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by jakobnissen 9mo ago
When we pay aid to poor countries and they remain poor, we gripe. When we subsidize poor countries and they get rich, we also gripe. I for one am happy to see what the Poles have achieved since independence, and proud to have supported them
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by jakobnissen 9mo ago
Sure there is. You can go around beating random people op. Really gets your juices flowing! I mean, since we’re apparently endorsing crime now.
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by jakobnissen 9mo ago
Oh I disagree completely. Precisely because city spaces are more shared, vandalism, including graffiti, is Mitch more destructive in cities. It really undermines the sense of community when vandals deface public spaces and community centers
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by jakobnissen 9mo ago
A brief search suggests this is around 1/4000th of the total US treasury market, so if this has any significance at all, it's symbolic.
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by jakobnissen 9mo ago
No, you are reading the article wrong. It is indeed 60% of new electricity generation that is from solar, not capacity
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by jakobnissen 10mo ago
You're trying to paint a picture that it's just the US and it's lackeys that claim the election was rigged. In truth, we know that the election was neither free nor fair, with the government prosecuting and oppressing the opp
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by jakobnissen 10mo ago
No - we know Maduro lost the election. That's knowledge, not opinion. And he stayed in power, while crushing the opposition. Maduro is a garden variety dictator. Spectacularly corrupt, jails his political opponents, having taken over
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by jakobnissen 10mo ago
I don't think that's right - although of course we are speculating about what's happening inside the head of Musk. Musk strikes me as an juvenile and naive man, precisely the kind of man that would take a hatchet to a complex
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by jakobnissen 10mo ago
That's fair - if you work in a domain where you can solve your problems by calling into existing C libraries from Python, then Python's speed is indeed fine.
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by jakobnissen 10mo ago
Yes, Python code is indeed fast if you write it in C++... what a bizarre argument. The whole selling point of Julia is that I can BOTH have a dynamic language with a REPL, where I can redefine methods etc, AND that it runs so fast there is
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by jakobnissen 10mo ago
I use Rust instead of C++, but I also see my Julia code being faster than my Rust code. In my view, it's not that Julia itself is faster than Rust - on the contrary, Rust as a language is faster than Julia. However, Julia's protot
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Review: Julia trimming for Advent of Code 2025(viralinstruction.com)
2 points by jakobnissen 11mo ago|0 comments
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by jakobnissen 11mo ago
They do, and the order of the passes matter. Sometimes, optimizations are missed because they require a certain order of passes that is different from the one your compiler uses. On higher optimization levels, many passes occur multiple ti
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by jakobnissen 11mo ago
Even if you need your home to live in, you can still borrow against your property value, essentially "eating the bricks". Alternatively, you can use the value of your house as an emergency fund: If you desperately need money, you
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by jakobnissen 11mo ago
That's an interesting definition, but it does have some issues. Is an infertile animal (which can't reproduce) dead? What about a nerve cell (which have differentiated too far to become a reproductive cell)? Or a red blood cell (w
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by jakobnissen 11mo ago
Is it really? In this example, could you not see anything wrong with calling employees losers and monkeys, until someone linked you the CoC?
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by jakobnissen 11mo ago
IQ scores are calibrated to be normally distributed with a standard deviation of 15. So 15 is one standard deviation. That's the difference between average, and being in the smartest 16% of the population. Or being in the smartest 16%,
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by jakobnissen 11mo ago
Excellent article - except that the author probably should have gated their substantiation of the claim behind a cliffhanger, as other commenters have mentioned. The author's priorities are sensible, and indeed with that set of priorit
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by jakobnissen 1y ago
The function on that slide is dominated by the call to rand, which uses quite different implementations in Julia and Python, so may not be the best example. Julia is compiled and for simple code like that example code will have performance
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by jakobnissen 1y ago
Influenza virus
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by jakobnissen 1y ago
That's an overly cynical take. Obviously it means that a criminal organization would need to recruit officials before they could issue fake passports. Which is already pretty hard. And maybe they would need to recruit multiple official
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by jakobnissen 1y ago
It also has poor tooling when compared to Python. Julia's package manager is good, and so is it's tools for performance optimisation, but for type checking, app/cli creation, semver checking and IDE integration, the tooling i
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by jakobnissen 1y ago
I worked with Nanopore data about four years ago, and I found that that's mostly true, but for some reason at some sites, there was systematic errors where more than half of reads were wrong. I can't 100% prove it wasn't a le
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by jakobnissen 1y ago
I suspect the authors read the number of active pores during sequencing and then wrongly assumed that the non-active ones had a manufacturing defect. In my experience, most inactive pores are due to a poorly prepared sample. I don't kn
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by jakobnissen 1y ago
There are two ways: Assembly by mapping and de Novo assembly. If you already have a human genome file, you can take each DNA piece and map it to its closest match in the genome. If you can cover the whole genome this way, you are done. The
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by jakobnissen 1y ago
I basically agree with subtyping (but not multiple dispatch). More importantly, I think it's important to recognize that Julia has a niche that literally no one can compete with - interactive, dynamic and high performance. Like, what e
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by jakobnissen 1y ago
This was absolutely not "fixed" in 1.9, what are you talking about. It was improved in 1.9, but that's it. Startup time is still unacceptably slow - still tens of seconds for large codebases. Worse, there are still way too ma
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by jakobnissen 1y ago
So much goodness in this release. Struct redefinition combined with Revise.jl makes development much smoother. Package apps are also an amazing (and long awaited) feature! I can't wait to try out trimming and see how well it actually w
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by jakobnissen 1y ago
I've been using Julia for seven years, four years as my main language at work. It's my view that all the major points in the blog post are true, and the problem persists. It's slightly better now, because Julia has more usage
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by jakobnissen 1y ago
I'm a research scientist, and I think it's fine. Though it may vary with your country and time. During my PhD, we learned that about 1 in 10 PhDs got a permanent academic position. That's intentional - the industry wants way

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