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> SQLite is serverless. Maybe if you use SQLite as a file format. But if you use it like an actual database (e.g. in a web application), I find that one is best off setting up a daemon thread to queue/batch transactions.
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> Julia is that you can code without caring about performance (and the performance will be Python-like) Typically unoptimized Julia is comparable to Python glue + optimized C (e.g. numpy).
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Yeah, "I don't smell" is an oxymoron because how one smells is something determined by others, not oneself. I bet these people reek.
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Javascript was originally supposed to be a Lisp. In this alternative universe, there would be no need for Svelte. For a portal into this universe, see Clojurescript's Mr. Clean [0]. [0]: https://bitbucket.org/sonwh98&#x
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I maintained a financial data pipeline written almost entirely in Perl. Literally thousands of scripts accumulated over decades.
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On a complete tangent: scattered-thoughts.net is one of my favourite technical blogs. Author has a lot of great insight in many areas.
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I use GitLab at work and sourcehut for personal projects. And as much as I like minimalism, I have to admit how /nice/ GitLab is in comparison. But some complaints since some GitLab employees are watching: - Syntax highlighting (f
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I don't think Stallman actually wrote a lot of software in recent years (decades?). As far as writing "free" software, he literally stole other people's code for use in Emacs [0]. [0]: https://archive.computer
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by snicker7 6y ago
Yeah, I was a little surprised seeing a Julia static site generator being used to create a Python tutorial.
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There is a big difference between Guix and Nix and this area. Guix only accepts packages that can be fully bootstrapped, unlike Nix. It's a lot more effort, but it means everything you install in the official Guix channel ultimately co
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Languages with decent macro support can punt these trade-offs to third-party libraries. Users can "extend" the language when most convenient.
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Don't forget the "lazy" version: (sin(x) for x in vec)
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This book is being written entirely in Pluto notebooks!
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Lecture Notes: https://mitmath.github.io/18337/ Video Lectures: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDtsHjkOEMHYPGgpKX8VOPg
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MIT 18.337J: Parallel Computing and Scientific Machine Learning(github.com)
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Manim is the inspiration for a similar package in Julia, Javis.jl [0]. 0: https://github.com/Wikunia/Javis.jl
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And "writing" is still a good skill to have, even if you are not a professional essayist or author.
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"Those who look/think differently than me aren't human." Who does and doesn't count as a human/person are questions that we should avoid if at all possible. The moral costs of a false negative are tremendous. A
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GNU Guix also supports containers (guix environment --containers) in addition to docker export. But they are not, as I am aware, OCI-compatable. Would love to see a similar effort in that space.
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Is there a way to get an accidental protection plan on these machines? I would love to support Linux HW vendors, but I am very clumsy.
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Cool. But I feel that this is mostly comparing random number generators. Their C++ code uses xorshift, while their Julia code use Mersenne twistors, for example.
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Canonical's engineers are very talented. And Canonical provides some truly innovative solutions (MaaS and JuJu come to mind. Snaps to a lesser extent). However, as anecdotes like these show, their user/customer hostile attitude ma
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Too bad the author used Wordpress instead of Zola. Otherwise, his next post could be "Blogging about writing Pong in Rust in my OS written in Rust in a blog engine written in Rust".
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In 2022: the terms "allowlist" and "denylist" evoke the realization that marginalized groups where and are DENIED privileges afforded to others. You are now cancelled.
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Looks great, but I would like to see how this compares against proprietary solutions (e.g. kdb+).
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Or GNU Shepherd. With Lisp-based configuration, you get all the power of imperative programming with all the transparency of declarative programming.
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And how great is SQLite for transactional workloads? Every transaction locks up the entire db. There is no page or even table level locking. DuckDB can't be worse than that.
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(2020)
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Modern Rasperry Pi's supports PXE booting.
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According to the article, Patterson couldn't secure financing because of systemic racism. It is possible that, even if this weren't the case, they would have still failed. But the lack of financing didn't help. It is hard to

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