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by ryl00 3y ago
> perhaps he wouldn’t have won if there was some kind of crash. But there was! That bet started in 2007, and 2008-2009 saw the biggest percentage drop in the S&P 500 in decades with the GFC. We're talking down to levels last see
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by ryl00 3y ago
Was it Quake? I used to listen to that game CD in my CD player at work, back in the late '90s.
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by ryl00 3y ago
I'm 52 years old, and I have diaries stretching back to 1980 (when I was all of 9 years old!). Over the years I gradually worked on transcribing them from handwriting to comupter text, and that's made them much more accessible in
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by ryl00 3y ago
Conversely, I'm 52 years old and I've never experienced living in a housing bubble until this most recent ten-year stretch (the runup in property values prior to the 2008 GFC mostly missed my area (DFW), though we were still adver
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by ryl00 3y ago
> But are you really going to say they stand up to films made in recent years with a fully mature vocabulary? Sure! I've seen 19 of the 42 films you counted as being made between 1920-1945, and I'd say the overwhelming majority
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by ryl00 3y ago
> Perl had a really, really strong sweet spot in text processing. Still does.
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by ryl00 4y ago
I'm 51. If it was me, I'd DCA it monthly into a 60/40 index like VBIAX over the next year or two. If the market drops near-term, you can re-assess your appetite/tolerance for risk. If it doesn't, you're easing
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by ryl00 4y ago
> Creating trees or graphs can be cumbersome Wouldn't Rust have the same problem with this (if not worse)?
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by ryl00 4y ago
> You get nothing useful after a good meal Uh... the nutrition that your body needs to keep going? Is this a trick question?
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by ryl00 4y ago
While the peak-to-trough drop wasn't as bad as QQQ's, the S&P 500 still managed to fall something like 40% from its dot com peak in 2000 over two years, and didn't fully recover until 2007. (And of course 2008 sent it rig
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by ryl00 4y ago
I have the opposite problem... I find perl's data structures so ridiculously easy to write that I can quickly build up arrays of hashes of arrays of (ad infinitum) while in the "flow". Throw in the ability to actually get ref
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by ryl00 5y ago
I thought only Civ IV used python.
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by ryl00 5y ago
That's what tends to happen, at least in the code I've worked on. C/C++ for the bits that need to "talk" to the OS, python/perl/bash for scripting purposes, and Fortran for the number-crunching core.
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by ryl00 5y ago
> C, of course, just ignores this problem entirely. Many C/C++ compilers special-case printf, and can actually catch some printf format string problems at compile time. For example, gcc 5.4.0 and msvc 19 warned about both of the dod
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by ryl00 5y ago
This is one part (of many) of perl that I like, that it exposes the pointer-y parts to the programmer (to abuse :)) # hash my %a = ( 'one' => 1, 'two' => 2 ); my %b = %a; $b{ 'two' } =
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by ryl00 5y ago
Yep. I'm still using my Alcatel Idol 4S Windows Phone as my daily driver.
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by ryl00 6y ago
Fortran 2003 also added BIND(C) and ISO_C_BINDING, which are massively useful in standardizing the C interop.
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by ryl00 6y ago
I can't speak for the others, but why do you think Dallas and Houston are moribund? Based on the last decade of population growth, their respective metro areas certainly seem to be doing well for themselves.
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by ryl00 6y ago
I don't care, I still love quirky perl.
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by ryl00 6y ago
Probably referring to examples like VAX/VMS filesystems? I never worked on them much, and only very shallowly. Fortran file I/O has vestiges of record-oriented interfaces still in the standard, I'm assuming from co-evolution
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by ryl00 6y ago
Why does column order matter? If you translate to the equivalent C/C++ row-major order, it should be laid out in memory the same way.
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by ryl00 6y ago
Engineering/science code, e.g. modelling real-world phenomena. Fortran code from the '70s is not that unusual to see, still in production...
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by ryl00 6y ago
> Perl's references are basically pointers. ... This is really a huge, unnecessary wart in the language. Call me crazy :), but I count this as a pro for perl! It makes thinking about data structures in perl very "regular"
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by ryl00 6y ago
Plenty of us still do.
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by ryl00 6y ago
> Would it really be “a massive undertaking to go GNU Octave” when its syntax is a superset of MATLAB’s? Does anyone actually use MATLAB just for the "MATLAB" part of it? Where I work, it's the Simulink part that's lo
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by ryl00 6y ago
Reports of Fortran's death (latest standard 2018) are greatly exaggerated (much like C). It's receded to a niche, but it's still a very important niche (numerical, HPC). Hopefully, the development of a new Fortran front end f
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by ryl00 6y ago
This is where perl really shines for me. Regular expressions are front and center, making it so frictionless to slice and dice text. My bash knowledge is so stunted because I bail to perl as soon as the going gets tough. :)
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by ryl00 6y ago
Sounds like me. :) My non-replaceable battery is starting to go; otherwise my Windows 10 Mobile Phone is still giving me just enough (maps, weather, music player, MMS, email, web, camera) to get by.
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by ryl00 6y ago
> A huge chunk of scientific and numerical libraries rely on Fortran, for which 64-bit support is seriously lacking on Windows. How so? mingw-64 exists, and so does Intel Fortran (with good integration with the VS IDE as well).
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by ryl00 6y ago
Neither is it a "footnote", especially in its strongest domain, numerical computation.

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