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by patrick5415 7y ago
Yeah, I usually interpret headlines like that as ultimately stemming from a press release from some lab. It’s a really sad commentary on the state of current journalism.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
I like autotools. So much better than cmake.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
> or get themselves fired from a real world programming job. Think spaghetti code, lack of testing or continuous integration, non compliance with standards, etc. Perhaps, but doing all those things would get them fired from the job they
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by patrick5415 7y ago
I’ve found writing in markdown and converting to other formats to be a very frustrating experience. It only works well for exceptionally simple documents. But as soon as you want something even slightly complicated it falls apart. Side-by-s
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by patrick5415 7y ago
The ability to have your simulation code automatically update the data and figures in the manuscript is hugely valuable. Another neat trick is a latex package called Catchfilebetweentags. This let’s you have a text file with named data fie
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by patrick5415 7y ago
I find the modern web insufferable. Personally, I prefer the style of hacker news. It’s a breath of fresh air compared to the rest of the bloated, vapid web. I like that some designer hasn’t gotten ahold of the style sheet and replaced all
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Agreed. For anything complicated, I’ll always download the pdf. I don’t really find it burdensome pan and zoom a pdf, even on mobile. It seems to work a lot better than publishers attempts at producing web versions of papers, which I find g
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by patrick5415 7y ago
> Data exploration: I find this easier in R. Packages like dplyr help a lot here. Pandas' API is somewhat cumbersome I can’t claim to have tried everything out there, but so far it’s been my experience that matlab beats the socks of
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by patrick5415 7y ago
How you search for things and You search for things are not the same thing.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Completely agree. I don’t really understand the motivation for this behavior—surely they are not trying conserve disk space? I’d really like the history to just be like a log file. Even better if I could search within a specified time windo
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by patrick5415 7y ago
I’m not really very facile with excel, but one place it’s really handy for me is situations that combine manual data entry with computation. A super simple example is keeping track of monthly bills when you have flat mates, and need to spli
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by patrick5415 7y ago
I think that somehow correcting the power imbalance is the key to improving the lives of grad students. In most normal jobs, if your boss is a jerk, you typically have the ability to leave and go somewhere else, and quite possibly end up be
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Personally, I prefer generic services that don’t know what I like. Confirmation bias is a hard enough foe as it is.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
So you’re degrading the charge from maliciousness to incompetence?
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Interesting. One of the reasons I switched to mutt (well, neomutt) is that it is faster for me to work with attachements from a cli. This is mostly due to tab completion, which for commonly accessed locations is practically muscle memory. T
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by patrick5415 7y ago
I was running Debian 9, with Julia from julialang.org (not the Debian repo). This was six months ago so maybe things have improved since then.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
I didn’t find the REPL that great, because it takes forever to jit anything. My laptop is not that old and creating an array with 5 elements takes over a second. If I type a syntax error, it takes tens of seconds to produce an error. This y
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Yes, one may keep that in mind when working something on scratch paper. But when it’s possible for things to be complex, the standard notation is something like A^ . In my opinion, it is rather sloppy to write A^T and expect the reader to s
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Because the idea that one can separate content from presentation appears as an elegant Platonic ideal to a lot of folks. The trouble seems to be that content and presentation are not actually disjoint sets. And (a perhaps different) set of
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by patrick5415 7y ago
About the only time JavaScript is useful is something like google docs. The rest is just fluff and there’s no reason a webpage should require it.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Honestly, nobody(except the fanbois) cares about the story or Tesla’s original intention. All that matters is what they are actually doing. And what they’re actually doing is skeevy.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Whether the updates are beneficial or enervating, the ability to modify what should be my car is precisely the reason I will never own a Tesla.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Gnucash can use a MySQL database. I wonder if your suggestion would be immediately possible by just putting the DB on a server.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
If you’re handy python, check out its python api. Another method is to have gnucash store it’s data in a MySQL database, and query that directly. But I agree that having more powerful reporting built would be nice.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
But only if the extra doctors were sufficiently competent.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Well the target user of Julia is the mathy/sciency people, not the cs folks, as far as I know...
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by patrick5415 7y ago
No. Air travel is still incredibly safe, a few high profile accidents notwithstanding.
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by patrick5415 7y ago
The hardware compatibility thing almost bit me. I have an older dell t3600 that a bought a new Radeon 480 GPU for. I only verified that the power supply could handle it and the pci slots were compatible. The card “fit” but I couldn’t put si
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by patrick5415 7y ago
The first few paragraphs paint a picture of why the author thinks tourism by the massses is a problem. But then proceeds to tell us how when only aristocrats traveled, there was no problem. Not being an aristocrat, the obvious implication i
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by patrick5415 7y ago
Personally, I got about a third of the way through and clicked out because I felt the same disgust as the op. At least to the point in the article I got to, the author didn’t cite any real data, just cherry picked anecdotes to support their

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