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I don't know whether his popular science work is plagiarized or not but about his thesis, it seems somewhat stupid To punish him

So many things in physics have to be written in a very specific manner , to convey the meaning of the precise concepts being used. in such cases, it is a very common practice to copy the sentences used before, in order to ensure that everyone understands the meaning in a precise manner.

So then to call it plagiarism doesn't make any sense

One big reason is preparation, people start preparing for tests 2 to 3 years in advance. And the method of testing influences exams used in grades before as well.

So assume 4 years of high school and someone that just came in. They are still preparing for SAT like tests in their first year of high school. Someone in final year of high school is well trained in it. So even though the benefits do not carry, enough portion of incoming students are still reaping benefits of standardized tests. The decay only shows later when batches without any benefits of standardized tests are coming through.

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This system has been merged into OpenBSD base. If you'd like to contribute to openrsync, please mail your patches to tech@openbsd.org. This repository is simply the OpenBSD version plus some glue for portability.

Seems more cathedral than Bazaar to me.

My worst interview: The recruiter forgot about me. Then joined 5 mins late, asking me if we had actually scheduled something.

I said yes, so assembled 3 people 20 mins to listen to my presentation on my PhD work. No questions at the end of the presentation, sent a mail 2 mins later telling me they are not moving forward.

I feel the OP has not seen the poverty before the world was complex.

The complexity is the price we pay for keeping people fed in Africa and India. Having said that Juicero was too much complexity.

Git Is Not Fine 2 months ago

There is No C

Well yes because git was supposed to be completely distributed. You can design a system which has this feature but then it wouldn't be as distributed as git, making unrelated forks second class citizens. It might still be a good idea for tool to have it but it is not strictly a better/worse scenario.

Mutability

I think i can mostly agree to this. I do wonder if people never work in a scenario where they are only committing partial state and not complete state. Nevertheless being able to track and not losing uncommitted state is a strict improvement.

workflows

Aren't worktrees enough here?

The dichotomy comes from conflating the TeX syntax with tex macro system, both use backslash.

The backslash based syntax allows for some really powerful typesetting which is far above anything that exists today. At the same time, the use of backslash-based langauge right to the bottom in terms of macros is what is causing the frustration.

Typst kind of solves that by having backslash based syntax implemented in Rust.

There are two parts of making a slide show: 1. Visualizing what you want to show 2. Finding tools to show it

Developing 1 means you need to start with pen and paper without any pollution from existing tools. You might read and experiment beforehand and use as many tools as possible (including AI) but at least once before you make thr final version you should sit down and just think from scratch what you want to show.

Then you can use AI for 2. Teaching kids 1 is very difficult while simultaneously giving them access to AI since they are too young to develop that self control.

If gitlab makes even some of its current premium features free (mostly around push rules, and merge dequest guardrails), most comoanies will host their own gitlab in a heartbeat.