This is so deliciously nerdy

Nomen omen?

“Publish or perish” is an expression that’s been around since forever and it’s well ingrained into every researcher’s mind so…

What did society expect?

(Not so) Fun story: when a friend of mine was doing her PhD she was trying really hard to reproduce an experiment published on Nature by two Harvard postdocs at the time. She was so frustrated because she couldn’t reproduce it, so she approached one of the authors during a conference and he candidly admitted the experiment was utterly wrong, since after publishing it they realized they made a fatal mistake in interpreting the result which invalidated their claims.

They published the original paper honestly, since they were not aware of the mistake at the time, but they willingly decided not to retract it since a paper in Nature is always a paper in Nature and the citations piling up were too important for their career… How about that for the intellectual honesty that scientists project having as an aura?

Anyhow, this nearly killed my friend’s PhD, but luckily she switched to something related she managed to understand and graduated…

That hits too close to home…

I know it’s a meme, but I can’t resist saying that if you check his website out, you’ll see he has all of his books and drafts available entirely for free and he also says he’s agreed with the publisher to cap the book’s price to something reasonable (which used to be true, I haven’t checked now).

He’s also nice in person, if you talk to him!

It’s too bad that the meme is right and his legacy will be not having given solution to any problem 😁

Edit: fixed grammar

Goddamn you, I started laughing loudly and people stared at me. Have an upvote!

Are you me?

Ah, cool! I didn’t know that. Yes, unfortunately the EU is behind both in the tech and space sector: different countries, laws and regulations prevent the same type of agile environment that the US has. Still, it’s important that the EU keeps pushing its programs

This is all very odd. By definition (or maybe what I believe to be its definition), the ESA is a European agency, so is this a new way to allow individual countries for advertisement?

Like rich men can now buy flights in space, countries which didn’t yet send someone in space can pay for one of their nationals to be in space representing them.

Maybe Europe (or the ESA) should develop something like Axiom, but I suspect it to be hard, but perhaps could drive some form of innovation)? Or perhaps they’re already trying and have not succeeded (it’s hard to have the same resources as SpaceX)

Truly awesome and wholesome!

Low does not mean zero, but this is still good news!

Thanks, I’ll check them all out!

So they’re all front ends or apps, they’re not really alternative hosting services!

I have Android on my phone and MacOS on my laptop (I’ve been on Linux for several years, but I unfortunately don’t have time to work on installing it and making sure everything works. Just life changes)

Apologies for my ignorance, but… What are they?

Are they front ends that strip YouTube of ads or straight different hosting websites, which will certainly incur in high costs to maintain the amount of videos posted to YouTube?

I guess I’ve also seen someone mention Piped. Is it the same thing as Newpipe (if you know)?

Thanks!

I guess I’m out of the loop, perhaps because I mostly browse communities I subscribed to, but…

What happened? Lots of spammy bots signing up and spamming the site? I guess I didn’t notice where I was looking

Also, what does application based sign up mean?

Anyhow, Lemmy.World and Lemmy (in general) are growing nicely, so what’s needed to defend them is cool.

Edit: fixed grammar