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I am not sure what is " the draft human genome" you are talking about. Two separate human genomes were published in 2001: the HGP genome and the celera genome. The HGP genome then …

No, at initial release, the human genome from the NIH side was done by bac-to-bac, not by shotgun.

You are confused by the human genome project vs the celera genome project. No, the human genome project didn't include his sample.

Well, they can keep stealing as long as someone open weight their models.

Going from something like "Go lacks a builtin arena allocation" to "Go risks becoming the COBOL" is a long stretch. First, Go is slower than C/C++/rust without complex memory alloc…

How is "full booked" a real shame?

Pypy is 10x faster and is compatible with most cpython code. IMHO it was a big mistake not to adopt JIT during the 2-to-3 transition.

Are there studies to show those paying $200/month to openai/claude are more productive?

I wouldn't say this easily if I were the sacrifice, especially as a visa holder.

I guess Harvard saw the decision at Columbia made the situation worse [1], so they decided to make a different one. [1] https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-freezes-all-rese…

People here have little idea about how Harvard works. Harvard is financially vulnerable. It is currently running on a deficiency considering the endowment. And Harvard can't freely…

Some part of this article is opinionated. Curl may be well written but this is more likely to be the result of the overall structure than the number of characters per line. Actuall…

std::deque typically uses chunked arrays. It is more complex but tends to be faster than a ring buffer based implementation.

The most important part is to have a standard, which doesn't need to be perfect. On argument parsing, I actually think the GNU way is the best so far. I have seen various deviation…

> argp parses `foo --bar -1` as `foo --bar=-1` the way you expect when `--bar` takes an value, but Kong treats `-1` as a flag. This seems a bug in Kong. Has someone reported it?

When I use a command-line tool, I don't know and don't care if it is written in Go or not. I just want to use it the same way as most of the other traditional Unix tools. The Go st…

In general, command-line argument parsers should just follow the GNU style. No more, no less. Deviations confuse users as it is not immediately obvious to them what rules a parser …

Too little, too late

You need to know what is good code. Opinions may vary a lot between programmers, even senior ones. The Clean Code cult would tell you to find good code there but that is the most p…

> The next major Julia release, 1.12, is likely to appear in mid-2025. It will finally include the ability to generate static binaries of a reasonable size, appropriate for distrib…

People often forget the best way to win a tech debate is to actually do it. Once multiple developers criticized that my small program is slow due to misuse of language features. Th…

I agree. How to deal with deletions is a 101 of hash table implementation. Many CS majors could get it right or at least know about the caveat. It is amusing that many high-quality…

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Sure, nothing beats bootcamp but that is not strictly macos. Apple's GPTK released last year seems to have greatly advanced gaming compatibility. Probably lots of games still don't…