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by vcxy 5y ago
I don't know if this has changed, but when I was an undergrad in math, all the summer REUs were for women and minorities. I applied to many all the same but never got to do any summer research, which definitely worked against me when a
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by vcxy 5y ago
My experience is also the opposite fwiw. To be fair, I don't think I know any democrats who actually like the party. They're more "not republican" than democrat. Maybe the democrats you've talked to are the true bel
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by vcxy 5y ago
I've found it better to consider theory a language to describe musical ideas, but not to impose rules. The "understanding" seems to be a bit more about just being able to name what a thing is, and thereby be able to manipulat
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by vcxy 5y ago
The 4a 5G was launched less than a year ago, fyi.
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by vcxy 5y ago
Hmm, with my 5600 XT I've never had a problem with Xorg or Wayland. I can't remember the last time my computer crashed. Just another data point, not trying to claim this wasn't happening for you.
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by vcxy 5y ago
As someone who really only does numerical computing, and mostly with Julia, I'm curious. Could Julia use some help from PL and systems people to be noticably better for people like me? Or would you guess it's already on an ideal t
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by vcxy 5y ago
How did you feel about Skyfall? I'm not a big Bond (or even action movie) fan and I didn't like Quantum of Solace, but Skyfall is one of my favorite films just on cinematography alone. I certainly don't find it to be just a r
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by vcxy 5y ago
Figured as much. It's been in airplane mode the entire time I've owned it and I just put books on it with calibre. I guess this somehow mirrors how some people feel about their Apple devices? They don't notice it being locked
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by vcxy 5y ago
I'm not who you replied to, but I find this interesting. It seems like you're asking rhetorically, but the answer for me is no. I expect I'm not alone. I do own an old Kindle Paperwhite, which I assume is fairly locked down?
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by vcxy 5y ago
Have you read Neal Stephenson's "Anathem"? I'm not exactly sure what to say about it in context of your comment for fear of spoilers, but it sounds like you would like it.
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by vcxy 5y ago
No, people have not been saying that ethereum is already partially on proof of stake for 4 years. I realize that isn't what you meant, but what you meant seems to be missing the point that it's actually happening recently.
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by vcxy 5y ago
I grew up in WV. I have many friends from near the DuPont plant. We like to joke about how we grew up drinking dupont water...kind of morbid though since it's pretty true.
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by vcxy 5y ago
I think this used to be true, but these days tube amps can be very faithfully modeled. E.g., the fender tone master amps sound great.
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by vcxy 5y ago
I'm pretty confused about your comment and all the replies. Do you all not have lights? I can see my keyboard just fine without backlighting. Not wanting backlighting has nothing to do with whether I need to look at my keyboard or not.
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by vcxy 5y ago
Not the parent commenter, but kinda, yeah. Saying that it's stupid to learn x if you aren't going to monetize comes off poorly to me. So does saying that everyone should learn x. I don't understand either view. Is it weird to
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by vcxy 6y ago
But you don't get sick explicitly because your body is eliminating virus. Sure there is some, but I'd think the amount of virus spread is reduced a massive amount by vaccination. Further, if you were to get sick from someone that
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by vcxy 6y ago
Wasteful of his employer, not him.
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by vcxy 6y ago
Wow. I always say thank you and have never meant what you think, and it has never even crossed my mind that it could be read that way. I doubt it means what you think very often.
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by vcxy 6y ago
Julia has the function mod1 which is just mod + 1, just in case that's ever useful for you :)
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by vcxy 6y ago
> Maybe as I learn different habits, that impression will go away. I'd bet this is true. It doesn't seem fiddly to me as a mathematician. Thinking habits can be really hard to get past though, so I also understand people not li
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by vcxy 6y ago
(I'm a mathematician) Honestly, not that many people in math think about the construction of the natural numbers frequently. Yeah, we learn about it of course, but that's about it. Very often the natural numbers do not include 0.
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by vcxy 6y ago
Check out "I Am a Strange Loop" if you haven't. It's like GEB, but he had a few more decades to refine the ideas. Both great books though!
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by vcxy 6y ago
Are you even from the "inner city"? Trying to figure out how dumb this interaction was haha. I have a totally opposite experience, I'm white trailer trash that managed to get a math PhD from a fairly high ranking school. Peop
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by vcxy 6y ago
I guess some of us quiet liberals should be less quiet then. Hi, I'm in your 1%.
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by vcxy 6y ago
Agreed, this is where I'm at as well. In general, I actually found sway to be wonderful, but it's not worth the hassle of switching over anytime I have a meeting where I could possibly need to screen share.
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by vcxy 6y ago
I did complete and enjoy it, but I'm both very competent with regex like you, but also big into sudoku variants (as in the youtube channel cracking the cryptic! [1]) so this felt like it was designed for me to enjoy. Considering it too
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by vcxy 6y ago
I have used both daily for over a year (and emacs alone for a few years). Once I was used to vim, I started using evil in emacs. So, at least in reference to muscle memory, I ended up sticking with vim. The thing is, evil is a mostly comple
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by vcxy 6y ago
Ah, thanks! I think I'll stick with rand(indexable_collection) in Julia since anything else just doesn't feel Julian, but I'll remember that for other 1-based languages if I come across it.
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by vcxy 6y ago
I never use GNOME but I decided to try it to test pop shell awhile back. This was shortly before 1.0 of pop shell so it could have changed. Not trying to disparage it, just sharing my experience as an i3 user. It feels so so slow because of
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by vcxy 6y ago
One problem with this is that, as mentioned, some julia packages actually are state of the art. There isn't a C equivalent for everything DifferentialEquations.jl can do. Ditto for Zygote.jl and Enzyme.jl.

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