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Neil

00:33

@mousetail'he-him' Charcoal, 10 bytes: Φθ№αιΦθ№βι

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Bubbler

07:15

@mousetail'he-him' ngn/k, 8 bytes: <!/=\_:\

mousetail 'he-him'

@DLosc Or the reverse, but yes

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Neil

08:43

@mousetail'he-him' Charcoal, 9 bytes: Ｆ²Φθ⁼ι№βκ

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Simd

10:32

Python is a pain. I have a class and I want to run one of the methods in it in parallel

You might think this was easy in 2025

mousetail 'he-him'

Python is really the worst language for parallelism in many ways

Even Java has better support somehow

Simd

I am sadly stuck with it for this.

Themoonisacheese

i think this is because python is so inhenretly slow that using it for actually doing computations is a bad idea in general

mousetail 'he-him'

Numpy and similar libraries are not slow, if you use them properly

Simd

@Themoonisacheese right. Fast python code just calls other code written in a fast language.

@mousetail'he-him' numpy is painfully slow if you have loops that do things. It's only fast if you have reasonably large arrays and you just call its functions on those arrays

mousetail 'he-him'

10:47

Yep, it's slow if you actually use python, because python is slow

Simd

I love a language where you are not supposed to use loops :)

mousetail 'he-him'

Your name is literally SIMD

Simd

@mousetail'he-him' that makes it worse! :)

Has anyone tried github.com/uqfoundation/multiprocess/releases?

I somehow feel it needs to have been updated more recently to give me confidence

mousetail 'he-him'

I doubt it would make a lot of difference for the problems you are facing

Simd

Sigh

Also SO seems half dead now so it's much harder to get expert help

You can still get a good answer if you offer a bounty mostly but otherwise, not so much

And don't get me started on discord!

New Posts

11:06

Q: Cost of goods sold

Write a program or function that iterates an array of product identifiers, transactions and unit prices. Each transaction changes the inventory balance of the associated product, and because unit prices vary, it also changes inventory value. Output the remaining FIFO inventory per each purchase t...

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att

11:18

@mousetail'he-him' python can be fast if you avoid using python

mousetail 'he-him'

Yep

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mousetail 'he-him'

12:30

Would you live on 15 square meters? If the location was very good

att

13:23

if it's part of a larger unit maybe

Neil

13:35

my meters are all cuboids... (UK joke)

Themoonisacheese

13:48

@mousetail'he-him' as a student sure, as a working adult i think that's way too small

mousetail 'he-him'

There is a separate bathroom which I didn't count

Themoonisacheese

how much is rent is the question

mousetail 'he-him'

I would buy it for 200K

Comes out to around 500 per month mortgage

Themoonisacheese

that sounds about okay i gues

i don't think it'd be a very good place to live in long term but that does mean you'd be paying less rent, and if you move away you can rent it to a student i guess

mousetail 'he-him'

The location couldn't be more central, which means everything is close by. The downside this includes protests and football and that kind of things

Themoonisacheese

13:55

i think that's fine

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AlephSquirrel

17:11

What's this bounty mean? https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/256069/115910
(I know it's old, I completely forgot about this challenge)

mousetail 'he-him'

17:28

@AlephSquirrel People on this site often award eachother bounties just for jokes or whatever. Or it could have been one of the bounties with no deadline: codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5243/…

Q: List of bounties with no deadline

This is a list of unofficial, deadline-less (hence not searchable) bounties offered by users on various challenges on the main site. Disclaimer: There is no guarantee that the user will award the bounty for you in case you fulfill its requirement. Especially if the user isn't an active member any...