a decade ago and it's still going strong because I never upgraded from the S1 app. It's the newer S2 app that has been horrendous. I would not
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by qsi 2y ago
Just scanned some files and I see a lot of NOPs, sometimes a few consecutively. Any idea why?

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