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by jjdredd 7y ago
Same reason for me. If not for games, I would have switched a long time ago. My favourite game runs only on windows and requires an anti-cheat that runs only on windows. So I just dual-boot.
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by jjdredd 7y ago
That story is just a myth, joke.
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by jjdredd 7y ago
In physics it's being replaced by C++ even where it requires rewriting lots of code that's already implemented and tested.
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by jjdredd 7y ago
> it really sucks to not drink in the professional American world. Can you tell us more about this? Genuinely curious.
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by jjdredd 7y ago
IMO owning a house in early thirties is pretty good. It should also be attractive for those people who want to start a family.
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by jjdredd 7y ago
> June 4, 2019 They're 10 years late with this article.
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by jjdredd 7y ago
I mean it's all ring0
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by jjdredd 8y ago
> particle physics, at least, is very hacker-ey: we develop instrumentation hardware, low-level data acquisition software, database and web apps for experiment operations and monitoring, and the like, beyond the data analysis Sounds like
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by jjdredd 8y ago
Also: "In the past several years, mounting evidence has shown that sperm can take ..."
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by jjdredd 9y ago
This one, I suppose. Pretty cute: https://justduet.cat/products/pubg-cats-inktober-zine
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by jjdredd 9y ago
Just recently tried reading that. Unfortunately it was too hard for me. Could be because of that the book seemed too vague.
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by jjdredd 9y ago
So adding memory was cheaper than fixing the leaks?
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by jjdredd 9y ago
Nice! I wonder if it's related to the similar russian website http://govnokod.ru/
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by jjdredd 9y ago
That's a very good point.
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by jjdredd 9y ago
Huh, funny thing. I had to use a heavy-ion collision simulation program written in fortran, which had to be compiled using a certain compiler implementation (1). After a 2-3 weeks of debugging and trying different compilers in vein, my supe
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by jjdredd 10y ago
Particle physicists began to move on to C++: Pythia, GEANT4, root. EDIT: Also, lattice QCD people are using C++ nowdays (frankly, I haven't seen them using anything else).