chaosphere2112

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by chaosphere2112 10y ago
My alma mater has a great undergrad program, but an absolutely awful masters. I've been told that they don't have the resources to teach it, and that the college keeps sending recruiters throughout Asia to pick up as many foreign
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by chaosphere2112 10y ago
VirtualEnv and conda both accomplish the same goal (though conda has a fairly clever pip alternative included), but for vastly different userbases. I am a developer, I've used VirtualEnv for every web app I've worked on, but now I
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by chaosphere2112 10y ago
Climate data lives in a wide variety of exciting calendars that no normal person would ever use. 360 day years? Check. No leap years? Check. (I asked some of the scientists in my building, and apparently it makes the models a lot easier to
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
The answer is "it depends". If you work for the lab, the answer is "not very" (I know of 2 or 3 full time remote workers, and they're all in the IT department and completely indispensable). If you form a contracti
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
The lab clears basically all salaried employees at L or Q; if there's any chance that you might look at classified data some day (IE: if you want to interview at another group internally, or have some useful expertise that can be lever
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
Nope, no remote work. We hire foreign nationals and will facilitate immigration processing, but it tends to only be for truly exceptional people (though the bar is a lot lower in my group than most).
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
Sorry, didn't realize that my email address didn't automatically show. Added it. As for the job link, there's not a lot I can do.
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
Career Indefinite means that if the project you're on ends, the lab will keep you floating for a (short) period of time till you find another source of funding.
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
I work on climate software at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory[1]. My team works with big data and visualization. We support ACME[2] (the Department of Energy's climate modeling program), PCMDI[3] (a team that's been evaluat
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
LLNL, actually :) We collaborate with the folks in that group, though!
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
Yeah, that's fair. If all of our grants dried up, my organization would float me for a period of time and farm me out to other projects. We have enough project flow (and too few people) to make it pretty easy.
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
Pretty much this, yeah. We do have some intermediate tiers, but they don't really effect your work duties.
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
There are 'promotions', but they're basically entirely disconnected from day-to-day work. I'm a 2; the lead is a 4, my boss is a 6 (all in the technical track). There's a separate management track, which has very si
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
This is pretty much my job. I develop climate analysis software at a DOE national lab. We have a pretty reasonable career ladder for the "research software engineer". A quick sample: Me: Recent graduate (2012), early career. All d
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
Yup, Roger Ebert wrote a cookbook on it: http://www.amazon.com/The-Pot-How-Use-It/dp/0740791427
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
The government has had this authority since 1905 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts); there's no "giving them" this power, they've had it for over 100 years.
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
Yeah, activity picked up a week or two ago; someone has done most of the legwork to get the bindings auto-generated, and now there's the clean up to do.
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
To be fair, this has the scent of a one-off script to do some simple analysis, versus something that's going to live in a git repo for the rest of eternity. In the project I work on, I found a wonderful rats nest of variable names in a
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
Also buried in System Preferences -> Sound -> Output (or Input), along with some additional controls like balance and a preview of the input level.
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
They also support OSX, and I know that there was a launch option in at least WC3 to use OpenGL on windows.
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
Absolutely, Zodiac was excellent. I feel like Snow Crash is slightly more representative, though I guess his range is pretty huge at this point; the difference between, say, Big U and Anathem is cavernous.
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by chaosphere2112 11y ago
Snow Crash is much lighter fare, and my usual suggestion for people who want to try Neil Stephenson. Though with the audience here, Cryptonomicon is probably a good bet.
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by chaosphere2112 12y ago
I'm fond of this video that illustrates this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ
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by chaosphere2112 12y ago
This is my usual technique for learning a new system, though it's usually bug or feature driven; lots of tracing through every single line of the 1000 line function
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by chaosphere2112 12y ago
I think I've googled into chapters of this; I'll have to give it a more thorough perusal.
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by chaosphere2112 12y ago
This is something I'm constantly struggling with as I try and teach myself OpenGL. Tons of tutorials available, but many have little context or explanation about what it is that they're demonstrating, and I keep finding them via G
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by chaosphere2112 12y ago
Also, we do have sanctions in place against Russia that could cause issues with supply[1], though I guess that was resolved for the interim[2]. [1]: http://spacenews.com/40431court-bars-ula-from-buying-russian... [2]: http
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by chaosphere2112 12y ago
What if, instead of a random sleep, you have a defined period of time for a function to take– you take a clock reading at the start and end of your execution, and sleep the remainder of the execution time?
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by chaosphere2112 12y ago
Can you buy kindle books in the app on iOS? I thought Amazon didn't want Apple taking a bite out of their (already low) ebook profits?
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by chaosphere2112 12y ago
Right, but (at least in theory) the total economic/environmental cost of growing the plants is lower than that of raising the chickens to produce the eggs.

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