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by jnxx 6y ago
> For people on Windows, the fact that CMake works well on Windows is enough to sing its praises, Maybe, but how relevant is this? Application development on Windows is historically not based on open source, and for developing anything e
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How does ccache compare to it? https://ccache.dev/
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See also: Are modules fast? https://bfgroup.github.io/cpp_tooling_stats/modules/modules_... One reason why this might not be so simple is that what is often measured as a potential for speed improvement is I/
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My impression is that it can end up with your requirements spread over half of the Internet with very little control which code runs during your build.
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If you replace "installed everywhere" with "reasonably easy to install", there are interesting alternatives among the Lisp dialects. Especially as Python has become a lot more similar to Lisp with many of the additions i
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> Fusion is bullshit. Especially because the Tritium fuel problem is not solved, and nobody has the faintest idea how to solve it. The materials needed to breed Tritium in something different from the Sun (or thermonuclear weapons) just
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> ITER, as of 2006, was supposed to be followed almost immediately by DEMO, a power plant capable of producing electricity in 2033. This is not true. DEMO will not be able to breed Tritium. Without tritium breeding, there will be no self
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> Honestly, ITER is so bad that you're insulting the Shuttle with this comparison. > [ ... ] > It won't even produce any electrical power. Worse. It won't even address the question what could be the so far unknown ne
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by jnxx 6y ago
> Last update to Windows Linux subsystem makes you feel like running Linux natively. It's a huge step and it will only improve. As long as the system collects and exfiltrates data without me explicitly allowing this, and does OS upd
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> Python2 and Python3 are practically speaking different languages - different syntax, different semantics, different libraries, and a different userbase. Yes, and tools and infractstructure should account for that: Python 2 and Python 3
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> it's not just a fault of the language, but also neglect or lack of resources in fields where programming is secondary in nature. A lack of resources for porting and maintaining code to new language versions is totally typical for
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C++ Modules Might Be Dead-on-Arrival(vector-of-bool.github.io)
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> IMO neither party really did anything wrong, the situation is caused by users depending on implementation detail that used to work but no longer does. Slightly exaggeratting, but in the same way, you could say "the designers of th
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By the way, is there any list of such small breaking changes in Python?
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What hasn't been mentioned is the Zim desktop wiki: https://zim-wiki.org/ It as a lot of good ideas: It automatically creates new pages when following links for which a page does not exist yet. It also allows to arrang
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From the github issue: > In short, packaged Debian/ubuntu Python installs things into dist-packages. site-packages is left alone in-case you like to build your own upstream python and install it. Debuntu overrides the distutils it s
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If you write a package and you use pip to install and test it, pip will install the requirements according to what is requested, by default the latest acceptable version. If somebody else installs your package at a later time, pip will agai
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I guess that you do not see conda as a sufficient solution. How would you include and manage binary extension modules written in C which in turn rely on C libraries which might or might not be system libraries? Is it possible to manage that
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A few days ago, I learned that the Python interpreter does not specifically uses semantic versioning. Which means that a change in the minor version number (like 3.8 to 3.9) could break backward compatibility.
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I started to use python about 20 years ago, which was very pleasant (there was a nearly seamless transition from the old Numeric to Numpy at the time). I was using it less regularly for a number of years and came back to it to find what app
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by jnxx 6y ago
Assuming we want something that works now and prefer something that works on POSIX systems over something that is not portable at all, would using GNU Guix (as a package manager) be able to improve the situation? As far as I understand, it
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> It's mc and the command line. But does using both not mean one has to memorize more?
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> You don't need to memorize lots and lots of command line options. But instead, the keyboard shortcuts for the file manager. > Bookmarking directories (local and remote), although there are command line ways to do this. For exam
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by jnxx 6y ago
I'd say it depends on your usage patterns. When I was a beginner, I liked Norton Commander a lot. Together with Midnight Commander (mc) on Linux, it belongs to the family of "orthodox" file managers which ranger is derived fr
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It is also that as soon as you have a rigid robot with that force, speed, and without a steel fence as separation near a human, you have a safety problem. If a human family member holds something like a baseball bat, or a butcher's kni
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> Sure, and that rationale works OK when your code operates in a limited, specialized domain. There are a lot of domains which do have a deep impact on society but are completely underfunded. For example research on ecology and declining
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To be more specific, the critics claim the code would yield completely different results .
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> This was used by the Imperial College for COVID-19 predictions. It has race conditions, seeds the model multiple times, and therefore has totally non-deterministic results[0]. > > [0] https://lockdownsceptics.org/
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> Monte-Carlo can and should be deterministic and repeatable. It’s a matter of correctly initializing you random number generators and providing a known/same random seed from run to run. Perhaps if you use only single-threaded compu
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> Does scientific-grade code need to be reproducible? Yes. Fundamentally yes. The reproducibility of results is core to the scientific method. Yes, that includes Monte Carlo code, [...] Reproducibility in the scientific sense is differen

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