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by snicker7 6y ago
At risk of being /that guy/, I find that emacs gives me a nice & consistent "one-stop-shop" for text-based apps instead of having to kludge together a bunch disparate terminal programs. Also, +1 for Julia.
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by snicker7 6y ago
This is basically how Q/kdb+ applications work in finance. Data and application exists on the same server. Of course, the programming model is much richer than pure SQL.
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by snicker7 6y ago
In what ways are stablecoin issuance similar to traditional banking services?
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by snicker7 6y ago
Unlike some other commenters, I think that from-scratch rewrites can be valuable. But seriously consider other potential benefits. "Julia might be nicer than Rust" is not good enough if sole justification.
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by snicker7 6y ago
I'm impressed with how quickly it loads.
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by snicker7 6y ago
> Other such claims from Big Tech would require verifying code, and to do that properly all code should be released under freedom respecting licenses. That is ... a stretch, especially considering that there exists non-free "source
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by snicker7 6y ago
EMBRACE THE VOID
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by snicker7 6y ago
In a trading competition, the best strategy is the riskiest strategy. This maximizes likelihood of making a lot of money ... and losing a lot of money. But in a competition, the left tail doesn't matter. Second place and last place are
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by snicker7 6y ago
Bamboo can sequester considerably more carbon per acre-year.
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by snicker7 6y ago
> takes real effort which then needs to be paid for Verses the many climate change options that are free and without any effort?
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by snicker7 6y ago
Scheme/lisp might be weird for some. But Guix packages are written in a highly declarative style. Very little control flow. It looks kind-of like JSON.
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by snicker7 6y ago
With regards to downloading speeds, the issue seems to be downloading many packaging as opposed to large packages. Each package incurs some noticeable overhead, which is painful when upgrades consist of dozens or hundreds of upgraded packag
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by snicker7 6y ago
I love Guix in theory, but I have a lot of issues with performance. Literally orders of magnitude slower other package managers. Downloading is slow, even if the total download size is small. Recently, it took two hours to upgrade Julia be
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by snicker7 6y ago
> Interesting to see the module defines a pure Python implementation first, then tries to import a fast C implementation. Peak Python
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by snicker7 6y ago
The entire bisect module, consisting of 4 public functions, is literally only 32 lines of code.
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by snicker7 6y ago
Neo4j's marketing asserts that is more natural to model applications with a graph database, sidestepping the object-relational mismatch.
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by snicker7 6y ago
50%, I'd say. Breakdown: - Reading code: 20% - Writing code: 10% - Debugging code: 20% - Meetings / administrata: 10% - Other productive tasks: 10% - Goofing off: 30%
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by snicker7 6y ago
> Arguably the most successful recent effort on array based scientific programming language is Julia and it is still very much dependent on some Fortran based libraries for speed. That is because some libraries (e.g. BLAS implementations
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by snicker7 6y ago
Its not that "Wayland is not ready" and more "NVidia does not care". Wayland works on all Free drivers.
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by snicker7 6y ago
Guix needs to make it easier to browse packages online. The Guix Data Service is better than nothing, I guess. But it is slow and the interface requires too many clicks.
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by snicker7 6y ago
> But at this point, Ruby is plenty fast as compared to many other “scripting” languages. Most of the time it’s on par with Python. Being "on par with Python" performance-wise is not something to brag about.
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by snicker7 6y ago
oneAPI is more than "CUDA/ROCm for Intel", but a common interface for a diverse set of GPUs, TPUs, and other accelerators. At least that's Intel's marketing. Julia's cross-vendor compute abstractions are nascen
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by snicker7 6y ago
With Proton, Steam is basically a Windows app launcher for Linux.
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by snicker7 6y ago
Really cool since I often migrate code from notebooks to modules.
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by snicker7 6y ago
It is linked in the article, but I would like to draw attention to the wonderful JuliaCon talk presenting Pluto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAF8DjrQSSk
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by snicker7 6y ago
Name is a JoJo reference.
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by snicker7 6y ago
"never justified" A religious obligation won't count as justification?
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by snicker7 6y ago
Most "scientific" languages have indexes starting in 1 and/or configurable (R, Julia, Fortran, APL). In some applications (finite element methods), it makes sense for indexes to start at negative numbers.
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by snicker7 6y ago
This. Having tight control over memory layout + heap allocations + vector instructions can literally decrease runtume by several orders of magnitude. Performance is so much more than having the "right algorithm". The low-level det
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