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Ok... as a Turkish guy who despises how the people in charge are destroying all the foreign relations I understand your point. But you don't need to exaggerate and say we are at war with all of our neighbors, there is no war, the situa
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Turkey is not at war with any of it’s neighbors.
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That's only because the vast majority of middle eastern people are poor. Parent comment is correct saying that it is much easier for educated scientists to leave, and they do leave, which is a self feeding loop draining everyone capabl
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Datadog and Microsoft Announce Strategic Partnership
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Summary from the reddit post (written by reddit user Tomlacko): Minecraft@Home is a volunteer distributed computing project powered by BOINC allowing users to volunteer their idle computers to help advance Minecraft-related research, one of
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We have found the seed of Minecraft's title-screen background panorama
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These devices are apparently already used for cheating. Here are some blog posts from Riot Games and ESEA mentioning direct memory access devices as cheating vectors and preventative methods if you are interested. https://blog.es
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How so? Reddits whole thing is having subreddits for relatively small communities formed of people that have a very specific interest. ie. what better platform is there for a pencil company to advertise than /r/calligraphy
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I guess it is still a liked tool, I also read about Riot Games using it for the redone client of League of Legends. https://technology.riotgames.com/news/architecture-league-cl...
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Is people trying to hack the attendees a common occurrence at Defcon?
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Supercomputers are computers with 10.000s of cores of consumer-like CPUs. So it is the opposite of your impression. They can only work with tremendously parallelizable tasks. I don't know the exact details of weather simulation or nucl
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Interesting, does Amazon do anything for damages when someone buys something thinking it is sold by you and receive a counterfeit?
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Fair, but just understanding the conclusion sections of the first couple of chapters will have tremendous benefits for an average programmer.
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This is the one that completely changed my mindset about designing and writing programs: What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory - Ulrich Drepper https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf
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There is a talk about it you can find here: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/kubernetesclusterfuck...
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Why would sequencing follow Moore's law when it isn't really related to computing? Sequencing technology is limited by our knowledge of chemistry, physics, and mechanical engineering to apply the concepts. None of which is doublin
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I love julia, I really do. It has a great syntax and is extremely fast compared to other languages with such a high level syntax. But the main complaint I see and completely agree is that it feels very slow. You want to import the plotting
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Related, I was at a talk about Type 1 Diabetes. They mentioned that we know how to cure the disease in mice with over 300 different methods. None of which seems to work in humans. Thats why they had to work with very hard to obtain live tis
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Kurds have an independent country, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan In this day and age, seperatist referandums are just dreams. Kurdistan Kurds had a referandum to declare complete independence from Ira
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Yes, racism exists. Armenian, Greek etc are used as insults by racist people. This doesn’t mean that it is the general state of public. People like Trump use Mexican as an insult, that doesn’t change the fact that there are tons of people w
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I don't really know what is so special about the school which they decided to base the entire article on. This is just a small sample of the ongoing intellectual purge in Turkey. Every university rector is appointed by Erdogan, most pr
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Are you saying there are no dramatically more effective programmers because you encountered a bug that would be difficult for everyone to reproduce? Even if task X takes the same time for 2 people, one is more effective in the end than the