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  1. Re:CFD and FEM, and OpenProcessing on Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize For Numerical Software (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    And Julia would be great because the same code could be transportable without all the nonsense.

  2. Re:CFD and FEM, and OpenProcessing on Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize For Numerical Software (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    Well, let's see....

    OpenFoam has cross-platform issues. It doesn't play well on Windows outside a virtual Linux environment..

    Code Saturne's multi-language support is not good. It's French, and not only that, it's French, and so is Aster..

    Elmer I had hopes for, but their focus seems to be academic sized(small) studies. Oddly, I don't think it will accept an STL, for remeshing, so you are looking at GMSH or Salome for Meshing, though FreeCAD has come a long way, and is the rising star for preparing studies. .

  3. CFD and FEM, and OpenProcessing on Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize For Numerical Software (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    Much of the world would love to see open-source Computational Fluid Dynamic and Finite Element Method solutions. Some cool things can come of it, such as a placing a built-in Julia interpeter in a data visualization program such as Paraview (or ImageJ) Now that Java is irrevocably fucked, I would like to see a Julia library that will mimic OpenProcessing, because we need a good graphic set and the mouse. There are some charting/graphic Julia libraries, but I am not aware of anything that will do what Processing currently does, though I do not like Processing as a language because of things like: Final for constants. Oracle made sure we got on-board with abandoning Java.

  4. Give Away Advertising to People Harmed on Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's 2018: We've Changed, We Promise (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Where is the compensation for those who were harmed?

  5. Aptitude and Geekieness on In Some Bay Area Counties, College Grads Have Higher Unemployment (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    You need them both. I think that some people get into computers, but their only interest is money. They have no natural talent, because their only interest in computers happens on Friday, on the way to the bank.

  6. You Sell It--You Buy Container Back! on Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is simple, companies have too much say in our government. All the taxpayers will pay for your trash--from stipmine--to landfill--to superfund cleanup--to cancer treatments.

  7. Steam, too. on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I am sorry, but it's not so rosy on Steam for women, either.

  8. It's sad to have to destroy such an intelligent animal into pieces--to prove the point that it's not so different than killing wales.

  9. Two Paragraphs Missing : ) on 'The Five-Paragraph Essay Must Die' (psmag.com) · · Score: 1

    A 3 paragraph article about 5 paragraph articles, with 1 paragraph describing it. Ha!

  10. 420! on Linux 4.20 Released in Time for Christmas (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    'Nuff said....

  11. Got it Wrong on The GPS Wars Have Begun (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    No, the GPS wars will begin with an enemy destroys GPS satellites, leaving driver-less cars stranded.

  12. To Be Misued on Researchers Show Parachutes Don't Work, But There's A Catch (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Companies will uses the psychology experiment as an excuse to make things less safe.

  13. Android Harbors Too Much Premission Liberty on Google Hit With FTC Complaint Over 'Inappropriate' Kids Apps (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Certainly, I don't want kids to by spied upon, but this is just the tip of the reprehensible iceberg of Android permission problem. The bottom line is: Android should not allow any application to ask for any unnecessary permission, yet, Android ecosystem is overrun with permission problems, and they are doing nothing about it. They just don't care.

  14. Wikipedia More Than Books on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Good Books You Read This Year? · · Score: 2

    I tend to read Wikipedia more than anything, often for hours at a time.

  15. How to Really Help on Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. Decriminalize homelessness.
    2. Establish emergency minimal-level shelters were people can shower/sleep, and wash their clothes.
    3. Allow people to sleep in their cars, one car, one night, one block,
    4. Require people who buy homes to own then for no less than 5 years or be fined, unless proof of financial hardship, divorce or partner split.
    5. Restore Section 8 Housing for people with disabilities.
    6. Discourage foreign investors and companies from purchasing homes.
    7. Rezone areas to end single-family homes.
    8. Make sure that homeless people can vote.
    9. Rezone certain industrial and business buildings for shelter use.
    10. Require all non-profit charities to abstract their organization or religious presence from their offer of help.
    12. Require all California cities and towns to take in a certain percentage of the the homeless people.
    13. Vote out the people who only represent rich people.

  16. Lower-Income Peple Have No Representation Here on Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The sheer amount of homeless people in this area, which I have been told may be over 22,000 is daunting. The powers that be in this area have generally not been inclusive of the needs of the poor an low-income people.

    There are even some 2,000 college students that represent the future of America, who are now stricken with homelessness in this areas.

    Whatever was supposed to happen to put a check and balance the asymmetrical, biased political power of the corporate giants and house-flippers who invest in this area--has failed.

    I likely am going to be homeless in a few weeks. As a person with a disability, as I look deeper into the resources here in California. What I have found by following the leads has simply been one of the most disheartening things I have witnessed.

    I heard was "low-income" housing exists, which honest people with a SSD/SSI income could never afford. The lay of the landscape currently has a 1-5 year waiting list for a place to live. Yet, I have heard that some housing exists for people making as much as $75,000/yr. I checked up on homeless shelters where a homeless person is not even afforded a wall to put their back against. I have read of a shower and wash van, supporting the homeless that only comes to an area once in a week.

    [Who would want to sit next to a person who only showered/bathed once in a week?]

    In all honesty, as someone who has written proof that I have tried to add my name to the HUD waiting list for a nearly a decade, I am deeply upset. Yes, clearly I am upset for myself, but also for I am upset for the other homeless people, many of which (also) have disabilities.

  17. The politicians in the SF Bay area don't care about anyone but the rich. There also hasn't been any new Section 8 housing in nearly 10 years.

  18. And the FTC Does Nothing on AT&T Will Put a Fake 5G Logo On Its 4G LTE Phones (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Boycott them, in the meantime.

  19. Worse: No Non-Partizan Use on ACLU To Feds: Your 'Hacking Presents a Unique Threat To Individual Privacy' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In America, in the last 2 years, we have learned that there is no way information cannot be used in a non-partizan way.

  20. Not a Fan of UEFI on Microsoft Announces Project Mu, an Open-Source Release of the UEFI Core (betanews.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Other than the wave of fancy graphics found on computer set-up screens, UEFI, has brought little to the table. As someone who has assembled over one-hundred computer, I think that the old BIOS, being a very minimal, compact, low-bug, text-based setup software was a idea better suited to reliable computers than "modern" bloated, bug-filled, UEFI.

    Monopoly-wise, UEFI, has given Microsoft and unfair advantage to draw a circle around all (IBM Compatible) PCs and call them their own.

  21. Libreoffice - It Won't Trap You on Microsoft's New Office App for Windows 10 is Coming To All Office Users For Free (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    it's great software. it's free. It's cross-platform. https://www.libreoffice.org/

  22. Xbox Was Worst Thing that Happened to Windows on Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Consoles Are Codenamed 'Anaconda' and 'Lockhart' (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    When Microsoft divided their effort between Windows and the Xbox, Windows suffered terribly.

  23. I tried to tell people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  24. Look Profit in the Eye and Walk Away on Nintendo Warns It Won't Make More Retro NES and SNES Consoles (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fools! It might be terrible to the ego to admit that Nintendo's old games are better than the new ones.

  25. There is Little Help for Poor In CA on California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    In fact, in CA, the poor have to pay for the Lifeline help for people in other states, yet they cannot get help.