posix_monad

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by posix_monad 3y ago
Why is this written in Rust and not Python? Does this show deficiencies of Python as a general purpose language?
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by posix_monad 3y ago
US tech salaries absolutely compensate. Typical tech salary is 2-3x in the US compared to the UK, which covers the health insurance costs.
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by posix_monad 3y ago
If you don't work in finance in the UK, you should seriously consider moving to the US (for better income) or EU (for better quality of life).
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by posix_monad 3y ago
It's particular acute with Python. The language itself is poor - the value is in the massive ecosystem (particularly around ML). Compare this to say, Rust, where the safety guarantees are useful in their own right. There would be value
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by posix_monad 3y ago
I'm not convinced that projects like this can really have broad application. The value of Python is interfacing to native libraries, but as soon as you use something like PyPy, you lose access to all of that. It's the same story w
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by posix_monad 3y ago
> only affects the non-residents The status-quo (all you can eat SUV use in cities) has a big impact on everyone using the city. Yet no one voted for that...
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by posix_monad 3y ago
NL is so far ahead of other countries that it's kind of ridiculous. I wish there was a way for average citizens from other places to get a sense of what is possible.
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by posix_monad 3y ago
The "boring" set of tools described here does not enable reproducible artefacts. This is a huge weakness of the ecosystem.
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Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted first brain chip in a human(theguardian.com)
4 points by posix_monad 3y ago|0 comments
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by posix_monad 3y ago
In Python it's common to have functions whose return types depend on the run-time arguments. For example: def fooify(x): if isinstance(x, list): map(fooify, x) else: x * 2 I guess this is to make sc
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by posix_monad 3y ago
Isn't Clojure the most mainstream Lisp at this point?
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by posix_monad 3y ago
I think you can go higher working in finance, trading etc as a SWE. However, it's more difficult to get through the door.
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by posix_monad 3y ago
If Blow released it openly then I would consider it.