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Almost 300 million accounts have registered in Minecraft, and this figure refers only to China. This was revealed at an event held by NetEase, the company that publishes Minecraft in the Middle Kingdom. Analyst Daniel Ahmad from Niko Partners noted on his Twitter that in this country, the game is free on PC and mobile devices. Therefore, it is not a matter of sales, […]
On January 14, the first day of the Old New Year 2017, an article titled 'Persona. Commander Norton' was published. 1987 was a significant year for me. After reading it, which caused a lot of emotions, I recalled 1987, a pivotal year in my life. It was the year when I transitioned from a junior researcher to the head of one of the leading departments at the Research Institute, which had […]
SAIPR — the genetic code of a part of it" L.I. Volkov, head of the 4th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense. The title of the article combines the titles of two publications that appeared back in 1994 in the newspapers 'Moscow Warrior' and 'Red Star'. The basis of the publications was an interview conducted by military correspondent Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Bezhko. And here these two publications caught my eye: The second publication has even […]
This article discusses how I organized a hackathon for my team for the first time. Experienced organizers may find the material too simple, and the story naive. I aimed it at those who are just starting to explore the format and are contemplating whether to host such an event. HFLabs handles complex tasks with data: we clean and enrich customer contacts for large companies and build client databases with hundreds of millions of records. Our Moscow offices employ 65 people, with around ten more working remotely from other […]
After a year of silence in development, work on the new branch of the fault-tolerant distributed file system LizardF 3.13 has resumed, and the second candidate for release has been published. Recently, there was a change in the ownership of the company developing LizardFS, with a new management team and new developers coming on board. The project has distanced itself from the community for the past two years and hasn't dedicated enough attention to it, but the new team aims to revive former […]
The alpha release of the OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 distribution has been formed. The project is being developed by the community after Mandriva S.A. handed over project management to the non-profit organization 'OpenMandriva Association.' A Live build of size 2.7 GB (x86_64) is available for download. In this new version, the Clang compiler used for building packages has been updated to the LLVM 9.0 branch. In addition to the standard Linux kernel, for the compiled […]
Image — roboconstructor.ru A well-known parable states that when a young mother with a child in her arms approached the sage and asked at what age she should start raising her offspring, the elder replied that she was late by as many years as the child had already lived. The situation with choosing a future profession is quite similar. It's difficult to expect an infant to be aware of their inclinations and interests, […]
The distribution is based on the codebase of the Illumos project, which continues the development of OpenSolaris in areas such as the kernel, networking stack, file systems, drivers, and other components of the operating system. The distribution can be used both as a general-purpose OS and for building highly scalable storage systems. The system has full support for KVM and Bhyve hypervisors, as well as the Crossbow virtual networking stack and the file system […]
Valve has released a new version of the Proton project 4.11-8, which is based on the work of the Wine project and aims to enable the running of Linux gaming applications created for Windows and available in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows Linux users to directly run Steam gaming applications that are provided only for Windows. The package includes […]
In August, it was reported that Google developers removed some elements from the context menu of tabs in the Chrome browser. Currently, only the options 'New Tab,' 'Close Other Tabs,' 'Reopen Closed Tab,' and 'Bookmark All Tabs' remain. However, the company intends to compensate for the reduced number of items by allowing third-party extensions to add their options to the context […]
A recent news article titled 'America's Major Mobile Operators to Discontinue SMS Messaging Format' is unlikely to leave any of us indifferent, as we all own mobile devices that support these very SMS messages. It is clear that the discussion revolves around the implementation of a new (essentially, well-forgotten) RCS platform; nobody intends to completely eliminate the good old SMS […]
Hello, Habr! We have already talked about the LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 platform. The primary tasks of this platform are practical learning, the development of STEAM skills, and fostering engineering thinking. It allows for laboratory work to study mechanics and dynamics. Laboratory stands made of LEGO bricks and utilities for registering and processing data make experiments even more interesting […]
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