John BS @johnabs@qoto.org

@neotoy

*me who has always used noble to refer to the lack of reactivity found in group 18 of the periodic table*

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/85/10/2f/85102f12e4a92531c8791a541d8bc993.jpg

@queenofhatred Okay, great. Do you happen to use Doom Emacs or did you make a custom evil config? Also, which emacs version are you running? (Last questions, I promise! Thank you for your help so far :D )

@queenofhatred Glad I could help :D

Also, if you could check one thing out for me if you don't mind: I'm trying to get the "splice" function to work (basically, it just unwraps a sexp by 1 level of parens) and it won't work q.q

I'm *this* close to opening a github issue, but I want to make sure it's not just me lol.

If you don't have time, no worries, I'll open an issue, but I thought I would ask just in case you didn't mind :)

@queenofhatred Hey! Have you ever played with Symex-mode for editing common (and other) lisps? It's a really cool "vim-like" way of structurally editing the ASTs, and I thought you'd like it :)

@freemo @wjmaggos

Replace leftist with "low decoupler" and I think you're about 95% right. And I'm not saying anything about the correlation between left/right and high/low decoupling, but I think that people who can't independently evaluate the logic of an emotionally charged claim are more likely to exhibit this kind of behavior.

@BerLinguistin
Jealous

Here's hoping I can visit via a conference (or better yet, getting hired once I wrap up my degree lol).

@vicgrinberg Thanks for the tip! My wife and I will be visiting this May, and we'll have to check it out :D

@freemo That's only a subset of UK accents, but yes, some people do that lol Here's an good video on it.

https://youtu.be/wDdtdeHZ4pI?t=97

This guy is also an excellent resource on interesting quirks of various dialects of English https://www.youtube.com/@DrGeoffLindsey/videos

@ElenLeFoll @jume @sonjdol

100% agree. What I'm hoping to do is build a distributed journal where "membership" is paid for by owning a machine that stores the data on it for all the papers, and it only accepts papers written via reproducible research methods, with strict data provenance requirements, and publications are based on a solely registered report format, where grant applications (or at least the pertinent details therein) for the project must be submitted with the paper for review as well. All papers would be 100% open access by default with no open access fees, but a small publishing fee to compensate the peer reviewers and editors. Any thoughts on this Journal format?

Rant again:

Journals should be *lean* and non-profits, not these bloated monstrosities that suck value out of academia and continue to incentivize both the publish-or-perish mindset along with shit science that is poorly conducted and often relies on constructing post-hoc hypotheses to "build a better narrative".

As a researcher, I want/need to see all the stupid stuff you tried, even if there was no good reason to try it! I want all the failures until you succeeded available! Everyone knows behind the scenes that good science is like an Easter egg hunt, not a seamless research process that's linear, and by having all these details available to others, we prevent repeated work from wasting valuable resources!

Ugh, I just...I keep getting more disillusioned with academia the more I work in it. Here's hoping the little I can do helps even a small amount.

@jume @sonjdol @ElenLeFoll

Edit to add: I'm working on some reproducible research templates (and libraries in the future) that makes integrating writing, code, figures, etc much easier for academics, and it compiles to LaTeX (for journals) and HTML (for pre-prints if you want)

If anyone is interested in demoing it, please let me know and I'll upload it and attach a Github link. (Unfortunately, it can be extended to include chatgpt and I can't really prevent that, as the framework is built around Emacs, but still, for the honest ones among us, it may be useful).

@jume @sonjdol @ElenLeFoll

Rant incoming, you have been warned.

This makes me unreasonably angry for a number of reasons, and is one of the motivating factors as to why I want to start my own Journal.

This shit is unacceptable, full stop, and frankly these authors should be outright banned from publishing in (at least the current) journal again IMO, and should be put under supervision by their universities or an independent review board. Additionally, the peer reviewers should be made public, and the journals should face severe backlash.

If these leeches (the journals in this case) are going to continue profiteering off the free labor of peer reviewers and researchers, it wouldn't kill their editors to do a bloody modicum of quality control on the garbage they allow to take up their apparently "oh so valuable" server space.

