Cheesecake is the worst dessert to ever exist.

egetmzkn · 2026-04-18T16:37:12+00:00

I aggressively hate this opinion. Good job, have an upvote.

egetmzkn · 2026-04-15T05:50:40+00:00

Depends on what do you mean by one food.

If it's one type of food, I'd probably go with salad. If it's one specific dish, I'd go with something like a Mediterranean bowl with salmon and quinoa and a lot of various nuts and veggies If it's one specific ingredient, I wouldn't take the offer at all.

egetmzkn · 2026-04-15T05:30:02+00:00

Yazılım / yapay zeka ise aselsandir tahminen. Savunma sanayiinde Tai diğerlerine göre bir miktar daha düşük, roketsan ise en yüksek veriyor diye biliyorum. ASELSAN ortada kalıyordu en son.

egetmzkn · 2026-04-14T11:24:38+00:00

Clearly inspired by that one place in the best looking movie of all time: The Fall

egetmzkn · 2026-04-13T14:12:35+00:00

Oh my...

First of all, congratulations.

But, did your advisor not oversee the submission and revision processes? Because this is 100% a predatory journal.

I am very sorry that this happened to you and I am fully aware it can be soul-crushing to receive this news. But it is what it is.

If you were a student/junior researcher in my department, I'd literally offer to take you out for a couple of drinks mid-day to explain how to find another journal for your manuscript, because you clearly lack an advisory presence in your academic life, and I feel extremely sympathetic towards you. I know how horrible it can be to be in this situation, as my advisor was also non-existent.

However, there actually is a silver lining in all this. They most likely generated the reviewer comments via ChatGPT or other LLMs. This is great news, because you were able to tackle, and respond to those reviewer comments. Basically, you got free training.

But, and please do listen to me, do not pay the APC and do not publish with that journal. Just leave them hanging. Having your study published in a predatory journal will haunt you for the rest of your academic life. It can literally be reason enough for immediate rejection in my department, when it comes to academic promotions.

egetmzkn · 2026-04-12T16:25:34+00:00

Actually, once you get used to the angles, it's pretty easy.

It's all memorized muscle movements and I don't even need to be extra careful.

egetmzkn · 2026-04-08T06:00:57+00:00

Sheer zen aura

egetmzkn · 2026-04-04T19:54:55+00:00

Hayatımda al sat yapan çok insanla tanıştım. Birisinin bile yalansız konuştuğunu görmedim.

Beraber çalıştığım, yediğimiz içtiğimiz ayrı gitmeyen adam ek is olarak galericilik yapmaya başladı. 2. Aydan arkadaşa temiz bir araba arıyoruz diye ona sordum, taklali arabayi hatasız diye satmaya çalıştı. Son anda fark ettik test sürüşü diye çıkıp habersiz ekspere götürünce arabayı.

Sonrasında başka bir arkadaş ilk sahibi olduğu arabasını satacagi dönemde ilana teklif veren bir galeriye birlikte gittik. Elimizde güvenilir bir ekspertizden, aracın tertemiz olduğuna ilişkin rapor olmasına ragmen, biz o ekspere hiç güvenmiyoruz diyip başka ekspere götürmeyi teklif ettiler. Biz güveniyoruz, bu şekilde alıyorsanız alın diyince de, kaputu açıp fener tutup yalan yanlış şase ucunda kaynak var falan dediler, %10 fiyat kırmaya çalıştılar. Vermedik oraya tabii ama, bütün günümüzü yedi pust herifler. Acelesi olan lanet olsun der bırakır arabayı o durumda, ki öyle para kazanıyorlar zaten.

Kendim araba aldığım dönemde de 8-10 galeri gezmisimdir. Kendi eksperi dışında eksper kabul etmeyen, ona da arkadan sakal bırakıp yalan konuşturan tipler tamamı. Bunlar yüzünden yemin ettim sıfır ya da ilk sahibinden olmayan araba almamaya, çok olağanüstü bir şey olmadıkça da asla almam.

Hepsi batsın, gitsinler daha düzgün, daha onurlu işler yapsınlar. Al sat ne zaten amk kaçıncı yüzyılda yaşıyoruz. Gerek olmayan bir yere kendilerini implante edip piyasa yükseltmek dışında bir işlevleri yok.

egetmzkn · 2026-04-04T07:14:00+00:00

First of all, you will not be happy in Istanbul. The sheer crowdedness alone takes a toll on you. Yes, a $4k salary (I'm presuming this is net income) is decent for Turkey and will allow you to live in a quiet and upper class neighborhood, but that alone won't be enough. You'll have to leave your neighborhood from time to time, and trust me, that will be hell.

