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markkitti

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    Comment #49042163

    My biggest problem with Jupyter is hidden state. You have no idea what order the cells executed in and how many times to get to the current state. Pluto.jl and Marimo solve that by…

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    Comment #48969915

    Probably not directly but eventually I could see it having some benefits for what you listed.

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    Comment #48920762

    They found some potential geothermal wells near where they were previously mining.

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    Comment #48679314

    No, of course not. I am totally not a bot. I just like to connect together unrelated events to see trends at scale.

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    Comment #48679266

    I think a strategy for Qualcomm would be to use Mojo and Max as a software platform to drive AI inference on ARMv9 chips such as Snapdragon either at the edge (your smartphone) or …

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    Comment #48679165

    > what kind of programming language would a person with as much experience and good taste as Chris Lattner come up with if there were no such external pressures? Swift

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    Comment #48679141

    I do not think Julia ever intended to be a Python clone. Julia was created in 2009 when Python was not as popular as today. I think the statement is a strange one to make about a l…

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    Comment #48678825

    It is not the only solution to that technical problem though. Past attempts at this have shown a clear preference for solutions that actually are extensions of CPython rather than …

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    Comment #48678054

    I'm not really sure if Mojo has lost or not, but the community has felt quite different than other language communities I have encountered. The development feels less organic and m…

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    Comment #48668285

    Yesterday, LineShine a supercomputer in China emerges as #1 in the Top500 using ARM v9 based chips and no GPUs. Today, Qualcomm a premier designer of ARMv9 licensed chips in the Un…

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    Comment #48208144

    Gemini CLI for Enterprise will continue. > If your organization uses Gemini CLI or our IDE extensions via a Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise license, or if your organizati…

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    Comment #47707161

    I had the exact same experience.

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    Comment #47573811

    Thank you for listening.

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    Comment #47296838

    Is Python dying? /s

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    Comment #47177641

    When I need to do serious math, I use Julia.

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    Comment #47123392

    $ julia --lisp ; _ ; |_ _ _ |_ _ | . _ _ ; | (-||||_(_)|__|_)|_) ;-------------------|----- ------------------------------ ----------------------- > (+ 1 2) 3

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    Comment #47088732

    There is now a Julia plugin for JetBrains IDEs: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/29356-flexible-julia

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    Comment #47088721

    > it’s better to choose Rust for software engineering and Python for scripting. Rust and Python work in some scenarios but not all. Unless the native components are all developed a…

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    Comment #47083171

    The 0 or 1 based indexing is actually a very superficial debate for people not very familiar with Julia. Note that 1-based indexing is a standard library feature not inherent to th…

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    Comment #46954966

    Was there something you did not like about Marimo? It is also open source and can run locally. I'm still confused about your motivations and how your solution differs.

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    Comment #46954900

    Jupyter is definitely open source: BSD 3-Clause license . https://jupyter.org/governance/projectlicense/ I do not understand the motivation behind this project or how it differs fr…

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    Comment #46540038

    The pyproject.toml, package.json, and Cargo.toml are declarative project configuration files. While the Rust community refers to Cargo.toml as a manifest, it is not a comprehensive…

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    Comment #46422270

    "overengineered" is not the term I would use to describe Python packaging. I would say it is "under-engineered". As in, "Why engineer a configuration file when you can just do it i…

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    Comment #46405557

    Summary: They fixed Python packaging by not having to run Python to resolve dependencies. Also, they used Rust. Moral of the story: Use less Python. Use declarative configuration a…