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Because endowments aren't piggy banks. They're regulated by UPMIFA [1], which states that universiteis can't draw down more than 7% of the total funds in the endowment unless they …

I never answered your last question so here goes: > Are you saying that the reproductive challenge poses a difficulty to Common Workflow Language? I don't actually understand how t…

I can only speak to Spack in particular, but the main issue that I found with it was balancing researcher expectations for package installation speed with compile times. For most p…

I never said that Konrad Hinsen's agenda was hidden; in fact, it's not at all hidden (which is why I linked the abstract). It's just that this context isn't at all clear in the Nat…

There are some efforts in this vein within academia, but they are very weak in the United States. The U.S. Research Software Engineer Association ( https://us-rse.org/ ) represents…

Just as a quick bit of context here, Konrad Hinsen has a specific agenda that he is trying to push with this challenge. It's not clear from this summary article, but if you look at…

Guix is one of several solutions that has been touted as a solution. Another one that is quite popular in HPC circles is Spack ( https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ). At my in…

The COO majored in Music Technology at Oberlin. That's quite a bit more technical than most people realize. TIMARA (the music tech program at the Oberlin Conservatory) involves a d…

I prefer the following: "It felt like a yuppie aquarium." https://www.reddit.com/r/finance/comments/c93agd/wework_isnt...

As others have pointed out, what you're describing isn't a fundamentally new idea or even that revolutionary. You're basically describing a database filesystem. Onne Gortner attemp…

Modern services such as reddit and Twitter effectively usurp the role that Usenet/NNTP and similar distributed protocols used to fulfill, but without the advantage of decentralizat…

We wouldn't have this problem if people just used application-layer protocols and federated services like the early internet.

Resource Public Key Infrastructure, but ISPs are too cheap to actually implement it.

Maybe I'm being obtuse, but doesn't using a configuration management tool to deploy black-box Docker containers eliminate many of the advantages of using config management in the f…

I mean, part of the appeal of the Louvre at least isn't just that you can see the art in the physical world, but that you're practically bathed in it. This sense of being overwhelm…

Just as a bit of a nitpick the Connection Machine: a) Wasn't manufactured by Cray. It was made by Thinking Machines Corporation in the greater Boston area. b) Didn't have anything …

I mean, a lot of the brain is devoted to sensation, so if you don't care about simulating how the brain interprets certain aspects of sensation (motion, depth, vision more generall…

> Science used to be culturally important in the 50s as a way to [beat the communists]. Fixed that for you

It's a bit different in the U.S. in the sense that, whereas in Britain and France most mid-sized cities have decent public transit and municipal services, in the U.S. only a handfu…

The HBR article's discussion of incentives is not really quite what I was thinking of when I wrote my comment. Specifically, the article you cite refers to the well-known phenomeno…

Grad students / postdocs / human lab rats aren't scum, the incentives just aren't in place to promote good behavior (such as calling other researchers out on their bullshit). If yo…

> And yes, I'm definitely interested in doing video As someone familiar with the libraries space, I'd actually be very interested in seeing a machine learning model that could deal…

One of the side effects of the corporatization of modern universities is that pretty much every scientific finding is accompanied by a PR fluff piece and scientific journalists usu…

> Those fields don't even know what their best practices are "Best practices" are a chimera. The issue at hand isn't about what is "best", but whether or not a software engineer's …

I agree that science can't be bound by the rigid structures of most applied disciplines, and that the freedom to combine technologies in novel ways is a pre-requisite to novel find…