@regehr You can put it in your grants next to the open-access publishing charges.
Nathaniel J. Smith
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@DanaBlankenhorn @marklemley robots.txt doesn't affect linking -- it only affects scraping.
The main downside is that web search engines rely on scraping to build their search index, so if you lock out all scraping then you also remove yourself from Google/Bing/etc.
Or you can allow in only, say, Google, but not any other scrapers... but then if you want to appear in Google's search results, you might have to also let them train on your data 😕
@aurynn writing this on an apple and rolling it into the middle of the astrophysics/chemistry joint conference
@aurynn ok but what if we made it more metal 🤘
@glyph Plus also yeah the Sartre stuff -- they love finding any specious excuse to twist the language of wokeness back against the woke. They don't think it's arguing in bad faith, because they think the whole woke position is already hypocritical bad-faith zero-sum power seeking, so if their reversals are hypocritical bad faith then that's *actually* the woke side's fault, not theirs. The incoherence of their arguments really just proves they were right all along! Barf.
@glyph And two, it's an exonym -- other people are calling them this without consulting them or getting their consent.
And their understanding of oppression and slurs and such is very naive, so "thing other people have imposed on me, that categorizes me as pathological" = slur.
@glyph I think there's two parts: one, they axiomatically believe that they are "normal" which is "good" and that "trans" is the name for a perverse medical/moral failure, so when people use "cis" they must also be claiming that *they* have are a perverse medical/moral failure. (And that's... not *exactly* wrong? part of the point of 'cis' is exactly to push the frame that 'cis' and 'trans' have equivalent moral valence, just... not like that.)
@Gankra The typed_path crate helps some, by letting you explicitly choose to work with Windows or Unix paths regardless of what's native on your platform.
Here's the code I came up with to work with paths when unpacking redistributable packages; feel free to steal anything useful. It errors on the side of rejecting funny business rather than trying to support every possible situation – that might or might not be what you want.
https://github.com/njsmith/posy/blob/main/src/tree.rs
Timnit Gebru (she/her).Let’s consider the logic behind these statements for a second: Why would you, a CEO or executive at a high-profile technology company, repeatedly return to the public stage to proclaim how worried you are about the product you are building and selling?
Answer: If apocalyptic doomsaying about the terrifying power of AI serves your marketing strategy.
@zkat ahhh sudden flashbacks to one of my advisors taking a red pen and forcing me to change my dialect to treat "data" as a count noun