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by mbauman 5y ago
Strong disagree. You should always apologize for _what you did_ not the _effects_ of what you did. Lead with and more strongly emphasize your actions and how they were inappropriate.
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by mbauman 5y ago
Right, my point wasn't that what I listed was the universe, but rather that "software development" could be outside their wheelhouse and could easily be presented poorly to them. I'm sure they'd do a fine job ident
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by mbauman 5y ago
"It's just software" IRBs are typically more equipped for biological/psychological research and likely wouldn't have the technical chops to see past the software to the real world, especially if it was presented to
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by mbauman 5y ago
Don't harass people.
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by mbauman 6y ago
Amusingly Discourse doesn't have downvotes. It's a great piece of software, but the way in which the meta site is run is a little strange.
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by mbauman 6y ago
I tried Dvorak for a year and hotkeys are what made me go back. Hotkeys are this bizarre mix of positional _and_ semantic locations. That is, some are the keys they are because of where the keys are placed (most notably z-x-c-v but also j-
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by mbauman 6y ago
And then the very decision to step back must be weighted against the fact that there will be highly visible public commentary like this very thread, raking your passion project over the coals and questioning your experiences and motives.
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by mbauman 6y ago
Ah, I see, you're wchristian // mithaldu? I didn't initially connect the usernames; sock puppeting needn't be contained to a single site when there's discussion spanning multiple.
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by mbauman 6y ago
Why the sock puppet if it's not "real" harassment?
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by mbauman 6y ago
Is it `a-long-identifier` or is it `x-y`?
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by mbauman 6y ago
> Julia is not "magically" faster than other languages That's somewhat true, and is at the end-point of some mismatched expectations when folks come to Julia. Julia is a high-level dynamic language whose semantics are con
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by mbauman 6y ago
Thanks for the suggestion!
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by mbauman 6y ago
FWIW, Julia does segment its method tables into multiple layers depending upon size and type. Multiple dispatch is a strict superset of single-dispatch, and indeed the first layer is just a dictionary/hash table lookup on the first ar
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by mbauman 6y ago
Thanks for the report: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/40190 Edit: it's now building: https://github.com/JuliaLang/docs.julialang.org/runs/2196972...
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Julia 1.6 Highlights(julialang.org)
410 points by mbauman 6y ago|214 comments
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by mbauman 6y ago
Sure, there is a subset of behaviors for which this style makes sense, but it's just as well supported by simply defining your own functions alongside the struct.
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by mbauman 6y ago
Julia will be able to generate c-compatible .so/.dlls in a not so distant future.
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by mbauman 6y ago
I actually find it far more linguistic, that is, more akin to natural languages. In my view, it's not multiple dispatch per se that is the bigger departure from traditional OOP, it's the fact that methods are no longer contained i
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by mbauman 6y ago
I've found https://github.com/novnc/noVNC useful when I want to run something with a GUI in a container. Spin it up, forward the port, connect via browser.
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Matlab vs. Julia vs. Python(tobydriscoll.net)
151 points by mbauman 7y ago|146 comments
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by mbauman 7y ago
I certainly didn't appreciate how much SIM cards are the keys to our modern lives until mine got stolen. Interestingly, my thieves took a different tack: they actually stole the physical SIM card! You might ask how this could happe
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by mbauman 8y ago
For a certain value of "good", yes. > This is thought to be entirely secure against the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities, which require speculative execution on branch instructions. > The mov-only DOOM renders approx
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by mbauman 8y ago
Oh, I'm well aware. That gets at my point, though: Julia's ranges are _just_ arrays, and behave like all other arrays in the language.
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by mbauman 8y ago
I'm not sure where one goes in the AWS web interface to view these icons. Poking around the EC2 menus for a while, I don't see an icon anywhere. I wouldn't say the icons are _good_, but I wonder if part of the reason the quiz
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by mbauman 8y ago
The article describes the why (Facebook etc.) and what (FreedomBox[1]) but I don't think it's immediately clear how "cheap, small, low-power plug servers" circumvent tracking unless you already knew about FreedomBox. Fro
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by mbauman 8y ago
Same. I took the manual to school for weeks so my friends and I could look at all the crazy Metzen illustrations.
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by mbauman 8y ago
This feels especially true in the areas where I work (mostly backend web dev.) In an office where the dress code is jeans and a t-shirt or hoodie anyway, having some tattoos doesn't seem especially unprofessional. I had always been war
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by mbauman 9y ago
I'd like to add 'Epistory' to the list of programs for practicing typing at the end. I picked it up in a Humble Bundle and was surprised by how much fun it was. Pretty, too.
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by mbauman 9y ago
In case you missed it yesterday, the the second article is an interview with Tim Sweeney. Article here: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidLightbown/20180109/3094... And relevant HN discussion: https:&#x2F
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by mbauman 9y ago
This was my thought after seeing the Pulp Fiction example. The Uma image is iconic, and a lot of work has been done to get it littered around big box stores and plastered on dorm room walls. Using a different image ignores the strength of

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