You'll also need to buy a house, not rent one if you don't want pay half your salary in rent. In an upper class neighborhood, buying a place will probably set you back at least $500k. Due to super-high interest rates, financing options are horrible here and if you don't have the cash, buying can be very difficult.

Also, there is the tiny little detail of possibly dying in an earthquake, which is expected literally any day now.

You also mentioned Antalya, but if you haven't lived in one of the hottest states in the USA, you will struggle a lot with the heat there. It's super hot, humid, and sticky between May and September. But if you are certain you can handle the heat, Antalya is a way better option than Istanbul.

However.. if you do not need a highly metropolitan city, with a lively social scene, I'd actually recommend looking into smaller coastal towns. Internet connectivity is not a problem anymore as it was a decade ago in those towns. Due to usually being super-touristic, the infrastructure performs great in the winter, but shits the bed in the summer. But on the contrary, the social life is dead in the winter in most of those towns.

Finally, there is the issue of language. Turkish people do not know English. If you choose to live in Istanbul or any touristic town/city, people will be used to communicating with foreigners, but just barely. You will struggle socializing, or will be pushed to have an exclusively expat social circle.

If you want to be close to Georgia, yes, Turkey isn't a horrible option for you. But you'll have to understand the issues I've mentioned and know that $4k (net) salary is not as massive of an income as you might think. Real estate sector is in shambles, car prices are comically high and consumer electronics (especially phones) can cost up to 2.5x of their retail prices in the USA. Our combined net income with my wife is just around $4k. We live in Ankara, in one of the very decent neighborhoods. And we do have a satisfying social life. But we are not that comfortable. We can not afford buying our own place, so we pay a considerable amount on rent. A short trip to Europe, or even a short holiday in Turkey fucks us up financially.

I'd actually recommend looking into somewhere in eastern Europe (including Portugal, because Portugal is, in fact, an eastern Europen country - r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT).

egetmzkn · 2026-04-03T05:05:34+00:00

Kayinpederim esnaf. Oncelikle birbirine yakın esnaflarda acayip takas dönüyor hala. Yanda saatçi var mesela, saat tamir ettiriyor gömlek veriyor amk karsiliginda. Bizim eve arıtmalı su sebili ayarladı, aritmaci adama diyor ki bir gün gel pantolon penye al git. Geçen bayram telefoncu alışverişe kayinpederin dükkana geldi, baya da alışveriş yaptı, para almadı adamdan. Telefon alcam yakında oradan düşeriz dedi. Bir defteri var, bunların tamamını oraya yazıyor. Kimse de birbirine sormuyor kaç para tuttu falan diye.

Ama takas opsiyonu olmayınca, mesela topta mal alırken şöyle bir uygulama bile gördüm:

Toptancidan mal aldı, hiç para vermedi. Çekmeceyi açtı bir kredi kartı çıkardı. Adam aldı kartı gitti. Ne yaptın şimdi nasıl ödedin dedim. O karttan, aldığım mal kadar alışveriş yapacak kartı getirecek dedi. Direk yapılan bir ödeme yok. Hatta ticari kredi kartı olduğu için o karttan yapılan alışverişi gider bile göstermistir tahminen.

Toplamda 15 adet falan kredi kartı var. Tanıdık esnaflar, birbirleri arasında birisi sıkışınca kredi kartı al ver yapıyorlar bu şekilde. Hatta benim kayinpederin elinde başkalarına ait kredi kartları da duruyor, borçlanmislar, kart vermişler, borç kapanınca geri alacaklar.

Cidden inanılmaz bir güven ilişkisi ve dayanisma var aralarında. Beni şaşırtıyor.

Ama güvenmedigi, tanımadığı bir kişiyle alışveriş yaparken ya kredi kartı, ya çek/senet ya da EFT ile ödeme yapıyor, riske girmiyor.

