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by aragilar 2y ago
GIL-less Python isn't magic pixie dust, the same group of users who have slow, poorly structured code are at best run into deadlocks. GIL-less Python can be used by well-designed libraries to achieve speedups, but that's not code
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by aragilar 2y ago
Bad code/quick hacks will always be slow (but can be great for prototypes), and sometimes it's worth planning how you're going to process something rather than piling on multiprocessing. Once you reach the point of multigigab
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by aragilar 2y ago
I think it depends on which numerical bits though. Some people want to write Python that is fast, vs deferring the fastness to libraries in other languages (and/or using tools like numba or cython which transform Python into something
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by aragilar 2y ago
I avoid type hints (and instead use other linters/static analysis tools like pylint) because type hints break between Python versions...
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by aragilar 2y ago
Written by MS devs though, so that doesn't prove much.
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by aragilar 2y ago
Hopefully this new vertical tab system doesn't suffer the same fate as Panorama...
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by aragilar 2y ago
This feels like the more important takeaway (and feels like an actual security bug), I'm surprised this so buried in the article...
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by aragilar 2y ago
Exactly, and I need those features, I'd use LaTeX (and if collaboration is needed, either git or overleaf depending on who I'm working with). For a ~1 page document of text, where there is minimal markup required, markdown through
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by aragilar 2y ago
I take it you don't write much maths then? Most of the macros I define are to make the process of writing maths faster, easier and more correct (common expressions become short macros, macros for specific semantics etc.), and the lack
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by aragilar 2y ago
RCV and multi-member works in other countries for their parliaments, I'm not sure why it wouldn't work in the US (the president is a different issue, given it's a single person with lots of power).
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by aragilar 2y ago
I've done .doc -> .md -> .tex -> .pdf via pandoc (e.g. to convert a confluence document to a nicely typeset PDF), so I'm not sure there's much difference. Naturally, a format with more metadata loses metadata when co
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by aragilar 2y ago
Is that just common constructs, or can I pull in amsmath and other similar packages?
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by aragilar 2y ago
Does this have support for macros? It doesn't appear to, and so feels a bit like another variant on markdown (with its own special syntax)? It's not clear to me why I'd use this, compared with RST (where I can generate LaTeX
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by aragilar 2y ago
Fluid dynamics codes are still being written in Fortran. Notably, there are still improvements happening in the Fortran space, and there's been a bit of revival of sorts. There are still features in Fortran that make it nicer to write
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Firefox 128 adds Privacy-Preserving Attribution support(support.mozilla.org)
7 points by aragilar 2y ago|1 comments
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Against Innovation Tokens(blog.glyph.im)
4 points by aragilar 2y ago|0 comments
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by aragilar 2y ago
Which is built on LaTeX.
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This is how people think about security(blog.sesse.net)
1 points by aragilar 2y ago|0 comments
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Prohibiting Outlook email domains – PyPI(blog.pypi.org)
5 points by aragilar 2y ago|0 comments
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by aragilar 2y ago
On the other hand: https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...
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by aragilar 2y ago
To put it nicely: you're not the target audience. This is the astronomy equivalent of the $50000/yr bespoke mechanical engineering simulator. This is not an outreach tool (or a citizen science tool). You don't take this to
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by aragilar 2y ago
Since no one has explained what esasky is: esasky allows professional astronomers (and anyone else because astronomy is all about open science) to view science observations from observatories across the world in one place. If you look in th
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by aragilar 2y ago
I'm confused why you think this is confusing? Stellarium is something you use to point a telescope with (and more focused on amateurs), whereas esasky is designed to browse through objects/images/spectra (with science data fo
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by aragilar 2y ago
Or more recent attempts to skill up researchers like Software Carpentries (which had been going for 25+ years!). Getting them to internalise that software is understandable (in spite of our attempts to make it not...) is a long process, and
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by aragilar 2y ago
Depends on the chips, I've been hearing from people that NVidia ones (due to various changes in design which preference low-precision over high precision) are becoming more and more useless for traditional HPC, and so there's a mo
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by aragilar 2y ago
Is this different to the Web Developer console?
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by aragilar 2y ago
I personally use pylint, which I've found to be the most aggressive python linter.
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by aragilar 2y ago
I missed it, because I was really confused what the models were doing: why is there an id and a subscription_id? Are the user_id fields related?
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Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly(hacks.mozilla.org)
2 points by aragilar 2y ago|0 comments
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by aragilar 2y ago
The modern equivalent would be resume-driven development. I've always found it somewhat ironic that CADT was originally used to describe the GNOME 1.x to 2.x switch, when GNOME 2.x was for a long time quite stable (and which was stable

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