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  • I’ve used rmarkdown back when i was in academia, having dabbled in jupyter years before. I think the main issue with literate programming is knowing your target audience. people differ wildly in their tech skills, and i guess that those people who use literate programming to its potential are the same who are happy to use org-mode.

    others just copy paste their analysis scripts they cobbled together into whatever interface and copy the result into word and start formatting.

    just a thought


  • well yeah, but there is money in knowing what to avoid. in academia it’s more like “why can’t i reproduce this effect i read about in this fancy paper, am i stupid or what”, when maybe, they just got lucky, or had plenty of very reasonable analysis options to choose from, or simply fudged the numbers. i fear that in much of academia there is a huge incentive to publish at whatever cost




  • drre@feddit.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzPetrichor
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    8 months ago

    i Kind of doubt it. in a video i saw if the process they were using hardfired bricks. i don’t believe any organic compounds would survive the heat.

    (dung might be a better term for what you were referring to. i seem to remember that because of the way they feed their cattle the dung has a very high fibre content which makes it a good source for building material. it’s nowhere as gross as the diarrhea like consistency we get from cows in Europe)






  • drre@feddit.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzMDPI
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    this is my impression. back when i still was in academia it would pop up from time to time but i never published there since i never cited any of their journals in the first place. (why would one publish there when all your peers are somewhere else). nowadays i sometimes get requests from them to my personal email for special issues which i just ignore. (it’s academic spam essentially).

    have a look at retraction watch https://retractionwatch.com/?s=mdpi




  • Okay, now its getting ridiculous. Just measured the leg opening of my current pair, its 17’'.

    Browsing through their website, i noticed, that leg opening appear to vary with color, approx. 1". Then i thought, maybe, i try my luck in different european stored (spain, belgium, netherlands). Same pattern, but then i noticed that i still had a tab for the US store open. Apparently, fit also differ between countries.

    E.g. 501 Style # 005013411 in the US

    How it Fits

    Regular Through The Thigh
    Sits At Your Waist
    Straight Leg
    Front rise: 11 1/4",Knee: 17 1/2",Leg opening: 16",Measurements based on size 32
    

    in Spain

    How it Fits

    501
    Sits At Your Waist
    Straight Leg
    Front rise: 12 1/4''
    Knee: 18 5/8''
    Leg opening: 17''
    Measurements based on size 32
    

    I just want a pair of jeans ffs


  • thanks for your reply. the thing is: all 501 100% cotton i tried have a smallish leg opening although they are called “straight leg”. these work fine when worn with shoes but sit too high when worn with biker boots. the ones i try to find again have a wide enough leg opening to fit the boots and rest in the heel. it’s really weird. and they really are 501 not boot cut, i swear