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by p4ul 2y ago
I strongly agree with this sentiment. And I realize that we might not be the representative of the typical user, but nonetheless, I think these things definitely matter for some subset of users.
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by p4ul 2y ago
I agree; this is incredibly short-sighted. And it has the potential to be catastrophic for scientific progress in the United States. Scientific innovation happens because countries invest in basic and applied research. This research largely
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Research Universities Are Poised to Lose Billions Under Trump's Sudden Cut(chronicle.com)
9 points by p4ul 2y ago|3 comments
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Go is a well designed language, actually(mattjhall.co.uk)
10 points by p4ul 2y ago|9 comments
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by p4ul 2y ago
"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison." [1]. [1.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s
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by p4ul 2y ago
This is one kind of macro in Rust: declarative macros [1]. The other kind of macros in Rust are procedural macros [2]. Both are widely used in idiomatic Rust. And even within the procedural type of macros, there are different categories of
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by p4ul 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20241214005511/https://www.forbe...
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Ad-Hoc Effects in Rust(capi.hannobraun.com)
5 points by p4ul 2y ago|0 comments
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by p4ul 2y ago
With all the overdose deaths and the lives ruined by opioids, I guess I'm a little bit surprised this didn't result in criminal charges for someone at McKinsey. Surely there must be some emails or texts that are inculpating.
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Typst as a Language(justinpombrio.net)
17 points by p4ul 2y ago|0 comments
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Anaconda updating its Terms of Service(anaconda.com)
1 points by p4ul 2y ago|0 comments
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by p4ul 2y ago
Indeed! I feel like we as a community have taken a wrong turn with our use of notebooks. I think they have benefits in some specific use cases (e.g., teaching, demos, etc.), but otherwise, I think they mostly encourage bad practices for sof
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Update on Anaconda's Terms of Service for Academia and Research(anaconda.com)
2 points by p4ul 2y ago|0 comments
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by p4ul 2y ago
This is correct, sadly. I've done some work with the public data from the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA does a great job of making detailed data on inspections and accidents public. If memory serves me c
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by p4ul 2y ago
I think there is a fair bit of personal tastes in the answers to these kinds of questions. Personally, I've become a fan of Josh Comeau's "delightful React file/directory structure" [1]. I think it makes a ton of se
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by p4ul 2y ago
Very cool! Thank for this, claytonjy!!
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by p4ul 2y ago
I usually assume these companies are using some of the popular schedulers (e.g., Slurm, MOAB, SGE) that have existed in the HPC community for many years. I have anecdotally also heard that some are using k8s, but I've not seen that mys
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by p4ul 2y ago
They are going to have to pry Firefox out of my cold, dead hands!
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by p4ul 2y ago
I've only used Arc a bit, and generally had a good experience, but I do wish that they had chosen not to rely Chromium. I understand that would have massively increased the amount of work required initially, but I really worry about ou
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by p4ul 2y ago
You are correct! This is Cunningham's Law [1]! And it seems exceedingly plausible after observing behavior on many online forums! [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
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by p4ul 3y ago
Very cool! I hope the Rust crate gets to take advantage of this. It might just be me, but I feel like the Python package gets all the love from the Polars devs.
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by p4ul 3y ago
This is exactly what I would argue. PostgreSQL makes it straightforward to create extremely powerful extensions. PostGIS is one such extension, and I would argue that if your use case involves geospatial data, then PostGIS alone is enough o
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by p4ul 3y ago
At least in the US, an institution’s “facilities and administrative” F&A rate gets negotiated with the Federal government every four or five years. I know of some institutions with F&A rates at or above 70%!! I presume that an insti
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by p4ul 3y ago
In the US, most employers roughly follow the guidelines that the Federal government uses [1]. Which is to say, that employment is "at will", and either the employer or employee can terminate the relationship at any time. The obvio
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by p4ul 3y ago
Yes! I couldn't possibly agree more; this is truly my fondest wish!
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by p4ul 3y ago
I'm inclined to agree with this. I'm super excited to see how Candle progresses in the coming years!
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by p4ul 3y ago
I might be wrong, but the wording of that question suggests it was only answered by people who consider themselves part of an underrepresented or marginalized group. So only a subset of the survey's responders answered. This is also su
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by p4ul 3y ago
Oh, I actually had not yet heard of the DataFusion crate! Thanks for sharing! And to answer your question, we use the Rust API because all of our backend services are in Rust, and we like to stay in Rust whenever possible.
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by p4ul 3y ago
This echos my personal experience as well. I would also add that there now seems to be more of an emphasis around being intentional in how languages foster community. The C and C++ communities (in my opinion) became how they are not by desi
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by p4ul 3y ago
I absolutely love Polars, and I use the Rust crate all the time! I think my only gripe is that the Rust API seems (to me at least) to be less well documented than the Python API. I guess Python is the de facto data science language, so mayb

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