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New comment by mastermage in "Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan"

mastermage — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:22:07 +0000

Thanks for the feedback on this. That actualy helps alot.

And while I completely agree that a PhD "Student" is a working job that should be compensated. We both know that certain doors are much easier opened when you already have a PhD. I have the financial means to help me accomplish this without taking realy much of a financial toll on it. Hence why it even remains an option.

New comment by mastermage in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

mastermage — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:18:03 +0000

Satellites, everything space related. I assume in nuclear tech, military and aviation it is rather strict aswell.

New comment by mastermage in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

mastermage — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:05:18 +0000

Its kinda like the arms race in the cold war. There came out some truly marvelous technologies but the actualy goals were frankly terrifying.

New comment by mastermage in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

mastermage — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:51:28 +0000

there is also quite enough fields in which AI generated code is just not even allowed to touch the codebase to begin with.

New comment by mastermage in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

mastermage — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:42:39 +0000

They probably have very good financial cushions. One year of losses is nothing to a company like that.

New comment by mastermage in "Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan"

mastermage — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:18:32 +0000

Hi there for reference you said self funded PhDs are common in Japan. Would you hazard a guess what it would cost to fund your own PhD. I have lived in Japan before during a half year of language school, and still want to at one point in the not so far future do my PhD. And Japan would be one of the potential places on the list.

New comment by mastermage in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

mastermage — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:47:34 +0000

In Tokyo however you have literally one of the best Public Transit systems in the world. So why buy car?

New comment by mastermage in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

mastermage — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:56:33 +0000

Oh sorry that is what I meant i would like this to be a EU wide ecosystem working together.

New comment by mastermage in "Platform-independent SIMD in Go"

mastermage — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:51:24 +0000

Julia does that too.

New comment by mastermage in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

mastermage — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:19:26 +0000

This realy would be a great way to foster collaboration within the EU. To create an own independant Ecosystem outside of the microsoft world.

New comment by mastermage in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series"

mastermage — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:35:16 +0000

when it comes to Laptop Battery life afaik there isn't even a competition.

New comment by mastermage in "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"

mastermage — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:51:50 +0000

Its an example thats well repeatable more analogue to lets say you are hiking and see a deer at a distance and want to take a picture.

New comment by mastermage in "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"

mastermage — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:49:43 +0000

One of the things which for me is always going to be important is: "The best camera is the one you always have with you"

In recent times I have travelled some insanely hot places. And every extra thing that you carry with you feels like such a burden. But the phone you always have with you.

New comment by mastermage in "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"

mastermage — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:33:15 +0000

Oh you know what as someone who has used android from the start ever since i had a smartphone. You are 100% correct the only halfway decent calendar app is Google Calendar and even that is mostly meh.

New comment by mastermage in "Giving up on smart rings"

mastermage — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:19:45 +0000

Ok so the Mudra Link (aka the Meta Neural Band) is like in a way that. You can actualy get it and connect it without needing Meta Glasses.

New comment by mastermage in "Giving up on smart rings"

mastermage — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:01:15 +0000

Well to be fair they are already willingly ingesting harmful materials.

New comment by mastermage in "Giving up on smart rings"

mastermage — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:00:03 +0000

Some people just do not like wearing a wristwatch. I would sleep with a ring i would not sleep with a wristwatch

New comment by mastermage in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

mastermage — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:58:45 +0000

except for NVIDIA

New comment by mastermage in "Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (2022)"

mastermage — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:55:04 +0000

I was going to say the Commonwealth Saga is pretty optimistic until i realised thats from 2 decades ago already. Time sure flies.

New comment by mastermage in "AirPods 5"

mastermage — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:38:26 +0000

can confirm my Huawei Freebud 4 have swipe volume controls, anc and do not have silicone tip. Which is one of the reasons I got them after my Gen 1 Airpods started to annoy me on Android.