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I agree, but with one amendment: most tenure-track roles in the US will have 50 to 200 applicants for a single position. Over the last few decades, tenure lines have decreased while PhD admissions hav…

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I strongly agree with this sentiment. And I realize that we might not be the representative of the typical user, but nonetheless, I think these things definitely matter for some subset of users.

I agree; this is incredibly short-sighted. And it has the potential to be catastrophic for scientific progress in the United States. Scientific innovation happens because countries invest in basic and…

"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison." [1]. [1.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s …

This is one kind of macro in Rust: declarative macros [1]. The other kind of macros in Rust are procedural macros [2]. Both are widely used in idiomatic Rust. And even within the procedural type of ma…

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With all the overdose deaths and the lives ruined by opioids, I guess I'm a little bit surprised this didn't result in criminal charges for someone at McKinsey. Surely there must be some ema…

Indeed! I feel like we as a community have taken a wrong turn with our use of notebooks. I think they have benefits in some specific use cases (e.g., teaching, demos, etc.), but otherwise, I think the…

This is correct, sadly. I've done some work with the public data from the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA does a great job of making detailed data on inspections and…

I think there is a fair bit of personal tastes in the answers to these kinds of questions. Personally, I've become a fan of Josh Comeau's "delightful React file/directory structure…

Very cool! Thank for this, claytonjy!!

I usually assume these companies are using some of the popular schedulers (e.g., Slurm, MOAB, SGE) that have existed in the HPC community for many years. I have anecdotally also heard that some are us…

They are going to have to pry Firefox out of my cold, dead hands!

I've only used Arc a bit, and generally had a good experience, but I do wish that they had chosen not to rely Chromium. I understand that would have massively increased the amount of work require…

You are correct! This is Cunningham's Law [1]! And it seems exceedingly plausible after observing behavior on many online forums! [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningh…

Very cool! I hope the Rust crate gets to take advantage of this. It might just be me, but I feel like the Python package gets all the love from the Polars devs.

This is exactly what I would argue. PostgreSQL makes it straightforward to create extremely powerful extensions. PostGIS is one such extension, and I would argue that if your use case involves geospat…

At least in the US, an institution’s “facilities and administrative” F&A rate gets negotiated with the Federal government every four or five years. I know of some institutions with F&A rates a…

In the US, most employers roughly follow the guidelines that the Federal government uses [1]. Which is to say, that employment is "at will", and either the employer or employee can terminate…

Yes! I couldn't possibly agree more; this is truly my fondest wish!

I'm inclined to agree with this. I'm super excited to see how Candle progresses in the coming years!

I might be wrong, but the wording of that question suggests it was only answered by people who consider themselves part of an underrepresented or marginalized group. So only a subset of the survey…

Oh, I actually had not yet heard of the DataFusion crate! Thanks for sharing! And to answer your question, we use the Rust API because all of our backend services are in Rust, and we like to stay in R…