ziotom78

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   by ziotom78 7y ago

   I am an Italian and live in Bergamo, the Italian town that is so far the most affected. The impression that Italy is letting older people die is false, at least at the moment [1]; however, there are people that suggest this might be a guide
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   by ziotom78 7y ago

   > The ROTL macro is missing It's missing in the landing page, but the paper [1] linked at the bottom of it provides two implementations: // C #define ROTL(d,lrot) ((d<<(lrot)) | (d>>(8*sizeof(d)-(lrot)))
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   by ziotom78 7y ago

   Let's hope that «multi-monitor support» will help this bug [1] go away! I have found that most of the Windows apps I used to rely on have good counterparts working on Linux, but sadly nothing matches Powerpoint (no, LibreOffice does no
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   by ziotom78 7y ago

   One of the points made in the article is that the US had not the authority to decide to kill him, no more than any other country in the world. As a non-U.S. citizen, I find this compelling: the world is probably a more dangerous place now,
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   by ziotom78 7y ago

   Adobe Acrobat. Nothing in the open-source world has the same share of easiness in editing PDF files. (Sorry, Okular.) Also, the ability to use the scanner to produce multipage PDF files is unrivalled, IMO.
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   by ziotom78 7y ago

   You're right, but I inferred there was more in the OP's list that this list of points. They mentioned D, Swift, and Kotlin Native (LLVM-based). The fact the OP excluded the JVM-based Kotlin (its best supported platform) made me th
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   by ziotom78 7y ago

   Julia's typical workflow [1] is mainly REPL-based: you test ideas in the REPL, accumulate functions in modules and build larger payloads at the prompt (or in a Jupyter notebook, or using Juno [2] or VSCode). That's a sensible way
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   by ziotom78 7y ago

   I'm an enthusiastic user of Julia, but I would not think of it as a language with a "similar profile" as Nim or Crystal. As you said, it's hard to produce static binaries, and they are huge if compared with Nim's or
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   by ziotom78 7y ago

   I find easier to use Asciidoctor to convert my files to Docbook, and then use Pandoc to generate PDFs. Asciidoctor has the ability to produce PDFs, but I find that custom templates in Pandoc are easier to customize and more powerful.
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    by ziotom78 7y ago

    I would have never thought to live long enough to see this happening! I started using Nim in 2014, but abandoned it after a few years, frustrated by the instability of the language and what I perceived as a lack of vision. (In 2014, release
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    by ziotom78 7y ago

    I agree. Given that I do not like C++ and try to avoid it at all costs, it is unfair to say it does not have any advantage: - It is available on a very wide range of platforms - Several implementations are available - It is updated regularl
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    by ziotom78 7y ago

    Moreover, entropy can be defined using either thermodynamics or statistical mechanics. In the first case (which was the first to be developed, historically) the entropy exists for any isolated system in thermal equilibrium, even though the
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    Julia v1.2(discourse.julialang.org)

    155 points by ziotom78 7y ago|58 comments
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    by ziotom78 7y ago

    TOML would be great, if not for an annoying obscure detail in the specification that makes it hard to use for my typical use cases (scientific computation) [1]. Moreover, I find quite unintuitive how you are supposed to specify array of tab
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    by ziotom78 7y ago

    I followed the opposite route: tried Nim and liked it a lot, then switched to Julia. Perhaps my typical usage of a scientific language is quite different from yours. In my case, what drove me away from Nim was the fact that even small featu
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    by ziotom78 7y ago

    I despise Elsevier and am trying not to publish anything with them. However, what impressed me the most here is the tone of the letter: direct, straight to the point, and clear to read and understand, with no trace of legalese. Every time I
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    by ziotom78 7y ago

    Nice! I never thought about this. I believed part of the reason they chose "C#" is because of musical terminology: "C#" means C-sharp, which is on a higher pitch than a plain "C".
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    by ziotom78 7y ago

    Congratulations to JAXA for this big achievement!
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    by ziotom78 7y ago

    Not entirely true. Spacecrafts orbiting L2 do not stay still with respect to the Earth; rather, they follow a Lissajous orbit, which is quite efficient given the gravitational properties of the L2 point. Therefore, they will observe the Sun
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    by ziotom78 8y ago

    It looks nice, I never tried Nix and am installing it right now. However, am I wrong in understanding that installing Nix requires super-user privileges [1]? Having a tool that allows you to easily install updated C++ compilers and librarie
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    by ziotom78 8y ago

    Being a Catholic cosmologist, I have always been intrigued by Lemaitre's figure. I read «The Atom of the Universe: The Life and Work of Georges Lemaitre» [1] and discovered that Lemaitre was a pionieer of numerical analysis as well: he
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    by ziotom78 8y ago

    It's not just a matter of slow/fast, because when you pick a tempo, this allows adopting solutions that would be awkward at a different speed. (Using a programmer's analogy, picking a tempo is like entering different branches
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    by ziotom78 8y ago

    I discovered Richter when I listened to Mussorgsky's Pictures of an Exhibition on an old LP. But I really understood Richter's boldness and genius when a friend of mine lended me a CD with Schubert's last piano sonata (D960).
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    by ziotom78 8y ago

    Yeah, --joblog is a very handy feature. I once hacked a small Python script to produce an ASCII time plot from its output: https://github.com/ziotom78/plot_joblog
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    by ziotom78 8y ago

    I am really happy for UC's choice! Sadly, this reminds me that recently Elsevier and CRUI (the association of Italian universities) sealed a 5-year-long deal [1], despite protests from the scientific community. [1] https://w
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    by ziotom78 8y ago

    There should be a "Download" button just below the title, which allows downloading the PDF. If it doesn't work, you can find the file "presentation.pdf" in this BitBucket repository: https://bitbucket.org
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    by ziotom78 8y ago

    Regarding Julia, check the backup slides (no. 20-29) of this talk by mine: https://www.slideshare.net/MaurizioTomasi/towards-new-soluti... Sure, I am not calculating the product of two matrices, but something else. In
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    by ziotom78 8y ago

    I found the pair pandoc+beamer perfect for some kinds of presentations. Recently I used them to prepare the keynote and the proceedings for a conference talk: https://bitbucket.org/Maurizio_Tomasi/adass2018-julia/s
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    by ziotom78 8y ago

    Marp Next is supposed to be what you ask (scroll down the page to find more), but it's still in development.
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    by ziotom78 8y ago

    Yes, it does, and it also supports LaTeX formulae.