V1ndaar

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by V1ndaar 4y ago
I would argue the reason it's powerful is that Vega embraces the Grammar of Graphics as first principles (think ggplot2). It's imo the way to think about graphics, but I may be biased.
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by V1ndaar 4y ago
It's hard not to get a bit pessimistic about where this is all going, no? It's incredibly frustrating already, that many topics are almost impossible to search for nowadays (just on your favorite search engine). Adding `site:reddi
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by V1ndaar 4y ago
> What's the point? Energy density.
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by V1ndaar 4y ago
Yes, it's very different for two reasons: 1) many ideas in science are highly non trivial compared to all sorts of crap that gets patented and 2) as scientists all we usually care about is getting some credit for our ideas. We want t
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by V1ndaar 4y ago
I don't know, but imo Nim begs to differ.
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by V1ndaar 4y ago
> but they'll have to pry that U2F token out of my cold dead hands. That is a trade off between attack surface and difficulty of the "hack" though. Depending on who and where you are, getting your physical token by force i
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by V1ndaar 4y ago
For me one big use case: avoiding stupid geoblocks on motorsport streams. Often streams are available in countries where the licence has not been sold on Youtube or the websites of the sport itself (sometimes for free, sometimes as a subscr
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by V1ndaar 4y ago
> Alas in what I've used it, it won't work with subreddits (like doing "pancakes site:reddit.com/r/pancakes") I use that quite often to restrict to a subreddit and it works well in my experience.
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by V1ndaar 4y ago
Haha, tried the same and got: "Even if this is a problem."
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by V1ndaar 4y ago
Maybe things have changed over the years. I've played around with Hy in 2017 and in the end felt like it combines the bad parts of Python with the bad parts of a Lisp. If you're forced to use Python it's usually because of on
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by V1ndaar 4y ago
> and getting cheaper. Ahh, my electricity bill in Germany must be lying then. Good to know!
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
To add to that, there's also a Nim <-> Julia bridge: https://github.com/clonkk/nimjl
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
While I agree leading by example and using Matrix would be great, it is orthogonal to the proposed law. More importantly, who cares about Moxie's (imo crappy) vision? If this were to force him to rethink his stance, that's a plus
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
The best part is when GitHub recommends me my own repositories in the right bar! Love that, always wanted to learn about those.
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
To give my personal impression, as someone who switched to neo [0] about 2 years ago. To be fair I only had about 20 years of QWERTZ & QWERTY experience before that. 1. For me it took about a year or so until I surpassed my QWERTY typin
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
This is an almost complete non-issue in practice. It sounds like an expectation someone has that hasn't actually switched to a different keyboard layout. I'm typing on neo [0] and it's no problem at all. [0]: https:/&#x
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
It's unfortunate you're being downvoted. Your intuition is spot on. Here's [0] a report from the Danish Environmental Protection Agency about life cycle analysis of different shopping bags. See table 4 on page 18 in the summa
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
I switched to typing using neo [0] about 2 years ago. The beginning was hard . I went in with a 100% neo from day 1 approach. The second day I had to respond to a mail that would normally take a couple of minutes. Took me like 45 that day.
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
> The past week will have a lot of Germans revising many silly opinions they were originally able to afford but not anymore Honestly, as a German myself I'm rather doubtful of that unfortunately. Some? Maybe. Many? Probably not. I c
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
We have both raw wrappers for BLAS: https://github.com/andreaferretti/nimblas as well as LAPACK: https://github.com/andreaferretti/nimlapack For an example, consider calling the least squares rout
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
As one of the main contributors to SciNim, let me tell you that we're painfully aware of the size of our community. But when evaluating these things keep the following in mind: - we're very active on matrix / discord [0][1] a
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
Yeah, I'm wondering in what way it's already easily possible to export those annotations to org. That would be amazing and a reason to finally give Nyxt a proper try.
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
Nope, the rough approximation of atoms in the universe is O(10^80). Big difference!
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
This really makes me want to give SymPy a proper try. And I didn't know about `org-fragtog`, that's really neat! I'm a bit confused about the main idea here: doesn't the usage of `:results raw` mean the output will be in
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
While I write almost all my code in Nim nowadays, lisps have a special place in my heart despite not having written large amounts of lisp code. I'm a physicist and when checking out CL in the past, it didn't feel like scientific c
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
Just for reference (5950x too): ran 3 times just measuring with `time` on void linux using cargo from xbps. Mean of the last two runs (first was syncing and downloading) was ~13.8 s.
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
> use Python when I need graphics (Matplotlib) I'm always open to suggestions etc. as to what's missing in ggplotnim [0]. I'd hope that by now the majority of use cases are covered. [0]: https://github.com/
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
Actual physicist here, too. Yes, the movie isn't perfect scientifically, but a) it's extremely entertaining, b) gets people interested and listening to me talking about GR and c) saying Gravity is a better movie (in ref. to scienc
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by V1ndaar 5y ago
I've recently written a units library for Nim [0]. It's still WIP, but it's already proven extremely useful for me as a physicist. Thanks to Nim's strong type system and metaprogramming features, it allows for a fully co
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by V1ndaar 6y ago
Yep, switched to neo2 last June or so after thinking about it for a couple of years. Beginning was tough (relearning Emacs shortcuts, ouch), but now I type faster than on qwerty (~90-100 wpm, still improving though). It is so great for pr

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