Sometimes, years after you finish a job (that you never really liked the solution to) a better solution comes to you.
Also: In the 1980s they didn't have a 10,000 node cluster, Multicore CPUs, SSI, Nvidia, ASICs, FPGAs or Gigabytes of RAM. They barely had math coprocessors and blitters.
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.
When you cross into a new bracket, you don't pay that rate on all your income. Only the income above the cutoff.
Some payroll programs are _stupid_, it is possible to get a raise and see a smaller check. But at the end of the year, you get a bigger refund, all other things being equal.
Let me rephrase. 'Work somewhere that you job actually makes a difference and where someone will notice in a positive way.'
Saving them from blowing their peckers off won't be rewarded, rather punished as you likely embarrassed one of 'them' in the process. Accountants hate it when things don't foot and crossfoot.
On the plus-side, you could start a 'transaction' to add to your personal account, have the wife drain it, then complete your deposit. Repeat. Run to Brazil and knock up a local. They won't extradite a parent of a Brazilian child.
You can do all kinds of things worse than 'pointer aliasing' in FORTRAN. Turn off array bounds checking and access neighboring structures etc. But if you do that, it's on you to understand your compiler, memory allocation/layout and hardware.
Not even a link to the actual contest page. Not that anybody in their right mind would touch it, I might signup. Just to look at how bad it was, perhaps to laugh/cry a little. Bet I've seen worse. Bet it doesn't use calculated GOTOs (Fortran 'feature' Goto IntVar, where IntVar contains a line number).
I bet hidden at the bottom is a linear problem (LP) solver that bangs on sub simulations, getting those results to converge across cells faster would be another trick worth trying. Just understanding how the aero problem gets approximated to an LP would likely take longer than the contest duration though.
This whole contest is bait for the retired old bastards that wrote the thing in the first place. They think one of them might have a trick or two, still up his sleeve.
Both of you should google 'Pleiades supercomputer specs'. 100 nodes of 10,000 have GPUs. They are currently at near 100% utilization. The do have enough GPU equipped nodes for someone to prove the speedup and for them to start slapping in GPUs and upgraded power supplies.
Alternatively: Spin off the numeric parts to SSE. Use fixed point math routines.
I've learned to not even glance at the archiving process when they leave/change computers. Filenames alone are bad enough.
Atheists are generally not too bad, except for one, but he was a 'proselytizing atheist' so fit the pattern.
I just don't get the 'porn at work' thing, at all. They must be more afraid of the wife/husband finding out than getting fired. What are they going to tell the spouse they got fired and sued into poverty for?
I've seen clowns set 'wallpaper' to porn on common area computers. To be fair, my 'primary suspect'* in that case wasn't religious, except 'Dead Head.' Was kind of preachy about that. In California, the world's worst lawyer/human ratio.
* I knew he did it, but couldn't prove it. Was company VP and second largest stakeholder. Thought he was funny, he slayed him (somebody should have).
Trump is new money, real deep insanity is generational. Take for example the DuPont descendents, than understand why Gates didn't leave his kids billions.
The bad scenario is when the one in control of the money goes nuts. Not when it's some lifelong 'allowance sucking' descendent (e.g. Jerry Brown, too much free time, no connection to reality. But that's another discussion.)
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He was only a tiny bit smarter. To make up for it, Beavis had 'frenzy' superpowers/alterego.
So the solver never converges?
You still don't know how tax brackets work.
Beavis and Butthead...Pure 100% _Genius_.
Their advice also seems to center on 'Have a genius (Mike Judge) make the show, don't be a bunch of incompetent hollywood hacks.'
Now they are. You think nobody sold standard, simple by today's standards, accounting packages, written in COBOL in 1965? Jesus titty fucking Christ.
You might even have heard of some of the companies that sold that software.
Now it's like 'the AIDS' and 'the diabetes'!
Oh no, he's got 'the C++' on his resume, don't touch it.
Sometimes, years after you finish a job (that you never really liked the solution to) a better solution comes to you.
Also: In the 1980s they didn't have a 10,000 node cluster, Multicore CPUs, SSI, Nvidia, ASICs, FPGAs or Gigabytes of RAM. They barely had math coprocessors and blitters.
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.
