Here's the link to the preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/conten...

This is something that I've struggled with.

FWIW, I use a combination of Foobar 2000 and X-plore File Manager (paid version, because it's that good). The reason for that is that I have some local mp3s, but I also have some on a NAS. Foobar is great for playing off the NAS (although I wish it would cache the songs off the NAS), and X-plore is great for one-offs (local or otherwise). Any suggestions on better alternatives would be awesome as I have tried about two dozen other apps that have horrible UIs, limited features, or just plain sucked.

Finally! I forgot my password, and this is much easier than trying to recover it.

What? They're harassing PornHub?
Why won't someone think of the ... uh... nevermind...

Not like this is a surprise to anyone, but it's nice to get a set of data, rather than isolated anecdotes.

It would also be difficult to tout a report that is a leaflet that states "duh!"

If you cared to do this properly, you would know that studs in house framing are positioned a given distance apart from centre to centre, for exactly the reason why it's pointed out many times in the thread. That way, your house can have your special 2x4s and "trade 2x4's" as well.

All the better to spy on you with...

Once I read "... its proprietary film format.." I stopped reading.

As a chemist, that was the one resource that everyone had.

Unlike software, you never needed to know whether it was the latest version.
However, this is a prime example of bloatware. The thing was so big and fat, it ceased to be a pocketbook. I think the last one I used had a version in the 70s.

If you're not kicking teeth out, you're doing it wrong.

- many years ago, grad students used to use their university webspace to take grainy GIFs of papers (especially for papers that didn't so well with OCR, like chemistry papers) and publish them that way.
- about 17 years ago, I remember there being Livejournal communities dedicated to grad students sharing the PDFs of journal articles (once they became widely available)
- then people just started sharing proxy accounts to get the articles directly

nothing new here, just because it involves Twitter doesn't instill novelty to an old idea.

It's about time everyone had a long hard look at the software in their systems. Are they open enough for you to make the necessary fix should a problem arise?

I am by no means a tech geek, but I have DD-WRT on my routers because I can actually change the things I need the router to do. Disabling features in the interest of making more money in a higher end model is kinda dickish, but when you realize that the same dickishness (pardon the crude grammar) is likely responsible for hardcoded logins, it's a sad state of affairs.

Oh well.

Hmm... sounds like a key party rather than an unlikely occurrence.

It's not Lupus! (for the House fans in the audience)

I may be breaking the fundamental rules of Slashdot, but ...
- the "article" is a single post on a recently created blog
- they misspell "lose"
- a quick google of Brett Wooldrige doesn't bring up anything exciting (a Forbes blog account with no content?)

This is the very definition of "nothing to see here, move along".