mangecoeur

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by mangecoeur 5y ago
Its alluded to in the article, one of the biggest issues is the lack of incentives to actually check whether anything is working. Energy is cheap and construction works by ticking regulatory boxes, as long as there is no incentive or obliga
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by mangecoeur 5y ago
... because otherwise the system whereby giant corporations run on software maintained by free labour comes grinding to a halt :P
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by mangecoeur 5y ago
For sure if they could, they would.
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by mangecoeur 5y ago
That's not the point, people are using python so when they work with other people, it helps if everyone is using python. Maybe CPAN was first but it never became standard in the science community.
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by mangecoeur 5y ago
> part of a python script and miss one blank space somewhere at the end of a line or start copying in the wrong line. If you use a dumb text editor the script will easily turn into a ugly mess. I think we can bury this 'Python has s
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by mangecoeur 5y ago
Exactly this. To some extent the language doesn't matter - although I think Python has become especially popular thanks to being one of the easiest languages to learn and use in practice. Then you get lots of network effects - e.g. gra
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by mangecoeur 5y ago
People like other people using python because it makes it easier to share and exchange and built a community of knowledge and libraries. Science is a lot about ease of collaboration.
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by mangecoeur 5y ago
I guess we've fallen off the end of the blockchain hype curve
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by mangecoeur 5y ago
Because much of the power of python comes from its libraries, many of which depend on C(++) extensions tied to details of CPython interpreter. It's very hard to write a JIT without breaking this. For example, all the numerical/sc
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by mangecoeur 5y ago
It's Pyston 2.2, not Python 2.2
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by mangecoeur 5y ago
In many ways nice that they open their performance work, some of which could be upstreamed. In some ways a bit cheeky that they took the 'dump it and see' approach rather than offering to work to upstream it, since it's kinda
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by mangecoeur 5y ago
That’s... not true. The EU has clearly stated the need to regulate the group of technologies broadly marketed as “AI” and that the rapid evolution of the technology means there is not point to make an exact definition of it at this time. Ba
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
So... pretty much vindicating the article posted a few days ago pointing out that FSF has descended into absurd paranoia where the criticism of one man's behaviour is an attack on the essence of freedom itself.
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
Self replying because this seems to have tickled a few people the wrong way: I'm specifically complaining about the online presentation of the mail/archive (or lack thereof), not the use of mail per-se. Simply, you can't comp
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
So we agree that the online presentation is not good - I have no issue with email particularly, i have a problem with the email archives. More specifically, the fact that no one cares about the usability of the archive or online presentatio
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
I've always found it emblematic of the basic problems of this community that they choose to a communicate through mailing lists with an online interface that looks crap no matter how you try to view it. Like, if they had dumped the tex
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
> A killer feature of siuba is that the same analysis code can be run on a local DataFrame, or a SQL source. Everyone thinks this is a good idea until they discover that SQL is not actually very portable, and any attempt to make it so n
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
They mention the involvement of research institutions - the Swiss universities use a common OwnCloud system (Switch Drive) for researchers to store and share files within and between institutions; which generally works very well. So seems l
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
just... no. We are not talking about a number line here, we are talking about array indexing. That is a list of things that you count starting from the beginning. Like, no one lines up their children and says 'here is my Zeroth child&#
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
Honestly 0-based indexing is one of the most annoying things to teach. In sciences, people really don't care about programming arcana: I have never found anyone who found 0-based indexing natural or intuitive. In fact, much of the vehe
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
Actually I think this kind of example is exactly the problem: people think that if Jonathan Blow can do it with a plain text editor, anyone can. But Mr Blow is one of the very best in his field, the vast majority of programmers are not at t
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
Tbh this sounds more like “we dont need all these newfangled tools, in my day we just ...” writing software is complex, you do actually need sophisticated tools. Saying the language is simple just moves the complexity somewhere else. I say
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
This point was also made in David Attenborough’s recent climate documentary: the point is not about palm oil but about rainforest protection. If there is no protection, and if people can’t make a living another way, the forest will be cut f
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
So... energy performance contracting with the word "blockchain" glued on the end. This is not the first time people have proposed this, someone even pitched this to our research group not long ago. The basic idea of broadening the
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
A point I think people miss with Python is they talk a lot about 'Python Software Developers', but I think the growth is coming from areas where people are NOT developers, but are using scripting/automation in other fields. T
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
I find it a bit weird that people are treating all this as a new thing. There have been no-code/visual programming tools for ages, especially in creative industries, e.g MAX & Reaktor (music DSP), Grasshopper (architecture), visual
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
I have rarely seen so much effort and intellect expended for something so wildly pointless... conspicuously missing from these whole shenanigans: anyone doing anything that a normal person could recognise as being of practical use.
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
I literally caved and installed the app just because using the mobile page was infuriating or even straight up impossible (e.g. when the full page popover add for the app craps out and you can't dismiss it to see the content). As a lon
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
Can an American please explain how a 3h41 minute car journey to Tahoe turns into an 8h49(!) train journey? Are your trains pulled by horses or something?
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by mangecoeur 6y ago
> GNUplot is language independent Not really since it's dependent on its own scripting language. That's like saying Matplotlib is language independent, you just need to know its scripting language (Python).

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