How close do you think solvers get before they say 'close enough' to converged. These are all approximate solutions.
When you cross into a new bracket, you don't pay that rate on all your income. Only the income above the cutoff.
Some payroll programs are _stupid_, it is possible to get a raise and see a smaller check. But at the end of the year, you get a bigger refund, all other things being equal.
If your car has a mechanical voltage regulator and the car is for driving, not looking at, best to upgrade it. Keep the old one, purists will want it.
Points vs electronic ignition is the same.
Virtually all the 'off the shelf' FORTRAN and COBOL programs have been replaced, decades ago. What's left is custom.
Don't listen to him, he'll be stone dead in a minute.
Let me rephrase. 'Work somewhere that you job actually makes a difference and where someone will notice in a positive way.'
Saving them from blowing their peckers off won't be rewarded, rather punished as you likely embarrassed one of 'them' in the process. Accountants hate it when things don't foot and crossfoot.
On the plus-side, you could start a 'transaction' to add to your personal account, have the wife drain it, then complete your deposit. Repeat. Run to Brazil and knock up a local. They won't extradite a parent of a Brazilian child.
I can find you similar for every other 'silicon-*'
Have you ever been to San Jose?
You can do all kinds of things worse than 'pointer aliasing' in FORTRAN. Turn off array bounds checking and access neighboring structures etc. But if you do that, it's on you to understand your compiler, memory allocation/layout and hardware.
Fortran gotos aren't so bad.
If you see: 'goto intvar' run away.
WTF is up with slashdot?
Not even a link to the actual contest page. Not that anybody in their right mind would touch it, I might signup. Just to look at how bad it was, perhaps to laugh/cry a little. Bet I've seen worse. Bet it doesn't use calculated GOTOs (Fortran 'feature' Goto IntVar, where IntVar contains a line number).
I bet hidden at the bottom is a linear problem (LP) solver that bangs on sub simulations, getting those results to converge across cells faster would be another trick worth trying. Just understanding how the aero problem gets approximated to an LP would likely take longer than the contest duration though.
This whole contest is bait for the retired old bastards that wrote the thing in the first place. They think one of them might have a trick or two, still up his sleeve.
You don't know how tax brackets work. At least in the USA.
Jesus tits.
Both of you should google 'Pleiades supercomputer specs'. 100 nodes of 10,000 have GPUs. They are currently at near 100% utilization. The do have enough GPU equipped nodes for someone to prove the speedup and for them to start slapping in GPUs and upgraded power supplies.
Alternatively: Spin off the numeric parts to SSE. Use fixed point math routines.
Old FORTRAN's default statically allocated arrays are one less indirection to access.
Tiny change compared to what can be lost in 'simple' object access. Which can cause a context switch, worst case, modern crap used by the unaware.
In some C dialects '[' and ']' are just macros that expand into pointer math.
I've learned to not even glance at the archiving process when they leave/change computers. Filenames alone are bad enough.
Atheists are generally not too bad, except for one, but he was a 'proselytizing atheist' so fit the pattern.
I just don't get the 'porn at work' thing, at all. They must be more afraid of the wife/husband finding out than getting fired. What are they going to tell the spouse they got fired and sued into poverty for?
I've seen clowns set 'wallpaper' to porn on common area computers. To be fair, my 'primary suspect'* in that case wasn't religious, except 'Dead Head.' Was kind of preachy about that. In California, the world's worst lawyer/human ratio.
* I knew he did it, but couldn't prove it. Was company VP and second largest stakeholder. Thought he was funny, he slayed him (somebody should have).
Trump is new money, real deep insanity is generational. Take for example the DuPont descendents, than understand why Gates didn't leave his kids billions.
The bad scenario is when the one in control of the money goes nuts. Not when it's some lifelong 'allowance sucking' descendent (e.g. Jerry Brown, too much free time, no connection to reality. But that's another discussion.)
Taxes on all toasters, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers and...wait for it...vibrators?
She will be voted out in a second, once the vibrator tax hits SF. They will bootleg them in from Oakland.
They already have that one competent person. Now they want cheap.
On the flip side, the rich crazies are flat out gibbering batshit insane. No checks on their behavior, nobody to tell them 'no'.