mkoubaa

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by mkoubaa 1y ago
Nobody has ever, in the history of Python, called the Python C API easy.
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
Is not for laugh, is for stories by fire.
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
That tracks. Language is a kind of technology, that evolves to adapt to new uses. A simple elegant python program that fits on a slide might have taken tens of thousands of lines of obtuse fortran.
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
Kant was an awful writer and _nobody_ thinks otherwise.
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
Marx and his hot takes are highly overrated
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
This feels like a cousin of the idea that the funnier the joke the more truth it uncovers.
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
> It is worth trying out one of the many web based reaction time testers – you will find that you average over 160 milliseconds. TIL JC has elite reflexes
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
If you lose your credit card you still have to make payments
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
It's actually the inverse. Code is a liability, software is value. That's why we spent all our time splitting hairs to get more elegant ways to try and produce more software with less code.
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
Looking forward to the day we might have home appliances without on board cpus, they will just be LAN wifi firmware devices. Something like HA could be used to make them as smart or as dumb as the user wants without giving the manufacture
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
You need to invent calculus to get partial differential equations. You need invent PDEs to get approximate solutions to PDEs. You need to invent approximate solutions to PDEs to get computational methods. You need to invent computational me
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
You are never simulating pure anything. All computational models are wrong. Some are useful
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
There are countless applications other than the n-body problem for which my point holds
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
My favorite thing about this kind of code is that people are constantly inventing new techniques to do time integration. It's the sort of thing you'd think was a solved problem but then when you read about time integration strateg
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C44&q=%22...
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
Just because a slur happens to be the same word as a technical term doesn't mean it can't be used as a technical term anymore. Anyone working in the field or had awareness of it knows the appropriate connotation. It causes me phys
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
I'll buy this when people who write web pages for a living exclusively support Chrome
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
I can't imagine why someone would care about that, rather than about the specific changes they actually use or want to use.
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
We demand an opt out!
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
Modules implicate the entire toolchain, backward compatibility, and binary compatibility. constexpr is a compiler feature. Wild that they are being compared.
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
No need to trust them. Use it and if the license changes fork it again. Where is the problem?
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
The bad is already priced in. Nothing wrong with hoping for more good.
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
I wish I had that problem, instead I have a speed problem. But if I solved the speed problem I might bitch about chaos. And if I solved the chaos problem I might bitch about freedom. My definition of a solution is to trade a problem you hav
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
When takes like these go mainstream (Financial Times, etc) I buy.
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
And my original point is related to the idea that the kind of abstractions that are useful for math are sometimes harmful when applied to code, especially in the hands of unseasoned developers.
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
The most irritating kind of junior devs to work with are the ones who refactor code into abstraction oblivion that nobody can decipher in the name of code deduplication or some other contrived metric. That phenotype is well-represented in m
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
This. If someone can't correctly articulate the advantages of Fortran they shouldn't be migrating away from it. This is not to say that migrations should never happen.
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
Agreed. This kind of writing is skimmable but not readable to me.
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by mkoubaa 1y ago
I am pretty sure the only way to reduce the number of cells is liposuction
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
(1) and (2) have some merit but (3) is total nonsense

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