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Puerto Rico's population has been falling for the last 10 years or so, which is a strong factor in why they had so much trouble with debt. This is going to make it much worse. See …

Then live coding might be a way to improve that skill and get over your fear! Nothing feels quite like facing a fear head on.

If it was 100% isolated, the heat from the sun would continually increase the internal temperature, which would probably be bad. They're looking for a steady state dyson sphere.

Yes maybe some of the success stories regarding changing from X language to Go are actually because Go enforces behavior at the language & tooling level that could potentially be e…

I don't think that Go is a good language to compare with Scala. (I do like Go, though.) The two languages could not be more different in philosophy. Scala is maximalist - you can d…

Always show up in court if you are being sued. If no one shows up at all for one side, they lose. He sent his assistant, but I doubt that made the judge happy. That's probably the …

Musk is a savvy businessman before anything else. He would prefer to not have competition.

It is kind of both; go doesn't allow some approaches in native go code that can make it slower than other languages. (I love go, but that is my experience.) In this case the choice…

It is also often much faster than pcre.

His book "Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers" is brilliant, his work included information theory, sampling, and running bell labs during its most productive time. He wa…

Thanks, I've been having trouble finding a good place to start (looking) as well.

Side question: are there any open source synthetic chemistry projects that I can look at to get an idea of the techniques and problems encountered? I try to learn about a new non w…

Are there any open source projects for computational chemistry?