Accipitriform

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by Accipitriform 6y ago
Biden isn't actually relevant, as the real candidate is K. Harris and her handlers. She is definitely a socialist/communist! I doubt Biden would last as President until Inauguration Day. Thankfully, all signs are pointing to a DJT
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by Accipitriform 7y ago
>The US is an outlier, granted, but mostly for fixable reasons (in particular, over dependence on cars due to poor public transport). This isn't an obstacle, given electric cars and clean electricity generation. As I said elsewhere,
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by Accipitriform 7y ago
> Nuclear power is, but the environmental movement is actively blocking re-investment, and we're so far behind that it would take decades to jump-start the industry. That isn't true. With desire and enough money, we could be ch
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by Accipitriform 7y ago
Higher evaporation means more clouds (somewhere) and more rain (somewhere). Recent studies show increased snowfall in central Antarctica for instance. It's entirely possible that global warming has lessened the severity of these drough
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by Accipitriform 7y ago
Right, of course we should want single-payer, just like Canada! Never mind that the average wait time to see a doctor in Canada is almost 20 weeks, and that tens of thousands of Canadians cross the border to the US every year to avoid that
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by Accipitriform 7y ago
I guess Chomsky didn't point out the fact that opioid deaths fell last year for the first time in around 30 years. That actually dovetails with the idea that increased opportunity, low unemployment and improved wages helps.
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by Accipitriform 7y ago
It doesn't. The only way an ice sheet gains mass under any normal circumstance is new snow falls on top. As more and more snow accumulates over time, the ice sheet grows thicker. What offsets that is that ice flows under pressure, so t
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by Accipitriform 7y ago
Julia's "niche" is essentially an improved, free Matlab. At least, that certainly seems to have been its initial impetus. Now it's grown far beyond that, and is acknowledged by its creators as a true, general-purpose lan
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by Accipitriform 7y ago
> C++ seems very different to me now vs the early 90s. True, but it's still very far from optimal. For something MUCH closer to optimal, see Rust. All that said, from a practical standpoint I think Julia is near perfect as both a pr
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
> The thing I never understood that if entropy steadily marches on, and the sun's energy is finite, isn't this all going to end bad anyways? Ha, well the current estimate is that things should be roughly OK for about another bi
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
> ...yet what is the best thing for the kids? That's a harder thing to know - you can't really compare "not existing" with "living in a world that has a ton of issues". LOL! I certainly can 'compare &
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
Oracle is only one player in the Java ecosystem. OpenJDK owns just about everything now, and most organizations are going to get support somewhere besides Oracle. There's been some good recent innovation with Java, and I think it'
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
> I think of Julia and swift as higher-level languages, more domain-specific. Different tools for different problem domains. Well...my particular interest in these types of languages is primarily in the realm of soft real-time simulatio
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
Excellent and detailed post! Up until now I've been focusing on Julia and Swift for projects that can use a new language, as the Rust pain/productivity ratio has looked too high. Perhaps things are changing...correctness is certai
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
Actually that link makes no prediction at all about how much sea levels will rise. It merely looks at the impact if the sea level were to rise by the given amounts .
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
> But the CEO doesn't own the company, the investors do, so why would the CEO be the one to state the goals leaving investors to "take it or leave it"? Well, one point of the article is that these days 62% of CEO income is
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
Julia supports 0 based indexes if desired, similar to Ada and other languages.
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
> Julia Computing is largely made up of people they've hired from the community straight out of grad school. Where do you think most companies get "professional programmers" from, exactly? Julia's been designed and im
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
> And when I want Julia’s promise of fast loops, I use Numba. If all the effort gone into Julia had instead been spent on fixing remaining warts in Python workflow for science, we wouldn’t even havee this conversation. Python is rather a
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
> The blog mentions that Julia is supposed to be a general purpose language, and not a language built specifically for scientific computing. Is that wrong? No. Julia is a general purpose language that has so far been mainly focused on sc
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
To be fair, each service has its own variant. That's increased cost, but each service should have aircraft that'll work well for the individual service's requirements. The F-15, F-16, and F-18 are all multi-role aircraft, and
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
It doesn't necessarily follow from "the airframe isn't the most expensive part" that you still wouldn't want an improved airframe. The F-16 isn't stealthy (terrible in fact), and the F-22 isn't well suited
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
> What makes Rust, like C or C++, efficient is not just that they are statically compiled, it's that they have massively-tuned optimizing compiler spending a lot of time in compile-time optimizations. Consider that javac and the Jav
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
"In my view, programming language choice is cultural yet is always framed as something objective." I think that's an objectively false statement. There are many objective metrics by which a programming language may be evaluat
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
Nice charts! Very striking looking against my dark terminal windows...
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
"Bless your heart. Election history, with regard to the party holding the White House, strongly predicts the Republicans will have a bad time." 'Past performance doesn't guarantee future results...' Trump has confou
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
"President Trump is cutting regulations and despite all the hysteria to the contrary he is actually reducing the administrative powers of the executive branch and shrinking the size of many agencies." Indeed. President Trump'
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
"Sure, with all the money saved on military expenses, and countries not drawn into conflicts we'd be a lot farther ahead." I doubt that. Like it or not, military conflicts (and military confrontations such as the Cold War) ha
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by Accipitriform 8y ago
They bother implying that because of a political agenda. In point of fact the "hundreds of thousands" of useful idiots will eventually come to understand the real world - and in the meantime little will change. The millions of NR
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by Accipitriform 9y ago
"If you're that confident in your knowledge here, then using Rust wouldn't be a problem for you: you can go the unsafe route and just do the same thing you'd do in C." That's what I didn't understand - why

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