wycy

26 ms·

241.
by wycy 7y ago
I recently selected Fortran for a greenfield project. The reasons were primarily (1) speed, (2) clean mathematical syntax, especially for elemental multi-dimensional array math, (3) clean array slicing syntax, and (4) arbitrary array indice
242.
by wycy 7y ago
Somewhat interestingly, I believe this is actually Fortran 2003 at a minimum based on the use of iso_c_binding[0]. [0] http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/iso_c_binding
243.
by wycy 7y ago
Is this code on github/online somewhere? As someone who does fluid dynamics in Fortran 90/2018, I'd be interested in taking a look.
244.
by wycy 7y ago
It's a pretty bad misfeature though, since it's a feature you might accidentally use without realizing it if you don't use a linter.
245.
by wycy 7y ago
Actually, the Apple store phones are all already set up this way: no passcode, no FaceID, swipe up to unlock.
246.
by wycy 7y ago
Why do you not want to use your face? And I don't think the lack of a home button changes whether or not you have to use a passcode. I haven't seen anything to indicate that the new iPhones can't be passcodeless (though I don
247.
by wycy 7y ago
I must be some kind of unicorn then. I used iOS 13 betas since beta 1 and never encountered any problems. In contrast, I recall having all sorts of problems with iOS 9, 10, and either 11 or 12 (but not both). In one of these other betas, GP
248.
by wycy 7y ago
> * Ordering could easily fuck up somehow. Eg. Send multiple identical pizzas cus you pressed the button multiple times, cus the 1st time u pressed it nothing happened. I read about this actually happening recently. I don't think I&
249.
by wycy 7y ago
Money in politics wasn't the reason for his defeat, but it is the reason that one major party is entirely owned by money, and the other major party is almost entirely owned by money. If it had been illegal to accept bribes, the politic
250.
by wycy 7y ago
I'm curious how an issue he experienced in the simulator relates to the problems that occur with MCAS. The known problems with MCAS occur when the active angle of attack sensor fails. Perhaps the simulation was simulating AoA sensor fa
251.
by wycy 7y ago
This was the case with Fortran 77 too, and for the same reason (punch cards). But modern Fortran (F90 through F2018) no longer requires formatting by column.
252.
by wycy 7y ago
I switched back to Firefox from Chrome with the introduction of Firefox Quantum after years of failed attempts at switching back prior to that. Firefox really is first class again. I echo your suggestion to give it a try again.
253.
by wycy 7y ago
It's only 70% of what you earn on dollars after certain other nominal limits. For example, 70% of what you earn after you've earned your first $1,000,000.00. Please do spare everyone these absurd tears for the "enslaved&q
254.
by wycy 7y ago
Incorrect. Amazon says it was not about the politics[0]. Plus, Amazon is still coming to NYC anyway, because there was still demand for an office there[1]. But now NYC gets it for free rather than paying billions in subsidies. [0] https:&#
255.
by wycy 7y ago
He's not giving away jobs as charity because he has money. The need for these jobs stems from the demand for the work produced by those jobs, not his on-hand availability of money. If he/Amazon didn't have the money on hand
256.
by wycy 7y ago
Multimillionaires and billionaires constantly donating to the Harvard endowment while public education--and even other private schools--is certainly overhead free, but far from an efficient use of resources. Podcast about this specific phen
257.
by wycy 7y ago
That's what we have now. The more resources (money) you have, the more say (speech) you get. Citizens United.
258.
by wycy 7y ago
Precisely. And the government should have a group with the proper qualifications to judge the merits of the advocacy of these other companies and advocate on the government's and people's behalf.
259.
by wycy 7y ago
I'm not right of center and I don't want smaller government. The fact that employees of corporations will provide the government with recommendations that are favorable for those corporations is exactly why I think the government
260.
by wycy 7y ago
> Business is motivated by all kinds of incentives not necessarily related to "lower prices" I would posit that business is virtually never motivated by "lower prices" and always motivated by "profiting and growi
261.
by wycy 7y ago
> It seems silly that a small team of government hired employees would know better than tens of thousands of Google, Amazon or Facebook experts. Those tens of thousands of Google/Amazon/Facebook experts are not going to provide
262.
by wycy 7y ago
> Even though the card was only half the size of a real card I'm confused by this statement. The card appears to be the same size as a real card in the picture of her holding up the two cards, and for the purposes of showing people
263.
by wycy 7y ago
I can confirm, Fortran subroutines are essentially just void functions, unless specifically declared pure. Despite working in Fortran every day, I never knew about statement functions before. Thanks.
264.
by wycy 7y ago
> - Windows really need a package manager. And not, Chocolatey is not enough. A package manager isn't really necessary on Windows, since Windows doesn't have a web of interdependent packages to manage.
265.
by wycy 7y ago
> Unlike Apple where you're stuck with an expensive metal wedge, a keyboard you may not (or may!) like, that at least for me gets miserably slow after 3 years That's strange. My iMac has been on its original installation of Mac
266.
by wycy 7y ago
> - The only big cost is just the downpayment (5-20% of the price) Also closing costs can be large. I'd long thought the big up-front cost was the down payment plus maybe $3k of inspections and closing costs, so I was surprised when
267.
by wycy 7y ago
Moneywise, if you expect to make roughly $100k and can buy a townhouse for roughly $300k in your area, that's a pretty good financial position to be in.
268.
by wycy 7y ago
Whether die-hard or steamroll-thru is the better option depends more on what exactly goes wrong rather than what the application is. For a flight control computer, for example, if the ordered pitch suddenly becomes 3.402823466e+38 degrees i
269.
by wycy 7y ago
>Have you actually thought your proposed solution through? Have you considered the larger picture? The OP's plan seems like a good one to bolster national security. OP doesn't need to lay out every single step of the solution,
270.
by wycy 7y ago
To my knowledge, there's nothing stopping a private company from going into these cities and setting up a private bus system and absolutely eating the lunch of the public system if it's going to end up being so much better. So why

More ›