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Wait, Matthew Salomone is the lead of Klein Four! https://youtube.com/watch?v=BipvGD-LCjU

> Back at the SFMTA, Armando told me the Breda vehicles are being replaced, and with them their destination displays will be swapped for newer LED dot-matrix units that are more ef…

That’s viXra

Once upon a time, editors requested submissions in single-column, double-spaced form because they (or the in-house writers) would actually mark on the printed-out paper. Mysterious…

The deepest compartments (below the waterline) are often like this. It is not always possible for taller equipment spaces (engineering, magazines) in small ships. Crew berthing is …

Can’t speak for the Norwegians but that is not how at-sea watchstanding works in, e.g., the US Navy. The OOD is the captain’s delegate in operating the ship. In peacetime steaming,…

In the modern US military, it’s a truism that if anything seriously goes wrong on a ship, the captain has ultimate responsibility and will be fired. (Whereas before WW2, future adm…

Pure math has a far greater vulnerability to this than applied math. Top journals have impact factors of around 5.0. Respectable but tiny specialist journals can have impact factor…

The issue in all fields became significantly worse as developing countries decided their universities needed to become world class and demanded more international publications for …

Fortunately, medical researchers discovered Tai’s Formula for the area under a piecewise linear function. No calculus required! :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai%27s_model

Well, at least “smearing” isn’t a default choice anymore

Ah, the “financial exigency” escape hatch

I think they mean predatory journals and conferences. Setting up a predatory journal costs nothing, whereas actually holding an in-person conference of any kind costs money. A good…

Have nerdy kids and you can make references to “Romanes eunt domus” and shrubbery again

The pricing is not about the cost of storing and serving the articles. It is partly direct revenue replacement and partly “stick” to get institutions to subscribe to APC allowance …

ACM went hybrid access (optional APC for Gold open access) in 2013. Before that, there were no APCs. As of 2026 authors will pay APC unless their institution pays (by subscribing, …

Everything related to HAMURABI, such as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40953536

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Paravia_en_Fiumaccio

The early 90s were the era of (1) Pentium (2) PCI (3) multiplatform Windows NT. Most vendors switched to desktop/deskside designs based on PC bus and PC components, it would be mor…

The Sumida Hokusai Museum is almost entirely a display of replicas. They are very upfront about being a “learning” museum - they do hold the original prints but display them in rot…