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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – the forgotten immunisation pioneer(news.liverpool.ac.uk)
1 points by gnufx 5y ago|0 comments
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by gnufx 5y ago
Does OSM actually store the data for contour lines? As a contributor, I thought not, and topography is an add-on.
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by gnufx 5y ago
Right, and this is a common problem with British mountains in areas where people regard the top as some sort of accessible tourist attraction; I've actually seen high heels at the start. They may not be that high, but they can be eas
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by gnufx 5y ago
There are some strange assertions there apart from the definition of ASIC. ISAs aren't assembly languages. I could believe there are may be more ARM and, particularly, RISC-V chips without all those features than with. Since when ha
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by gnufx 5y ago
The Intel compiler(s) -- I don't know whether ifort and icc are really distinct -- may produce better code than GCC, and vice versa. The bottom line I got for a set of Fortran benchmarks on SKX was essentially a tie with options as si
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by gnufx 5y ago
> much of my time is just telling scientists what I would do if I was in their place anyway. That sounds familiar. I guess they mostly don't listen, whatever your record -- especially if it was in a different field they could learn
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by gnufx 5y ago
Surely not all science. Just as well Dirac wasn't required to communicate that way the equation that fundamentally underlies the phenomenon discussed, and you couldn't put the unique facility my thesis work pioneered into git! I
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by gnufx 5y ago
> academic scientists don't have the time, money, or expertise to manage large datasets I may be cynical about general expertise, as a support person, but large datasets have long been stock in trade of areas I'm more or less f
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by gnufx 5y ago
Probably the point is the whole thread, not just the linked response.
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by gnufx 5y ago
Least privilege implies ambient authority and the problems that brings. The capability security answer rejecting it is respectable enough isn't it (e.g. seL4, Fuschia recently)? I'm not sure that was what the quotation was about
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VzLinux [RHEL Rebuild](vzlinux.org)
2 points by gnufx 5y ago|1 comments
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by gnufx 5y ago
I hadn't come across this before as an alternative to Springdale, Alma, or Rocky, to replace CentOS. It clams to beat CentOS' rebuild latency.
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by gnufx 5y ago
Actually, SMT8 P8 and P9 is documented, though it seems rare. Our HPC systems are only SMT4, anyhow. Yes, you can just install most of at least Debian, Fedora, RHEL, at least, though it needs an "alt" kernel on RHEL7 P9. There ar
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by gnufx 5y ago
Interesting as this is, I'll look forward to version two, to see how the vector processing works.
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by gnufx 5y ago
The better one of his, which I've probably posted before, is "ALGOL 60 is alive and well and living in FORTRAN [sic] 90."
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by gnufx 5y ago
You shouldn't -- it's decades old. Use Fortran, which is how it's written now (though your conforming FORTRAN77 will doubtless still compile).
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by gnufx 5y ago
I remember the comp.compilers moderator calling C a Fortran-like language.
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by gnufx 5y ago
Well-disposed as I am towards laziness, you may well not want short-circuiting, depending on the application. I just re-wrote the C implementations of logical reductions using bitwise operators instead to && and || to get them vect
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by gnufx 5y ago
If Emacs doesn't have enough input methods, you can add one reasonably easily... A good deal of early-ish work on multilingual support in Emacs was done out of interest in editing technical text, which is basically the same problem as
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by gnufx 5y ago
The Fortran doesn't look quite equivalent, and we don't know how it was run, though that's irrelevant to the analysis except perhaps for OpenMP. As usual, it's a single number from a benchmark without understanding it,
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by gnufx 5y ago
I don't think anyone doubts the technical fact, or it wouldn't be a decent joke. The problem is if people think Wadler (might have) said it as such, and that it reflects a community attitude. It's trotted out often enough i
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by gnufx 5y ago
This was posted several times recently without anyone noting that it was the origin of "A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?", which often seems to be quoted as if it wasn't attributed
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New guide launched to help challenge Covid conspiracy theories(manchester.ac.uk)
2 points by gnufx 5y ago|0 comments
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by gnufx 5y ago
Ah, yes; it was a long time ago -- and a somewhat simpler time. Plenty of good stuff comes from INRIA.
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by gnufx 5y ago
The point of Amaya to me wasn't so much WYSIWYG HTML -- where "HTML" should probably be in scare quotes in most instances of such things. It was an actual SGML editor, respecting the DTD (like Emacs PSGML in that regard). I
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How to issue a privacy-preserving central bank digital currency(taler.net)
4 points by gnufx 5y ago|0 comments
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by gnufx 5y ago
Did the Oxford group actually not do the relevant analysis as the university suggested? (I conclude from the lack of mention in my current and previous universities' news -- wot, no Tara Shears? -- that at least their LHCb groups weren
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History of Infographics(history.infowetrust.com)
1 points by gnufx 5y ago|0 comments
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by gnufx 5y ago
I don't know what he considered the mainstream -- perhaps not Smalltalk -- but the comment pre-dates Java. (I think his POP-2 pre-dates Smalltalk.) If you take the remark seriously, it's probably not just a question of having clo
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by gnufx 5y ago
I asked because the listing said "kpatch" in the output of the command. I've never used Kernelcare, only suggested investigating it, despite it being proprietary. Ksplice was done by MIT students, not Oracle. I used it long

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