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by dekhn 10mo ago
What exactly do you need 1ms instead of 14ms startup time in a shell startup? The difference is barely perceptible. Most of the time starting up is time spent seartching the filesystem for thousands of packages.
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by dekhn 10mo ago
Did they get bigger as you were "Growing up"? Then we grow teeth, you're just being pedantic about whether they're brand new or not.
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by dekhn 10mo ago
"Das Boot"
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by dekhn 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cottingley_Fairies_1.jpg
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by dekhn 10mo ago
Major in biology, do a grad program in medicinal chemistry, join a lab that already studies this. (I know folks who read PiHKAL and thought "Hmm, this would be a nice ML training/prediction exercise")
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by dekhn 10mo ago
Blender also has a high learning curve but you typically don't need a PhD to understand the errors (instead you just watch youtube videos and copy what they do). Removing faces from an STL and adding other objects is quite straightforw
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by dekhn 10mo ago
We will never fix health care in the US. It will eventually bankrupt the nation.
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by dekhn 10mo ago
Prove is a strong word. There are few cases in real-world programming where you can prove anything. I prefer to make this probabilistic: use testing to reduce the probability that your code isn't correct, for the situations in which i
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by dekhn 10mo ago
You don't work for Google in SRE, do you?
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by dekhn 11mo ago
I read pretty much all of Varley's stuff when I was a young teen. I ended up dedicated my career to biotech and machine learning, with the hope that I could achieve some fraction of what was possible in Varley's worlds, only to l
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Ah yes: "Congratulations! You have just completed the cycle of recapitulating the collection of processes which have brought us the present!"
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by dekhn 11mo ago
In general, cross compilers can do dynamic linking.
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Morningstar Vegan Breakfast Sausage Patties. Great with eggs.
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by dekhn 11mo ago
It's not just risky, it's hard to know if it really "worked" for many reasons. This is why we run double-blind, randomized control trials- to be convinced that the treatment "worked".
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Yes, I took an existing vision model that could run at realtime on my laptop, and fine-tuned it with a few hundred manually labelled images of tardigrades. I don't like the openflexure design at all. I mean... obviously it works for a
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Uh, OK. So a few decades ago a scientist I respect built his own scientific tool from parts ( https://www.nature.com/articles/35073680 ) and I was really blown away by that idea, especially because most scientific tools
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by dekhn 11mo ago
One of my favorite sci-fi authors. Was never really appreciated for how ahead of his time he was. My personal favorite: humans are kicked off earth by superpowerful aliens. They colonize the rest of the solar system. Genentic modificatio
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Flensing trampolines are out of my budget, so it's just giblet wiggling for me.
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Really all this happened before: https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/17/us/new-presidency-boomers... The moment the dead went from counterculture to the unofficial band of the clinton white house was the rea
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by dekhn 11mo ago
History is made by people who reflabor the exahenge. I build microscopes instead of telescopes (as a hobby). I can't tell you how many times I've taken a mostly working system and stripped it down to make some important change tha
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by dekhn 11mo ago
How complex are you talking about? I've done animations with hundreds of elements and it's fine.
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by dekhn 11mo ago
No, this feature already exists.
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Maybe you could take the stat timings, the read timings (both from strace) and somehow instrument Python to output timing for unmarshalling code (or just instrument everything in python). Either way, at least on my system with cached file a
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by dekhn 11mo ago
It's not interpreting- Python is loading the already byte compiled version. But it's also statting several files (various extensions). I believe in the past people have looked at putting the standard library in a zip file instead
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Exactly this. The time to start python is roughly a function of timeof(stat) * numberof(stat calls) and on a network system that can often be magnitudes larger than a local filesystem.
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Run strace on Python starting up- you will see it statting hundreds if not thousands of files. That gets much worse the slower your filesystem is. On my linux system where all the file attributes are cached, it takes about 12ms to complete
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by dekhn 11mo ago
The thing to understand about google services is that they see so much spam and abuse that it's easier for them to just assume you are a spammer rather than a legitimate customer, unless you go through other channels to establish yours
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Yes it's the same reason in grad school they taught us to write grant proposals that cure diseases of senators and congresspeople, while actually working on fundamental research problems that have no direct applicability.
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by dekhn 11mo ago
I disagree. For example, I work for a company called Genentech that was founded by an academic. They discovered something important (how to clone genes) and shortly after, found medical applications (human growth hormone and insulin) that
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by dekhn 11mo ago
I mean, many of us in academia (I was previously) have made things for industry only to learn that we ignored something important and obvious that was already known. I wish I could find the nice article that gave a bunch of examples of pap

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