Right. When I was learning to shoot, they never taught me about that kind of double-tap, either.

Instead of “double tap” they should call it “double murder.”

A friendly Reminder from🇩🇪, #WhiskeyPete!

I can accept the Speaker’s claim the he doesn’t know about anything. But if that is the case, I would like to hear why he thinks he is qualified for the job.

Because you are apparently more qualified to be President than DJT is.

(For the record, I am, too, and I would really hate to see me as President.)

cf. John Wayne in “The man who shot Liberty Valance”.

You know where to live. That’s a good start. (I chose Belize, but I have great respect and good memories of Canada.)

The fact that Germany cleaned up their act after WWII gives me hope for the US.

I don't remember how they used the number to sort the deck. I wish I still had the book.

They weren't using it for a seed, but for the actual random number. Since they were working in hardware, things were very minimalist. They were using it to sort a deck of 52 cards, so it didn't have to pass comprehensive randomness tests. Completely different world than what we are used to.

“…how easy it was for humans to be random in comparison.”

I once had a book on designing video games, back when they were mostly hardware. They recommended getting a random number by taking the time difference between the last two button presses, and just using the milliseconds part.

NVIDIA even has a variant, CUDA Fortran, for doing parallel processing on CUDA GPU cards.

…it has features that are ideal for engineering, such as complex numbers, matrix math, the ability to specify the precision you need and let the compiler means on that particular machine (facilitating sharing programs across platforms), and support for parallel processing. It is a living language.

Fortran (styled as Fortran, rather than FORTRAN after Fortran 90) still lives in the scientific, engineering, and modeling communities. As well as now having things we have come to expect in a modern language, like block-structured constructs and object orientation,

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In 1969, as a senior in high school, I had just learned FORTRAN, when someone showed me Basic. “This is just a toy language,” I thought.

Little did I know that it would grow up to be the cornerstone of Microsoft Office.

Bless her little heart.