John BS @johnabs@qoto.org

@freemo Edit: I take it back, there is no good emacs compatibility. What curse have I brought upon this blessed instance, please ignore.

@freemo I know we have an instance of Gitlab hosted on Qoto, but I was curious if you've considered something for hosting mercurial/etc projects as well. I really appreciate the access to Gitlab, but I'm thinking of switching to either Hg or Sapling (even though the latter is made by...Meta🤢) as potential git alternatives due to many suggestions on hacker news, along with extensibility, and apparent simplicity of both tools.

I'm not sure if there would be widespread interest in such a thing since git more or less won the DVCS war, but I figured I'd chuck the idea your way and see if you have interest in making it happen like the STEM-genie I often imagine you to be 😂

P.S. I hope you're doing well and have fun plans for Thanksgiving...assuming you take time to celebrate it in Utrecht, that is 😉

Supercomputer access has boosted my productivity substantially, I might actually get my papers submitted this century 😩

I'm dead 💀😂

Okay, so that supercomputer code crashed... It hit the RAM limit I assigned at 64 GB and only 22% completion...

Good news? I can likely complete the data generation phase within 24-48 hours.

Bad news? An estimated 300GB of just tabular text data that I get to sift through when I'm done. That I sure as hell can't load into RAM anywhere.

Im not sure how to feel about this 😶

On the bright side, I can take breaks and still feel productive while my jobs run in the background! 😄

I'm finally able to run my Julia code on the supercomputer, as tech support got it working (mine failed due to a curl dependency error that I was unable to address, funnily enough).

It's glorious. Remind me to NEVER, under any circumstances, run code locally; it destroys my ability to multitask effectively when my 12 year old laptop screeches to a halt xD

Pooch Post! She was recently groomed for matting caused by her allergies, and now she's chilly and needs a vest and some blankets in her bed. She's so stinking cute, I can't take it 😍

@andrew
I noticed you're a fan of R, and I have to ask if you've played with Julia at all (the programming language, not some person 😂).

I teach a course that's mostly on R and wrote my first thesis in it+RMarkdown. Frankly, I have to say of the big data science/stats languages (python, R, julia) that julia really gets it the "most right" in most cases, though R is a decent alternative in certain cases.

The syntactic sugar and macros alone make julia super nice, and there are so many other handy tools, packages, and integrations (including with R and Python!) that I plug it to anyone else in the stats/etc space. If you want any more details, just let me know!

I'm almost done with my cryptocurrency research paper!!! I think it'll be submitted for review by the end of this semester, possibly along with one on hospital scheduling, and graph analysis, and I should be hearing back from my neuroergonomics literature review paper either this semester or early spring!

I'm so tired 😩, but it's finally all coming together, I think 😄

So I just shaved my head due to stress (and eventually covid) induced alopecia. Literally lost nearly 30% of my heads surface area of hair within the last 6 months 🙃

Honestly, I think I rock the look (imagine discount Michael Stevens from VSauce), but my head is bloody freezing and this was not something I was expecting when I finally decided to go through with it 😂

So Guix System is pretty sick, but certain packages are still a little buggy, so I'm still stuck with my arch box for now :( Once I can install packages on Julia again, I'm swapping back to my Framework+Guix box.

Complaining time!

So, I *finally* caught Covid, likely from one of my students. First, I had a slightly sore throat; I though it was just from staying up late practicing for my conference talk. That same day I went out to lunch, as I didn't know I was exposed to Covid...except later that day it started kicking my butt and stealing my lunch money.

First, the horrendous fatigue and 102F fever that knocked me out for a few days, then my throat hurt horribly for two days during which I only ate ice chips: apparently, the covid-laced phlegm contains traces of virus, white blood cells, and fluoroantimonic acid. Then I coughed until I almost threw up multiple times yesterday. Now? I can't cough, laugh, or sneeze without my abs screaming at me from all the coughing yesterday. Oh, and my recurrent tooth/gum infection came back at the same time just to spite me.

To top it all off, my wife caught it, and so did at least one of my colleagues/collaborators/coadvisors during that lunch I mentioned...because the initial symptoms were practically unnoticeable.

Overall, this is the 2nd worse I've ever felt, only eclipsed by my 2 week stay in the hospital with pneumonia as a 10 year old, and I missed my first ever invited conference presentation because of it. 😭

0/5 stars , would not recommend.

Very interesting find here IMO. @jmw150 Have you seen this yet?

http://comonad.com/reader/2022/internalized-guarded-recursion-for-equational-reasoning/

So I recently replaced my key switches on my keychron q1 with some really sick drop holy pandas. I really enjoy the more "thock"-y nature of these keys over my old clicky blues, and the fact they come pre-lubed is a huge plus.

There's still a bit of case ping, particularly on stabilized keys and the arrow keys, but the higher actuation force really improves the overall typing experience IMO. Though, getting used to it is taking a bit of time for my muscle memory to adapt 😅