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by sega_sai 4y ago
Only in very special country with "special" gun laws, those kind of articles would be needed. One could argue that other countries would solve the underlying problems through other approaches than bulletproof backpacks (i.e. chang
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by sega_sai 4y ago
I think it's perfectly fine to quit a PhD. It's not for everyone, and not every academic is a good supervisor, and not every phd project is a good one. Some people who even are not great academically and don't have a lot of s
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by sega_sai 4y ago
If honey and bare walk would prevent >59 deaths from other causes, that'd be still reasonable.
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by sega_sai 4y ago
The problem is that Russia has a sea blockade not allowing Ukrainian ships with grain to leave ports. That's where the missiles could help. (in the same time Russia sells stolen from Ukraine grain itself).
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by sega_sai 4y ago
I think if the set of rules underpinning an expert system is explicitly written down and available to everyone, and if it is possible to appeal your decision and request a human review, I don't mind this.
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by sega_sai 4y ago
I think the problem is that they may not be allowed to bring the money outside Russia, as there are now capital controls on foreign currency. That's why there a few foreign factories, like Renault who seemed to have "sold" t
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by sega_sai 4y ago
I think people are a bit too critical here, as people's view on weather are different, i.e. utility functions are different. As a person living in Edinburgh though, I can say the weather is not too bad, but certainly could be tad warm
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by sega_sai 5y ago
The fact that they silently shared names of people who donated to Navalny (opposition leader) is outrageous.
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I find this article dubuous (or lets say "thinly sourced"). I.e. this phase "its Starlink satellite broadband service, which was keeping Ukraine connected to the Internet" is just blatantly wrong. Yes they've send h
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by sega_sai 5y ago
It's DAS. Mostly it's in one box of RAIDed 32x5.5Tb drives with a couple of tablespaces/WAL elsewhere. The DB is mostly read-only and not many concurrent users, so that's probably not the most typical case.
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by sega_sai 5y ago
Using pg_upgrade I recently updated this 100Tb sized DB (from PG12 to PG13) in ~10 min of downtime. => select pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size ('**')); pg_size_pretty ---------------- 99 TB (1 row) (The re-analyze of tables took
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I certainly prefer iPlayer interface to Netflix's one.
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by sega_sai 5y ago
It's an interesting full circle from capitalistic company to soviet style censorship.
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by sega_sai 5y ago
From just my personal experience, I've had a python code interfaced with C that I rewrote just for fun in pure julia. It was significantly slower then the C code and I couldn't as easily use OPENMP parallelization (although the sy
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by sega_sai 5y ago
As many already noticed, the rise of Python is not counter-intuitive at all. (I'm a scientist myself). Basically modern python offers you a spectrum from easy to understand and quick to write python programs (those will be slow), to pu
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by sega_sai 5y ago
This is a claim from a Russian member of parliament. Given that they all have been selected by Kremlin, and are there to just rubber stamp whatever has been sent to them from the Kremlin, they are all just nobodies without any knowledge or
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I started to watch it and it was indeed interesting, till it reached the point where the presenter claimed that Khodorkovsky was jailed because he stole too much. That's just plain false, and kind'a casts doubt on how expert is th
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I agree, and I support most of the sanctions and business withdrawals, especially when there is personnel and tax payed in Russia, but again as an example, if you are Russian opposition, you don't want to be hosted in Russia, as the ho
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by sega_sai 5y ago
Yes, that is okay with me and understandable. It's just if the West says, lets cut off the Internet from Russia, I think that will just help the Russian government, so therefore it's not a good idea in my book.
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I think it is a very important point. I perfectly well understand (and share) the anger against Russia, and desire to use sanctions and withdrawal of companies/services as a tool to reduce the quality of life in Russia and through that
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by sega_sai 5y ago
WTF are you talking about ? NATO explicitly said that it has no plans to incorporate Ukraine. And incorporating Ukraine was not possible given the disputed territory of Crimea. Your are just repeating Putin's propaganda here.
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by sega_sai 5y ago
There is such thing as propaganda. It's when somebody explicitly controls what you can and what you can't say (among other things). CNN may be biased, sure and I have no problem with that (as with Foxnews), but with RT I have issu
593.
by sega_sai 5y ago
I know that in last days all the tickets for flights to Turkey, Armenia etc were taken...
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I'm not sure how listening to Goebbels is useful to convince nazis of the errors of their ways. I'm not sure I support the banning of RT either, but pretending that RT is anything but pure propaganda is delusional.
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by sega_sai 5y ago
not exactly true. In retaliation to prohibiting Russian airlines in their airspace, Russia in turn prohibited the airlines of other countries in Russia. So right now you can fly to some Soviet republics, Turkey, Israel, South Korea and tha
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I just don't have time for it anymore. Too much other stuff, and I try to restrict how much I work (i.e. not work on weekends). Given that, something has to give and it's usually perfectionism.
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by sega_sai 5y ago
UK also introduced much less sanctions against Russia, and conveniently gave a few weeks notice to a oligarchs so they can sell their houses and shift their money abroad. Overall there is a lot of talk (obviously given who is the PM), but n
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by sega_sai 5y ago
It is absolutely clear what is going on. The economic situation is going to be extremely dire very-very soon. I.e. the USD/RUB exchange rate fell by 50% and likely will fall much more. They already introduced limits how much you can bu
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by sega_sai 5y ago
He was not just a bureaucrat, he was a colonel of the police https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80... and he was part of the unit fighting corruption ))
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by sega_sai 5y ago
(astronomer here). Some comments below partially answered the question, as modern optical/ir telescopes are based on mirror designs (i.e. they have primary, secondary, and sometimes the tertiary mirror like the Vera Rubin telescope). B

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