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by cb321 11mo ago
You might enjoy https://nim-lang.org/ which has a Python-like syntax with even more flexibility really (UFCS, command-like calls, `fooTemplate: stuff` like user-defined "statements", user-defined operators, term-r
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by cb321 11mo ago
"Popularity" probably has more to do with Apple moving to Zsh than anything else. Zsh has been more powerful than Bash for literally the entirety of the existence of both. It surely was back in like 1993 when I first looked at t
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by cb321 11mo ago
These are all big topics, but any "parametric curve fitting" like this tool uses is parameter estimation (the parameters of the various curves). That already makes strong modeling assumptions (usually including IID, Gaussian
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by cb321 11mo ago
The fit diagnostics at the top of the plot are inadequate. This needs at a minimum error estimates on the estimated parameters (probably bootstrap) and ideally some kind of "error envelope" on the plot.
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by cb321 11mo ago
Any article about this topic that does not at least mention https://arcan-fe.com/about/ feels incomplete. (Also, Arcan is already available.)
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by cb321 11mo ago
"Great" smells very subjective. I went to https://forum.nim-lang.org/ . Put "flask" in the search box. Second hit ( https://forum.nim-lang.org/search?q=flask ) is this: https:/&#x
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by cb321 11mo ago
Besides your chart, another point along these lines is that the article cites Azhar claiming multiples are not in bubble territory while also mentioning Murati getting essentially infinite price multiple. Hmmmm...
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by cb321 11mo ago
I can confirm that I just do it over ssh fine all the time -- gnuplot, img2sixel as an "image-cat", etc. (`st` with patches to add sixel support as discussed in various places in these comments.)
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by cb321 11mo ago
I 100% agree `st` is pretty great and comparing bare bones is unfair. Thanks for that link! I suppose I should have provided a link to the variant I use which is https://github.com/bakkeby/st-flexipatch though I do ha
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by cb321 11mo ago
`st` used to have a patch set for sixel graphics on its web site. I use an old version all the time to do gnuplots in terminals with nice scrollback. It seems to have been retired in favor of the kitty graphics protocol.
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by cb321 11mo ago
While I agree with everything you wrote, the "better ways" have a "cap" on how effective they can be. The root causes -- both in-group preference[1] and laziness/delegation to the "smart loudmouth contemporari
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by cb321 11mo ago
Since anything/0 = infinity, these kinds of things always depend upon what programs do and as a sibling comment correctly observes how much they interfere with SIMD autovectorization and sevral other things. That said, as a rough gui
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by cb321 11mo ago
While it's ecosystem probably does not even match Julia's let alone Python's or the C/FORTRAN-verses, since Nim has been around for almost 20 years and publicly since 2008, there are still a lot of accumulated packages.
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by cb321 11mo ago
Actually echo is not a statement - Nim's syntax is just much more flexible than Python so what looks like a statement in Python is actually just a UFCS/Command-Line "call" (of macro/template/generic/proced
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by cb321 11mo ago
Nim compile+link times can be sub-100 milliseconds with tcc [1] (just saw 93 ms on my laptop) which can yield pretty reasonable edit-compile-test cycles. The grandparent's scientific/Go interests suggests a need for a large, worki
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by cb321 11mo ago
I mentioned a knob - it did the trick with literal mechanical friction { instead of electrical friction = potentiometer :-) }.
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by cb321 11mo ago
All very true and "balk en masse" is what I meant by "first exposé". (Ancient wisdom, even, if you think about individuals and mortages/car loans and having a steady job, etc. rather than just businesses.) Maybe w
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by cb321 11mo ago
I'm not an expert on the case law, but supposedly United States v. General Electric Co. et al., 82 F.Supp. 753 (D.N.J. 1949) indicates that whatever design trade-offs might have existed, corporate policy makers were really just trying
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by cb321 11mo ago
I would say the situation is worse as this "subscription-esque" model is "spreading" to areas beyond software. Exercise equipment like ellipticals and bicycles - whose software is/could be borderline +/- resis
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by cb321 11mo ago
Being truly unordered like a set is not something you can do in a physical computer program unlike a mathematical abstraction. Anything stored is "ordered" in some way, either explicitly by virtual (or physical) memory addresses
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by cb321 1y ago
I used to do this, but unary kind of sucks after 3; So maybe others might like this better before their fingers get trained: ..() { # Usage: .. [N=1] -> cd up N levels local d="" i for ((i = 0; i < ${1:-&qu
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by cb321 1y ago
Oh, it's fine. At your leisure. I didn't mean to go against the assertions themselves, but more just kind of speak to their "unargued" quality and often sketchy presentation. Even that Simon piece has a lot of this in
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by cb321 1y ago
That minimalist post mortem for the public is of what sounds like a Rube Goldberg machine and the reality is probably even more hairy. I completely agree that if one wants to understand "root causes", it's more important to
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by cb321 1y ago
I am not sure you'll be satisfied but this article by mhoye has a section on Watson and typewriters that seems relevant and is fun to read regardless: https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/10/23/80x25&#x
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by cb321 1y ago
Even better, in Nim these little CLI tools could use https://github.com/c-blake/cligen and have had terminal colorized, auto-generated help for many years now with much less dev-effort than raw argparse. Start-up time
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by cb321 1y ago
> do the right thing by checking if the standard output is an actual tty (isatty) This is a very questionable heuristic. I'm not sure the exact date that support began, but I have been piping color output to `less -r/-R` for d
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by cb321 1y ago
Nim ( https://nim-lang.org ), mentioned elsethread Re: numeric ranges like Ada, only needs a library for this: https://github.com/SciNim/Unchained FWIW, physical dimensions like meters were the original apple
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by cb321 1y ago
I use tcc with Nim all the time and it yields almost interpreted REPL-like code-iteration speed (like 100-500ms per compile-link - almost ENTER-see-results). As a warning, you need to be sure --lineDir=off in your nim.cfg or config.nims (
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by cb321 1y ago
I actually noticed that other comment you mentioned and almost said something at that time. The style is just not mentioned much and Python is about 1000x more well known than other offside-rule PLangs like Haskell. There are also enoug
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by cb321 1y ago
Nim actually already supports using `()` as braces most of the time for most constructs. So, in this sense it is more like Haskell than Python, though the latter is more well known. Nim is also more "expressional" than Python in

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