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rhodin

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    Comment #49198721

    I'd also recommend "Scientific Babel How Science Was Done Before and After Global English" by Michael D. Gordin [0]. It goes into detail about which languages scientists have used …

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    Comment #49025559

    Yes, I've had to learn this one the hard way, too. And more than once, I have to admit.

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    Comment #45543729

    When I was working on Mathematica, a lot of effort was put in to making examples for each doc page. One example (that I didn't work on) picked at random: https://reference.wolfram.…

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    Comment #41594059

    Mnesia is _not_ the storage layer for messages (except for delayed messages). Mnesia stores vhosts, users, permissions, queue definitions and more. This is being transitioned to Kh…

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    Comment #41588129

    Yes, a stream queue type [0] is available where you can set retention, and replay messages. [0] https://www.rabbitmq.com/stream.html

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    Comment #41582052

    This release includes a new (native, no longer a plugin) AMQP 1.0 implementation, new quorum queue features, and a new schema data store (Khepri)

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    Comment #40811858

    They mention a book, book seems like it never came out?

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    Comment #40416585

    Cool, they've added support for long message queue monitoring: https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/7651

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    Comment #40070178

    Related Stephen Wolfram's note when Doug Lenat passed away [0] [0] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/09/remembering-doug...

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    Comment #39594894

    You can also use wolframcloud.com for free. Which runs the latest Mathematica online.

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    Comment #39398360

    Most interesting might be the new "tprof"-tool that allows for heap profiling

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    Comment #39359953

    Video of [0] the Strangeloop talk [1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc [1] https://thestrangeloop.com/2014/testing-distributed-systems-...

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    Comment #38408034

    ra for those interested: https://github.com/rabbitmq/ra ("A Raft implementation for Erlang and Elixir that strives to be efficient and make it easier to use multiple Raft clusters …

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    Comment #35444075

    Continuous System Simulation by Cellier/Kofman [0]. The focus is mainly on Modelica, but analog circuits are a "special case" of this. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Continuous-System-…

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    Comment #34916696

    If interested in battery technology and Argonne I'd recommend this book: "The Powerhouse: America, China, and the Great Battery War" [0] [0] https://www.amazon.com/Powerhouse-Ameri…

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    Comment #34549777

    Yes came to say this. The Erlang VM is about lightweight processes and message passing.

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    Comment #34549718

    Yes, they built a platform Cello [0] that would allow for that if I remember correctly [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20170829230730/https://www.erics...

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    Comment #33016053

    No just Bikes has an episode about a car free neighborhood [1], in Canada. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWDFgzAjr1k

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    Comment #32987499

    Counter-anecdote time from Murray Gel-Mann, who did think names were important [1] [1] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/remembering-murr...

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    Comment #31936865

    (Former Wolfram employee) Glad you like the documentation system, there is a lot of hard work going into making the examples in that documentation, and making sure they are linked …

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    Comment #30781814

    Yeah, flaky dashboard, unable to get proper visuals on apps, can't restart apps.

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    Comment #29485498

    RabbitMQ has poison message handling in Quorum queues [0]. They are also FIFO. [0] https://www.rabbitmq.com/quorum-queues.html#poison-message-h...