Honestly this looks like a perfect way to make both python and bash more complex in a single move

I create proper libraries. I don’t do snippets because they make code dirty, redundant and difficult to read on the long run.

I actively discourage people in my team to use snippets copy and pasted everywhere themselves. If it’s reusable code, it should be usable by everyone and well tested

This was my immediate reaction as well.

For those who like living a messy life, there’s always Visual Studio (the original beast, not VSCode)

VSCode supports it also for other shells. This repo is not about vscode, it’s about actual shells. You are the one incorrect in this case

When someone brings points in the discussion, you react like a fan boy student that just bought the new gaming laptop.

Could you please reply about the discussion or go back to school? I am too old for your “no, you shit, you stoopid”

I wonder myself why I keep answering to your comments and that’s why this is my last comment

Unfortunately… That is why I commented above…

Powershell is a shell that pretends to be an OO language and that fails dramatically at both.

It was a design mistake. Much better having a real separation, a real shell and a real OO language. As even Microsoft has recently understood. As you can see also in this case, where Powershell is the last entry

What is a real advantage compared to plain autocomplete? Was it trained to know command flags?

It is anyway nice to see that even in Microsoft the abomination of Powershell is the lowest in the list of shells. It is probably time for them to drop it completely

Wow!

What about the flaming and jelly windows? That was cool stuff

ML/AI is a huge field. If you don’t like 1 side of it, there are millions others.

ML/AI. Everything else has been eaten by agile/product owners/MBAs/micromanagement. Luckily those people still don’t understand AI… And AI is still stochastic, pi planning and burnout charts don’t work.

If agile bites your ass… Run away, you are too young for wasting your life

You don’t really need to tune the operating system, you just need a good one. The hpc crowd has a pretty unique perspective. You won’t find anyone doing any real hpc on windows, not even Microsoft

When I talk about hpc, I don’t talk about a script in Matlab. I talk about the work you do on supercomputers, real computing intensive jobs that takes weeks or months on hundreds or thousands of processors. I guess you don’t find benchmarks simply because no one uses windows, same reason you probably don’t find a fiat panda in the Nürburgring rankings.

Tbf, on Linux performances for hpc are better even on standard desktop distros, no need to clean it up. It manages resources and jobs much better. For performances that is the critical part, once the code is optimized.

No no, it is better. Take a real hpc library, install debian and test it yourself. No tweak needed. Linux as kernel and the overall OS manages resources much better. Linux is a better kernel than windows kernel.

I’ve been doing hpc for over 15 years now. People install standard distros on their workstations and clusters. No tweak needed

All scientific computing is built on top of fortran. Even cutting edge AI runs on top of high performance libraries written in fortran and c. Simply there is less need for fortran developers because high performance subroutines are wrapped to be called by higher level languages, such as python

One comment to add to your post, Linux is better on performances not just because of the less overhead, but because manages resources much effectively. You could have a bloated linux, it still would perform better because resources are properly managed

Could be both. Who knows. For high performance computing Linux is the de facto standard because it has better performances than windows, and Linux distros are usually better, stabler OSes overall when one needs raw performances. In this case, who knows, someone should investigate further

First time I see “cool” and “c#” on the same sentence. I’ve always thought stereotype of c# is that it is the language for corporate, extremely uncool projects.

Just a comment. Cobol nowadays is heavily outsourced. There are jobs but not so lucrative as in the past. Fortran is still strong in scientific computing, but nowadays it is wrapped in python. All people I know who were strong in fortran (me included) are nowadays mostly working with python or scala, most of us on ML/AI related stuff.

For research labs, dell workstations used to be great. Put debian on it and you could forget about problems. I don’t know if it is the case anymore.

The selling point of xps is that they are light. Many of us just need light laptops nowadays, as almost any hardware is more than capable of any task with the exception of gaming. But I have never gamed on laptops

Xps developer edition has been a thing since almost a decade. I bought a xps13 with ubuntu in Europe. I replaced it as soon as it arrived though. The built in OS was not “standard”.

I still use it almost daily. Battery has gone, but everything else works