Author: ProHoster

Excursion in light green tones

The most important transport problem in St. Petersburg is bridges. At night, because of them, you have to run away from the tavern without finishing your beer. Well, or pay twice as much for a taxi as usual. In the morning, carefully calculate the time so that as soon as the bridge is closed, you make it to the station like a nimble mongoose. We don’t […]

Start in Data Science course: the first step in working with data

We are launching a new course for beginners - “Start in Data Science”. For just 990 rubles, you will immerse yourself in Data Science: learn about specializations, choose a profession and improve your skills in working with data. Data Science is the science of data and its analysis. Many people think that entering the field is very difficult: it’s tedious, long, and requires a physics and mathematics education. But […]

Digital events in Moscow from 05 to 11 August

A selection of events for the week. ok.tech: Data Talk #2 August 07 (Wednesday) Leningradsky pr 39str79 free On August 7, ok.tech: Data Talk #2 will take place at the Moscow office of Odnoklassniki. This time the event will be dedicated to education in Data Science. Now there is such a hype around working with data that only the lazy have not thought about getting an education in the field of Data Science. […]

Ubisoft talks about a lot of optimizations for Ghost Recon Breakpoint for PC

In May, Ubisoft unveiled the next game in its third-person military shooter series, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint. The project will be a development of the ideas of Ghost Recon Wildlands, but its action will be transferred to the near alternative future, to a mysterious and dangerous open world on the Auroa archipelago. And this time you will have to fight with other Ghosts - like [...]

Bypassing the LinkedIn search limit by playing with the API

Limit There is such a limitation on LinkedIn - Commercial Use Limit. It is extremely likely that you, like me until recently, have never encountered or heard of it. The essence of the limit is that if you use the search for people outside your contacts too often (there are no exact metrics, the algorithm decides, based on your actions, how often […]

How to stop doing the same thing

Do you like to repeat routine operations over and over again? So I don't. But every time in the SQL client when working with the Rostelecom storage, I had to register all the joins between the tables manually. And this despite the fact that in 90% of cases the fields and conditions for joining tables coincided from request to request! It would seem that any SQL client has autocomplete functions, but […]

Biostar X570GT motherboard allows you to create a compact PC

Biostar has announced the X570GT motherboard, designed for building computers based on AMD processors in the Socket AM4 version. The new product uses the AMD X570 system logic set. Processors with a maximum thermal dissipation value (TDP) of up to 105 W can be used. The use of DDR4-2933(OC)/3200(OC)/3600(OC)/4000+(OC) RAM is supported. The system can use up to 128 GB of RAM. To connect drives [...]

Technical support for one ... two ... three ...

Why do you need special software for technical support, especially if you already have a bug tracker, CRM and email? It’s unlikely that anyone has thought about this, because most likely companies with strong technical support have had a help desk system for a long time, and the rest deal with customer requests and requests “on the knee,” for example, using email. And this is fraught: [...]

AMD Quarterly Report: 7nm EPYC Processor Announcement Date Set

Even before the opening speech by AMD CEO Lisa Su at the quarterly reporting conference, it was announced that the formal debut of 7nm EPYC Rome generation processors is scheduled for August 27th. This date is fully consistent with the previously announced schedule, because AMD previously promised to introduce new EPYC processors in the third quarter. In addition, on August XNUMXth, AMD Vice President Forrest Norrod (Forrest […]

Riot Games is making a fighting game

Riot Games has started developing a fighting game. Tom Cannon, co-founder of Radiant Entertainment, spoke about this during the Evolution Championship Series tournament. “I want to reveal one of the secrets. We're actually working on a fighting game for Riot Games. When we made Rising Thunder, we felt the genre deserved to be seen by more people. No matter how grandiose [...]

10 Steps to YAML Zen

We all love Ansible, but Ansible is YAML. There are many formats for configuration files: lists of values, parameter-value pairs, INI files, YAML, JSON, XML and many others. However, for several reasons out of all of them, YAML is often considered particularly difficult. In particular, despite its refreshing minimalism and impressive capabilities for working with hierarchical values, YAML syntax […]