thevoidzero @ thevoidzero @lemmy.world

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It was helpful, Thank you.

I'll look into the politics.

Academia does seem a bit small for my field, and being an experienced professor probably would have helped compared to barely finishing PhD. I consider my skills flexible enough to work in a variety of industries, but to qualify for the skilled visa I'd have to find work in the industry I have degree in.

Unless the pond is radioactive.

Seems like the right shift is kind of global. I don't see any other country being a good choice either. And we did see the tension, and the haka.

How's science though? Main problem we have here is that people don't really respect science anymore. Which is something that we find really scary long term.

We were thinking of moving using the skilled visa, which seems hard because we need a job offer prior to visa application. So if you have money you can just come?

Any Kiwis here can tell me if it's a good country to immigrate to? I will have PhD soon, and want to contribute to open access research if possible.

So far the country looks great because we like slow life, but idk if that's just for citizens or also for immigrants.

Honest opinion programming is easy and fun when you learn it and it saves you time and allows you to test your ideas. Creating something gives you dopamine.

Problem is before people even try any programming for themselves, they are introduced to it through school or work where they have to do it for homeworks or analysis while also learning new things. And they hate it.

I don't know how comfortable you are writing your own, but pdf saves the components with coordinates, bounding box etc so you should be able to automate it with a small script that reads pdf components directly.

Also try qpdf to convert pdf into qdf format, then you can open it in a text editor, find the element you want to remove. Look at examples of few pages, find the pattern and do regex replace. Make sure to keep a copy and check the diff before accepting it.

Can't see instructions on how to use it, do I need to do anything non trivial on my phone? Should I test it on an old phone?

It still does not. All the commenter is saying is remember how many kids thought that, and it's the same when they grow up.

Sometimes you don't know. Or think it's not important.

There's this thing basically (you've probably heard about it), "I don't like X people, but you're good because you're not like them". X can be race, gender, any other things. When you are with that kinda person as long as they like you, you won't feel how they are, they'll treat you nice but it's an exception not the rule. But when they don't like you, they revert back to treating you like the X group. They'll even go "I knew X would be like this" and all.

Now in many cases if they were vocal about it from the beginning you'd notice and might get away. But in many cases they won't be vocal, or they'll talk about it with some extreme examples which you might feel is justified and you know you're not like that so it's fine. And in those cases you yourself might hate those subgroup for ruining your reputation so you might even bond over that.

Again, you can type feet instead of ft and it'll work. You can write 'feet per second' instead of 'ft/s' and it'll work. Natural language has its benefits but when you have a very simple syntax model then there's less chances of it making a mistake.

Same way people in the past probably said there's no way you can make anything work without a mechanical mechanism? Can you imagine what an electronic device/chip would look to someone from far past? People thought humans couldn't fly.

Those "fundamental science" is just us making sense of the universe in a way we can observe it and even then we don't know everything. Can you imagine how different the universe looks if you just shift the electro magnetic waves you can see.

I also like it very much. I hope they make a library for it soon, I can't wait to use it to make unit aware calculators.

I mean the syntax for gnu units is literally the same unit expression used in math. m^2, cm, m/s etc. the ft;in looks weird because it's two units combined.

Your example in it would be units 30ft mm , use -t for terse results that's just the final value.

Doesn't even work well on a single monitor on Wayland. It gets confused with screen size or sth, fills a small area on top left with screen contents and lot of black space

Warm as in heated water, yes. Room temperature or lukewarm water from the pipes, NO.

Wait people don't like drinking water? Drinking water (not warm) when you're thirsty is a really good feeling. I only struggled with forgetting to drink water when I'm not thirsty, but once I am I drink.

Seeing the sugar addiction and soda problem maybe it was because I didn't drink those regularly growing up. They were just treats. Also as a child we had fun eating certain fruits that were sour/bitter and then drink water after that, it makes the water taste sweet.

Maybe you can try eating/licking lemon/lime a bit and drink water later.

Because I grew up seeing these so much. I can't eat dill. The smell just gives me images of caterpillar in my head.

Gnu units does unit conversion. Also seems to have currency. It's a command line tool though

https://www.gnu.org/software//units/manual/html_node/Currency.html

Have you met a bayesian guy? All prof on statistics in my uni keep talking how "traditional" approach is stupid, inferior, blah blah