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[-] Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world 23 points 11 hours ago
[-] Eq0@literature.cafe 110 points 15 hours ago

Once, I got a reviewer stating “in the code, I doubt line 43 was supposed to be submitted”

Line 43: FUUUCK, DOES NOT WORK

[-] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 59 points 14 hours ago

I'm amazed a reviewer read the code.

[-] Eq0@literature.cafe 28 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Me too! That wasn’t even the only time I got comments on my code. Since then, I make a point of doing at least a cursory check on codes when I review as well

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

Do you also embed little easter eggs to reward those diligent code-reviewers?

[-] Eq0@literature.cafe 1 points 58 minutes ago

Not like that anymore >.<

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 points 9 hours ago
[-] Two9A@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Whenever I come across ASCII art in the comments, it's a good day. Here's one from the day job:

ASCII art of a fist, with the headline "DO NOT ADD TO THIS LIST UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING OR YOU WILL BE PUNCHED."

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago
[-] Eq0@literature.cafe 24 points 14 hours ago

Yes. Yes, everything works a-okay. Somehow I fixed the code but never removed the obnoxious, full cap comment…

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 62 points 16 hours ago

That’s why you always prefix your todos with “TODO”

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 10 hours ago

To-do: add TODO

[-] BluJay320 2 points 8 hours ago

Only in Kansas

[-] Sergio@piefed.social 37 points 15 hours ago

Best case scenario:

  • The initial submission didn't cite the crappy Gabor paper, and peer reviewers said that it should.
  • The peer editor, summarizing feedback, said that the submission was accepted as long as it took into account the peer reviewer suggested revisions.
  • The submitters don't really care about the paper quality, all they need is the citation. So they assigned the revisions to the lowliest grad student.
  • The lowliest grad student knows their advisor hates that crapmaster Gabor, so when they sent it to their advisor they asked whether they should cite that paper, thinking they might prefer to passive-aggressively "forget" to do so
  • The advisor doesn't care about the paper quality (see above) so they just skimmed it and saw the word "Gabor". (alternate hypothesis: they thought this was a great opportunity to troll that crap-merchant Gabor, as well as those useless middlemen thieves at Wiley.)
  • The peer editor: same as the advisor, they're just doing this for a line-item on their CV.
  • The Wiley "editor" doesn't even read the paper, they just forward it to the typesetter subcontractors and demand that the submitters pay up.
  • The typesetter subcontractors don't care, it's all just text to them.
  • And so it becomes Science, and the writer of crappy papers Gabor is enshrined in the pantheon along with Ea-Nasir and William "I'm something of a scientist myself" Dafoe. Immortality, of a sorts.
[-] Microw@piefed.zip 20 points 11 hours ago

Worst case scenario:

The peer reviewer is Gabor.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 14 points 10 hours ago

Best Case Scenario:

Gabor agrees the paper was crap

[-] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 hours ago

If your reviewer suggests you cite another paper, it's one of their papers and they just doxed themselves, 100% of the time.

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 21 points 15 hours ago

That's why you change the color of any temporary text so that you can really see if there's any left

[-] Eq0@literature.cafe 13 points 14 hours ago

Considering how widespread of a situation it is, I am surprised I haven’t found yet a good LaTeX package that handles temporary sections

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 hours ago

You don't need a package at all. I just define a new command \xxx{stuff} that changes the colour to red. It's a one-liner. Copy and paste that into any new document. Changing the colour without a custom command is equally trivial, but this allows you to search for "xxx" to find anything you might've missed.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 13 hours ago

why not add notes as marginalia?

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 4 points 13 hours ago

####I throw some hashes in front

[-] Postimo@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

Vibes science?

this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2025
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