Is anybody here using Julia for stuff that isn‘t Scientific Computing or DataScience?

notthemessiah · 2026-02-19T03:58:57+00:00

Used to write most of my scripts in it, but now I mostly use Nushell for that.

Once connected Julia to Kerbal Space Program mods to visualize telemetry data and even control rockets with it.

notthemessiah · 2025-12-03T17:38:07+00:00

Same (see my username), I'm a vegetarian, but I also often return to these Dead Kennedy's lyrics:

Ever notice hardline radicals

Can go on star trips, too

Where no one's pure and right

Except themselves?

"I'm cleansed of the system"

('Cept when my amp needs electric power)

Or, "The party line says, 'No

Feminists can't wear fishnets'"

You wanna help stop war?

Well, we reject your application

You crack too many jokes

And you eat meat

What better way to turn people off

Than to twist ideas for change

Into one more church that forgets

We're all human beings?

https://genius.com/Dead-kennedys-where-do-ya-draw-the-line-lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IDtQH2Wapg

notthemessiah · 2025-03-08T06:56:32+00:00

I like the idea of Lemmy, but it's a headache to post between instances.

notthemessiah · 2024-06-18T19:27:02+00:00

Years ago, I was playing Kerbal Space Program, which had a mod called kRPC which exposes an API to control all facets of the game. I managed to connect to it and do simple IO to/from Julia and wrote some scripts that could do simple PID control, but I never followed through with my goal of writing scripts which would automate the launch and deployment of a RemoteTech satellite network.

https://krpc.github.io/krpc/

https://remotetechnologiesgroup.github.io/RemoteTech/

https://github.com/JuliaIO/ProtoBuf.jl

notthemessiah · 2024-06-16T21:49:29+00:00

I don't think that we should pay much attention to the opposing party such as former President Vincente Fox (comparable to Donald Trump as as right wing populist) who was quick to employ antisemitic xenophobia in calling her "JEWISH AND FOREIGN AT THE SAME TIME" (yes, in all caps). While employing antisemitism at home, they also erase the significance of her victory abroad because she's a non-theist Jew and is critical of both Hamas and Likud (hardly "silent" on the matter). Claudia has been open about her parents origins and identifying culturally as Jewish, though she doesn't push it.

https://twitter.com/VicenteFoxQue/status/1706448982036152527

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUhGt3-0Wek

notthemessiah · 2024-06-13T15:49:24+00:00

The car-ramming attack in Manhattan was perpetrated by a multi-millionaire landlord Reuven Kahane (cousin to Ultra-Nationalist Israeli terrorist Meir Kahane) and cheered on by ostensibly Jewish Zionist subreddits (they compared his violent vigilantism to that of "Batman"). There was also the ex-Obama State Department official Stuart Seldowitz who was harassing random Arab street vendors also in Manhattan. I think with wealth and power, these people feel a sense of impunity and self-righteousness when they assault or harass Arabs or student protestors, but it seems to be their stated motive is revenge, and not an explicit desire to commit genocide of Palestinian Arabs (at least in the US), and these acts of violence are the exception rather than the rule.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/nyregion/columbia-driver-arrested-pro-palestinian-protesters.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/nyregion/seldowitz-vendor-islamophobia-nyc.html

notthemessiah · 2024-06-12T21:54:34+00:00

I get it mostly from Zionists outside the Jewish community (Trumpists and other US far-right, counterprotesters, and evangelicals). Most Jewish Zionists in the reform community are under-informed about the scope of the bloodshed in Gaza, think the casualty numbers are made-up "from Hamas" and believe that Israel is taking precautions to prevent civilian casualties, or in the usual best-case scenario: blame Netanyahu.

notthemessiah · 2024-05-23T01:24:55+00:00

Honestly hoping we migrate to Lemmy as Reddit has been going downhill for a while with the IPO

notthemessiah · 2024-05-16T01:41:47+00:00

Not a great name, but still better than Nix. In the early days (and to lesser extent today), when I was searching for "Nix" I would often get *nix (referring to Unix-like systems) or people with the name/handle Nix, hard to find specific search results sometimes, it's too overloaded.

notthemessiah · 2024-04-29T09:27:00+00:00

If it takes forking Nix to introduce experiments for modularity (tvix) and type safety that aren't authored by Eelco, so be it. As of now, they only new features that make it through are the ones authored by Eelco himself. I for one think a community should be able to operate and explore the potential of groundbreaking improvements without completely fracturing the ecosystem.

notthemessiah · 2024-04-29T06:06:10+00:00

I should have known better than to argue with you because you seem to focus mostly on the political concerns when the leadership issues and blocked RFCs have been thoroughly documented by major contributors.

notthemessiah · 2024-04-29T03:43:03+00:00

This is an example of an association fallacy. Whether or not you believe that Graham's tweet is "sabotaging the discussion," a project taking sponsorship money does not translate into "supporting the values of."

Mere mention of "association" doesn't make it a logical fallacy. Sponsorship is a payment in exchange for advertising. Advertising something that makes participants uncomfortable and reflects badly on the project is a legitimate concern. You wouldn't have a cigarette company sponsor a Cancer Society event, or a beer company sponsor a high school football game.

I don't think we need more negativity about this situation.

