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by peatmoss 6y ago
In terms of “don’t make me think about why Julia is fast but feels slow for casual use” this release is going to be a game changer. I just did a “using Plots” in 1.6.0, and it was fast enough to not care about the delta between Plots and, s
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I recently listened to a podcast that talked about the strengths of this model, but then also talked about the kinds of problems where OODA loops are a poor fit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sr4s
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I think there’s too much corporate dependence on Linux for it to go away. There may be a tragedy of the commons where companies dependent on Linux fail to invest enough in it to keep it thriving. And corporate purposes may not align with ho
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by peatmoss 6y ago
I had no idea this would be such big news on HN. Chick is one of those musicians who plugged straight into my brain. Saw him live with Origin and remember being awestruck both at the music that was happening, as well as the fact that Chick
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by peatmoss 6y ago
Sometimes I wonder if the Linux ecosystem’s footprint is too big to maintain reasonably. I am impressed by the OpenBSD team, as they have created a pretty big ecosystem of code that they’re able to apparently keep a lot of eyes on. And then
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Memristors are the technology that seemed poised to usher in a new era of computing. The promise of being able to redraw the current computer architectural hierarchies is tantalizing. If machine learning applications are what finally get me
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The Expanse did this.
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On the other hand, even if it’s highly speculative, the cons for most people are “feeling hungry” and “a handful of other benefits that are supported by a growing body of evidence.” I’m all about rigorously testing the hypothesis over time,
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by peatmoss 6y ago
I just wrote in another comment that I wish I had a little more desktop in my i3/sway, and this looks to be the ticket.
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by peatmoss 6y ago
Yeah, there’s a core of “just enough” desktop support that I wish I could get with i3 and Sway that I didn’t have to painstakingly do myself.
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by peatmoss 6y ago
As a widespread counterpoint, look at Chrome OS. I’ve never seen any ChromeBook, clear back to the very first CR-48 ever fail on this. That said, I have a work laptop (HP Elitebook G5) running Ubuntu that wakes and sleeps perfectly. Same si
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by peatmoss 6y ago
I’ve heard people talk about how similar Dylan and Julia are for a long time, but have never used Dylan myself. Are there any things that are standouts for Dylan as compared to Julia that are worth checking out? I feel like Julia is pretty
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by peatmoss 6y ago
Julia (runner up R) feel like the lispyest non-lisps to do serious numerical work in. Julia’s at the point where it has some best-in-class libraries as well as some frustrating blind spots. With Julia I can almost pretend I’m using a stra
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by peatmoss 6y ago
I agree about Racket. While various lisps occupy specific niches, I feel like Racket is the lisp that checks the most boxes—especially for someone getting started and shopping around for the “right” lisp.
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by peatmoss 6y ago
R’s meta programming facilities are head and shoulders above Python’s, which I think explains the brilliance of dplyr and dbplyr. But I feel like with R you have to scrape back a bunch of layers to get to the Schemey parts. I’ve always wond
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by peatmoss 6y ago
R vs. Python flamewars always strike me as a Budweiser vs. Miller kind of argument. Neither is really a “craft beer” of programming languages. Neither are super remarkable as programming languages. Both made a bunch pragmatic tradeoffs to a
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by peatmoss 6y ago
NextSpace is an attempt to build a full OS around GNUstep: https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace The person behind it seems to still be plugging away. I’d love to see some real inertia behind this kind of effort.
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My biggest regret from all this was that Apple became the sole inheritor of the NeXT workstation vision. I feel more now than ever that an Open Source OpenStep (OSOS?) could have been an epically productive relationship for the Mac and Linu
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by peatmoss 6y ago
The best doctor’s office experiences I’ve had were in a country with socialized health insurance (not socialized health care). I’m pretty convinced that private providers with public insurance is the optimum for providing a high standard of
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by peatmoss 6y ago
My grandfather was a beekeeper in Montana and swore by spotted napweed honey. Of course spotted napweed is invasive and should be ripped out when found outside of its native Europe.
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I hadn’t seen the magazine, but this looks like a great idea to keep abreast of current and curated activities. Thank you for that pointer.
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Yeah, I figure that will be the case. I assume I’ll have to do some work to see what is resonating with her and what is boring. I am hoping that someone will have some recommended starting places though—I feel like there are probably some t
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Does anyone have any good recommendations for resources / projects for a computer-interested 12 year old? I was thinking of buying a Pi4 for my niece who is “getting into computers” but I fear my tastes in what constitutes interesting
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by peatmoss 6y ago
As an avowed skeptic of all things deep learning, I do wonder if there is a role for AI generated native code from some form of psuedocode. I know that a lot of old school code used very little memory due to everything sharing one set of li
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by peatmoss 6y ago
“Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping” must be an alien sentiment to so many younger techies.
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by peatmoss 6y ago
I replaced an NVidia 1060 with a 5700XT and also feel it’s been a major improvement on Linux. Ubuntu mostly handles the NVidia driver installation and upgrades, but only mostly. Having the card supported in the kernel is excellent. That, an
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by peatmoss 6y ago
Does anyone know the status of Freesync / VRR on Gnome-Wayland? Last time I investigated this, I went down a rabbit hole that made me vow to buy a Playstation.
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by peatmoss 6y ago
I was just thinking that, if X.org truly were abandonware (I have no basis to accept or reject the opinion reported in this article), OpenBSD becomes a bit of a haven. My understanding is that Wayland does address some security issues in X1
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Yeah, the author didn’t specify why he thought EDN wasn’t more than “a good start.” I’m curious what it’s missing!
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As an occasional OpenBSD user since the early-ish days in the late 90s, this makes me feel old. Congratulations on the release and for staying true to your vision all these years. OpenBSD still feels like an old friend from the moment I see

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