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Some important acronyms to know. Feel free to add some of your own.

Lisp:
Logic In Symbolic Paradigms
Lisp Inspires Strange People
Lisp Is Secretly Perfect

Python:
Pseudocode You’d Teach Hordes Of Newbies
Probably You'll Try Harder On Next-lang
Python: You'd Think Hardware's Optional Now

Emacs:
Editor Maintained As Community Shrine
Ecosystem Mainly Acquired by Cult Sysadmins
Emacs Means Always Configuring Something

Vim:
Vaguely Interactive Misery
Very Irritating Macros
Vim Isn't Modern

Linux:
Legendary Interface, Notoriously Unforgiving eXperience
Loyal In Nature, Unmatched eXtensibility
Linux Is Natural Under X

#emacs#vim#linux

Jakob Blasel, Bundessprecher der Grünen Jugend, schrieb danach auf Bluesky: „Nichts an Julia Klöckners Auftritt in der Grünen Bundestagsfraktion hat mich überrascht. Diese Politikerin ist eine Gefahr für die Demokratie, weil sie die Bedrohung durch die AfD im Parlament immer wieder verharmlost“.

#Julia #Nazis
taz.de/!6074793

Gregor Gysi bei seiner Rede im Bundestag.
TAZ Verlags- und Vertriebs GmbH · Konstituierende Sitzung des Bundestags: Harmonie und KrawallAlterspräsident Gregor Gysi hält eine staatstragende Rede. Julia Klöckner wird erwartungsgemäß zur Bundestagspräsidentin gewählt. Die AfD poltert.

I wish that there was a #TeX successor with a similar markup to #LaTeX. Macros, the lack of standardization and all the mess drives me crazy. I know that #Typst exists, sure it's faster, but not as readable. Going with Markdown style is not the right way in my opinion. And you can integrate TeX in other programming languages. I use #Julia with it, which I don't think I can do with #Typst.

Hello #fediverse #introduction

I'm Michael, professor in the institutes of #mathematics and #materials science and head of the @MatMat group at #EPFL.

I work on the #atomistic simulations of materials, mainly density-functional theory (DFT) methods, understanding #simulation errors and #uncertainties in predicted materials properties.

I use techniques from
#physics #computerscience #machinelearning and
develop related #julia packages such as the density-functional toolkit (#dftk).

Hard time [1] when upgrading #JuliaLang in #Guix! 😤
And we’re still lagging behind… 🫣 v1.8 -> v1.9.3 🥱

Hey, now I’m like a child waiting for a “fun” activity… Hop hop, go on ci.guix build build! I want to play^W fix more!

ci.guix.gnu.org/eval/2041608

PS: Fail on i686 architecture. Is build #Julia on non-x86_64 architecture worth the effort? 🤔

1: yhetil.org/guix/87ikpc5z6g.fsf

ci.guix.gnu.orgEvaluation 2041608 | julia-upgrade

Today is I Love Free Software Day.

#ilovefs

All our services and free software products stand on the shoulders of giants.

Thank you @fsf @fsfe thank you #rstats, #Python and #Julia. Thank you #Rust, #Kotlin, #C++ and #Java. Thank you #Kubernetes, #Singularity and #Docker.

Thank you to all the free software developers behind these and other projects!

Learn more about the Free Software Day: oa.eu/v78aFW

Remember when I mentioned we had ported our #fire propagation #cellularAutomaton from #Python to #Julia, gaining performance and the ability to parallelize more easily and efficiently?

A couple of days ago we had to run another big batch of simulations and while things progressed well at the beginning, we saw the parallel threads apparently hanging one by one until the whole process sat there doing who know what.

Our initial suspicion was that we had come across some weird #JuliaLang issue with #multithreading, which seemed to be confirmed by some posts we found on the Julia forums. We tried the workarounds suggested there, to no avail. We tried a different number of threads, and this led to the hang occurring after a different percent completion. We tried restarting the simulations skipping the ones already done. It always got stuck at the same place (for the same number of threads).

So, what was the problem?

1/n

@ojala While I love #Julia (both programming in it and as a language) and dislike R language (thought I appreciate what can be done using R, but mostly due to the abundance of packages), but I find pushing any language on anyone so dumb 😎 Just use what you know/like best and what works for the task.

Another day I'm a happy #Julia user. It turns out that it is very easy to extract the hue of any color and create a colormap from lighter to darker versions of it via Colors.jl. Perfect to get color shades and a nice color code through my papers :)

It is also possible to modify parameters such as the saturation, brightness or contrast of the colormap.