I had forgotten until I watched the most recent Technology Connections video. he mentioned them in passing and I was like damn he's right

My mod sense is tingling, but it is a Wikipedia article, and it is interesting, so I'll allow it! Still, it's the strangest wiki article I've seen in a while, and clearly needs an overhaul

Haven't had to email a file to myself since I set up syncthing

I feel like other similar expressions have been around for a long time. But maybe was only popularized in that formulation in 2018

Yeah, I think I've heard literally all of my international colleagues use it talking to each other. German, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese...

Sounds like yes, though I'm not an engineer, so reading about it was kind of hurting my brain https://www.analog.com/en/resources/analog-dialogue/raqs/raq-issue-139.html

More journals are including the peer reviews at publication. There is also a site called pubpeer which is pretty much exactly what you're thinking of, but usually only more high impact articles, or controversial articles get comments

I'll take what I can get. So much grim news on this front these days

It's surprising how often they don't comply. I think for while adobe was asking me for a login to unsubscribe, which I couldn't remember or be bothered to reset the password for. They seem to have changed it recently. Maybe a lawyer realized they were exposed to class action

English experienced a fatal recursion error. Please reboot

The melange must flow

There are now 50 million people dancing there

American history is a violent history. I don't think anyone here is reading Trump as being anything like TR, but there are many lessons to be drawn by comparing the political environments of then and now. Here is an interesting non-wiki article discussing some of the comparative history

Heyoooo

Zotero is love. Zotero is life

Mendeley is great for anyone that loves worse software that's closed source and owned by an evil publishing corporation that mines their data

One of my favorite places :) Worked there for a couple years growing clams

Oklahoma man honored to finally be metabolized into various greenhouse gases

Yes, these are all good points that people don't seem to care about anymore. People seem to all want land boats these days

I learned to drive on a 1994 Volvo 740 wagon named Bessie! I was feeling nostalgic, looked at what wagons are on the market these days, sad how few offerings there are. I know crossovers are effectively just lifted wagons, but they don't feel the same to me