For HN specifically, I don't browse the site but rather subscribe to the once-weekly Hacker Newsletter; there's already more than enough commenters and voters here. This is the first comment I have made here in many years; usually I'm many days late.
I haven't tried this in a few years, but I recall that Kubuntu and Ubuntu desktops used to have serious issues co-existing on the same box for some reason.
This is not "starting to become" for South Korea. The fact of the matter is that South Korea is far more democratic now than it was during the Cold War. These laws restricting the dissemination of North Korean propaganda have been in place for decades, and were often used with the tacit approval of the US in years past to suppress dissent.(In fact, until about ten years ago, it was technically illegal to import Japanese pop music into South Korea!)
The only difference now is that their use is becoming increasingly controversial. This, at least, is a good thing.
Probably a bit late for most readers here, but I highly recommend taking advantage of whatever opportunities for public speaking and performance your high school offers -- whether that's just walking on stage as an extra in a school theater production, or joining the debate club. Even a little can go a long way in relieving anxiety for the rest of your life.
Agreed. I participated quite casually all throughout high school, but it really taught me enough to be able to tackle any speaking opportunity with enthusiasm. And it wasn't even specific tactics that were important, rather it was all the experience.
What on earth does "read-online access" mean? Are they making people use some kind of Flash application to read them (so you'll have to screencap important stuff), or are they just blocking access to the PDFs?
I would continue by asking who on Earth let people with such poor technical knowledge run a major academic publisher, but I have a funny story about an internship several years ago at another academic publisher.
Circa 2005, IIRC, I sat in on a sales meeting where I was told that the company was seriously considering requiring institutions to buy microfilm copies of journals in order to get online access, as their margins were higher on microfilm. Or something like that.
JSTOR is not a "major academic publisher" at all. It originally sprung up as a consortium of University libraries who were looking for a way to digitize decades of back-issues of old journals, which they could not afford to store in hard copy any more. Now it's (I think) an independently operated nonprofit. Like everything in the non-profit and academia sectors today, they are resource constrained, so you should cut them some slack for not hiring 37 Signals to redesign their web interface.
Thanks for clearing that up. They are a very different sort of organization than the one behind my old summer job.
That being said, I don't really care what their Web interface looks like, but the wording used in this press release is not related to reality, and that bothers me.
https://auspicacious.org/posts/2020/10/03/rehumanize-yoursel...
For HN specifically, I don't browse the site but rather subscribe to the once-weekly Hacker Newsletter; there's already more than enough commenters and voters here. This is the first comment I have made here in many years; usually I'm many days late.