Or when your department gets disbanded.
Ah, the “financial exigency” escape hatch
Readit Newsaoki commented on Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/pseudolus
aoki commented on Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Not really. I see many, many fake conferences adjacent to my field each year. I don’t really see why setting up one would be harder than creating a fake journal.
I think they mean predatory journals and conferences. Setting up a predatory journal costs nothing, whereas actually holding an in-person conference of any kind costs money.
A good time to repost about the famous VIDEA conference:
aoki commented on Face it: you're a crazy person experimental-history.com/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Remember the days you could make a reference to Monty Python, or Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Have nerdy kids and you can make references to “Romanes eunt domus” and shrubbery again
aoki commented on ACM Transitions to Full Open Access acm.org/publications/open... · Posted by u/pcvarmint
The open access pricing is different and higher than the old closed access pricing. That is the switch in all open access publishing. In any case, both the old prices and new ones are absurdly high.
The pricing is not about the cost of storing and serving the articles. It is partly direct revenue replacement and partly “stick” to get institutions to subscribe to APC allowance buckets.
aoki commented on ACM Transitions to Full Open Access acm.org/publications/open... · Posted by u/pcvarmint
It has always worked like that.
ACM went hybrid access (optional APC for Gold open access) in 2013. Before that, there were no APCs. As of 2026 authors will pay APC unless their institution pays (by subscribing, or directly). If you are in a developed country and not affiliated with a subscriber institution, there is no longer a free-to-publish option.
aoki commented on The Sumerian Game: The ancestor of modern city builders spillhistorie.no/2025/07/... · Posted by u/christkv
Related. Others?
The Sumerian Game is playable again - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577752 - Sept 2024 (1 comment)
The Sumerian Game: The Most Important Video Game You've Never Heard Of (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40896470 - July 2024 (19 comments)
The Sumerian Game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30186688 - Feb 2022 (18 comments)
The Sumerian Game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29532122 - Dec 2021 (1 comment)
The Sumerian Game: The Most Important Video Game You've Never Heard Of - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21045101 - Sept 2019 (1 comment)
Everything related to HAMURABI, such as:
aoki commented on The Sumerian Game: The ancestor of modern city builders spillhistorie.no/2025/07/... · Posted by u/christkv
I used to play a similar game I believe it was called something along the lines of santa fia machia? Anyone know it? I can't find it but was similar with grain and rats and whatnot
aoki commented on The curious case of the Unix workstation layout thejpster.org.uk/blog/blo... · Posted by u/ingve
The early 90s were the era of (1) Pentium (2) PCI (3) multiplatform Windows NT. Most vendors switched to desktop/deskside designs based on PC bus and PC components, it would be more cost competitive (volume economics) and could run NT/Alpha, NT/MIPS, NT/PowerPC if the market went that way.
aoki commented on Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today? greatwavetoday.com/... · Posted by u/colinprince
There's a Hokusai museum in Tokyo where it's on permanent display. You can also catch a sumo match nearby.
The Sumida Hokusai Museum is almost entirely a display of replicas. They are very upfront about being a “learning” museum - they do hold the original prints but display them in rotation. We were there last year and there was exactly one original print on display (in a back corner of the special exhibit room); it was one of the “36 views” but not one of the uber-famous ones.
aoki commented on Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody... · Posted by u/drankl
> But there are a few things we can learn from this:
> - if you give people the chance to place a label on themselves that makes them feel unique, they’ll take it.
This is almost the opposite of what we can learn about this, and the article does a great job at pointing that out. It's a very recent social phenomenon. Yes, that contradicts your abnornal psych class, but think about it. 20 years ago (in 2005), did anyone voluntarily, happily label themselves autistic, without any disgnosis, outside of such psych classes (outliers for obvious reasons)? In elementary, middle and high schools, at the workplace, in other majors? IME absolutely not, very much the opposite. The only ones who did so were the diagnosed, and then only mentioned it when very relevant. Let alone 100 years ago. Let alone the massive differences between different regions/cultures in desire for uniqueness, both historical and uniqueness.
This is a massive sociocultural phenomenon, absolutely not something inherent to the human psyche. Almost no one is born this way (strong desire to make themselves feel unique).
> 20 years ago (in 2005), did anyone voluntarily, happily label themselves autistic, without any disgnosis, outside of such psych classes (outliers for obvious reasons)?
The “Aspie programmer” meme has been around since the turn of the century (at least)
https://www.wired.com/2001/12/aspergers/
I’m pretty sure people made reference to it when I was at Cal in the 90s but I can’t prove it. (The prevalence of social awkwardness, eye contact avoidance, hyper-interests, etc.). I don’t think it was as much about people wanting to feel special as trying to find explanations for the overall environment.