There is something kind of what you describe: there is a feature to limit the amount of RAM used by a process (RAM, as opposed to virtual memory). The RLIMIT_RSS limit sets an upper bound a program's resident set size, i.e. the part of the memory of that process which is resident in memory (as op...

I work in a field (Philosophy) where co-authorship is uncommon and advisors and grad students very seldomly co-author a paper. I've seen a lot of posts on Academia.se though about the ethics of co-authoring papers with mentors, such as this question. My sense is that it must be somewhat common i...

A little while ago, the new design for our blog went up. I've now published the first post, so let's write! Remember that even if something would be closed on the main site, it might still make a really good blog post (or series of blog posts)! This is an awesome community; we can come up with lo...

I have a file whose content looks like this: 2009 150 0 0 0 0000 75.316 0.0400390625 0.00007 0.00000 0.8980 76.216 0.0400390625 0.00007 1.00000 0.9046 77.217 0.0400390625 0.00009 2.00000 0.9113 78.341 0.0400390625 0.00010 3.00000 0.9183 2009 150 2 ...