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by snicker7 5y ago
Apple operates at a volume where investing thousands of person-years for small performance/revenue gains is worthwhile.
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by snicker7 5y ago
The demographics trends are interesting. It seems that Julia users ("Juliers?") are increasingly more young and more female-identifying.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Among other things, they are doing this to prevent second-hand smoking. I guess those carcinogens can travel through cyberspace.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Bill de Blasio should be made to provide accomodations for her in his own home.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Nix and Guix (my preference) are good alternatives. Guix, in particular, has its own system/application containers (not runc compatible). Highly efficient since they are essentially composed of symlinks of individual items in the Guix
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by snicker7 5y ago
I feel bad for all those Uyghur slaves toiling in Apple's supply chains. But if it makes Tim even slightly wealthier, it is all worth it. :D
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by snicker7 5y ago
Femtolisp is, by-the-way, a brilliant and performant implementation of Scheme. Wish it was used outside of Julia.
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Linux Turns Thirty(groups.google.com)
6 points by snicker7 5y ago|0 comments
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by snicker7 5y ago
Bootstrappability is the reason why GNU Guix is one of the most ever important software projects. Moreover, I see Guix as the unifying force for the entire GNU project. It is the perfect playground to test and develop emerging tech (Shepher
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by snicker7 5y ago
The solution is simple: just elect government officials that (1) support the complete removal of Iran's nuclear capability (2) stop funding/training terrorists and insurgents abroad and (3) recognize the right for Israel to exist.
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by snicker7 5y ago
For Julia coders, there is Javis.jl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckvsc6ukdOc
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by snicker7 5y ago
This feels like something you'd find on linkedin.
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by snicker7 5y ago
Currently only supported by Intel.
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Twenty-two Seconds to Three (Julia compile times)(discourse.julialang.org)
2 points by snicker7 5y ago|0 comments
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by snicker7 5y ago
A brutal admission that modern software is broken and that stability, predictability, and correctness is just too much to ask for.
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by snicker7 5y ago
MathML is the only accessible option. Screen readers work with it. Tools like KaTeX output both HTML and MathML simultaneously (HTML for rendering, MathML for screen readers), leading to massive page bloat. MathJax requires client-side JS t
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by snicker7 5y ago
I looked at the source code for UnixMaps.jl. It seems to call :jl_mmap (exported by Julia's underlying C++ source code). I wonder why this style might be preferred to, say, calling libc directly?
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by snicker7 5y ago
> Not sure how exactly the lack of these skills could benefit anyone. Lower the standards across all levels -- high school graduation, college admissions, job placements. Eventually we end up with surgeons and lawyers that are illiterat
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by snicker7 5y ago
Not everyone who works in NYC is a NYC resident. The entire state of NJ basically exists for people commuting to NYC. half of the entire state is basically highways and parking lots.
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by snicker7 5y ago
tl;dr -- Fox News is to blame for all of America's problem.
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by snicker7 5y ago
> It had. It's now around parity with pytorch. In some cases, it is much faster. Consider Neural Stochastic Differential Equations, Flux is literally over 70,000x faster than Google's PyTorch-based implementation: https:&#x2F
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by snicker7 5y ago
Julia code is (or can be) quite readable. But I think there are better examples. This package is not poorly written, but it has a lot of nested control flow (probably unnecessary).
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by snicker7 5y ago
Half-Cambodian. We have the same breakfast. We called it Bar Bar. The Chinese call it Congee. Other Asian countries have their own variants. I think even the Greeks have their own savory rice-porridge recipe (Avgolemeno). It is good for lit
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by snicker7 5y ago
Use org-mode or die.
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by snicker7 5y ago
That's kind-of what Kafka is. See also write-ahead-logs.
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by snicker7 5y ago
I feel that we are converging with each passing day.
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by snicker7 5y ago
> I could never have done that when I was in an office. I couldn't take 20 min and play banjo or accordion and come back to my problem with a fresh eye I mean ... you could.
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by snicker7 5y ago
I don't think you need to rebuild the compiler. Here is a proposal how how this can be done using the work to compile Julia for GPU's: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rLpZf-HK6b9uYPDT_piUza4L...
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by snicker7 5y ago
Referring to start-up latency, the author asserts: > But the problem is fundamentally unsolvable, because it's built into Julia on a basic design level. Citation need. Today, the Julia compiler runs in JIT mode. But there is nothin
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by snicker7 5y ago
I speculate that the reason why Amazon charges so much for egress (other than to nickel-and-dime its customers) is that it inhibits hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud architectures. It promotes lock-in. In literally every business domain, Amazon s

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