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by aragilar 4y ago
Are there any non-Python implementations yet? That the format is so coupled to Python is a major weakness of ASDF.
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Two Visions for the Future of Sourceware.org(lwn.net)
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by aragilar 4y ago
My impression is Python packaging is stuck in a local maximum, and that any attempt to move out of it will be as disruptive as 2->3. Dropping support for conda et al will only split the ecosystem, hasten the rise of Julia, and make Pytho
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by aragilar 4y ago
But does not cargo bottom out at libraries like https://crates.io/crates/openssl-sys/0.9.75 , where you do need addition (non-managed) dependencies? I would be surprised that the more "conservative" lin
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by aragilar 4y ago
I'm not sure "new tooling" (if you're contrasting language-specific with linux distro tooling) does give more visibility though. How well does "new tooling" track root certificates being up-to-date and availabl
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by aragilar 4y ago
I agree the need to keep things small is a key part of front-end tooling, but it is worth noting that the choice by the ecosystem to effectively statically link everything (vs having a versioned stdlib which could be cached in a privacy-pre
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by aragilar 4y ago
Ah, I was arguing BLAS et. al. are effectively non-reimplementable (I'm aware of ATLAS and OpenBLAS, but I'd argue they demonstrate that it's a rare thing to be able to do). I would expect if people aren't willing to use
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by aragilar 4y ago
Why would you be constrained to using Common Lisp? If you can't integrate with (effectively) non-reimplementable libraries (or would propose to rewrite crypto-code in CL?), than that to me says you shouldn't be using that language
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by aragilar 4y ago
Uh, what? I've not used Nix with python (so I don't know if there's something particularly bad there), but most of the complexity comes from handling non-python dependencies of python packages (which different people have dif
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by aragilar 4y ago
Slightly facetious, but do you port MKL to ARM? More seriously, it wouldn't surprise me that there is a fair bit of software out there that is written with assembly or x86 intrinsics which isn't worth the time porting, especially
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by aragilar 4y ago
Assuming https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-laptops/ is the article being referred to, then the first section is what OS (with choices between Windows, MacOS, ChromeOS, with MacOS kinda being rec
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by aragilar 4y ago
Wayback link to the issue: https://web.archive.org/web/20210225183856/https://github.co...
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by aragilar 4y ago
Different aspects will be differently portable (e.g. funding will region specific, modulo field specific schemes). Having a PhD (in a relevant field) gives you domain knowledge as well as knowing where the pitfalls are, and a PhD in general
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by aragilar 4y ago
It comes down to teaching not bringing in money— enrolments (either domestic via the government, or paying international students) and grants bring in money (those requirements are basically "can bring in grants/other funding&quo
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by aragilar 4y ago
What algorithm did you use? The standard formula is pretty inaccurate, whereas following most of https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Math128/Cubic.pdf , I was able to get down to near machine precision. I&#x27
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by aragilar 5y ago
Ah, sorry, I probably wasn't clear enough: you can't just count direct dependencies (or install size) when considering something's importance, you also need to consider indirect dependencies (which I think jmillikin is undere
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by aragilar 5y ago
Does glibc count? If you use systemd, then you are dependant on GNU (as noted in the article). GNOME is becoming more systemd-dependant, so GNOME is also implicitly more dependent on GNU. Other things include mDNS (what, if anything, does b
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by aragilar 5y ago
Sure some distros have many derivatives, but it's not obvious to me that you can stop that (see Android for a different open-source ecosystem, and how fractured that is), nor that is always a bad thing, as it allows experimentation whi
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by aragilar 5y ago
The main use of libquadmath seems to be to support gfortran. GCC/glibc also support _Float128 and <func>f128, which are nominally part of C, but only GCC implements them as far as I know.
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by aragilar 5y ago
Exactly what happened is somewhat tied up with Australia becoming a republic ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism_in_Australia ). The Dismissal is still somewhat of a sore point for the Labor Party, and discussi
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by aragilar 5y ago
The author seems to limit their analysis to laptops. As far as I know, desktop/server class hardware does have reasonable options like those from Raptor Engineering (such as Talos: https://www.raptorengineering.com/TA
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by aragilar 5y ago
Usually there are only one or two exit roads, so it's easy to get blocked (especially with emergency services coming in, falling trees, people leaving at the last minute because they ignored the repeated warnings etc.). If I recall cor
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by aragilar 5y ago
There's modern stuff being written in astro(nomy/physics) (I can attest to some of the codebases listed in https://github.com/Beliavsky/Fortran-code-on-GitHub#astrophy... being modern, at least in terms of de
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by aragilar 5y ago
I'm not sure that's a minor one in the case of Fortran, I've seen enough Fortran code to know that every codebase has its own special set of flags that it needs to compile correctly (or the need to dig up an old, unmaintained
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by aragilar 5y ago
The data will be at https://archive.stsci.edu/ (which holds the data from a whole host of space telescopes, and uses standard VO interfaces). STScI is a major contributor to astropy etc. ( https://github.com/
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by aragilar 5y ago
It's a "term of art" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_of_art ) specifying that the data collected is passed through the scientific pipelines and being served out to researchers, rather than being used
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by aragilar 5y ago
Apparently you haven't seen this (short summary: you cite a pre-print (anyone's, not just your own), no funding for you): https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/aug/24/australian... Fundi
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by aragilar 5y ago
Raspian originally was a custom build of Debian to target the unusual hardware support of the 1st gen Pi (it had hardware float but not other bits needed for the armhf architecture, e.g. like having SSE but no PAE on x86, I can't remem
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by aragilar 5y ago
Different governments (vaccine is federal, lockdowns are state). Even between the NSW (state) and federal governments, both with the same party in power (and where the current prime minister hails from) there's been significant disagre
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by aragilar 5y ago
No idea, wasn't my machine (been a linux user for >15 years), I just needed to fix it (which I did via a linux live usb). Yes to monitor driver (I don't even know why it needed one, removing the driver allowed it to work fine,

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