acmj

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by acmj 5mo ago
I am not sure what is " the draft human genome" you are talking about. Two separate human genomes were published in 2001: the HGP genome and the celera genome. The HGP genome then didn't use Venter DNA. It evolved into the c
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by acmj 5mo ago
No, at initial release, the human genome from the NIH side was done by bac-to-bac, not by shotgun.
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by acmj 5mo ago
You are confused by the human genome project vs the celera genome project. No, the human genome project didn't include his sample.
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by acmj 6mo ago
Well, they can keep stealing as long as someone open weight their models.
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by acmj 9mo ago
Going from something like "Go lacks a builtin arena allocation" to "Go risks becoming the COBOL" is a long stretch. First, Go is slower than C/C++/rust without complex memory allocation. Introducing an arena al
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by acmj 1y ago
How is "full booked" a real shame?
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by acmj 1y ago
Pypy is 10x faster and is compatible with most cpython code. IMHO it was a big mistake not to adopt JIT during the 2-to-3 transition.
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by acmj 1y ago
Are there studies to show those paying $200/month to openai/claude are more productive?
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by acmj 1y ago
I wouldn't say this easily if I were the sacrifice, especially as a visa holder.
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by acmj 1y ago
I guess Harvard saw the decision at Columbia made the situation worse [1], so they decided to make a different one. [1] https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-freezes-all-rese...
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by acmj 1y ago
People here have little idea about how Harvard works. Harvard is financially vulnerable. It is currently running on a deficiency considering the endowment. And Harvard can't freely use most endowment for personnels anyway. If the gov
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by acmj 1y ago
Some part of this article is opinionated. Curl may be well written but this is more likely to be the result of the overall structure than the number of characters per line. Actually I don't know whether curl is well written. Popularity
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by acmj 1y ago
std::deque typically uses chunked arrays. It is more complex but tends to be faster than a ring buffer based implementation.
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by acmj 1y ago
The most important part is to have a standard, which doesn't need to be perfect. On argument parsing, I actually think the GNU way is the best so far. I have seen various deviations from GNU and I personally regard all of them inferi
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by acmj 1y ago
> argp parses `foo --bar -1` as `foo --bar=-1` the way you expect when `--bar` takes an value, but Kong treats `-1` as a flag. This seems a bug in Kong. Has someone reported it?
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by acmj 1y ago
When I use a command-line tool, I don't know and don't care if it is written in Go or not. I just want to use it the same way as most of the other traditional Unix tools. The Go style gets in the way. We would have much more consi
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by acmj 1y ago
In general, command-line argument parsers should just follow the GNU style. No more, no less. Deviations confuse users as it is not immediately obvious to them what rules a parser is imposing. > options can have multiple values: -a 1 2
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by acmj 2y ago
Too little, too late
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by acmj 2y ago
You need to know what is good code. Opinions may vary a lot between programmers, even senior ones. The Clean Code cult would tell you to find good code there but that is the most poisonous programming book I have read.
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by acmj 2y ago
> The next major Julia release, 1.12, is likely to appear in mid-2025. It will finally include the ability to generate static binaries of a reasonable size, appropriate for distribution. I would be thrilled if Julia had this in early d
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by acmj 2y ago
People often forget the best way to win a tech debate is to actually do it. Once multiple developers criticized that my small program is slow due to misuse of language features. Then I said: fine, give me a faster implementation. No one rep
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by acmj 2y ago
I agree. How to deal with deletions is a 101 of hash table implementation. Many CS majors could get it right or at least know about the caveat. It is amusing that many high-quality posts on hash tables are buried in the "new" sect
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by acmj 3y ago
Sure, nothing beats bootcamp but that is not strictly macos. Apple's GPTK released last year seems to have greatly advanced gaming compatibility. Probably lots of games still don't work but it looks promising and is getting better
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by acmj 3y ago
> The only area that saw significant retreat in macos is gaming. Mac gaming is probably getting better thanks to wine, crossover, GPTK and Whisky [1]. I am not a gamer but I have seen others playing serious Windows games like FF7 remak
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by acmj 3y ago
PyTorch everywhere
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by acmj 4y ago
It seems that Julia has been used for numerical stuffs often. Its redmonk ranking is above some great languages like nim and erlang. This is already an achievement for a community-backed open-source language. By "much popularity",
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by acmj 4y ago
> all serious numerical languages have that. it's more natural And almost all serious general-purpose languages use 0-based. It is more natural at least to me. You see, this is exactly why 1-based index of Julia is disliked by man
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by acmj 4y ago
It is not just syntax. While python has Java-like OOP from a far, Julia has a distinct language design. It doesn't have a concept of "class" in the traditional sense. It instead has multiple dispatch, which is very flexible b
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by acmj 4y ago
Also want to add that getting a formal certificate for learning disabilities is expensive. From what I heard, an ADHD test costs a couple of thousand USD, which could mean a lot to low income families.
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by acmj 4y ago
Fully agree. The python community just wouldn't admit they lack someone as good as Mike Pall or the V8 team. The python performance in the computer language benchmark games is so embarrassing especially on the benchmarks not requiring

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