I have it installed on a few of my machines but don’t really find it that useful. But then again that’s specific to my needs and usecases.

epic pwned

Potentially unpopular opinion: a bunch of rust replacements for the common terminal utilities: eza, bat, dust, fd, helix. Also fish and nushell, yt-dlp, and some of my favorite programming languages.

I might be the only person who prefers the original

People are very reluctant to admit they’re wrong in general. If you then have an emotional connection to the topic, even more so.

sound is vibration

You are so close. bzzz is not any closer to the buzzing sound than the japanese buu

elementary os in 2016. I still use eos on my desktop machine, mainly because it’s kinda ubuntu but not quite. Running Fedora on one of my laptops, the rest are running macos

Do you still have native-level pronunciation and grammar skills in Cantonese? Forgetting words is one thing, that happens, and words can be relearned. I’ve lived abroad for 5 years now in my 20s, and even I’ve lost some vocabulary in my native language.

If you no longer know the grammar or the pronunciation well, then it’s a more legitimate question if it is your native language anymore.

Either way, you are some sort of bilingual. In fact, some people grow up like that where I come from: with two native languages, one of which is oftentimes stronger / more eloquent due to education, social life, etc.

insane

I used this a while back, it was pretty straightforward https://github.com/nathanlesage/local-chat

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This made me look up “whole word reading”, and it just made me irrationally angry. To be fair, English isn’t my native language and I don’t have a recollection of learning how to read, but “whole word learning” sounds insane. But like… Why would you do that if you are using an alphabet?

Immune to marketing? Or unable to be sold

Nepotism is usually restricted to familial relations by definition, but networking can work in a very similar way sometimes. I.e. lead to unjustified hiring decisions. I guess the more relevant questions are: was it fair and are you qualified to do the job in practice? Instead of whether it technically falls under nepotism.

An exponent between 1 and 2 would be better than either.

Sounds uniquely american. Is it?

not the end-all be-all like a literary author

I mean they do say publish or perish. But technically you are correct. And there are some teaching-heavy jobs too. Also I don’t really care about the people who are at the top of academia.

I am also not sure how you can look at the deals publishers and journals make with colleges to ecosystem lock students with things like portal codes you can only get by buying the textbook/resources new from the school and think that the loss of IP protection would do anything to the publishers besides remove the cost they pay the authors. It’s already a scam/racket, and that won’t change without legislation making that illegal.

Absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. I guess it depends on the country. Here, a lot of students pirate their books anyway. Personally, I didn’t buy a single book during my bachelors/masters.

EDIT: but I think we’re getting two things confused here, journal publishing and books. Journal articles and conference proceedings is the thing I wanted to concentrate on because that is the weird edge case where the standard IP / author compensation approach doesn’t apply.

Books within academia work mostly in a similar way to other book publishing, and of course people who are currently making money out of that don’t want that to stop. Which doesn’t mean they’d be worse off without IP based publishing in books in the long term either.

I appreciate the comment. Seeing that a system of publishing can work without authors being paid via IP does make a difference. In the short term abolishing IP laws might be bad, but we could replace it with something better, like a UBI, grants for authors, crowdsourcing, and other sources of funding.

And to be clear, we are not living under a UBI. Academics notoriously have to fight over the limited funds that are available to them. Some do need to find other work. Still, nobody is really advocating for an IP-based model. Because it’s not better.

in a IP-less world they would still act the same and use their size to capture the lion’s share of the market.

This one I don’t agree with at all. The journals only exist because they can force people and institutions to pay money to get the articles. They would collapse without IP laws. Their power is already decaying due to Arxiv and sci-hub.

I write scientific articles for a living and i dont give a fuck about some corporation making money off of them. What I do care is whether people can access my articles in other ways too, that’s why they are on Arxiv and ill email them if somebody asks.

If somebody wants to pay for a printed copy or an Elsevier typeset that doesnt concern me in the slightest. And I dont think it would any other author either if they had a decent income like i do from the uni