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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He did though.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never considered that since I’m in cybersecurity, so the oldest paper I’ve seen that is from the late 80s. The majority is from the mid 90s onwards though, and due to the fast moving nature of the field anything that is old enough to have a dead author is likely out of date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He did though.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Paywalled articles are still openly available if you politely email the researcher. While we should strive to have no barrier, if you can’t afford to publish openly those who need the research can still acquire it under the table. Having research unpublished because the researchers could not afford to pay the fee is worse than having the research published in a closed journal.

  I’ve gotten a few dozen papers from closed journals that way, and I’ve never been told no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which software do you mostly use for programming, and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Neovim + LLDB, because I like vim motions and hate electron apps.

  At work I used VS Code with vim integration, or an OpenSUSE tumbleweed VM with neovim, which I “integrated” into the windows terminal. Unfortunately, WSL was not allowed due to valid security concerns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[VERGE] Pokémon Sleep is a snooze⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I find the monetization of this absurd. I don’t see how a freemium style monetization model can work with an app which has the sole purpose of existing while you sleep, and then a little morning summary.

  I really want to know how this app’s existence was justified internally. Was it originally going to bee a free app that had monetization stuffed in it by higher ups?