US government’s attack on free speech, science, and research is causing a brain drain
How do you create a brain drain and lose your status as eminent destination for scientists and researchers?
The United States seems to be sending out questionnaires to researchers at universities and research institutes outside of the United States, asking them about their political leanings. Dutch universities are strongly advising Dutch researches not to respond to the questionnaire
This week Michael Hudson-Doyle of the #Ubuntu Foundations team published a write-up of our experimentation with the `-O3` GCC flag by default in the distribution.
The tl;dr is that we don't yet believe that the change makes sense globally, but there are certainly come packages that would benefit from using the increased optimisation level.
See the post here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/benchmarking-a-distribution-and-some-o3-results/58027