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I work at an Australian university. I can confirm that we have instructions to reconsider travel to US. I personally am not travelling to US for the next 4 years for sure.

It’s uncanny how much of the current stuff has been predicted by the sitcom -“Silicon Valley”

This is one of my favourite posts. Part of my PhD was based on this post. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10085826/ (Section 4.1). I presented this section of my research in …

Desk rejects also happen regularly from Editors (who are not blind to the author names and affiliations). Editors can also make final decisions to accept or reject when reviewers d…

Apple allows movies from other sources (ahem) to be shared across devices seamlessly. It's called something similar to "home sharing" "home library" etc. There is a separate app in…

I went all in on apple ecosystem this year after literally 13 years of using android. Wife and I got iPhone 14 Pro, Apple Watch 8 and AirPods Pro. Got HomePod mini and Apple TV for…

Black Mirror took this to the dystopian extreme - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Callister

Apparently it is not. The reddit thread has an ex Apple employee who runs repair shops in Germany. He says if you just change the serial number of a iPad screen(using specialised h…

They think the real experiment will show what they concluded within some tolerance. They just don’t want to put in the time and effort to do it. they want to publish their hunch wi…

Another lofty comment about honesty in academia. No research job lets you spend 6 months redoing stuff just to make sure it’s 100%. It’s about publish what you have with enough dis…

This works really well with the R’s native pipe |> Make the R code look really nice!

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PostGIS has no parallel in MySQL/MariaDB world.