HexesofVexes

So essentially laying the groundwork to microtransactions for video game guides?

Clearly fake - no-one puts first supervisor in their email signature!

I got mine 2 (or shit, is it 3 now) years ago - 10/10 best laptop purchase in a long while.

GPD have done well for themselves in the small screen laptop space!

Lesson 1 - Plot every pair of variables in this file as a scatter plot using Excel. Calculate every pair of correlations possible from the same file in Excel.

Lesson 2 - ggpairs and why R is amazing

1. Shift over to open source.
2. Invest 25–50% of what you currently pay for proprietary software into helping maintain and enhance open source software.
3. Enjoy the economic benefits well maintained free software brings to every aspect of your digital infrastructure at no extra cost.

Quality article - thanks for sharing!

I used to make (very bad) ASCII art as a hobby during my PhD (it’s good for relaxing), and a lot of the “smoothing” I learned but I think the method for good contrast would have really helped back then!

You would also get the best job title ever: “Chief Codebase Unfucker”

What they think these tip lines will give: “My professor is dangerously woke, he used someone’s pronouns today and is clearly some kind of terrorist”

What they’ll actually get: about 1000 variations of “This course is too hard; I shouldn’t have to attend the classes to pass”

Source: I teach at a university and we get a few if these every year; “ghosts” who think that paying a fee magically entitles them to a passing grade regardless of the quality of work they submit.

Agreed, so when are we getting clear glass doors, and can we take all these curtains down?

So, if your field appears instantly/imminently monetisable, then the private sector is an option. However, the wider benefits of your research are VERY unlikely to reach the wider public in your lifetime. Yes, you will basically be working to make someone else rich. However, this kind of grant is very likely to succeed in academic settings as universities love patents.

If you’re doing abstract or fundamental research, you’re pretty much out of luck - the private sector does not want anything to do with this. However, it’s little better in the academic sector because you have to spend almost all your time chasing grants, or teaching topics outside your expertise (i.e. the ones industry sees immediate value in) to survive.

In short, there is a lot of options to finish things (because everyone loves intellectual property as an asset), but very few to develop them (no-one likes to pay for the groundwork).

“I want to make the world a better place at no real benefit to myself”

“Ok, but only if you beg us for the money”

Modern academia in a nutshell

Fish eye is another

Edit: as are both the guy’s eyes

I already use geany as my main DE! It’s got a lot of great features, but it’s not really a notepad app.

Notepad++ is, at its heart, a text editor.

It’s lightweight, can run portably, and has some oddly specific but useful features such as dual window linked scrolling, syntax highlighting, and even allows regex for search/replace which is neat.

You can use it for coding (I use it for short python scripts), but that isn’t it’s main use.

VScode is, primarily, an IDE - not really something you use as a plain text editor.

For those who want to stick with Windows, Notepad++ is far superior anyway.

Oddly enough, Notepad++ doesn’t really have a full featured native Linux alternative (as of my last deep search around June 2025).

Ad allergy - when the API went I tried default and fled screaming into Lemmy pursued by 100 “hot singles” ads.

Good and evil are subjective - the idea behind “humans are a virus” is an implied negativity. Thus the counterexample mapping to a good virus ;)

https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/good-viruses-do

Not all viruses are evil, so it might hold up?

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