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by ripap 2y ago
I’ve been using Feedbin since Google Reader shut down. Been very happy with it. I access it through the web on desktop and using Reeder 4 on iOS; both work well.
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by ripap 2y ago
Worse is Better is Worse: https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/worse-is-worse.pdf Same author (name is an anagram).
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by ripap 2y ago
Really depends what you mean by “a career in astronomy”. Being a research astrophysicist at a university or major lab likely requires a PhD and (to achieve tenure) many years of postdoctoral experience. However, systems like Rubin (which I
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by ripap 4y ago
Academic jobs are weird, right? I think trying to write down contract that specifies everything involved would be pretty challenging. At any rate, the last time I was employed as astrophysics faculty, my offer letter told me that I should “
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by ripap 4y ago
I don't think this is true in general. Certainly, they aren't paid by the publisher, but I'd imagine most referees are in paid employment with institutions that expect them to review the occasional manuscript as part of their
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122 points by ripap 4y ago|82 comments
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by ripap 5y ago
I'm British. Lived in the USA for six years: three in Manhattan, three in Seattle. Moved to the Netherlands in late 2020; currently living in Utrecht. Downsides: The most obvious sacrifice is financial: I took a substantial pay cut to
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by ripap 8y ago
See also Gabriel's (Nickieben Bourbaki is an anagram) rebuttal of his own paper: Worse is Better is Worse ( http://dreamsongs.com/Files/worse-is-worse.pdf ).
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by ripap 11y ago
Princeton, NJ / Full Time / Onsite The Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University has an open position for an experienced software developer to work on the development of the scientific data processing pipelines
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by ripap 14y ago
Actually, Mail.app can include your own mail in a conversation, but only if you ask it to: select View->Show Related Messages.