• Eq0@literature.cafeEnglish
    106·
    14 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

  • Sergio@piefed.socialEnglish
    39·
    13 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.
  • Contramuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    13 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.cafeEnglish
      13·
      13 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.caEnglish
        3·
        8 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.