Notices by Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im), page 4

@ryanhoulihan Nah, it's not an illusion. Putin's 17.4m #brexshitters voted to fuck up other people's lives and got exactly what they wanted. (So they are no doubt deliriously happy now.)

@ryanhoulihan Conservatives have a *lot* to offer people who are fundamentally haters and who get off on seeing other people's lives fucked up.

@drj It's an awful long time ago that I wrote any 68000 assembler - this was during the development of the QL which actually used a 68008.

One booby trap I seem to recall was to do with moving more than one byte at a time via an A register used as a pointer and containing an odd number. Didn't work at all, but I have a vague feeling that this got "fixed" (at the cost of additional bus cycles) in later processors?

@f4grx @drj It was then, but I have a vague feeling that the 68010 or 20 allowed odd addresses. At a performance cost.

@bekopharm @milgrim Only a very basic understanding of fluid mechanics is needed to realise that if the number of lanes on the road drops from two to one due to roadworks/construction what's needed is for everyone to drive TWICE AS FAST through the narrow bit, that way there's no queuing.

@milgrim @cleatsandcode @davidho But drivers know that the bollards must be wide enough for normal cars, so all they have to do is miss the driver's side bollard with the driver's side wing mirror by a couple of cm, and be driving straight, and they haven't got a problem. There's no need to worry about the other side of the car.

@georgetakei "The Christian Right is on the march."

There is no such thing as "the Christian Right". You can be Christian or you can be a fascist, but you can't be both.

Anyone who claims to be both is lying. They may be mostly lying to themselves, but lying they are.

@GreenFire @carstenfranke @thomasfuchs I drove through the sea once. Hawaii. The road went through a mangrove swamp and a section of it was under water.

I stopped and waited, wondering what to do, until someone came the other way and I could see that the water was only a couple of inches deep.

@petergleick Nobody did anything after New Orleans. Expect the same again.

@kaia Both forrin imports, of course, neither being European.

@atomicpoet What I mean when I say "algorithm" is the definition I learned as a student: "a procedure that terminates".

@Marekgluza @FediThing @petersuber @scipost @quantumjournal So why doesn't everybody just use those publishers? - there must be a market for the others or people wouldn't pay!

@petersuber "So who pays?" I wondered.

So I read the article.

Which doesn't answer the question.

@FediThing @petersuber The research, yes, but not the publication. The article appears to say that funding the publication is still an open question.

@FediThing @petersuber Um, yes? Publishers have staff who, like anyone else, expect to be able to feed their children and pay their mortgages.

@FediThing @petersuber

Depends.

If a researcher decides that they don't need or want the things a publisher offers - some mixture of peer review, editing, branding, marketing, hosting, printing and distribution (if dead tree versions are still being produced) - then they don't need to use a publisher, no. They can write whatever they like and stick it on their own blog, which their institution probably pays the costs of.

And a number of academics do in fact do this. Though it probably helps if they're sufficiently advanced in their career that they've already established a reputation / brand. How seriously would you take a random blog written by someone you've never heard of? - not very, not least because you'd probably never come across it in the first place.

If a researcher *does* want those things that a publisher does then someone has to pay for them. Whether the publisher is for profit or not is just the standard public / private debate - sometimes public sector is cheaper, and sometimes it isn't.

@estelle I wouldn't organise a conference *anywhere* in the USA - too many guns.

@atomicpoet I know that, you know that, I'm just saying that most users of Google Groups probably don't.

@atomicpoet Maybe. Google sort-of took over Usenet - most users of Google Groups probably don't know where it came from.