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Look, while I am sure what Musk says is very important, what is also important it's that many millions of people live (used to live?) on territories Russia claims. Ukraine cannot j…

What sort of difficulties those might be? If Russia overcomes those difficulties, should Poland get worried?

The point is that a famous name gives an edge in peer review to a (potentially mediocre) paper written primarily by somebody else with the famous name appended.

People in charge of Russia likely care little about Ukranian civillians and care deeply about appearing strong to Russian war supporters.

> You clearly haven't ever bought a ticket. £30 please, unless you want to travel after 10am, then it'll be 25, oh wait you want to go via Reading that'll be 40. Haha, you got thro…

Isn't there a difference between not hanging out with drunk people and not drinking alcohol? Some people have a glass of wine with their meal, for instance.

Perhaps, surprisingly, it might go both ways: when I know who is on the PC, I think I can tell which person wrote which review, because I both know their work and met them personal…

I think your question makes a lot of sense in the general case, but in case of NASA it very well might be that they scratched their heads, came up with requirements and found that …

> Especially if an open ISA means that our systems will be more portable and faster to develop. So I understand that RISC-V does not immediately impose licensing fees, but how does…

What is superior about RISC V technically?

It's a "collateral" damage to lives of 40+ million people, which I suspect many people find a tad too high to treat it just as a statistic.

The distintion between Rust and C looks interesting. Are there any formal (or formal-ish) grounds for saying that only authors of unsafe code need to be aware of Undefined Behaviou…

Are changes to everyones model of computing actually radical? I mean, I understand that taking advantage of the fact that memory actually persists is actually somewhat non-trivial …

Importantly, you have to be a permanent resident in the UK to host your family. I respect the UK's immigration policy, and very much appreciate the chance to pursue an exciting job…

I am not Dutch (much like many people here), so your rhetoric question is difficult for me to understand. What happened? What did you expect to happen? What was the purpose of that…

Tangentially to the topic of discussion, I have seen analogies of the following phrase so many times by now: > I’d also formed a hypothesis, based on a certain bluntness and lack o…

In another tab I have a Meduza article open listing how the rhetorics of President of Kazakhstan has shifted from using words like "a demonstration" to "an international terrorist …

Historically, Israeli computer scientists have been able to apply and win ERC grants. That said, I have not checked if anything has changed for the UK in this regard, hence why I a…

I did not understand that point at all. The author writes: "The loss of this funding and scientific exchange is a major loss for British and European academia — and innovative comp…

> Check if your hardware supports your OS before you buy it. Guess what? Then it all works great. What a waste of time. Say, I am buying Thinkpad T480s and Thinkpad X1 (2018). What…