benstrumental

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   by benstrumental 5y ago

   You may even split up (1) into omicron-recovered and other-variants-recovered , since recovering from omicron strain seems to give a stronger resistance against reinfection for both omicron and delta, whereas recovering from delta of
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   by benstrumental 5y ago

   I feel similarly to the other commenters that xkcd references tend to get overused on HN, but it seemed too perfect to not reference in this case.
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   by benstrumental 5y ago

   Obligatory related xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
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   by benstrumental 5y ago

   This talk was from April 2021. 2009 is the year he got his PhD[2]. [2] https://jeffhammond.github.io/
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   by benstrumental 5y ago

   > What is the difference between “a supercomputer” and “a bunch of racks of computers”? In addition to the other responses, I like pointing people to this talk[1] by Jeff Hammond for a comprehensive answer to this question (you can skip
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   by benstrumental 5y ago

   Does anyone know how the game was implemented in JavaScript?
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   by benstrumental 5y ago

   What resources would they be competing for? I would expect more overlapping years would be beneficial since their primary survival strategy is predator satiation.
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   by benstrumental 6y ago

   Do you have some examples of programming language websites you do like?
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   by benstrumental 6y ago

   Was it empireattack.com ?
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    by benstrumental 6y ago

    > no C++ build hell > no C++ syntax hell! > no C++ at all!!! The author of this book has some strong feelings about C++.
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    by benstrumental 6y ago

    ~/tmp - temporary code snippets, checkouts, etc. ~/dev - code repos (dev as in development, not devices ;) ~/projects - symlinks to directories in ~/dev that I'm actively working on ~/.dotfiles - dotfiles git r
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    by benstrumental 6y ago

    I tried out Trail Router and found a trail hidden in the woods within 3 miles of my house that I never knew about in the several years I have lived here. Can't wait to check it out. Nice tool!
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    by benstrumental 7y ago

    Those professions usually require a license gated by a standardized exam, which ensures some level of competency before showing up to the interview.
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    Chapel 1.18(github.com)

    2 points by benstrumental 8y ago|0 comments
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    by benstrumental 8y ago

    Do you have any performance data that supports these claims? Does Pony support distributed memory parallelism? Here are some recent Chapel performance results: shared memory: https://twitter.com/ChapelLanguage/status&#x
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    A Mathematical Model for Computing the Total Area Under a Curve (1993)(care.diabetesjournals.org)

    9 points by benstrumental 8y ago|8 comments
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    by benstrumental 9y ago

    > GitHub and GitLab should have this. Interaction and discussion though "issues" is horrible. Agreed. It would be a huge win for GitHub or GitLab to provide this service. There really are no great alternatives beyond hosting a
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    by benstrumental 9y ago

    ... and publishing companies use that money to lobby against free/cheaper alternatives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Chemical_Society#Cont...
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    by benstrumental 9y ago

    Cray Inc. | Seattle, WA | Full-time | On-site The Chapel project (chapel-lang.org) has an open position to manage the team and evangelize the language: https://rn12.ultipro.com/CRA1002/JobBoard/JobDetails.aspx?__..
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    by benstrumental 9y ago

    99pi recently released a podcast on the basic income research being done by the Finnish government & YCombinator: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-finnish-experiment...
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    by benstrumental 9y ago

    > First, we just wrapped up a one-year feasibility study in Oakland Are the results of this feasibility study publicly available?
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    by benstrumental 9y ago

    Full disclosure, Chapel developer here - While Chapel's community is small today, it has real users and it's growing. Chapel is a compelling language that offers a good combination of productivity and performance. The Chapel proje
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    by benstrumental 9y ago

    Here are implementations of some of the sketching algorithms mentioned in the article for those interested: https://github.com/ct-clmsn/CHIUW2017
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    by benstrumental 10y ago

    Here's the change log linked from the downloads page: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chapel-lang/chapel/release...
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    Chapel 1.15.0 Released(chapel.cray.com)

    5 points by benstrumental 10y ago|1 comments
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    by benstrumental 11y ago

    Agree that Chapel is not new and is great to know about. I think OP is trying to capture the fact that Chapel is one of the more serious young programming languages that is not being widely advertised yet. Consequently, it would be 'ne
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    Chapel Accepted in Google Summer of Code 2016(summerofcode.withgoogle.com)

    1 points by benstrumental 11y ago|0 comments
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    by benstrumental 11y ago

    I think the post title now reflects the situation better.
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    by benstrumental 11y ago

    Thanks - corrected.
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    by benstrumental 11y ago

    Last time it was a power outage of some sort right? What's it going to be this time?