Photographers are already using their software of choice to work with raw formats. Often, that software takes advantage of specific hardware and software features of the $$,$$$ to $$$,$$$ cameras and associated equipment that created the raw files. Staying within the family for software to work with digital negatives and images is not a big jump when someone has already invested in a single platform of camera bodies and lenses, and most photography software that is worth using in the long run provides timely enough support for new camera models. When professional photographers' time is worth $$$ to $,$$$ per hour, the fact that the software or standard is open source might not matter to their teams' workflows or bottom lines.

I've installed and supported GIMP for dozens of groups in the past, but I've stopped doing that because kids who learn that software gain significantly less advantage for employment and further education compared to learning more popular desktop and cloud based image editors.

Programming and the required design skills feels like an art to me, so I would advocate for theory and practice being taught together in the same way that learning music theory doesn't make a person capable of playing a piano. But I may be an exception.

Around the time of the last *dinosaurs mating*, the debate was whether churning out compsci grads who knew how to use C / C++ was sufficient, or if they needed to learn how to program in C / C++ and other languages. Some folks thought that the compiler-writing course should no longer be mandatory because *no one needs to know assembly anymore in the real world.*

I wonder if the next debate will be about whether it's necessary for students to learn how to read documentation, or whether knowing how to ask gen AI a question or use code completion is sufficient.

> It won't. People run Windows 7 do it for one of those reasons:

- the machine and its particular version of software are part of a bigger validated system or configuration which has an expensive / difficult certification for the industry, utility, health, marine, aerospace, etc. environment.

WINE will not replace Windows in such environments any more than SD cards will replace floppy disk drives on aircraft which are already flying.

GPTs are a logical step combining spell check, grammar check, autocompletion, search engines, writing notebooks, word processors, and encyclopedias, among other scholarly tools. They can help to autocomplete *some* ideas that one already has, but the user still needs to already know information to create a useful prompt, and how to adapt the resulting text into the real world.

Remember amd.slashdot.org?

And my decompression sickness.

There can be value in investing in domestic infrastructure. Tariffs with other trade and non-trade barriers can encourage that investment.

Recall that folks are discussing tariffs on Chinese imports *because* China started to figure out supply chain resiliency a couple decades ago in ways that made the rest of the world uncompetitive in green energy and related manufacturing.

It may serve you to look outside your discipline and culture from time to time, as not everyone uses significantly automated data and publication pipelines. JACM publishes roughly 45 papers a year. Nature Cancer publishes 13 items per month, including corrections and editorials. MISQ publishes 15 items per quarter. European Security publishes around 10 items per quarter. Journal of Consumer Culture publishes around 12 items per quarter.

Practically, the vast majority of graduate students in the world are not top-tier physics students, and will need to publish in the vast majority of journals in the long tail. And practically, a significant portion of the world's graduate students are in Masters and PhD programs that aren't based on the German Academy model and require publication to graduate.

And the fact that you did not acknowledge at all that the estimates have been discounted suggests that you're less interested in engaging in a discussion than in simply attacking.

Have the day you deserve.

We're a convenience culture now. Some of the target audience members find *opening a web browser to type a URI and load a website* to be inconvenient and annoying. Folks will also be able to use the TikTok app by *changing their app store region*, or *jailbreaking their phone*, and other methods which have instructions online.

Asking users who have trained for years on TikTok to develop a 10 second attention span to do a modicum of work for their dopamine micro-doses means that they'll find other easier ways to get their fixes.

Remember that Linux distributions did not significantly gain traction until they could be downloaded as CD images instead of being attached to 600-page books, even though folks could download floppy disk images from CIS or FTPs.

Lawn darts and assault rifles can be tools for expressing speech and artistry.

I suppose it will be a couple decades before the idea of supply chain resiliency makes it into *some* undergraduate econ courses or even MBA programs.

> I can certainly imagine there may be a few cases like that but on a large enough scale to support this sort of scam?

Quick search suggests the following ballpark figures.

There are 6.1 million graduate students in the EU, 4 million in India, 3.5 million in China, 3.2 million in the US, with millions more in South America, the African continent, and the rest of Asia, perhaps 20 million in total world wide.

There are over 30,000 academic journals. Say half the graduate students need to publish in order to graduate, and each of those students publishes 0.5 items per year. That's 5 million publications from graduate students alone. Exceedingly few high quality journals consistently publish 167 articles per year, let alone review/desk reject the 2x to 4x that number of manuscripts.

We are almost certainly in the second generation of PhD and MS supervisors who have paid to publish their own work, and tolerate their students doing the same.

What problem would a modular system solve in a better way than the current approach with cable splicing boats?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fsu...

And then the government complained that Facebook would not carry news for people facing emergency evacuation due to disasters.

At one point, Reddit was the inferior alternative to Digg. Then Reddit got better because of the influx. Fediverse could have the same opportunity.