I agree, the system is very badly designed. Cars and bikes don't mix without carefully designed roads that make the lazy/default decision and the safe decision the same thing, because eventual complacency is human nature.
> You could say that jumping out of a plane without a parachute isn't dangerous, it's the ground that's dangerous.
In that metaphor cars are a force of nature. I've also heard "the laws of physics trump the law of man", and "what's more important: being right or being alive". People choose to drive; people choose to cycle; and people choose to walk. When I choose to drive, I have the means to kill someone else and I'm damn well responsible for that risk. After all, the person I hit didn't choose for me to drive.
A simple script that tallies up my cycling mileage based on Garmin activites, and makes me a reminder on my Google calendar when it's time to re-wax my chain.
Scheduling the script to reliably run via Task Scheduler (Windows) was was its own project!
I'm relatively new compared with you, but I've also found my MK3S+ to be super solid and output high quality stuff. I previously had a da Vinci Pro, and my best metaphor is that using the MK3S+ is like writing with a new pencil vs. one full of broken lead.
Consider that your distraction-seeking might be avoidance of some (potentially deep-seated) negative emotions associated with working or the task at hand.
The biggest issue for me was that you have to update widgets from the gui thread. Doing it from other threads still works most of the time, but then you sometimes get weird unpredictable crashes.
Let's not forget Sunrise calendar, which Microsoft purchased and supposedly integrated into Outlook. I miss Sunrise calendar so much... I've yet to find an alternative that reads from other calendar services and task managers so well.
I think you're right. I've double checked their FAQ, which states that you can upload your preprint to Researchgate, but then they only explicitly mention arxiv for swapping the preprint with the accepted manuscript. I guess I'll just have to swap over to arxiv.
For the benefit of those who haven't submitted a manuscript before: the accepted version is just the preprint with improvements from the peer review process - and no "other publisher value-added contributions such as copy-editing, formatting, technical enhancements and (if relevant) pagination". Assuming the associate editor is a volunteer (true for the journal in question), Elsevier's only in-kind contribution at this point is their awful submission system, and the Chief editor's time in accepting the associate editor's decision... although the chief editor might also be a volunteer.
I'm one of the researchers whose had a paper removed. Confusingly, it was the 'accepted manuscript' version, which Elsevier explicitly states you may share [0]. It's very obviously watermarked too, by their own editorial management system. It's very frustrating that you can do everything right by the publisher and still lose like this.
Platypodes is more correct than platypi, but I think that English rules apply once a word is a part of the English language (I don't know who decides that). So it should be platypusses.
Here's a gallery [1] of perceptually uniform colour maps, both lightness-varying and isoluminant (the latter are particularly useful in conjuction with hillshade filters). The maps are present in many libraries / languages.
> You could say that jumping out of a plane without a parachute isn't dangerous, it's the ground that's dangerous.
In that metaphor cars are a force of nature. I've also heard "the laws of physics trump the law of man", and "what's more important: being right or being alive". People choose to drive; people choose to cycle; and people choose to walk. When I choose to drive, I have the means to kill someone else and I'm damn well responsible for that risk. After all, the person I hit didn't choose for me to drive.