At least you don’t need to worry about hills in New Orleans.

With all of those, money is moving from the rich person to pilots, crew, maintenance staff, laborers, builders.

Gulfstream is an excellent example of this in action. Gulfstream jets can double the price over comparable products from brands like Bombardier or Cessna. And all of the crew, maintenance, training, and other operating costs can easily double as well. And, IMHO at least, there’s nothing about the Gulfstream aircraft that justifies this extravagant expense. As far as I can tell, the Gulfstream name is a machine that transfers money from unsuspecting and vain rich people straight to Gulfstream and a few aerospace workers.

I bet they had crappy throws or no throws, too.

For those who may be from the Frozen Nawth, Mardi Gras parades, particularly in New Orleans, are all about the free giveaways.

Windows was never oriented around “just works”. That was Mac. Windows’s main selling point is that it never becomes incompatible, and that has largely stayed true. You can still to this day insert the disk for some proprietary application from Windows 2.0 and it will still install and run. Try that with another operating system!

Cue up Pulp Fiction conversation about foot massage.

No. For several reasons.

Fortran is older than Basic and C. In fact, Fortran is more or less the first high level programming language. The first Fortran compilers date to the early 1950s.

Fortran was created mainly for the purpose of linear algebra: operations with (giant) matrices. Linear algebra is used to compute approximate solutions to ordinary and partial differential equations, and this is a major part of what people needed computers for (and still do).

Programming concepts like subroutines, functions, if statements with blocks and else clauses… All of those were not in original Fortran because no one had thought of them. These things entered Fortran over time as they became popular, and goto slowly became less popular. Syntax from the punch card era was replaced in Fortran 90, but it is still available as an option for compatibility purposes.

Structurally, I prefer to describe Fortran as like C, but with better built-in arrays, and no built-in general purpose pointers. Not having the pointers allows the compiler to do certain optimizations that C can’t. But C is the better systems language, because the pointers let you naturally express all kinds of data structures besides arrays.

The statutory penalty in the US is on the order of $100,000 per infringement. “Statutory” means that the number is written into the law, and the aggrieved party doesn’t have to establish or prove actual losses.

Cross post says the guy was released with no charge.

What charge? Can’t be trespassing.

NOAA still not “up to date” as of today:

I do like me some salami on toast.

Medical device programmers:

This is pretty off topic, but in traditional newspaperology headlines the story writers have no say in the headline. Headline writing is a separate discipline with specialized headline writers, because you have to carefully count the character sizes to fit the headline into the space.

This traditional art changed on its head when headlines online were no longer constrained by the page layout.

Also, on Gentoo Linux, there will be an ebuild that integrates all of the cmake options into the rest of the packaging system and manage the dependencies

I preferred the Facebook group “If 2,147,483,648 people join this group, then an integer overflow may occur” back in the day.

Backpage moderated some posts, sure. But what was the role of Salesforce here besides supplying a software package?

The problem is that it is still relatively rare for someone to have the patience and attention to detail to be able to tell the computer exactly what they want from it. The fraction of people that have that kind of natural ability hasn’t changed that much, and it’s not really something you can train.

So while the schools are pumping out more grads, the average quality of those entry level junior engineers is going down, down, down.

This heartens me that there will still be a place those who can produce quality software. But the current situation is not going to do any favours for average software quality any time soon.

Edit: I want to clarify something. I think anyone can be trained to write computer programs. The natural ability I’m talking about is actually the ability to tolerate programming day in and day out, as an occupation.

He personally doesn’t need to know what’s in the payloads, for the company to deliver on the rocket contracts.

The mechanical and electrical interfaces between the rocket and the payload are pretty standardized, and the payload can complete most of its testing in a separate facility from the launch vehicle.

I would guess the main concerns about classified data are people getting peeks when the spacecraft is being installed, launch technicians that need to get inside the fairing during checkout, loading last minute software and encryption keys, and secure function checkout for the spacecraft on the pad.

Printer stopped working, or it got misaligned to the paper, and just the allergen message was cut off. Perhaps.

80,000 pounds is slightly over two tractor trailers’ worth. For the whole country, that’s not a big deal.