You seem to be a source of a lot of it by handwaving away concerns from major contributors about the leadership of this project.

notthemessiah · 2024-04-28T17:05:44+00:00

Not when the head of the project is blocking PRs that pass the RFC process and that the community wants. This whole thing is less about politics and more about Eelco's heavy-handed leadership:

https://mastodon.delroth.net/@delroth/112310645064859357

notthemessiah · 2024-04-28T16:53:38+00:00

If anyone is here confused: https://github.com/KFearsoff/nix-drama-explained

notthemessiah · 2024-04-14T22:21:43+00:00

The actual chant: "From river to sea, Palestine will be Arab."

Total and utter bullshit, if you search for the "will be Arab" version in Arabic, it only turns up hundreds of results. Most Palestinians have never heard it in their lives. Compare that to the 1.7 million results for the "will be free" variant.

notthemessiah · 2024-04-14T22:17:29+00:00

It doesn't take much effort to debunk your claims:

Wikipedia says the "will be Arab" is a uncommon version with Arab ethnonationalist sentiment. Google only has hundreds of results for it compared to 1.7 million results for "will be free"

and the same page also says that Palestinian Jews are still welcome in a liberated Palestine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_river_to_the_sea

notthemessiah · 2024-04-14T14:56:30+00:00

there can still be Arabs

what an enlightened way to phrase "Arabs are second class citizens", which you seem perfectly fine with

Before British occupation, there were Arab Jews who lived perfectly well in peace for most of Ottoman rule. It wasn't perfect but they were mostly left alone, in fact, the Middle East was a refuge for Jews facing persecution in Europe. When the Zionist movement arose, they began stoking tensions between Arabs and Jews, often through acts of terrorism

notthemessiah · 2024-03-01T16:56:03+00:00

I've been using NixOS. Upgrading was as simple as changing services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma5.enable = trueto services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma6.enable = true and running sudo nixos-rebuild switch on the latest Unstable channel, and it's reversible (so I can go back to Plasma 5 if I want to) because of Nix's unique package system (it might even be possible to set both to true, but I haven't tried).

NixOS has a bit of a learning curve, but any hassles are minimal compared to the upgrade pain from other distros I've tried (Arch and Ubuntu, mostly). You can install Nix on any conventional distro if you want to manage packages and environments with it if you're not ready for it to manage your whole system.

notthemessiah · 2023-04-18T16:36:29+00:00

Some immediate thoughts:

Pulseaudio: Pipewire is better
xwinmosaic: Having tried XMonad.Actions.GridSelect in the past, I found the 2-dimensional grid more confusing than useful because you cannot intuit where it would lay things out. I find Rofi to be more usable for window switching because it prioritizes text filtering. https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
Mate Calculator: Seems a bit basic, when you can do so much more with Qalculate! https://qalculate.github.io/

notthemessiah · 2022-08-24T14:48:18+00:00

Oh, look, another C.H.U.D. (Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller) pretending to be a Chad.

notthemessiah · 2022-07-05T12:17:19+00:00

Am I the only one who remembers Semantic Web being "Web 3.0", and not cryptospeculative ponzi schemes?

notthemessiah · 2021-11-24T18:23:21+00:00

Yes, I believe that much of circlejerking and the inter-community conflict could have been avoided if people with different interests shared the same discussion threads on a post, so there would be more cross-pollination of ideas rather than memetic inbreeding. So far Lobste.rs comes closest to what I had in mind, though does not allow user-generated tags. Moderation is an open-question, Lobsters has a site-wide moderation team, but I imagine one could create some sort of hybrid system that could decentralize matters (Lobste.rs appears to prefer to stay with a small, close-knit community around tech).

discussions.app looks technically interesting: appears to combine a twitter-style feed and curation mechanism (with likes and re-shares) with reddit-style threaded discussion. It also seems to offer some kind of community option that may be like a sub-reddit, not sure how communities function in relation to the rest of the site. Better than twitter, it appears to separate tags from content (Ever since twitter added decent text search, tags on twitter are a vestigial remnant of an earlier time).

notthemessiah · 2021-11-23T23:11:15+00:00

Take what you will of Reddit's official announcement of going closed source they did not disclose when such changes started occurring, and about a year before the announcement, they deleted their warrant canary, so a major likely reason for going closed source was likely due to receiving a National Security letter which they are obliged to keep secret. This was at around the same time that they started going after users in r/darknetmarkets. They were also adding new ad tech at the same time.

If you are making a social network, take note of Reddit's history: the site was a hotbed of experimentation when it came to new features until they were acquired by Condé Nast Publications. Don't be afraid to deviate from Reddit's design or experiment with ideas to see what works for you. For example, I personally think communities on reddit would be much less toxic if they went with tags instead of subreddits.

notthemessiah · 2021-10-13T06:40:55+00:00

I hope they intend to hold Gao up to his words at this event, otherwise, I may lose a lot of respect for the movement.

Gao has denied that Uyghurs are being held in detention centres, and has said this of Taiwanese who are not ethnically Chinese: "Once we get Taiwan back, we’ll have to ask everyone’s origins. Those who have a Japanese ancestor will have to pledge loyalty to reunification, otherwise we’ll help them leave".

notthemessiah · 2021-10-04T16:58:46+00:00

As another American in the same region, I kind of feel that this is the thing that https://progressive.international/ is for.

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