Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction

Re:Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction by mianos on Thursday February 15, 2024 @03:03AM (#39380218)

Only half joking, but have you ever had the issue on a Mac where you copy something and it randomly fails to copy, so when you paste, it pastes the previous copy?

Easy to imagine, slack that it did not get seen.

(I think the bug is at least 15 years old).

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Re:Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction by mft_ on Thursday February 15, 2024 @04:27AM (#39380671)

Seems to happen a lot when I'm pasting in/out of a browser; not sure if that's the same issue, or one further augmented by Firefox? :)

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Re:Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction by cm2187 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @03:26AM (#39380327)

Or if you have 20 files in a folder called IMG0887.jpg, IMG0897.jpg, etc, and you need to open them one after the other with an open file dialog, easy to pick the wrong one. A scientist isn't necessarily IT smart, particularly in medicine. Not saying it's what happened though.

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Re:Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction by passwordoops on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:42AM (#39381129)

Hence I'm hammering in the importance of good data handling and clearly identified file structure to the (chemistry) grad students working in the lab with me

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Re:Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction by agos on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:54AM (#39381230)

wait it does not happen just to me? is it widespread? I thought I was going mad or my keyboard starting to break down!

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Re:Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction by mianos on Thursday February 15, 2024 @06:50PM (#39390991)

No it's not just you. There was an Apple ticket with thousands of 'me too', but they said it does not exist and deleted the whole thing about 10 years ago.

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