I've been to a restaurant once in the past 11 months, for a corporate dinner. We were all express-tested for covid at the entrance and were encouraged to wait till the test stripes developed.
The regular cafeteria in our building is open, with a large distance between tables and hardly any queue.
Of course this is Russia and lots of people ignore the rules, but the choice is yours.
China makes everything, from cheapest poor quality products to top quality products (at a price... but still half what it costs to manufacture the same item in the US). We are all familiar with the cheap end... plastics that break, rough edges, fakes, etc. However if you almost never buy more expensive stuff, you have probably not seen the other half of the China's industrial output. I happen to use a few best-money-can-get class things, and some of them are made in China.
Aside of some orphan accounts in Swiss banks and mafia's suitcases of cash accidentally burned, does this happen often in the normal banking system? What portion of bank accounts are genuinely abandoned unclaimed?
Install colemak keyboard layout. Besides making touch typing more relaxed on your fingers, the default is to remap capslock as backspace.
The keyboard layout works across applications, not just in Firefox.
If you want to remap individual keys in Windows (simultaneously for all the keyboard layouts), you can as well do it via registry. There are little utilities that help that, e.g., Sharpkeys.
I would like this option for the asinine F12 key.
You have misidentified user species. F12 key is for cats. My cat always brings up the web dev tools panel when she carefully walks around the keyboard (she knows I don't like it) but steps on the corner of it just-so-slightly. It has something to do with the average paw size and feline ergonomic distance between the upper key row and screen on MBP notebook.
I wouldn't let an ass use this notebook, though. It has to have sturdier design for the larger hoofs, in the first place.
Why has it taken so long to change this stupid default? I lost multiple filled forms over this shit, until I figured out how to unmap the key.
The feature has been configurable but the default is wrong. Enter about:config in the address bar, then search for browser.backspace_action. The default value is 0. Set it at 2 and the backspace key does not navigate pages. (It will still work as backspace in text fields.)
Being unable to pay for open access only penalises self-funded researchers.
Scientists in India disagree. I submit that you are speaking from a viewpoint which is not valid everywhere, but you're acting like you know better than everyone else.
Declaring resources like sci-hub and libgen to be legal in a low-income country like India would be a step in the right direction, but for wrong reasons. It still costs money to run editorial work in journals, and this money has to come from somewhere. I'm personally happy to subsidise academic publishing in the parts of the world that live on lower budgets. I've heard some publishers offer low-income countries deeply discounted subscriptions, and I have seen options to waive publication fees if the author is unable to pay. Unfortunately I don't know how well this works.
By the way, sci-hub and libgen are blocked in Russia (a medium-income country), where I live right now. I have to use VPN to access them.
There was a time in my career when I would have struggled to pay standard open access fees (in $2-3 k range). However that was at the time when open access was uncommon. Universities still spend a lot of money for subscriptions, one way or another. Departments at many universities get internal incentive funding for their quantity of publications. And, producing a scientific publication costs in excess of $20k in total (and usually way more than that), in salaries and overhead, even if you are a theoretician working at a desk. There is money in the system.
Being unable to pay for open access only penalises self-funded researchers. There are relatively few of them, and nobody can work without salary for long. If I were in that situation today and could not convince the head of my affiliated department to shell out $2k for an extra journal paper in our annual statistics, I would either let my articles stay in arXiv forever (a few important papers in my field are) or go to a journal with low fees. There is at least one such journal in my field, with rigorous peer review but no other expenses. It chardes $100 per article. It has no copyediting and keeps its accepted articles on arXiv. My point is, while the transition to the world with no subscriptions may be a bit turbulent, more economic publishing options will appear and be recognised as legit when there is demand for them.
Making sci-hub legal is going to kill the subscription model, fast. Already I know one research institute that no longer buys library subscriptions, and you know why, because its researchers nowadays can read all the journal articles for free.
I could not care less about the legacy publishing industry. It has outlived its usefulness and should die..
You are mistaken.
Sorry I have not expressed myself fully. The subscription business model should die. The editorial part of the pulblishing industry should continue, funded by open access fees.
This is another self-reminder not to sumbit my research to journals owned by Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society.
What sci-hub is doing is currently illegal. The laws need to be changed to make this legal.
The quality of future scientific publications will not be affected. I could not care less about the legacy publishing industry. It has outlived its usefulness and should die.
In the past ten years, I've had zero problem paying for my publications in open access journals. If all journals become open access I will hardly notice.
(now with a New Year special).
in Moscow and its suburbs sputnik 5 is available for asking to anyone aged between 18 and 60.
The age restriction has been removed today. It's now available to nearly everyone (barring a few medical restrictions) over 18.
Sputnik 5 is currently only offered to people between 18 and 60 years old. A clinical trial for older population is underway.
The age restriction has been removed today. The data has shown it is more than 90% effective in people over 60.
Nearly anyone over 18 (barring a few medical restrictions) can now get vaccinated.
the vaccine queues for you.
Seriously, in Moscow and its suburbs sputnik 5 is available for asking to anyone aged between 18 and 60. I got it two weeks ago. Today my spouse, 45, unemployed, went to the local clinic and had no problem sighing up for the vaccination. It's fun to see how the rest of the world is arguing who should get a vaccine first while the Russian government has difficulty using the available doses.
This is a common practice at many large experimental facilities. International collaborations and collecting the best ideas from the world increases the quality of science. This ultimately benefits the country (or countries) that have paid for the facility.
It's good timing for the announcement, though, after the fall of Arecibo.
Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. -- George Carlin
