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by pletnes 8y ago
In what way is windows 10 then the best OS? An OS that keeps breaking by updates is pretty much the worst OS by my standards. At work about 30% of computers have been reinstalled due to windows update failures over a year or so. Pretty awfu
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by pletnes 8y ago
No data cleaning required. That’s often 80% of a project. So 2 months -> 2 weeks makes sense now!
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by pletnes 8y ago
Depends. If the CPU runs at 100% utilization on all cores, I’ve seen battery life drop from 5 to 1 hour (for example).
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by pletnes 8y ago
If used correctly, «this should not happen» can be very useful, indicating e.g that the program is in some illegal state, as opposed to the input being incorrectly formatted.
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by pletnes 8y ago
I’m watching netflix on my chromecast or smart tv. There’s no storage to speak of. I’m guessing that only PCs would be suited for what you’re suggesting, and that very few people watch on PCs.
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by pletnes 8y ago
The same can be seen in the fortran community. The common factor is that both languages are case insensitive. All upper case makes no sense whatsoever.
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by pletnes 8y ago
Seconded, on linux for me though.
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by pletnes 8y ago
Did you try numba yet?
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by pletnes 8y ago
How do people use pypy? Do you target it from the start of a project, or port existing projects to it?
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by pletnes 8y ago
Fortran has had it since the 90s, but importantly,it has elementwise operations built right into the language. Python does not, but operator overloading allows for a good array library to be implemented (numpy). Many computations contain ot
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by pletnes 8y ago
Afaik Go does not have operator overloading and, hence, will never be popular for numerics, just like java never was (or will be). Python has this flexibility and allows for great numerics libs for this reason.
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by pletnes 8y ago
Catching one russian spy? That’s not even worth the hardware cost of the cameras installed in the UK.
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by pletnes 8y ago
ag is made to search code specifically. grep is a more general purpose text search tool and better suited (imho) for handling data (in contrast to code). Also, it’s always installed. I’ve never been on a machine with ag unless if I’ve insta
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by pletnes 8y ago
I printed a cheat sheet. The first 1-2 weeks are less productive. After that, it’s «life before and after». Would recommend learning plain vim, just to keep yourself from getting confused from what’s vim and what’s intellij.
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by pletnes 8y ago
Relatedly, the emacs users I’ve met were 10+ years older than me (so far). Also, a huge number of other editors have vim keybindings as an option or plugin: intellij, eclipse, visual studio - the list goes on forever...
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by pletnes 8y ago
I auto-forward all my @gmail emails to my @owndomain one. This removes manual checking of multiple accounts, at least.
797.
by pletnes 8y ago
1. Be a frontend developer 2. Draw the rest of the f * owl
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by pletnes 8y ago
Standup just before lunch might work better. That’s my experience.
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by pletnes 8y ago
A shout out to biorxiv.org for doing a great job there!
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by pletnes 8y ago
In many cases, it’s a scientist’s only way to advance his or her career.
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by pletnes 8y ago
Anaconda python contains both pyqt and qt. That’s what we use. Pip contains just the python bits, not the Qt bits - at least this is true for PyQt.
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by pletnes 8y ago
The article argues that you should test larger units (integration tests) rather than unit tests, but also that you should use a statically typed language. This leads to less flexibility and more «ossification» in my experience, much like th
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by pletnes 8y ago
AFAIR there was a story stating that the windows team is now part of azure and some other project, no longer having its own team. Apt is so different from homebrew that I don’t think they’re worth comparing directly. Fwiw people run homebre
804.
by pletnes 8y ago
I believe /bin/sh is the default, not bash. But this can be changed.
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by pletnes 8y ago
Then some user will copy a directory, check it in, and declare that s/he «has branched the code». Oh, and quietly pull in some other directory, which is clearly not branched. This is just broken IMHO.
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by pletnes 8y ago
The fact that branching = copied directories is certainly wrong.
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by pletnes 8y ago
What happens if you replace the glibc malloc used in implementations of higher level languages like python/ruby/js? Aren’t these languages big on allocating small objects very often?
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by pletnes 8y ago
I work on an image/video analysis type project. Internet connectivity is over (sometimes flaky) LTE. We could not live with a «thin device» unless we had a fiber link to the cloud. Even if you do simple point measurements (e.g a weathe
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by pletnes 8y ago
This plugin should have been implemented in vim proper. Many vim binding plugins for other editors do, e.g intellij vim bindings.
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by pletnes 8y ago
Optimizations of the dict class (both memory and cpu wise) in python 3.5+ are pretty important, as it’s used a lot internally. E.g class members and methods are stored in a dict. This basically affects all python code.

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