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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Sounds really cool! As someone who programs a bit for work to help with automating processes and fun, but is not a computer scientist I'm a little jealous of never having taken a true database, compilers, PLT, or theory of computation
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I have a few Clojure books, but not knowing Java and the JVM very well and then having to learn Emacs/Cider and all the other tools really kind of killed it for me. In short, some of the Clojure REPL advantages are better than Python,
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Give Julia a try if you haven't. If you're coming from Python and also have some Octave experience, it will be easy and worth a look. For scientific coding I usually use either Python or Julia and Fortran or Octave at home sometim
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Yep, the takeaway for me was that the Python project required far less code, but we're not sure how fast it ran. Further below, the author states the inputs were so small it didn't matter. What if it did? Would the Python solution
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Python was already in the top 5 well before the whole AI craze and before pandas was out. Python has a huge amount of introductory learning material that assumes it is your first language, while most FP languages (Ex: Clojure, Haskell, F#,
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
IIRC, they go over some of the background of it on their website.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Wow. The same at my company. It doesn't matter that it has been successfully justified 10 times. The same email comes out quarterly.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Does it still require you to magically know a ton of Java classes?
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
The complex imaginary channel on YouTube for the power PE test covers when to use sqrt(3) and starts off very basic.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
This is nice that they make it public, but it has limited value if it doesn't have more information such as: Real-time generator MVA values Real-time load MVA values Real-time line flows Generator fuel types *Equipment impedances Y
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I was always taught that one of the main reason to use multiple conductors was due to reduce the losses caused by the corona effect of ionizing the air. As another commenter says, bending might also be a factor.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Most of my background is in Python, but I've dabbled in a lot of languages out there from Haskell, lisp, Perl...etc. The point being I don't mind trying new things. I don't know Java and the JVM very well though and a lot of
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Thanks for working through my example question. I may have to give Prolog another shot at some point!
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
59M sounds pretty sweet! I'll check out Triska's videos when I pick up my Prolog book on writing a text adventure again. It's pretty much the only Prolog book that helps walk me through it without the theory. I do like theory
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Yea I've been a little confused here until I realized I would just write some bash, Python, Perl...etc script where some would advocate for complicated tools.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
How is Prolog ideal for when you'd use SQL? I can understand it if you're talking about querying a CSV file, but the advantage to SQL is that the database with all your data natively supports SQL and it can usually run pretty fast
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Thanks for your hard work. I really want to like Prolog, but I often don't know how to fit it into an actual system of use. My field is power systems which involves solving numerical problems with large sparse matrices and very large s
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
That is cool. Thanks!
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Julia JITs to native LLVM code and is really fast for a lot of use cases. For things where the JIT warming up takes less time than the full job, it can be better than Python. It was also developed with numerical computation in mind, so it w
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
There is some series on nuclear disasters going on all the time. PBS just did a big one on Fukishima last year and Command and Control has been put out again recently. Maybe it's a slight surge, but people have always been interested i
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I don't think democracy is the problem. The current and broken system in many nations is. I'd rather not have a dictatorship and I don't see Anarchy being particularly effective either. What is your solution? Edit: I understa
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
This doesn't seem that new to me, besides the location being in Canada. I watched a PBS special on Carnivorous plants recently and they covered the fact that pitcher plants in some parts of the world will digest the rodents that fall i
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
As someone who is kinda a minimalist when it comes to code (prefers simplicity and less libraries and excessive moving parts) I've often wondered about this. The problem is that unless we're just talking about simple charts that a
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Yea...it doesn't need to be perfect or have pretty much any apps except for web browser, mp3 player, PDF viewer, document viewer, text messaging, alarm ...that is the only thing I use my phone for.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Any way you could go into more detail on your work and how your apps are setup. I'm guessing your Nim code transpiles the dashboard code to JS and the backend to C?
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I've used Nim a bit and even read most of Dom's book (Nim in Action) and it felt pretty natural to me as someone who does most of their coding in Python. Sure it has some Modula inspired keywords, but it still feels Pythonic in a
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
The South is pretty friendly and outgoing in many places. I strike up conversations almost everywhere and most people are ok with it. Of course there are some people that hate small talk and I try to respect that.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
First of all, thank you for your work. Since I don't contribute myself, I'm a bit of a parasite :) Second, I'm salivating at the prospect of booting into a Red terminal directly on hardware. Would I be able to use the View DS
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
An interesting question, but you already know the answer to it :). Linux has a lot of users giving it time and money and even it struggles with driver and other support. There are other desktop projects out there that take Amiga and BeOS an
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I ran the query before and it was a lot of fun.

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