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by pletnes 7y ago
I’ve never encountered a compiler that needed ALL CAPS. I guess some people saw old code and just emulated that.
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by pletnes 7y ago
For some reason, a lot of fortran programmers insist on screaming, even though it’s been optional for 3 decades. I mostly program in python these days...
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by pletnes 7y ago
Fortran has had pure functions and subroutines since well before any of the cool languages. Not that I recommend it in particular.
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by pletnes 7y ago
This is a very valid point. You should include now-defunct companies, as current investors can’t tell whether a company goes bankrupt next year.
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by pletnes 7y ago
Absolute numbers could be up, even if relative share is down. Intel reported growth in fortran compiler sales, but python does grow more, so relative numbers are what you expect.
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by pletnes 7y ago
Complex systems and emergent behavior in these.
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by pletnes 7y ago
AFAIK a pi-hole can use dns-over-https if configured correctly so there’s no either/or.
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by pletnes 7y ago
I figured this benefit would be much greater in a public-facing repo. After all, there’s often a few commits fixing minor linting errors etc just before the final merge. Rebasing these away is reducing noise by alot. Rebasing on master&#x2F
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by pletnes 7y ago
If you’re getting TSV files from an external source and are interested in just some aggregate results, you’ll get better performance by computing the smaller results and storing these than if you first import, then process, then delete the
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by pletnes 7y ago
The RAW format is probably using e.g zlib for compression internally. You can check by calculating how many bytes in total a truly raw image is: 12-16 bits (1.5-2 byte) per pixel.
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by pletnes 7y ago
Outlook webmail works fine offline. You need to enable some setting though.
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by pletnes 7y ago
Or use numpy, like the rest of us.
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by pletnes 7y ago
You can certainly get delta-v with drag. You’ll keep bleeding energy from orbital (kinetic plus potential) to atmospheric heat, but that’s an entirely different thing.
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by pletnes 7y ago
I find it fascinating that the word «quisling» was already in use, coined after the Norwegian traitor from WW2.
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by pletnes 7y ago
Personally, I’ve never noticed bugs, but the performance characteristics are truly weird. If you fill up a large partition, expect using a few days of running various incantations to free space, even after removing plenty of files. I’m comp
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by pletnes 7y ago
In some consulting businesses, managers want similar up to date documents / CV when marketing consultants externally to prospective customers. E.g which projects you’ve worked on etc.
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by pletnes 7y ago
You kids! It’s called a floppy drive . Back in the day, not even the drives were rigid.
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by pletnes 7y ago
It’s also worth noting that CERN has been running (not just using!) many open source projects since way back. Geant, madx, root and cling come to mind.
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by pletnes 7y ago
It gets somewhat screwy given that some organisms are symbiotic, eg lichen, which are composite of algaea and funghi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen
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by pletnes 7y ago
The biggest hurdle for fusion power is, ultimately, how to deal with the neutrons. These particles are electrically neutral and their trajectories are unaffected by electromagnetic fields. The approach so far is to put a «blanket» around th
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by pletnes 7y ago
Scientific cameras with 16 bit ADCs will usually, in my limited experience, have active cooling, eg a peltier element and some fans. Otherwise, 12 bit is probably enough.
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by pletnes 7y ago
No way. A lot of topics are not yet covered, and a lot of people are not yet listening. With a larger audience comes more $, and with more $ comes better content, over time. I’d guess we are at a time when competition sets in, and (some of)
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by pletnes 7y ago
Micropython runs in 16k RAM. https://micropython.org/
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by pletnes 7y ago
If you’re into minimal docker images, bash or similar shell might be the only script interpreter available. Python might not exist on your windows machine. Etc.
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by pletnes 7y ago
If you’re a coder, what about github pages?
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by pletnes 7y ago
A lot. Large parts of the world’s «farm area» is land used for grazing and may not be suitable for monoculture farming. I don’t know if this applies to the meat found in your particular neighbourhood, though.
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by pletnes 7y ago
Stop using pesticides. Gardening uses more chemicals per area than farming by at least an order of magnitude, as people don’t care about cost. It’s not something that will solve everything, but it’s a thing you can do, now.
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by pletnes 7y ago
Firefox sync is amazing and one of the reasons I never got hooked on chrome (I tried using it for a full year). I often do research on iOS for coding related topics. Send tab to device - boom, it’s there when I need it and I’ve got my text
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by pletnes 7y ago
I always figured, why not leave that crap for an after-checkout form? Z% discount if you sign up, or whatever. It’s worth something, after all.
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by pletnes 7y ago
Possibly the geoid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid?wprov=sfti1 It’s a surface describing constant (magnitude of) the acceleration of gravity.

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