Wait is the stupid lag in Word because it’s running on Electron now??? That explains so much.
Edit: after a little bit of searching, it looks like it just loads webview2 to avoid having to load it if you open any of the add-in search panels. So the lagginess of new word is just inexcusable.
Ubuntu 16.04, dual booted on my laptop before I knew how much of a hassle that could be! Fortunately, never had any of the infamous issues.
Being landed gentry must have helped in getting your hands on one!
Couldn’t find any near me at less than $200 over MSRP :(
A new iteration of open-source drivers for NVIDIA cards which aims to work better and be more feature-complete. Original announcement post here which explains a bit better.
This gives strong “Lovecraft describing things he doesn’t understand as noneuclidian” vibes.
🎶 Saturday night and we in the spot, don’t believe me just watch 🎶
WELL ACKSHUALLY its a clay tablet, you just press into it with a little stick, then its fired…
Gotta love the low-quality-copper memes
While I agree that publishers charging high open access fees is a bad practice, the ACS journals aren’t the kind of bottom-of-the-barrel predatory journals you’re describing. ACS nano in particular is a well respected journal for nanochem, with a generally well-respected editorial board, and any suspicions of editorial misconduct of the type you’re describing would be a three-alarm fire in the community.
I will also note that this article is labelled “free to read” – when the authors have paid an (as you said, exhorbitant) publishing fee to have the paper be open access, the label used by ACS journals is “open access”. The “free to read” label would be an editorial decision, typically because the article is relevant outside the typical readerbase of the journal, and so it makes sense both from a practical perspective (and more cynically for the journal’s PR) to make it available to everyone, not just the community who has institutional access.
Also, the fact that the authors had a little fun with the title doesn’t mean its low-effort slop – this was actually an important critique at the time, because for years people had been adding different modifications to graphene and making a huge deal about how revolutionary their new magic material was.
The point this paper was trying to make is that finding modifications to graphene which make it better for electrocatalysis is not some revolutionary thing, because almost any modification works. It was actually a useful recalibration for expectations, as well as a good laugh.
Edit: typo
Hmmmm milk is slightly acidic, and concrete will dissolve if the pH is lowered from its normal high alkalinity, so given a large enough volume of milk…I suppose milk would dissolve concrete substantially faster than water would.
There’s going to be a temperature range somewhere between “fridge” and “corona of the sun” where that milk is the foulest-smelling thing in the universe.
I think its because while its under water it doesn’t have a chance to diffuse into a larger volume of air – normally farts are pretty dilute by the time it makes it to anyone’s nose.
My favorite overheard undergrad story:
I was walking past the lecture hall right after an organic chemistry midterm, and there was a cluster of 4-5 students talking about the exam. One asked about question 8b, and another one said “you’re not supposed to mix nitric acid and ethanol, that makes TNT, right?” I had to stifle a chuckle as I walked by.
So close, and yet so far! Nitrated acetone is explosive, and TNT (trinitrotoluene) is also made with nitric acid, but toluene is a much more complex molecule than acetone. If those undergrads could figure out how to turn acetone into TNT efficiently, they’d get a Nobel!
Lol I was trying to play Dragon Age games a couple months ago, and the EA app is so terrible that I couldn’t get them to run on windows. But on Linux in the proton sandbox? No problem, worked right out of the box. 😂😂
Thats Britain lol, Ireland is on the left edge of the frame.
Kvaesito is awesome.
Obsidian isn’t open source, but it’s so solid I almost don’t care…
A big part of the NIST’s job is providing standard samples so everyone can measure accurately. From weights of ingredients, to determining exact compositions of food, pharmaceuticals, drinking water, etc. its all measured relative to a NIST standard. Every scale you’ve ever used was calibrated against a weight that several steps back was ultimately calibrated against a NIST standard. Without a good standard, it’s basically impossible to accurately measure anything.
The Liberation trilogy by Rick Atkinson is also a really good in depth look at the war after 1942. Told mostly from the american perspective, but very very thorough.
Yeah for sure, I read your comment as excusing canonical screwing with user intent but I see that’s not what you meant.
It seems to me that the offending dialog would only be triggered if you did a full fresh install. During the previous iteration of the testing, they probably had a VM somewhere with it installed; since the underlying packages were already present, the dialog would never have popped up.