If there are no repercussions for any of the parties involved, this won't improve.

I'm officially down just over 40lbs in 61 days, and I'm feeling great! I still have more to go, but I'm well over halfway to the finish line!

@freemo @trinsec Not with that trivalent carbon you aren't. :P

@astronomerritt I wrote an article on neurodivergence and the lack of neuro-inclusive design. Also, my wife has been officially diagnosed with autism ans adhd, and we suspect I’m on the spectrum as well (and I have aphantasia), though I’ve yet to be formally diagnosed.

I’m more than happy to discuss or link my article (or both) if you’re interested

@mhamzahkhan In that case, I recommend FreeCAD, Shaper3d if you have an ipad, Sketchup, or Fusion360. There are loads of tutorials on the last 3, but they all cost some money. FreeCAD is completely FLOSS, but it's a bit of a doozy to learn and pilot.

Edit: Oh, and if you do MEK/solvent welding, you NEED a respirator with an organic vapor cartridge!!!

Having my first cheat meal on the carnivore diet after losing 35lbs. It's not going to be a regular thing, but man my head has been killing me the last few days due to poor sleep and I need a small break. Wish me luck that I can keep going, I have a bit more to go!

@mhamzahkhan 3d print+acetone/MEK welding?

@iska @stdevel Hmmm. I may need to check this out again!

I've made the transition from i3 to dwm to xmonad, but if this can get me to a dwm/i3 experience with as much stability as (or preferably more than) xmonad, I'll probably switch.

Re-building xmonad on guix is a nightmare, especially when someone changes an abstraction and I have to completely rewrite my config

Does it handle multiple monitors well, and switching between monitors? And can you have multiple workspaces per monitor? Do you recommend anything from stumpwm-contrib?

@freemo

Right, but keep in mind that there is an inherent risk to having a "bad" man interested in you (as in, one who is unwilling to respect your decision if you don't consent to sexual or romantic behavior), so women are more risk averse (on average) in this area than men are, and with good reason since men (on average) are much stronger than women.

So for you touching may be where the line of discomfort is but that may be because you're confident in your ability to put a stop to things before they get out of hand. Now, imagine the woman staring at you was built like a 7 foot linebacker that had poor social skills and didn't understand the word "no", and who had a non-zero chance of forcing herself on you with you not being able to put up the necessary resistance. Perhaps at that point, you would be less comfortable with the staring too, because of the potential implication that it could go further than you want if not nipped in the bud.

@freemo No problem.

As for the question in terms of how she would feel: it depends on if she likes you. And this isn't a woman only thing.

Let's imagine the inverse scenario: you're wearing fairly tight shorts and *insert movie star/celebrity you find attractive here* walks up to you, eyes your bulge for "a solid 2 seconds" and then continues talking to you respectfully. Well, if you consider a lot of factors (e.g. are you married, is she married, do you find her attractive, etc) you'll come to a conclusion as to whether you appreciated the gesture (note this happens in milliseconds and is not a conscious decision). Now, imagine instead of *movie star/celebrity you find attractive* we have the human personification of Roz from Monster's Inc do the same thing. You may not appreciate the same gesture, because you may not find her attractive.

Now, let's imagine that in either of these scenarios, the woman in question asks you "hey, can I look at your bulge for a few seconds"? I imagine most men would respond either internally or externally in the following ways: a) is this a prank? Is she serious? Why would she want to? b) That's a really weird question to ask, and the fact that she did so means I kinda don't want her to, or c) Sure, ogle away. Though I suspect most people would fall into categories a or b.

So, overall, all people judge behaviors, particularly ones in a semi-intimate context, based on how the evaluate the person. If they like the person or are interested in them as a potential partner, this helps "smooth over any rough edges" the person in question may display. However, if a person has already judged you as someone they are either ambivalent towards or actively dislike, this magnifies the impact of behavior that is close to "the line" and may even move the line further away from this sort of behavior.

All this to say: you can't apply the same behavior to different contexts with different subjective personal preferences and expect the same result, so the question is kinda pointless unless you're directing it to a specific individual with a specific target and context in mind.