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   by milliams 4y ago

   Ok, fair enough. I guess being right doesn't crop up nine times out of ten after all.
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   by milliams 4y ago

   I still hold that the peak of the Discworld games was Discworld Noir.
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   by milliams 4y ago

   I believe that Poetry does conform to PEP 518 (i.e. it specifies `[build-system]requires/build-backend`), but not to the `dependencies` part of PEP 621 [1]. There are plans for this in the future though [2]. Though I would defer to you
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   by milliams 4y ago

   This article takes its content from the book "Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks" by Keith Houston. The book originated on his website as a series of articles, the "&
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   by milliams 4y ago

   Does not the switch to electric vehicles offer indirect savings elsewhere, making the £35B deficit less? For example, a reduction in air pollution leading to better health and less NHS use, less greenhouse emissions leading to less spent of
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   by milliams 4y ago

   For those wondering, the photos on this page are from around Bristol, UK. They include Blaise Castle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Castle_Estate ), a folly built in 1776 in the top photo, views along the Avon Go
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   Gitea Diaries: Part 1(code.blender.org)

   14 points by milliams 4y ago|1 comments
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   by milliams 4y ago

   And in fact Data Genetics is s great blog with loads of interesting content on maths, statistics and simulation. One that I've used as inspiration for a programming class I was teaching is his analysis of Snakes and Ladders: https:&#x
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   by milliams 4y ago

   The examples of `git reset` and `git checkout` are being fixed by things like separating them out into `git restore` and `git switch` which helps a lot in my experience. Also, `git status` does a good job of reminding you which commands to
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    by milliams 4y ago

    My assumption was that on Linux it's just been using inotify or something for a while and so hasn't needed a bespoke monitor. I have no idea if that's true or makes sense though.
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    by milliams 4y ago

    I think it's also worth clarifying that there are more than one style of RSE. The name came about to describe those researchers/postdocs working in research groups whose contribution was more to the software than to the writing o
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    by milliams 4y ago

    We (the Society of Research Software Engineering) maintain a jobs board at https://society-rse.org/careers/vacancies/ . Or if you are in the US, they have their own ( https://us-rse.org/jobs/ )
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    by milliams 4y ago

    I'm an RSE and the president of the Society of Research Software Engineering ( https://society-rse.org ), a small grass-roots registered charity in the UK that acts as a home for RSEs in the UK and internationally. We came ab
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    by milliams 4y ago

    I would have thought so. Otherwise, all a company would have to do is "sell" the company to another subsidiary and wipe the slate clean.
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    by milliams 5y ago

    You'll find some of those such jobs (Research Software Engineers) at https://society-rse.org/careers/vacancies/
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    by milliams 5y ago

    You are quite right, it's a typo in the article.
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    by milliams 5y ago

    Here's a fun experiment along those lines: https://koaning.github.io/human-learn/ It's not a game, but it is investigating how having a human in the loop can improve ML models.
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    by milliams 5y ago

    Or, in Python a, b = b, a Or Rust: (a, b) = (b, a);
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    by milliams 5y ago

    No, but it does need to be tested and reliable.
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    by milliams 5y ago

    ...in the category of endofunctors?
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    by milliams 5y ago

    That's really cool. I knew that Python had the `readline` module, but didn't know that it monkey-patched the `input` function to add functionality automatically.
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    by milliams 5y ago

    > 10 times fainter What does that mean?
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    by milliams 5y ago

    What this is missing is "what is SPIR-V?" All the other languages and acronyms were introduced, but not that one.
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    by milliams 5y ago

    I think that's a deliberate decision. They know that by the time it gains adoption even C++20 will be "old". By pinning the requirement high now, while there will mostly be early-adopters, startups, open source projects etc t
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    by milliams 5y ago

    One of the first things I do when I install a new app or programme is open the settings and have a look around.
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    by milliams 5y ago

    I have problems remembering the mnemonic for -A and -B. I can't get it straight whether it's "before" and "after" or "above" and "below". I always just try one then the other!
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    by milliams 5y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law strikes again.
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    by milliams 5y ago

    The title is ungrammatical and refers to "states" where the article does not.
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    by milliams 5y ago

    For reference, the release notes for this are at https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html#pep-487-descript... and the PEP is https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0487/
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    by milliams 5y ago

    YAML's parsing of `no` as `False` has not been part of the spec for 13 years now. It was changed in YAML 1.2 in 2009 to only be `true` and `false` (with variations in case allowed I think).