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Biden isn't actually relevant, as the real candidate is K. Harris and her handlers. She is definitely a socialist/communist! I doubt Biden would last as President until Inauguratio…

>The US is an outlier, granted, but mostly for fixable reasons (in particular, over dependence on cars due to poor public transport). This isn't an obstacle, given electric cars an…

> Nuclear power is, but the environmental movement is actively blocking re-investment, and we're so far behind that it would take decades to jump-start the industry. That isn't tru…

Higher evaporation means more clouds (somewhere) and more rain (somewhere). Recent studies show increased snowfall in central Antarctica for instance. It's entirely possible that g…

Right, of course we should want single-payer, just like Canada! Never mind that the average wait time to see a doctor in Canada is almost 20 weeks, and that tens of thousands of Ca…

I guess Chomsky didn't point out the fact that opioid deaths fell last year for the first time in around 30 years. That actually dovetails with the idea that increased opportunity,…

It doesn't. The only way an ice sheet gains mass under any normal circumstance is new snow falls on top. As more and more snow accumulates over time, the ice sheet grows thicker. W…

Julia's "niche" is essentially an improved, free Matlab. At least, that certainly seems to have been its initial impetus. Now it's grown far beyond that, and is acknowledged by its…

> C++ seems very different to me now vs the early 90s. True, but it's still very far from optimal. For something MUCH closer to optimal, see Rust. All that said, from a practical s…

> The thing I never understood that if entropy steadily marches on, and the sun's energy is finite, isn't this all going to end bad anyways? Ha, well the current estimate is that t…

> ...yet what is the best thing for the kids? That's a harder thing to know - you can't really compare "not existing" with "living in a world that has a ton of issues". LOL! I cert…

Oracle is only one player in the Java ecosystem. OpenJDK owns just about everything now, and most organizations are going to get support somewhere besides Oracle. There's been some…

> I think of Julia and swift as higher-level languages, more domain-specific. Different tools for different problem domains. Well...my particular interest in these types of languag…

Excellent and detailed post! Up until now I've been focusing on Julia and Swift for projects that can use a new language, as the Rust pain/productivity ratio has looked too high. P…

Actually that link makes no prediction at all about how much sea levels will rise. It merely looks at the impact if the sea level were to rise by the given amounts .

> But the CEO doesn't own the company, the investors do, so why would the CEO be the one to state the goals leaving investors to "take it or leave it"? Well, one point of the artic…

Julia supports 0 based indexes if desired, similar to Ada and other languages.

> Julia Computing is largely made up of people they've hired from the community straight out of grad school. Where do you think most companies get "professional programmers" from, …

> And when I want Julia’s promise of fast loops, I use Numba. If all the effort gone into Julia had instead been spent on fixing remaining warts in Python workflow for science, we …

> The blog mentions that Julia is supposed to be a general purpose language, and not a language built specifically for scientific computing. Is that wrong? No. Julia is a general p…

To be fair, each service has its own variant. That's increased cost, but each service should have aircraft that'll work well for the individual service's requirements. The F-15, F-…

It doesn't necessarily follow from "the airframe isn't the most expensive part" that you still wouldn't want an improved airframe. The F-16 isn't stealthy (terrible in fact), and t…

> What makes Rust, like C or C++, efficient is not just that they are statically compiled, it's that they have massively-tuned optimizing compiler spending a lot of time in compile…

"In my view, programming language choice is cultural yet is always framed as something objective." I think that's an objectively false statement. There are many objective metrics b…

Nice charts! Very striking looking against my dark terminal windows...