snicker7

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by snicker7 4y ago
The underscore naming convention is far from ubiquitous in either the Python or Julia communities. The more practical indicator of a function being "public" is whether or not it appears in the published API documentation. Unlike J
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by snicker7 4y ago
I can't seem to select a text select on the code snippets in either the HTML or PDF version. This feels like an accessibility issue.
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Have you tried rubbing a database on it?(hytradboi.com)
2 points by snicker7 4y ago|0 comments
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Design and Implementation of the RelationalAI Knowledge Graph Management System(youtube.com)
1 points by snicker7 5y ago|0 comments
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Org-Mode as an Exoself(stormrider.io)
2 points by snicker7 5y ago|0 comments
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MathLive(cortexjs.io)
1 points by snicker7 5y ago|0 comments
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by snicker7 5y ago
In the Julia repl, just type '@less sin(pi)' to view the source code of sin. I don't know of any other programming language that makes it this easy to look at its internals.
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Google loses heated bidet toilets for employees(nypost.com)
33 points by snicker7 5y ago|23 comments
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by snicker7 5y ago
If it weren’t for private loans, it would have been impossible for me to go to college.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Julia supports zero-overhead units: https://github.com/PainterQubits/Unitful.jl
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by snicker7 5y ago
Do you mind detailing your setup? Do you use guix home? How do you manage personal data?
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by snicker7 5y ago
- Does not matter. If my someone driving my car fails to pay the toll, the state sends me the letter. If I want to dispute it, I can take it to court. - More financial penalties. - Can't enforce what isn't enforceable. - See above
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by snicker7 5y ago
These sorts of polls are worthless because it depends on one's perception of the difference between "skilled" and "moderately skilled".
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by snicker7 5y ago
Dockerfiles are generally bad for reproducibility. This is mostly because Linux distros generally don’t care about it. Nix and Guix both support Docker export.
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The origin story of our new ortholinear keyboard(dygma.com)
49 points by snicker7 5y ago|71 comments
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by snicker7 5y ago
Countries in Latin America are composed of many races, nationalities, and ethnicities. They intersect, but are not equivalent.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Race is a social construct invented by colonizers (whites) as a way to categorize and other-ize everyone else. It has no biological or ethnic or cultural meaning. Race is not an inherent thing, but a complex relationship between groups of p
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by snicker7 5y ago
In the United States, you can be white Hispanic and non-white Hispanic. The term Hispanic just refers to anyone with heritage from a Spanish speaking country in the Americas. It is neither a race nor an ethnicity.
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by snicker7 5y ago
The pipe operator '|>' is rendering as '>' .
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by snicker7 5y ago
> Its macros have to be given at least vaguely Julia-like syntax That’s true with Lisp as well. The point of homoiconicity is that your DSL looks like your parent language. That said, Julia supports string macros. See for example “APL.j
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by snicker7 5y ago
There are multiple entry points, depending on your goals. However, if your goal is to learn mathematics for the sake of art, I recommend Kolmogorov's Elements of the Theory of Functions and Functional Analysis.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Unlike paintings, FOSS software is critical to many governments and multi-trillion dollar corporations.
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by snicker7 5y ago
We are not smarter than our ancestors. Human brain size is down 20% from peak, and is continuing to shrink.
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by snicker7 5y ago
The issue with the textbook market is that the people that pick them (departments, professors) don't actually have to pay for it. If colleges were forced to subsidize even a small % of textbook costs, we'd see an order of magnitud
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by snicker7 5y ago
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/ (Jamie Brandon)
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by snicker7 5y ago
How does this work for data involving both a EU citizen and non-EU citizen?
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by snicker7 5y ago
A lot of JS bloat could have been eliminated if it had lisp-like macros.
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by snicker7 5y ago
People intuitively understand the capabilities of cruise control. Can the same be said if FSD?
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by snicker7 5y ago
By "very small minority", do you mean "one of the two only viable political parties in the United States"?
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by snicker7 5y ago
Another option is to use a software-defined abstraction over cloud services. Canonical’s JuJu, for example, allows large chunks of infrastructure to be deployed identically across numerous cloud providers (including private cloud).

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