Sloogs

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

I think even for people that have studied a fair bit of math a lot of it is difficult to parse. Which I guess is fair. An encyclopedia is meant to be a reference and summary of knowledge, not necessarily a teaching tool. I think it still makes an alright guidepost for something, which I can then use to find learning materials.

Oh absolutely. I agree. I don’t think anyone’s disputing that something about it needs to change. Even given that things cost money to run, for profit journals that can basically act as gatekeepers means there’s also going to be excessive price gouging and profiteering and that needs to change.

Surely there has to be a cost to the infrastructure of publishing and curation though. And possibly all the work of setting up and organizing the peer review process. So they probably charge the institutions or authors submitting the paper instead of their readers. But perhaps we should treat scientific journals as a public good, like libraries, or at least have a publicly funded option. Or have universities and institutions fund it for the public good.

That helmet is taking pompadoured bosozokus to the next level

How often are you dudes changing SIMs? I only ever do it when I get a new phone, and they always come with one.

I find it hard to ignore the text as my eyes always seem to want to gravitate towards it, so prefer to turn it off so I’m more focused on the scene itself. So yeah, I usually turn em off.

I kind of don’t want Linux to become mainstream tbh because then corporate enshittification becomes a much more real threat.

Refers to system uptime in the IT world. Six nines means your goal is to guarantee that your systems are up and available 99.9999% of the year. So basically no outages for more than ~31 seconds in a year.