I've seen this posed the other way.
"How much money would it take to have me quit immediately?"
On bad days, a grand or two would do it. But I guess this a combination of both love/hate for your job and any current financial commitments..
Can I ask how intensively you have used Numba and over what period? I'm interested in how Numba has progressed over the last few years, with a view to using it over Cython.
My team and I looked at Numba a year ago or so for optimisation of a fairly large calculation, and found that the speed-ups were impressive where they worked, but were not consistent or predictable.
We used Cython for large parts, and while there was boilerplate and incantations, the gains were achievable, incremental and certain. The annotation tools were also quite helpful for identifying bottlenecks where Cython code could be effective.
Incidentally, once we decided that Cython was our go-to tools, we often wrote simple looping code rather than vectorised code because it was simpler to transition to Cython, alá Julia.
Just one extra datum, there gas been normal battery use on my iPhone 7 since the update, though I don't think it has ever dropped as low as 30%, despite a fair bit of Bluetooth headphone use.
Corals are an example of animals that can do both. They reproduce asexually through fission, which keeps clones in local similar conditions where they can thrive.
While sexual reproduction occurs through spawning, where genetically diverse offspring travel far and wide on currents to possibly different habitats and niches.
The idea here is that asexual reproduction is a benefit to the species during relatively stable conditions, while sexual reproduction works best to populate new areas or recover from population disasters.
I wonder how this might bear out for crocodile and turtle species, whose sex if determined in the egg due to nest temperature?
Changes to average beach temperatures can skew sex ratios in hatchlings. (Will find for refs but mobile right now)
Could this mechanism of rebalance work for turtles, even though the mortality of hatchlings and juveniles might be most important to the survival to breeding age, and subsequent numbers of offspring?
Gotta say that the total solar eclipse i witnessed in Hungary round 2000 or so, was one of the most memorable moments of my travels. The sensation of the terminator rushing at you was breathtaking. The unearthly silence as all the wildlife goes silent. Very worthwhile.
I'm pretty sure NZ has a less deadly set of wildlife than Oz, though surprising a boar could still end badly. No crocs, fewer snakes, spiders and dropbears.
Has the story for PicoLisp on OSX changed at all?
My daily drive is El Capitan and there were issues compiling the source because of Clang/gcc incompatibilities last time I tried. Precompiled binaries were around but are no longer linked I think.
I used a top-end Surface Pro as a dev machine for 6 months running Ubuntu, and it was great. Three screens, fast, powerful, portable, plus multiple vms. Only really hit the limits when compiling big c libraries or using the Android toolchain. If I couldn't use my current MBPr, I would happily use another.
Or consider if one of those creatures hears the noise while diving deep. If it gets spooked and comes to the surface too fast, it will get the bends.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but i thought deep diving mammals couldn't get the bends on breath-hold because they haven't breathed compressed gas. Sure, high energy sound can damaging, but scare whales bent? please.
While deadly police incidents seem less common in Australia, don't kid yourself that our police always get it right.
They could do with better de-escalation training to deal with situations in critical environments like crowds [1] or when dealing with mentally ill people [2].
I think anyone carry a deadly weapon, civilian or government officer should bear extra responsibility to safeguard the safety of all people around them.
I agree. For me, Asciidoc hits the sweet spot as it seems to have much of the simplicity of Markdown, and with the AsciiDoctor/DocBook toolchain it has the publishing power of RestructuredText.
But its tables beat both hands down. You can include a csv file with some headers or micromanage merged cells, alignment and such.
I am enjoying learning and using both Elm and F# at the minute, but finding a webserver to link them has not been straight forward.
Suave, or Nancy seem to have a lots of opaque boilerplate, and I've not found anything with a similar learning curve to more familiar Python webservers.
I disagree Australian culture would be devastated by mass immigration. Post WW2 immigrants and the Vietnamese boat people of the 70's form an important part of today's culture, even neglecting the almost entirely immigrant population (excepting the Aborigine first inhabitants of course).
I am torn trying to find a humane solution that does not cause further traffic, however.
Sure, we can't know whether they fit the formal refugee criteria until we assess their claims, but all are subject to offshore processing regardless of their true status.
I believe that even those granted refugee status are trapped on Nauru or Manis Island until they agree to resettlement in a third country like Cambodia.
The Government has refused to resettle refugees to New Zealand under an agreement brokered by an earlier Government, presumably on the grounds that humane treatment in a third country would further encourage maritime immigration.
I deplore the current policies that treat refugees as criminals. Dutton is engaging in the dog-whistle politics that got the former Prime Minister Abbott elected.
And during the current federal election campaign, the Labor opposition can't be seen as soft compared to the government (and is even claiming some credit for setting up elements of the "offshore processing").
But, I cannot condone restarting the people smuggling trade that puts so many in danger at sea (also in the Med). The bottom line is that we should be targeting the people smugglers, not the people.