Tbh, I like it!

Yes, crypto has a bad taste. But from my pov, the research paper situation is so broken, that anything that improves upon the status quo is highly welcomed.

But I'm with you with the penalties. Maybe they can add an option to forfeit the tokens to sci-net instead.

I think you right. But researchers can upload their own papers. Seem to require a paying requester and the researcher has to notice the request.

While I agree this is phrased in somewhat misleading way, I think by "fellow researchers" they ment "researchers like you, user, who believe and participate in liberation of science", not "the researchers, who authored the paper you're trying to pirate".

I understand the confusion as I was confused myself for the same reason. I also attributed that to my english language level.

But I think they just used title-case[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case

Short, minor words are usually not capitalized, as stated in the wiki article; esp. if they would cause confusion!

As far as I know, that rule doesn't apply to verbs. Do you have a style guide that indicates otherwise? I know it looks like I'm trying to correct someone's grammar online, but I'm legitimately trying to learn. Your comment made me curious so I searched for a bit but couldn't come up with anything.

While I'm sure the new Gemini model has made improvements, I feel like the user experience outside of the model itself is stagnating. I think OpenAI's interfaces, both web app and mobile app, are quite a bit more polished currently. For example, Gemini's speech recognition struggles with longer pauses and often enough cuts me off mid-sentence. Also, OpenAIs whisper model understands more context (for instance, saying “[...] plex, emby and Jellyfin [...]” is usually understood in whisper, but less often in Gemini) The Gemini web app lacks keyboard shortcuts for basic actions like opening a new chat or toggling the sidebar (good for privacy friendly pair programming). Last point off the top of my head would be the ability to edit messages beyond just the last one. That's possible in ChatGPT, but not in Gemini. Googlers are spending so much money for model training, I would appreciate spending some for making it fun to use :)

I'm not sure why others have problems, but I love it!

Once, in a similar situation, I had the thought that "somebody should build that" and never imagined that somebody actually would.

With your tool, I learned that our home is better located than I thought and that there are many places more downtown that would be worse for me and my wife (bc of highways and good public transport connections).

I will show this some friends! Thanks!

> I'd strongly recommend trying a framework other than React for your next project.

This gave me a good chuckle (if you read it as next.js)

The Firefox Mobile (Android) page is really slow which is ironic as they advertise speed prominently. iOS Safari and Android Chrome work great though...

My two cents for FF about:config changes:

1. disable Fullscreen "XY is now Fullscreen" text. Set full-screen-api.warning.timeout to 0 2. disable Alt key: set ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses to false 3. don't select space after double clicking a word (together with auto highlight selection addon very nice for skimming code in browser like GH): set layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word to false 4. reduce forced wait when downloading a file (Download button in small FF-modal takes time to enable/activate, hard to explain, but annoying) : set security.dialog_enable_delay to 300ms 5. disable "This Connection is not Secure" Warning in (for pages like fritz.box together with XCkeepass very annoying) security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled

> reduce forced wait when downloading a file (Download button in small FF-modal takes time to enable/activate, hard to explain, but annoying)

I remembered reading something about this, and it looks like it's a security feature[0].

[0]: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/118077/is-the-s...

Yeah, it's to prevent click-hijacking (correct term?). I assassed the risk as very minimal.

Click-jacking seems like the correct term. Not sure what the word would be for the keyboard type of click-jacking though, where you unexpectedly present a dialog while the user is typing and they accidentally accept it by pressing certain characters...

Usually click hijacking is contracted to clickjacking, but you're correct.

those first four are things that i didn't even realize bother me but i feel like it'll be a massive QoL improvement to have them turned off. thank you!

> auto highlight selection addon

Can you provide a link to this addon. Couldn't find it.

I use "HighlightAll by Jerome Goudey". If you use this, you might have to tweak your addon preferences. I have set "Always enabled", "Native Highlighting" (without whitespace) and a minimum number of characters of 2. Nothing else is selected for me.

I like the human-relatable story behind it. I think many kids experience a similar situation that sparks this life lesson.

My younger self condemned my father's printer as "dumb" for printing a multi-page print job in reverse order. It took me a couple days to understand it does that so that you have them sorted once you pick them up (printed side was up). By that time I also have already publicly declared the stupidity of that printer. I think the shame after my enlightment deepened this life lesson.

Before calling something dumb, I try to come up with at least 1 answer to “Why would you do it that way”

Mostly stopped calling things dumb since I adopted that rule.

But very often the answer is "It saved some development effort, but not all that much." or "It saved a very small amount off the per-unit cost."

In those situations, "dumb" tends to be a correct judgement.

I think so, yes. I could also imagine that business people: 1. see effort in integrating Slack/Matrix/.. . into their landscape 2. think MS is a big name and thus will build a proper product 3. see no big difference in terms of functionality.