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It looks like y'all are mostly a Python shop?

Also it has a bunch of common desktop shortcuts installed and canonical metrics all disabled...and disk encryption.

Yes. System76 is definitely expensive, but their customer service is the best I've seen for any product period. They have a super snappy site with real people you can talk to in De…

Does anyone know Alan well enough to answer the question "will he ever publish a magnum opus designed to explain the distillent of what he's learned"? That might be worth reading i…

Interesting article on doing more manufacturing in America. The problem is that this is an extremely expensive and niche product. I want slightly more expensive products made in th…

Anyone experienced with ImGUI ever use Rebol and Red's DRAW DSL? I believe Rebol's GUI support is even easier to use than ImGUI, but of course it can't be embedded and used in the …

There is a large interview with Chuck Moore of Forth fame on O'Reilly Safari Online. Much of the interview focuses on things like how an OS is uneccesarry and shouldn't exist. Gran…

"Rust is the new APL,like I said" I know you're trying to compare it to APL as that language mostly died off and is thus obscure, but I think the analogy is a little off. While APL…

This. They still make content, but I believe it's all digital. I don't think they create paper books anymore. Is that incorrect?

I have lots of programming books (30-40) from half a dozen publishers and Manning is one of my favorite along with NoStarch Press. O'Reilly is probably third, but they don't make b…

I borrowed this from someone at work once. I never got a chance to write a Fortran app, but the book wasn't bad.

It's very fast and there is a new Manning book about to come out on Modern Fortran that is all about parallel Fortran. In addition to being fast, I find it considerably easier to r…

Thank you! I'll look.

As someone without any knowledge of OSTree or Fedora Silverblue, can you go into more detail?

I've used Xubuntu for years as a weekend OS for side projects. It seems to work well.

Neat...I just wish there was an easy way to give the basemap library a 3-item tuple with (lat, lon, value) and have it automatically do a heat map and not just plot the points. Tha…

As if the algorithms behind numerical methods weren't hard enough, now we have to add parallelism :)

It wasn't too bad. If you look up the Mathematica GraphTheory primitives for building diagrams it is pretty simple. To give an example of a diagram showing love interests you creat…

Thanks for the hard work in the Mathematica SQL area. I know y'all have lots and lots of database documentation, but I've had trouble commenting from Mathematica to Oracle via ODBC…

Yes and No. If you ignore Python being a powerhouse in the scripting world and just focus on numerical stuff like matrix and symbolic math, both Python and Mathematica have that. S…

Octave and Scilab are more Matlab like replacements as a user below commented. Sure both are for mathematical code, but Octave is more for numerical work and Mathematica for Symbol…

This. If I want anything installed it requires survey from IT and Legal and can take months. If it is Java or C# and already in-use, it is pretty simple. If I wanted to install a G…

My usual advice is to also check out Aaron Hsu's talks on YouTube and his posts on HN (user arcfide I think). Really eye opening and alien stuff. Dyalog also sells a standard keybo…

Dyalog uses non ASCII symbols which are really cool to me and make the primitives very easy to learn. Check out tryapl.org to get a feel for it. You can also download a trial versi…