helgie

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by helgie 2y ago
Yes, there was a bidding process, you can see some of the entrants that lost here: https://jalopnik.com/here-are-all-the-mail-trucks-that-didn-... In any case, even if the process was terribly corrupt, I'm not sure why
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by helgie 4y ago
Simpler answer that doesn’t require weird psychoanalysis: bro is used because of the perception (possibly reality?) of the ratio of men to women in tech.
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by helgie 4y ago
I use pods because, of the options available at my grocery store, the only ones available that I know won't etch glass are sold as pods.
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by helgie 5y ago
If your boss sucks you can't fire them, but if the union sucks you CAN vote out the officers.
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by helgie 6y ago
You can write them in python using numba
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by helgie 6y ago
Stopping celebration of a thing is not the same thing as erasing it.
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by helgie 6y ago
You can use numba to define functions that do not need to hold the GIL to run.
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by helgie 6y ago
If you use numba (or cython, c extensions, etc) you can make them run without requiring that they hold the GIL, and they can run in parallel. Here's an example that should keep a CPU pegged at 100% utilization for a while: import n
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by helgie 6y ago
Why should me playing a game be more restricted than me watching someone else (and anything else their commentary/antics might entail) play the very same game on twitch?
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by helgie 6y ago
You can just do 'pip install the-package' in python if you aren't using a virtual environment. Ruby does have the equivalent of virtual environments, using RVM or rbenv (similar but different tools), to solve the same problem
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by helgie 6y ago
Natively parallel? From https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/multi-threading/ : "Julia is not yet fully thread-safe. In particular segfaults seem to occur during I/O operations and task switch
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by helgie 7y ago
Some thinkpads have them.
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by helgie 7y ago
Exploiting people is exploiting people, no matter how you spin it.
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by helgie 9y ago
Using the 'cuda.jit' method as linked does require you to do things like manually setting threads and blocks, though one could argue it makes it easier than doing it in CUDA C. However numba's 'vectorize' and '