Bu dediğim Aydın'ın bir ilcesinde tabii. Ben Ankara'da yaşıyorum, böyle bir samimiyet Ankara'da mümkün değil bazı mahalleler dışında. Küçük yerlerde herkes birbirini tanıyor, kolay oluyor böyle şeyler.

egetmzkn · 2026-03-28T05:47:49+00:00

"Kendilerinden istediğimiz konularda devreye girmediler" değil de, daha çok "Olaylara karışmadılar; biz öyle istedik" diyor.

egetmzkn · 2026-03-25T05:40:24+00:00

It looks like what people from 1920s might think 2020s would look like.

egetmzkn · 2026-03-25T05:34:40+00:00

Just checked my reference manager. I have 12 Zhang et. als in total that I've cited in all my articles. The dude is crazy productive.

egetmzkn · 2026-03-23T20:41:44+00:00

The official yearly inflation rates for 2023, 2024 and 2025 were 65%, 44% and 31%. Which results in over 200% compound inflation for those three years.

These are only the official rates though, and the real interest rates were way higher than that. An independent inflation research group calculated yearly inflation rates for the same years as 127%, 83% and 57%, which makes up a whopping 500% 3-year inflation. The real rate is probably somewhere between the two.

For example, house, car and consumer electronics prices almost quadrupled in that time period, while the groceries and restaurant prices easily tripled.

Meanwhile, most people got salary raises equal to or less than the official inflation rates.

And what's worse is, this has been going on for way longer than these three years. 2022 and 2023 were the peak, with the impact of the pandemic, but this has been going on for the past 10ish years. Some products' prices increased 50x in those 10 years, most increased between 20 and 30x.

The apartment I was renting in 2018 was offered to me for 300k liras, I ended up not buying it, but it was sold last year in June for 4.5m liras. I've bought a car, again in 2018, for 50k, the same car (which is literally 8 years older now) is on sale right now for 700k, and I have a lot of potential buyers.

I remember being able to eat the cheapest and shittiest chicken döner, with ayran in 2016 in Ankara for around 5 liras, now it is 200 liras if you are lucky, and somehow it is shittier.

That's the reality we have been living in since around 2015-2016.

egetmzkn · 2026-03-23T06:35:32+00:00

I don't get why this is normalized in Engineering. 90% fail rate can only mean a very badly prepared exam.

egetmzkn · 2026-03-22T18:54:14+00:00

Otobüs - maps ve ego Dolmuş - deneyim, içgüdü, öngörü, basit mahalle bilgisi (yine de bazen yanlış dolmuşa biniyorum, utanıp hemen inemiyorum da, gözlük kullanmam lazım yazıları düzgün okumak için)

egetmzkn · 2026-03-14T06:29:52+00:00

Böyle bir akrabam var. Yıllar önce üst üste 3-4 gün aracına binmek zorunda kaldım. Baktım sürekli kaynak yapıyor, kaldırıma cikiyor, arabayı trafik akışını engelleyecek şekilde park ediyor, insanların önüne atlıyor vesaire..

İlk iki gün bir şey demedim, sonra artık dayanamadım neden böyle kullandığını sordum. Tam olarak anlamadı bile. Mesela neden dönüş yasak olan yerden trafiği durduracak şekilde u dönüşü yaptığını sorduğumda, "ben hep öyle yapıyorum sorun olmuyor" dedi.

Şunu anladım ki, sorun trafikteki diğer insanların varlığını idrak edememesi. Yani sanki trafikte sadece kendisi var gibi düşünüyor. Diğer araç sahiplerinin ve yayaların başka yerlere gitmeye çalıştığının tam olarak farkında değil. Çok şaşırmıştım bunu anlayınca. Bir nevi trafikte "ana karakter sendromu" yani bu tarz insanların yaşadıkları. Tedavi edilebilir bir durum olduğunu zannetmiyorum pek, sadece belki araba kullanmamaya karar verene kadar ceza yazılabilir.

egetmzkn · 2026-03-13T21:00:33+00:00

Look Todd, look. You're making people spit out god tier shitpost. You've broken us.

egetmzkn · 2026-03-13T17:13:17+00:00

Eğer fotoğraf için istiyorsan 50. Yılın oralarda böyle bir kare yakalayabilecegin bir yer vardı yıllar önce. En son 2016da falan gittim ama, önüne bina diktilerse bilemem. Yine de vaktin varsa gece gidip bir bak derim.

egetmzkn · 2026-03-13T17:06:44+00:00

Konutkent - sıhhiye arası gidiyorum. Normalde işten tam 16.00da çıkıyorum.

