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  • Additionally, you can find the preprint of many articles for free (e.g., arXiv). Not the exact article, but often very similar.

    (Only tangentially related to the meme, which is about publishing costs.)

  • For the Spotlight issue, was this certainly a local change without consent, or was it a change in the way the query is processed on Apple's servers?

    There is functionally no difference but it's a big philosphical difference.

  • One of the real downsides of ARM is, it seems, the relative lack of standardization. An x64 kernel? It'll run on most anything from the last ten years at least. And as for boot process, it's probably one of two options (and in many cases one computer can boot either legacy or EFI).

    ARM, on the other hand...my raspberry pi collection does one thing, my Orange Pi does something else, and God help you if you want to try swapping the Orange kernel for the Raspberry (or vice versa)!

  • I did this in undergrad. Campus security stopped me, I argued, he called his supervisor on the radio. We chatted for a while, and turns out he was from Venezuela, had studied what I was studying, and was an overall pleasant character. Supervisor response was basically, "wow college kids think they're really clever don't they?", and I was asked, politely, to cease.

    I felt like a bit of a dick after that.

  • I think this is the real question.

    Did they quit and join a competitor who offered a better WFH option? Or did they get a taste of the good parts of white collar pandemic life --- no commute, flexible hours, work from anywhere --- and decide that actually, their entire identity is not just their professional life, and maybe they should retire to see the world/spend time with family?

    There are definitely some high profile rage quits over return to office, but I think there are a lot more of the "hey this was fun but time to take care of myself" quits.

  • The headline in the linked article says something which is patently and demonstrably false. That's my only point. Yes, it's "just the headline" and we all should RTFA all the time, but still --- it's a factually incorrect statement. (Had it been, "...Isn't Telling Us The Whole Story," that would have been nice --- it's a matter of opinion still, but it's not patently incorrect.)

    From the linked article:

    Israeli officials just rejected a cease-fire deal that could have brought hostages back because Israel wants to continue waging war. This should be a scandal — but American mainstream media isn’t reporting on it.

    From the AP article:

    Egyptian officials said that proposal called for a cease-fire of multiple stages starting with a limited hostage release and partial Israeli troop pullbacks within Gaza. The two sides would also negotiate a “permanent calm” that would lead to a full hostage release and greater Israeli withdrawal out of the territory, they said.

    The linked article is very much an opinion piece. Claiming "Israel wants to continue waging war" is an opinion, and yeah, it seems pretty obviously true, but "Netanyahu wants to hold on to power, and waging war is his surest bet" is another valid (IMHO) opinion. But again, opinion, so at some level it's a matter of taste (my point really is that ascribing motive to someone or something is getting into the opinion business, no matter how obvious things are). But to claim that the "American mainstream media isn't reporting on it" is pretty disingenuous.