John BS @johnabs@qoto.org

@bii @abetterjulie

I can't think of one that neatly encapsulates the idea of the situational separation of the two states. To express the idea in the clunky terms I have on hand, I would say such a pathogen would be "beneficial or harmful depending on the environment/situation".

Idiomatically, it's akin to a "thorned rose" or a "blessing in disguise", but this still refers to something within a singluar circumstance, not two separate ones.

Awhile ago I invented a word for something similar, and I'm going to try a derivative of it here.

The word I made was ambiatives, meaning "of or related to both sides", implying both positives and negatives. It's meant to be a direct replacement to "pros and cons".

For this, I'm gonna use "ambificial": "ambi" from the latin for both, and "ficial" from ficus latin for "making, doing". Thus, a beneficial thing makes something good/better, and an ambificial thing can make things better or worse. (And it's all latin, so I don't feel bad gluing some roots together and calling it a day, lol).

Something situationally beneficial makes something better or neutral under the correct conditions, and something "situationally ambificial" can make things better or worse depending on circumstance.

If someone can find a better (real) word, please let me know because this is gonna bug me.

Quick shout out to CasaOS providing the FileDrop feature (like Mac's Airdrop but for your local network or anyone currently accessing the app).

It's an amazing little piece of file transfer tech that has made me feel much safer regarding certain sensitive document transfers at my house, that's for sure!

@queenofhatred Thank you for the well wishes, I'm trying q.q

(Oh, one more question, did you install via melpa-stable or melpa?)

@queenofhatred Okay, thank you for sending that! Sorry I fell off the face of the earth for a few days, I'm unfortunately quite sick

@neotoy *Edit* How do I inline an image on mastodon, it would have been much funnier without having to click the link

@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