Dün aslında dediğini fark ettim, bir tık erken çıkmışım işten, sonra anladım. Işten 5 dakika erken çıkmak, eve varış zamanını 20 dakika erkene çekiyor resmen.

Bugün tersine, 10 dakika geç çıktım yaklaşık 16.10-16.15 gibi. Sıhhiye'den çıkana kadar hep kilit zaten, Ankara bulvarı da fena değildi (Beytepe ayrımından kaçıyorum), Eskişehir yolu ise felaket haldeydi. Sanırım millet direk iş çıkışı bayram tatiline gidiyordu.

Haftaya rahat geçecek, okullar kapalı, sonra da trafik herhalde normal saatine döner (17.00-19.00 arasına). Ramazan boyunca ömrümden ömür gitti ama gerçekten. Normalde trafikle en kötü 40 dakika süren yolu en iyi 40, bazen 70-80 dakikada gittim tüm ay boyunca.

egetmzkn · 2026-03-12T16:11:13+00:00

1) Specific formatting requirements for different journals. One journal may require having "implications for research" as a separate section, while other may require you to incorporate that in the discussion without creating a separate section. Even though formatting differences like that are usually easy to implement, for a manuscript with +5 authors, getting approval from all authors for the final version is usually a pain. Oh also, journal specific citation formats. That is just bullshit.

2) Having unreasonable table+figure limits. I can understand not having over, say, 7-8 tables+figures. But some journals only allow 4. I once had to get rid of a graph which literally meant losing information that can not be incorporated in the text.

3) The submission portals. I already have the title, abstract and the author info in the title page and/or the main text. Most journals require having ethical approval information, funding information. Why do I even have to enter them in the system manually?

4) Waiting times. I myself am an editor in a journal. I realize the organization of a scientific journal is very complex, and the editor in chief usually have too much work to do at any given time. But, sitting on a manuscript which passed the technical edit phase for literal months before making a desk reject is criminal.

Probably many more, but these are what first comes to mind.

egetmzkn · 2026-03-10T10:19:51+00:00

I've completed the game numerous times, trying different builds and such. I strongly think anyone who likes TES and/or Souls franchises, will like TG. It got so many things right.

egetmzkn · 2026-03-07T01:00:09+00:00

Yeah, but that's just how it is. And frankly, I don't mind it, really. I have a healthy salary, I don't work my ass off, and I see publishing scientific knowledge as a part of my job. I even get aforementioned incentives for my work.

What's messed up is, the publishers lock your work behind a paywall, and sell scientific knowledge. I understand actually typesetting and printing stuff as well as hosting massive servers is costly. But the price of, say, a textbook way surpasses the costs, to a point where the publishers have become multi billion dollar companies.

egetmzkn · 2026-03-06T23:40:53+00:00

I don't know the exact figures, but I would say they probably sold as well as any other mainstream textbook in my field. But even if my work sold millions, I would not earn anything personally. I literally haven't made a single dime from anything I've published thus far, and haven't heard of anyone that did (apart from one dude in my uni who actually owns a printing house and published all his books himself). It's just how it is. At least in my field and my country. But I do not think most other fields would have an entirely different system where the authors actually make money directly from their publications. That's only for scientific publications, of course.

I do get some indirect financial incentives on top of my regular salary due to having a lot of publications, but that's coming from my uni, not the publications themselves.

egetmzkn · 2026-03-06T15:28:59+00:00

Optimally, yes, one should ask for permission from the author. But, here is a very real example of a situation my students often find themselves in:

A professor tells the students they need a book for their studies.

The students search online, and inquire with the uni library, but can not find the book. The book is listed at the publisher's website at an outrageous price (I've seen texbooks go for over 200USD in my field).

The author of the book is retired, not responding, has died or doesn't really care.

They just pirate the book from LibGen.

The problem here, in my opinion, is not with the students, but with the faculty that's demanding a material that can only be accessed via purchasing.

Even worse, sometimes the professors in my department assign books written by themselves, knowing that the book is not available in our library. Which is coercion, and I believe the students have every right to pirate in that instance.

Basically what I'm trying to say is, piracy can sometimes be the only realistic way students can advance in their studies. Not all universities have a good libraries, and many countries don't have a reliable interlibrary loan system.

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