nritchie

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by nritchie 21d ago
Professionally, writing my own code is critical. As a scientist, it is how I really understand what that journal article I just read really means. When I write the code, I discover the edge cases that the paper overlooked. If I left it u
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by nritchie 2mo ago
Is anyone using Elm with Tauri to produce a front-end for a Rust library? It seems like it could be a really nice combo.
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by nritchie 2mo ago
Ever look at how much energy a laser printer uses?
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by nritchie 3mo ago
I have no idea what you are babbling about. Sure, the evolution of the climate is recorded in the geological record. Climate scientists largely understand why these geological timescale events happened. What we are now undergoing is orde
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by nritchie 3mo ago
Right, science, while not perfect (being a human endeavor), is our best mechanism for getting closer to the truth. Sure, fraud happens (occasionally). Not all "results" are a step forward. But the system is inherently self correc
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by nritchie 3mo ago
Science funding in the US is in crisis. We need to stand with those bold enough to point out that the emperor has no clothing.
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by nritchie 3mo ago
The product they sell is trustworthy news but they still have accountants. The high-quality news business is a rough business and few are profitable. I can understand why they might feel defensive and a more than a little spooked. How ma
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by nritchie 4mo ago
Not true for everyone. I learned Rust from The Rust Programming Language ("The Rust Book") and "Rust for Rustaceans." Sure, coming from C/C++, I could have learned the syntax online but learning best idioms and sty
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by nritchie 4mo ago
There is necessary complexity and un-necessary complexity. Often the modern world seems to be layering on un-necessary complexity and frequently this is not to the individual's benefit. Consider for one, picking health insurance. It
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by nritchie 6mo ago
This is why it is good lab procedure to always "run a blank." A blank is simply a sample that is constructed exactly like a real sample but without the thing you are studying. This way you quickly learn about contamination from
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by nritchie 6mo ago
Both things can be true. A better O-ring with the same joint might have prevented the disaster. A better designed joint with the same O-ring might also. Feynman knew that a little theater would go a long way. The O-ring explanation, albe
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by nritchie 6mo ago
Maybe not so much "oblivious to safety" as "oblivious to probable risk." We worry to much about low risk events (like airline flights) and don't worry enough about higher risk events (like trips-and-falls, driving a
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by nritchie 6mo ago
I really enjoy how Julia handles images. The abstractions really streamline developing image processing algorithm that are independent of pixel representation. Like so much of Julia, the first time I saw it, my mind was warped. Julia is wor
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by nritchie 7mo ago
An encrypyted drive is likely to have (close to) equal numbers of 0's and 1's full or empty so any of these arguments are moot.
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by nritchie 7mo ago
A fast-to-compile but slow-to-run LLVM alternative would make Julia much more useable day-to-day too.
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by nritchie 7mo ago
And yet all countries with socialized systems pay less per capita for healthcare than we do and pretty much all have better health outcomes. Further privatizing our system will only make it more dis-functional. Healthcare isn't a nor
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by nritchie 7mo ago
This is just the lazy comment of someone who believes all the right-wing propaganda about government. In my experience, government employees take pride in doing a job worth doing and doing it well.
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by nritchie 7mo ago
I don't care about dated looks. I do find MS Office's pressure to use OneDrive frustrating and annoying. Honestly, older UIs for office suite products just feel more direct and responsive than the clever ribbon bars. Excel used
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by nritchie 8mo ago
Hopefully, in coming years, we will see more practically designed EVs that are more affordable. A practical car doesn't need neck-snapping acceleration, every bell-and-whistle and room for a family of six with a dog. I'd like to
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by nritchie 8mo ago
This is a great example of the "I wonder if I could"-kind of research. It doesn't have to be practical. I doubt the authors intend it as a viable security product. It is the kind of "just playing around" thinking
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by nritchie 10mo ago
A handful of the comments are skeptical of the utility of this method. I can tell you as a physical scientist, it is common to make the same measurement with a number of measuring devices of differing precision. (e.g. developing a consensu
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by nritchie 11mo ago
It is worth noting that the research that Martinis is being awarded the Nobel prize was largely performed while at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), part of the Dept of Commerce.
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by nritchie 1y ago
I was just double billed by the third-party that Enterprise Rentals uses to handle tolls. Fraud? Incompetence? Is there a difference?
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by nritchie 1y ago
What he says is still correct for academics. There are too many candidates for too few positions. The pay is lousy. The hours are long. You don't really get to follow you best creative instincts. You spend an inordinate amount of
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by nritchie 1y ago
This seems like an example of black and white thinking. Did they never drink water? beer? wine? Of course not. A better question - under what circumstances did they prefer beer? wine? cider? water? And later on tea? coffee? Etc?
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by nritchie 1y ago
millibits per second? No actually megabits per second...
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by nritchie 1y ago
Seems like a good idea but I do wonder what the cost is as the overhead of allocate the extra resource space (whatever it is) would be added to every Go application.
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by nritchie 1y ago
Beyond mundane living expenses, bicycling and brewing supplies.
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by nritchie 1y ago
This begs the question: How many languages can be accessed via AI translators?
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by nritchie 1y ago
Being able to add an interpreted script engine to a Java application is a super-power for some uses. I embedded a Jython (Python in the JVM) command line into a Java Swing app to provide a level of flexibility that I never could with a GUI

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