sseagull

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by sseagull 9y ago
Unfortunately, I have already heard complaints about the size of the C++ standard library, and how "I can write a better vector/list/etc.. class". I can't imagine what people would think of a networking module, desi
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by sseagull 9y ago
I've been a bit of a fan of the channel for a while, and it's frustrating to hear this. It seems like the large companies are flexing their muscles and exercising their power over their digital serfs. One particularly frustrating
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by sseagull 9y ago
If you don't mind, I'd like to maybe chat with you a bit and get your opinion on some things (and maybe see if I've actually met you before). My (mainly throwaway) email is ytterbium35 (at major email service run by google).
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by sseagull 9y ago
I have been developing in Fortran for years. I just mentioned that as an aside. About C compatiblity: Many C libraries use pointers in their interfaces. Interoperability is indeed defined by the Fortran 2003 standard, which I have used seve
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by sseagull 9y ago
Sorry, I wasn't specific. My comment mostly applies to the quantum mechanics (QM) community, rather than molecular dynamics. In QM, many people still run Gaussian/GAMESS/ADF/MolCAS/MolPro/Dalton, which are all
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by sseagull 9y ago
Well, it's moving, not moved yet. New libraries are being written in C/C++, and maybe Python. This includes libraries that should form the foundation of the QM community (matrix/tensor and integral libraries). These are meant
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by sseagull 9y ago
Yes, the electronic structure community is rapidly moving away from Fortran. In my opinion, Fortran will fall behind as newer hardware, libraries, etc, will drop Fortran support. Also, newer grad students are all much more interested in C&#
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by sseagull 9y ago
This isn't the first time I've said this, but I believe doing serious genealogy will 'cure' most people of their love of cursive, and maybe writing things by hand in general. You get better at reading it, but there is mu
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by sseagull 9y ago
> The idea of introverts and extraverts being distinct groups of people with completely different neurological responses to social situations is a largely false one Why would you say that? Even perusing the wikipedia article shows that t
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by sseagull 9y ago
> But it even still have a comprehensive numeric library [1]. I think, by number crunching, they may mean blas/lapack, which is nowhere near replaced by that numeric library... >> C++ has pointer aliasing shenanigans, so it&#x
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by sseagull 10y ago
The article and title mention that his only applies to android. Does Apple have any official stance on this type of behavior? Is this possible with IOS, or does Apple have a tighter grip on its OS updates and other means of installing softw
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by sseagull 10y ago
I'm pretty liberal and (used to be) a gun owner. I can see supporting those things (I personally would like nationwide reciprocity [0]). It's just very hard for me to understand how this issue (or others like abortion) would be ab
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by sseagull 10y ago
Maybe it depends on the field? Every journal I've submitted to (chemistry/physical chemistry) only asked for money after peer-review and acceptance. And these are the well-respected journals in the field.
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by sseagull 10y ago
I think some of the lamentation about losing cursive romanticizes everything a bit. When people think of cursive, they think of beautiful, Declaration of Independence-like script. I do my family genealogy, which involves reading lots of cen
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by sseagull 10y ago
> The moment Google Fiber or something better comes along in my area I've got some bad news - Google has "paused" its fiber rollout. With that on life support and Verizon FIOS rollout seemingly dead, I don't see much
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by sseagull 10y ago
> Why not have scientists go off and do their research and rely on a team that is skilled at hoarding grants or publishing works from raw data? Partly because science is very specialized. If I work on something new, then it's possib
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by sseagull 10y ago
> Where is the money going to? That's the big question. In addition, when a professor gets a grant, the university takes a large chunk (40-60%) for overhead. Anecdote: When I started as a postdoc recently, all new faculty and staff
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by sseagull 10y ago
I don't know about "take off", but it could work as a niche. People seem to be used to what they already have. It doesn't have to be perfect, but at least much harder to game than the current situation.
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by sseagull 10y ago
There are two "features" that are hard to re-create with modern BBSes. These, in my opinion, partly lead to the good user experience. 1. Because you tied up a phone line (on both ends), your time was limited. This results in not o
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by sseagull 10y ago
To me, that's what health insurance is. Insurance should be for rare (or at least uncommon) events. Flood, fire, car accident, etc. But health "insurance" has crept into regular health maintenance. But that's not really
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by sseagull 10y ago
This article is somewhat resonating with me, and where I am in my life right now. After a few years of postdoc, I'm at a crossroads of where I want to go. In some sense, I'm a lot like the author, and I'm not really doing eno
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by sseagull 10y ago
Sort of. Depends on what you mean "low". I know salaries in that field can be skewed by large salaries from tech companies, but tenured professors at UB tend to make at least $100k, which is a very good salary in areas such as wes
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by sseagull 10y ago
That's an interesting way of looking at it. Not sure I completely agree or that there isn't a better way, but it's certainly a point of view I didn't see. Thanks
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by sseagull 10y ago
> Sure but rather than directly hiring N people to run the water works and plumbing crews, the city could contract out the maintenance of those things to a private company. I know this can work, but in addition to the usual misalignment
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by sseagull 10y ago
I've always thought of it as the economy will always take advantage of people who enjoy doing something like this. Ie, If you love science, you may be willing to take a lower wage. Eventually, it becomes very exploitative, with long ho
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by sseagull 10y ago
Exactly. They will be put to work figuring out how to automate thing, and we will be back to where we started. In order to automate something, you have to actually discover and refine the process first
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by sseagull 10y ago
Computational chemist here: I agree. I still put in long hours sometimes, but my "lab" is just one ssh away, so hours actually in the office are a bit flexible.
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by sseagull 10y ago
Lanthanide (and Actinides) are difficult to handle, computationally. They tend to require relativistic methods. They also tend not to be single-determinant. (Source: I've tried and very much failed). I'm not as familiar with QMC,
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by sseagull 10y ago
I will agree with the point that the other methods of reading/writing from streams aren't taught early enough, and that formatted output is pretty bad with streams. I've actually written a wrapper around snprintf for printing
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by sseagull 10y ago
It still may try other identity files. You need the IdentitiesOnly option, I believe. I've been bitten by this a few times.

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