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  1. Re:Ultimate 'geek' dream assignment? on NASA Runs Competition To Help Make Old Fortran Code Faster (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What part of "incremental" do you not understand?

  2. Re:I had assumed Fortran was dead on NASA Runs Competition To Help Make Old Fortran Code Faster (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    C, if not very carefully controlled, is inappropriate for numerical analysis due to the feature of automatic promotion.

  3. Re:Fortran huh? on NASA Runs Competition To Help Make Old Fortran Code Faster (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If at the end of a job, you don't know how to do a it better, that proves you haven't learned anything since you started.

    False. For a counterexample, you could have learned how to do something else better.

  4. Quite to the contrary, the ill-advised and biased neologism "mansplaining " means condescension, treating the woman as an ignoramus.

  5. Fear of a warrior princess?

  6. Re:Its because of the diversity efforts on Facebook Rejects Female Engineers' Code More Often Than Male Counterparts, Analysis Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are promoting intervention in a free economy in order to meet your social goals. That makes inefficiency more likely, and thus reduces the financial wellbeing of society overall. That's in addition to the injustice of not paying people based on merit.

  7. Re:Maybe here's the real problem on Facebook Rejects Female Engineers' Code More Often Than Male Counterparts, Analysis Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, no true Scotswoman.

  8. For many years the most important criteria for evaluating a police officer was "number of arrests"

    [citation needed]

  9. Re:Does this include genitalia? on We're Getting Closer To Mass Production of Bones, Organs, and Implants (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Transplanting fat from other parts of the body to breasts is an established technology. Although the results might be more satisfactory than implants, the procedure is more risky.

  10. Re:Who paid for this study? on Popular Belief That Saturated Fat Clogs Up Arteries Is a Myth, Experts Say (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    Oddly, it also works the other way. If your flesh is already badly oxidized, it's going to resist further decay for a while. Consider beef jerky.

  11. Just as speculation, one possibility is that some sort of humans were in the Americas 130,000 years ago but died out. There would be no human artifacts from 40,000 and 90,000 years ago to be found.

  12. If you think science can be either settled or certain, then you don't know what science is.

    You are claiming as scientific certainty that science cannot be certain.

  13. Re:And the moral of the story is... on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The governor of Oregon is a Democrat. The Democrats control both House and Senate.

  14. The US Constitution forbids the abridging of free speech, which is a much stronger limitation on government than forbidding free speech.

  15. Re:Yeah, go ahead, blame TRUMP! on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Your deliberate failure to distinguish between Trump personally and the corporations he headed is dishonest, as is your failure to supply the number of corporations he headed.

  16. Re:Perfect on A Caterpillar May Lead To a 'Plastic Pollution' Solution (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Trees are probably a poor choice; they put a lot of energy into making strong wood instead of just sequestering carbon.

  17. There have been a number of computer languages called english (with varying amounts of capitalization).

  18. FORTRAN IV in 1967 for the introduction to programming course, followed in 1970 by 360 assembler and PL/I. BASIC and APL for non-coursework.

  19. Re:It would be... on Cycling To Work Can Cut Cancer and Heart Disease (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Many places, it's illegal to bike on the sidewalk. Cyclists endanger pedestrians.

  20. Not very good at identifying the different varieties of logical fallacies, are you?

  21. Re:Your headphones are spying on you. on Bose Headphones Secretly Collected User Data, Lawsuit Reveals (fortune.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Some people's religious beliefs include "I should kill anyone who disagrees with me." Some people act on their beliefs.

  22. Re:I think humans should hold off on particle phys on Physicists Detect Whiff of New Particle At the Large Hadron Collider (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    There's more to fundamental science research than particle accelerators.

  23. How do you observe without senses?

  24. Notary is a profession? In many of the United States, a notary's main function could be performed by a trained monkey.