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9point6

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  • tough choice?

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  • Oh that's cool to hear, I was under the impression in research that whilst a lot of the processing actually happens in FORTRAN-written code, it was nearly always reusing already-written functions and primitives in a higher level language (such as python, via the aforementioned SciPy). And then those libraries being maintained by a handful of wizards on the internet somewhere.

    Can you elaborate on the kind of research where people are still actively writing directly in FORTRAN? Did people typically arrive with the skills already or was there training for learning how to write it well?

  • tough choice?

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  • Isn't it more COBOL than FORTRAN in terms of getting paid?

    I thought FORTRAN was pretty much exclusively used via SciPy in research & academia these days.

    COBOL is still powering the world economy on mainframes

  • What song should be the national anthem of your country?

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  • John Cage - 4'33

    Everyone just has to sit in silence and think about why having a nationalist song is kinda weird in the light of the modern day

  • From battleships to buildings: Trump's name is everywhere

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  • A man devoid of any actual accomplishment frivolously seeks to be remembered

  • time will tell

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  • I unironically loved the pandemic for being able to progress some of my hobbies

    Being able to throw myself into making music for hours without a drained social/mental battery and basically nothing to interrupt me helped me do more in a year or so than I'd managed to find time for in a decade. I also got back into enjoying long-form games that I've not been able to make time for outside of the pandemic. The few I've started since I've had to put down for extended periods of time and that's kinda killed my momentum. I also read the most I'd read since I was a kid.

    So I know I could definitely be given an extra couple of days a week of free time, and would have zero issues filling that time and getting something positive out of it, even if I wasn't allowed to leave my house.

    I'm not saying there weren't downsides, but more free time was amazing

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    I cannot understand what dose of vitamin D I should take

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  • Not a doctor and I don't have an exact answer to your question, but this might be helpful:

    This may not be a thing in Italy, but check if you're actually able to get enough vitamin D naturally all times of the year where you are.

    if you live in northern England near where I am, for example, you can only really guarantee you'll get your RDA of vitamin D from the sun during the summer months. I believe in north Scotland it's not ever possible to reliably get enough naturally.

    I try to take a 3000/4000 (honestly which one depends what's on offer) more or less daily outside of summer. During summer I still take them but maybe every few days.

    I would probably try what your doctor recommends (assuming you've already flagged your specific concerns, otherwise I'd do that first), it's entirely possible the 50,000 pill is formulated in such a way it manages to be (somewhat incredibly) slow release. If you experience any issues, schedule an appointment as soon as you can, so they can do some tests to help figure out what's going on. Your doctor has a degree in this stuff, so it's good to try what they suggest and discuss any changes with them

    This also might not be much of an issue for you since I assume you're getting your supplements from the same, trusted place. But if not, there's a load of fake and low quality supplements out there, make sure you research the brand you're getting has been tested and had its contents verified independently. Any issues could be down to unexpected adulterants rather than the vitamin dose itself

  • Donald Trump brags about eliminating over 270,000 federal jobs since taking office for his second term

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  • That's 270,000 people who were interviewed, trained and had accumulated domain specific knowledge paid for by the tax payer.

    He's bragging about burning your house down

  • On demand hyperloop-style water delivery

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  • FWIW I think there's still some merit in maglev vactrains that aren't tied to someone who was only pushing it to get public infrastructure projects cancelled with the goal of selling more cars.

    At least there are seemingly serious academics and engineers still researching and developing the concept anyway.

  • Text Rendering Hates You

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  • I wanted to say I'm ambivalent to text rendering

    But that would be a lie to myself, I actually care about it quite a lot.

    Most of my life is reading shit on screens; it'd better be good

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  • Why do I feel like the venn diagram of people who survive in any random apocalypse scenario is an independent circle from the one where people have prepared for apocalypse

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    Musk’s DOGE Failed To Slash Government Spending, Instead Leading To A 6% Increase

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  • Remember when we let an (American style) libertarian take control of Britain for a month?

    She managed to wipe £21bn of wealth in our country out of existence in a fucking day. Predominantly wealth held by the public sector

    +6% expenditure? You're fucking lucky.

    The experiment is over, let's fire these wankers into the sun so we can get on with not dying in the next couple of decades

  • In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

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  • Imagine making a language so bad Microsoft had to come along and fix it

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  • Oh this is silly

    I like it

  • Trump’s Kennedy Center chief threatens jazz musician with $1M suit over canceled Christmas gig

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  • ”Your decision to withdraw at the last moment—explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure,” the letter, shared to the Associated Press, reads, “is classic intolerance.”

    Lol. Lmao even.

    Imagine telling on yourself like this

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  • Imagine sniffing your own farts this much

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  • Yeah, for audiophiles this is actually a better situation now tbf

    You can get inline USB-C DACs that are head and shoulders above the DACs that were used in 95% of smartphones out there. Or more frustratingly with Samsung, they used to (probably like 8-9 years ago now lol) include half decent DACs but configure them terribly which could only be fixed with custom ROMs, so I had to choose between shit audio or my banking apps.

    Average Joe that doesn't care about that just uses Bluetooth today anyway since you can get cheap Bluetooth headphones for about the same as cheap wired headphones (where the audio is going to be crap whatever you do). And of course there's the cheap but passable inline DACs they used to include with phones that you can pick up for pretty cheap if you really want to use cheap wired headphones for whatever reason.

    It was definitely annoying when they all just got rid of them, but at least now when I want to use my wired headphones on a device, I know it will actually sound good and isn't down to what was the cheapest DAC they could get away with putting into the device itself.

  • Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed

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  • I mean, about time

    My (admittedly 6E, not 7) router only gets close to the ~900mbps I get on my line, if I'm stood in the same (not particularly large) room without anything between it and me

    As soon as there's anything obstructing line-of-sight, it quickly halves and quarters the rate down to WiFi 5 speeds

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  • Notification priority

    There's loads of apps I want notifications from, but I want to go to them at my leisure. Apps don't get to decide to interrupt me, that's my decision.

    99% of my apps are set to not display the notification icon and not buzz my phone. If I open the draw they show up under any notifications I've deemed important enough to still be allowed to interrupt me.

    Edit: caveman typo

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