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snicker7

1,713 karma · joined February 27, 2016

Domains of expertise: financial mathematics, data engineering.
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snicker7··on AWS Icon Quiz
What about SQS and Step Function integrations? I need to integrate this into my production workflows ASAP to meet my quarterly targets.
snicker7··on The case for Nushell
I usually just use the Julia REPL as my “shell” (my terminal emulator is configured to open it directly).
snicker7··on Coffee Meets Bagel has been out for 4 days
This is fine. My love life has had far, far longer outages.
snicker7··on Cosmological time dilation in the early Universe
Time is warped by gravity. Gravity is produced by matter with mass. The early universe had a higher mass-density resulting in this time-warping effect.
snicker7··on Vscode.dev: Local Development with Cloud Tools
You can still utilize code spaces with other IDEs and text editors. It’s just a matter of SSHing into them.
snicker7··on Python consumes 38x more energy than Java
You can’t use time command in this sort of benchmark. You are including start up t times here.
snicker7··on Maker's schedule, Manager's schedule (2009)
I had a good tech lead. They did occasional code reviews and made occasional contributions and did some PoCs. But most of that was delegated to the rest of us. He instead instead managed most of the communication with stakeholders and then product manager.
snicker7··on DeArrow – Solving clickbait on YouTube
But have you considered the impact to /equity/ on the platform?
snicker7··on JupyterLab 4.0
Have you considered using Pluto notebooks instead? They are designed to be reproducible (including version references to transitive dependencies). They are also reactive, so it is trivial to change the dataset.
snicker7··on Archive your Reddit data before it's too late
AKA memes from r/AdviceAnimals
snicker7··on Julia 1.9.0 lives up to its promise
I really wish this sort of thing was automatic, transparent to the user, and built into the Julia runtime.
snicker7··on Making Python faster with Rust
Languages and with some sort of decent metaprogramming support can alleviate this sort of issue (see Zig, Julia, Jai, etc.)
snicker7··on Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more
I wish Framework had more color options in their Marketplace (e.g gold, torquise, pink), especially considering how they advertise themselves as being modular / customizable.
snicker7··on OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models
The solution is obvious: journals should, as a matter of policy, refuse to publish non-reproducible studies. Reproducibility is the only thing separating science from mythology.
snicker7··on Ask HN: Why is Julia so underrated?
Julia is my favorite language by far. The biggest issue is the tooling.

- Promotes REPL driven development, but can’t even redefine types without restarting the session. - Language is very permissive (both by semantics and by convention). Very difficult to write correct code. Poor IDE experience. The shining light atm is - Poor support for abstractions. Julia’s abstract types are very limited. Best practice is to use traits (not even a language feature, but a tacked on convention), but afaict, there is no IDE support for this. - High latency due to compilation (Julia is an AoT language masquerading as a JITed language, eg V8 JavaScript). Julia 1.9 (beta) is first release I found tolerable latencies.

I do Java for my day job. That language is garbage in comparison to Julia. But the tooling makes it far more tolerable.

snicker7··on Julia 1.9 precompilation will be a turning point
In retrospect, how essential was it that Julia went the dynamic route in the first place (as opposed to taking a Haskell-like approach to inferred static typing)?
snicker7··on I use cheap notebooks
Why not? Not all blogs need to be like news letters. My blog mostly contains my daily caloric intake.
snicker7··on I use cheap notebooks
There are several Muji stores in my city. I get high quality stationary on the cheap.
snicker7··on Conservatives think ChatGPT has gone 'woke'
As described in the article, the political bias is intentional. It is the result of (not-so-transparent) ethical guard rails baked into the system.
snicker7··on Why all the NixOS hype? Did we all forget about Guix?
I think they are asking for MacOS support (which Nix supports). Not possible with Guix except through a VM.
snicker7··on Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?”
You can be socially engineered to open a mallacious excel.
snicker7··on Julia programming books going into 2023
Algorithms for Decision Making was just released in print. It uses Julia for its code examples.
snicker7··on Python 3.11 is faster than 3.8
I am not sure if the JS vs. C++ benchmark is really fair. Using unix "time" utility, you are also including the startup of the JS runtime.
snicker7··on Poll: Which Chat Solution Does Your Company Use
Symphony, for compliance reasons.
snicker7··on Git making me want to pull my hair out yet again
“CTO of Azure not using Magit”
snicker7··on SEC charges owners of New Jersey Deli with a $100M Valuation
You don't have to be rich to invest in the stock market.
snicker7··on Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?
+ 1
snicker7··on GitUI: Terminal UI for Git
Magit is an excellent and widely used Git TUI.
snicker7··on From Common Lisp to Julia
My understanding is that this was being worked on by Jan Vitek and his team as a research project. Not sure how much communication his team has with the Julia compiler devs.
snicker7··on California passes law requiring companies to reveal pay by race, gender
The law asks for aggregated (mean/median/count) of hourly wage data for each (race, ethnicity, sex) triplet.
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