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0 pointswhatevaa11mo ago0 comments

Citations are citations, if it's a link, you link to it. But using shorteners for that is silly.

0 pointswhatevaa11mo ago0 comments

Citations are citations, if it's a link, you link to it. But using shorteners for that is silly.

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ceejayoz11mo ago· 4 in thread

It's not silly if the link is a couple hundred characters long.

IanCal11mo ago

Adding an external service so you don’t have to store a few hundred bytes is wild, particularly within a pdf.

It's not the bytes.

It's the fact that it's likely gonna be printed in a paper journal, where you can't click the link.

Fix that at the presentation layer (PDFs and Word files etc support links) not the data one.

Let me know when you figure out how to make a printed scientific journal clickable.

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