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721.
by pletnes 7y ago
Pacman is, subjectively, the fastest package manager I’ve ever used. Not sure if it’s C vs python though, apt is also much slower on many tasks.
722.
by pletnes 7y ago
In my experience, journals sometimes use old versions of packages, so you often don’t want to use the «modern way». Examples: lualatex is often not available, biblatex is not supported, etc
723.
by pletnes 7y ago
There is always Rpy for calling R functions from python, if you have to write your program in python but need a stats function from R. I guess python is always the choice if you’re writing software, although for interactive use YMMV.
724.
by pletnes 7y ago
The collaboration and sync tools are very useful, including performant editing by multiple authors at once.
725.
by pletnes 7y ago
This is a natural step that I’ve been waiting for for years. This can almost remove the need for password typing, as you don’t even need one to unlock the device anymore. Let’s hope Microsoft does the same, and integrates with apple’s solut
726.
by pletnes 7y ago
Can you use your API to perform the updates? Btw balena is a great service, good job!
727.
by pletnes 7y ago
Their server component is FOSS and you can self-host. You need to do a bit of extra config on the devices but it’s documented. Disclaimer: I’ve never tried it myself.
728.
by pletnes 7y ago
Take a look at balenaCloud if you want to deploy containers to IoT devices. (Disclaimer: happy customer). Their free tier is free forever, too.
729.
by pletnes 7y ago
some C libraries release the GIL before running CPU intensive computations. Examples include numpy and hashlib.
730.
by pletnes 7y ago
How do people use autoformatters in CI pipelines? I dislike the fact that precommit hooks have to be set up for each git clone. Is there a better way?
731.
by pletnes 7y ago
A nice thing with WSL is that you get working make and rsync. But I would like make for coding on native windows. Many FOSS projects use Makefile as the parent post described.
732.
by pletnes 7y ago
One of the worst problems with using windows (in my opinion) is that there’s no native GNU make.
733.
by pletnes 7y ago
Even if the missile is not destroyed, optical sensor systems must necessarily absorb some light, and will probably be destroyed. This is a possible tactic employed by less powerful lasers, too.
734.
by pletnes 8y ago
If you’re doing (data analysis|simulations|Image processing) you can offload computation to numpy, which releases the GIL. This allows nice multicore speedups with python and threading. The same holds for various CPU intensive standard libr
735.
by pletnes 8y ago
Afaik you can disable autoplay in the options?
736.
by pletnes 8y ago
It’s a big difference, but the parent post indicated that partial installation was not possible at all. At least that was my understanding.
737.
by pletnes 8y ago
Last time I checked, pandoc’s LaTeX parser did not support too much of the TeX syntax. It only works for some subset of LaTeX, basically
738.
by pletnes 8y ago
Both texlive and miktex allow selectively installing some packages only. AFAIK the difference is that miktex will show a popup saying «do you want to install foopackage?» when you try to compile a document which uses foopackage, and you don
739.
by pletnes 8y ago
True. I use vmware and my ubuntu vm is faster than my windows host. This makes hyper-v and docker on windows incompatible, though. I run i3 inside vmware. I would expect virtualbox to be ok too, for this use case.
740.
by pletnes 8y ago
Did you check out grabcad? Kinda sorta like github, but for things rather than code.
741.
by pletnes 8y ago
I’ve compiled fortran code from approx 1965. Works the same today. I don’t know of anything that is as compatible as standard Fortran code. That being said, quite a few vendor extensions are floating around, and often old codebases rely on
742.
by pletnes 8y ago
I have small kids and have noticed that they can consistently screw up a task when you’re teaching them something. A few days later, they can suddenly do the task without thinking. I suspect learning happens partly after the fact, analogous
743.
by pletnes 8y ago
Also getting time to reflect without bombardment of new information.
744.
by pletnes 8y ago
To me, subjectively, VMWare is much, much faster when it comes to GUI stuff. I suspect GPU virtualization plays a role there. I haven’t compared raw compute performance (build/test workflows, for instance) in a terminal, though.
745.
by pletnes 8y ago
I’ve done similar things with pycharm. I can run pycharm locally but run a remote python process. .py files are automatically uploaded and I can debug over the network just fine. I know eclipse, and presumsbly others, can do the same.
746.
by pletnes 8y ago
It does.
747.
by pletnes 8y ago
Too bad there’s no rsync for windows
748.
by pletnes 8y ago
Some servers, and some clients, only support one of them. I’ve run into servers without sftp and subsequently stopped using it, as scp always works. Also rsync does not exist on windows, for instance git bash has only scp AFAIK.
749.
by pletnes 8y ago
I suppose you could concat strings and do it in a finally clause? Or use python’s context managers and do the logging in the __exit__().
750.
by pletnes 8y ago
Python can be statically typed with mypy and type annotations.

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