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I worked with an older German man who was a consultant on a research project that I was working on in graduate school. He was born in Gottingen and told stories how as a kid he got…

No Apple logo.

I printed out a nice 1-page guide to flexbox a few weeks ago and keep it on my desk, and it's a great reference.

This story is in the article as well.

I haven't seen people mention it really, but isn't this all in response to ChatGPT deriving a lot of it's content from Reddit? I know that Google search has gotten so bad in the la…

Why did the first 2 replies to this comment use the phrasing that that is his 'MO'?

And then people used electric sheep in the later two-thousands which was a pretty interesting concept.

Just a heads up...on your homepage when hovering over the artist's name "Anastasiia Andriichuk" the highlight seems to add padding on each side which makes the line break in betwee…

I went to a talk at Oak Ridge National Lab soon after the discovery of Ununseptium (element 117 that is now called Tennessine) and it was really interesting the international colla…

Well, as fun as it is to mess up benadryl cucumber's name it's very easy to spell correctly.

If you look more into it, Germany was very close to being able to build a reactor that would have been able to produce plutonium. Their graphite reactor research never went critica…

Just go to duckduckgo.com and search for anything with the word stream on the end.

Keep in mind too that a lot of long scientific simulations are more complicated than vectorized loops or linear algebra. Monte Carlo algorithms were developed to simulate neutrons …

Any compiled language will be drastically faster than an interpretive scripting language like Python (although numpy/scipy is generally C or Fortran libraries compiled to be called…

Funny you mention the mouse support because in the blog post here you cannot scroll through it using a mouse which is pretty annoying.

I think it wouldn't be explicitly included, but it goes into the bottom line of big pharma companies. There is a very lengthy process of getting drugs through the FDA which makes i…

There's a lot of skeptics in here with myself included to a certain extent. But I really appreciate your story and am interested in pursuing a similar trajectory. I don't understan…

This has been my experience. Although I know other languages, when I go to write a solver for CFD, radiation transport, heat transfer, etc I normally have gone with OpenMPI and For…

"Renewable energy" is a perfect term, but I think that it has the same negative connotation for the people who have an aversion to the term "clean energy".

But you'll be fine on NA servers.

While I agree about productivity now (although rewriting a source for cat that is used decades later seems very productive), I think the above commenter has it correct that it was …

Which is exactly what professional sports teams do often even if they've been somewhere a while and have no intention of leaving.

Wait are you saying that smoking is really cool?