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Does Fortran need to? Does Fortran still have any real advantage over Julia, MATLAB, etc.? Please forgive my ignorance. I've never written any Fortran. I understand how and where i…

I really, really hate the way this author writes. It's so needlessly verbose, obtuse, and condescending. I've written Node for a living. Mostly Typescript in recent years. I've enc…

Where did you get that from the article? From their results section: > "Interestingly, detergent residue from professional dishwashers demonstrated the remnant of a significant amo…

> ...permanently blocks Samsung Pay, Secure Folder, a few other Samsung security apps... Yet another good reason to root your phone. You wouldn't catch me using any of this Samsung…

That's a very fun example. However I'm a native English speaker, and I can't imagine actually writing a sentence like that. It's technically grammatically correct, but no one speak…

I think that the human mind is not evolved for, and does not cope well in societies at the scale we now live in. I think there's a certain tipping point where social cohesion begin…

I'm not sure what it's called, but I've seen a product which is a database of the time/location of US car license plate sightings. As I understand it, these are OCR'd from a combin…

I've been a long time i3wm user, and I couldn't be happier with my workflow. What network managers are people using together with i3? I've been using wicd for a while, however with…

This sounds intuitively correct with regards to the economics of property development. I'm not a property developer though. I'm not really that concerned about their profits. I'm a…

Everything in your post is just your own personal opinion. > The problem is that these individual preferences come with enormous costs, both economic and with respect to individual…

> This is prudent pipeline management... Doesn't this contradict your central thesis? If the supply of housing doesn't exceed the demand, the price isn't going to drop. How can urb…

Why do so many people here take for granted that living in Asian-style megacities is inevitable, or even remotely desirable? I really don't want to live in such a place.

Thank you for taking the time to make a nice reply, and for not taking my criticism of your post personally. I really appreciate that. I feel like you have a very arbitrary definit…

> How does someone oppose population growth? In the case of the western world, what population growth? The amount of couples in the first-world having children has slowed to a tric…

This idea is pure fantasy. This condition of classifying people as NIMBYs if they disagree with you on this topic is incredibly toxic. There are a plethora of totally valid reasons…

> My hypothesis has been that renters stopped voting. Who are these renters who stopped voting? I can only speak for Australia, however the average age of renters has been rising f…

Why would the Australian government intervene in the housing market when they can just ride the wave of infinite foreign investment instead? If the goal was actually to ensure that…

Sydney's metropolitan area is already oversized. People are already regularly commuting for well over an hour to the city center on congested public transport, or driving on conges…

Is this on account of cost, or simplifying verification? I was under the impression that minimising the overall risk of a design was a major consideration. I'd love to know more ab…

Apologies for a silly question, what exactly are we looking at here? I've seen the inside of an F-91W, and I always imagined that under the black epoxy blob was some kind of off-th…

The same Stanford that labeled the word 'American' to be harmful? https://nypost.com/2022/12/20/stanford-releases-guide-agains... They do seem to hate fun indeed!

I've been working in environments that use mainframe systems for a long time. I've read COBOL code to get an idea of what's happening downstream, but never actually written a line …

I definitely consider Hacker News to be designed in the style of the old internet.

What if AI could be leveraged to find interesting content? I doubt I'd even notice the bulk of comments being replaced by an AI. I only read them for the one in a thousand comment …