Moissanite

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by Moissanite 4y ago
Maybe it's time for Python4 so this can become the default! ducks
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by Moissanite 4y ago
How do you get on with package management? That is probably the area where Julia had the most opportunity to trounce Fortran, and yet that is the part of the language I've never managed to get comfortable with.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Is there a list of Python users somewhere? What about Fortran? You are exemplifying one of the points from my original post quite well though, so thanks, I guess. For others who might not know you as a co-creator of the language with a stro
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Julia is too different from Fortran for the old wizards to make the switch.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Not particularly my opinion, just an observation - when I've brought it up with physicist friends, they only knew the language as something Quants play with. Then again, physicists are weird - they seem to reach for C++ more often than
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Found a few (energy and pharma) I've heard of who aren't in the already mentioned "finance bro" category, or academia - but those are singular use-cases. The fact that the list of notable use-cases is small enough to be
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Julia is too "trendy" in certain circles (finance bros) for a lot of scientific computing types to take it seriously and invest a lot of time into it. There are the same sort of community brigading problems that people complain ab
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Mostly talk about pending organizational changes (since we've had 3 rounds of that over the last 12 months), or strategic initiatives our team should take. Of our team of 12, I'm the youngest but also the one with the most "r
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by Moissanite 4y ago
If this is indeed the case, it's just one more nugget of data to support the view that patent systems are utterly broken. There is nothing novel or inventive about these kinds of BI tools which warrants 20+ years of protected monopoly.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Does OpenAI have anything resembling "special sauce", or are they just a critical mass of ML engineers with good funding, loose constraints and the word "open" in their name? If the former, a buyout seems like the obviou
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by Moissanite 4y ago
I thought the same; seems to be perfectly fine as a Linux-to-Linux tool.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Wouldn't a flat per diem payment make more sense then? That way you don't need the complex (and presumably pricey) expenses software, and you don't torture your employees with it when they could be doing something useful.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
In college/university, the social life is there for the taking, and you just have to let it sweep you along. As an adult, finding the same number of acquaintances takes an immense amount of effort.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
I would say a degree, masters and PhD all give diminishing marginal returns when applying for a given job, but they open doors (and bypass recruitment filters) which you might get tripped up by with just work experience. There is also a lot
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Not bankruptcy as such, but I am hoping 2023 is the year when we see some big tech break-ups. Splitting Microsoft Azure from their productivity tools business is a tough sell, but seems to be the only way for investors to get an honest look
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Having to use Concur is one of the primary reasons I have avoided ramping up travel again after the COVID lockdown period ended. It also inverts incentives in other ways. I'm narurally inclined to be frugal, but that would often involv
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by Moissanite 4y ago
I'd estimate GitHub projects I come across outnumber GitLab 100:1. It's a shame since I personally prefer GitLab, but that's just how things are. Bookmarks wouldn't offer anything extra, and create extra hassle when you
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Sounds like you'd just have to do twice as many reps, one for each arm. I get that those reps would notionally be more effective, but enough to balance out? Seems unlikely.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
So, what, am I supposed to get my butler to lift the weights up for me so that I can just lower them back down?
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by Moissanite 4y ago
StumbleUpon used to be a kind of answer to this. I'd love to have it back, particularly if the contents could be curated (eg "show me a random link which has been featured on the front page of HN or lobste.rs in the last month&quo
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by Moissanite 4y ago
This resonates. I've managed to control this behaviour a bit (or at least lessen the impact on my life) by just reconciling that there are link dumps for each specific purpose: - Link to an interesting software project? Star it on GitH
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Moar boosters!
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by Moissanite 4y ago
If people could be trusted to be perfectly fair and honest, then I would agree. In reality, having met plenty of privately-educated individuals, I am confident their outcomes are achievable without private schooling; none of them were great
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by Moissanite 4y ago
How about: If you get a written offer from company B while working for company A under a non-compete, A must either: - Allow you to leave unopposed - Keep you in your current role by negotiating a more attractive offer - Pay the value of of
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Similar story with e-ink; the license costs for the technology are the main blocker to wider adoption.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
I lost a lot of faith in scientific research when I had to spend time reviewing patents in an early job. The fact that I was looking into battery materials (a notoriously over-hyped sector) certainly didn't help, but some of the approv
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by Moissanite 4y ago
> the way to make money during a gold rush was not to try to mine gold after the good stuff was already dug up, but to sell shovels to wanna-be miners See also: cloud computing
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Following your point through to a conclusion, the only way to improve educational outcomes would be for everyone to just become better people, and for the country to actually start respecting academic achievement instead of sneering at it.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
If the current crop at Eton had to go to the same manner of school every day as their nearest council estate residents, do you really not think Tory donors would push harder for schools to improve? Of course all of their actual learning wou
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Your comment strikes me as one of the most "technically correct" I've seen in that I can't disagree with any of your statements and would take exactly the same approach with my children - but I can't help but still

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