As do every other billionaire and their cronies. Most of them want to restrict what you do and expand what they do. In either case you don't have freedom or choice. They fund all these messages to say you shouldn't fly and then own their own jets. They say you should minimize, and they buy multiple houses on beach front property around the world.

There are also still many scalpers, with botfarms, which grab up any GPU priced less than 150% of retail and even then many will grab them. Those captcha are basically nothing except a hassle for the real humans ensuring that the real bots walk away with the prizes. That allows many vendors to raise their prices. Even Microcenter has got ridiculous with their pricing, and they held the line for so very long.

I doubt that is all that many people. Most of those will want to wait till it actually comes on their new machine.

Units are an attempt to codify something physical into a value. For things that people use every day in casual life, the best units are those that are easily visualized or understood. This is because those same people will whine in school about having to take geometry or trigonometry and then get bamboozled by a contractor because they didn't know how to do math. Making units easily quantified by things in every day use and you won't end up with a building that was built for you at half scale. In designing trajectories in the solar system, I use astronaumical units (AU) more than any other unit of distance except when performing a flyby, in which case I wouldn't care if I measured the altitude in km or mi or even nmi, but am usually dictated to use km. Fahrenheit is useful for describing human comfort. It expands the scale where humans live. Much below zero degrees F really sucks even with extra clothing and just breathing in starts to hurt. Much above 100 degrees also really sucks as you can't shuck many extra clothes to feel comfortable. A foot is about the length of an adults foot, which makes it easy to walk off a distance. Pounds make no sense. Many imperial units are easy to estimate by using the human body, which is how a lot of imperial units came to being. They don't make doing math problems in physics easy. MPH isn't particularly relatable when driving a car and you just have to calibrate it, but neither is kph. Because I've converted it enough I know that 40 degrees C sucks and I know that somewhere -20 degrees C also sucks. However, that really is only 60 degrees C of describing comfort. There is a big difference in an 80 degree F day and a 60 degree F day. Even between 72 degree F and 78 degree F you can easily feel the difference in comfort. A better unit for measuring human comfort would probably center around 72F with positive numbers being warmer than optimum comfort and negative numbers being colder than optimum comfort and be about the size of a degree F but maybe a little bigger. C is useful for cooking since 100C is the boiling point of water at sea level, but since a lot of the world is above sea level even that isn't super useful, but better than a random number like 212F. A meter isn't particularly useful at measuring things in the casual life of a human other than saying that human adults are typically between 1.5 and 2 meters tall. Grams don't make a lot of sense and you have to raise it to a kilogram to be useful to visualize in human life. PSI is pretty useless, but so is pascal

You should also consider taking the battery out and only putting it in when you need to use it. It is relatively simple to get position just from triangulation of your signal.

I don't know about you, but I have a lot more trouble finding anyone that wants to even know my unique knowledge and skillset, which unfortunately leaves me pigeonholed for some things, despite my role having grown beyond it. I'd be more than happy to share so that I could take a full-time position on program that didn't leave me still helping with those items. When I ask management to make sure that the next person they hire have the ability or desire to learn these skills to backfill me, they put it at low priority and hire someone without the desire or skills. I'd like the rest of the team to be team players too. /rant

I miss Delphi. I have many fond memories of it. I've been writing analysis code so long that I can't even remember what it was like programming in it, except that it isn't as painful as the languages I use now for analysis.

My dad used to teach programming in high school where he taught from the Programming first and second semester books. He felt it was important to teach the concept of debugging and finding mistakes in the lab portion of the class. In the class portion he taught going through your source code and tracing it manually. He felt being able to figure out what your program was doing before you compiled was important as he started programming when the University of Cincinnati go its first computer. At that time submitting just to get an error was both expensive and time consuming. I took his class and when I left I was able to get a developer job while going to school full time. Computers took a lot longer to compile than they do now, especially Windows GUI languages (as they were just coming out), so at one point a friend printed off a copy of his work before starting the compile and handed me the printout. Due to my dad's training I was able to go through, find the syntax errors before the compiler did and then produced an output and showed where it would not do what he intended and what it would do again before the computer could finish. I think it should be part of your first 101/102 classes the way my dad taught it. Both the debugging and the tracing skills are things that are critical to learn and showing how to do it with structured thought helps.

I inverted it even further. When IT said they wouldn't get me a nicer monitor that I could tell various colors apart in my proposals I asked if I could bring in a 3440x1440 34" monitor and they said yes (have a copy of the email). I replaced my main display with a curved one at home and brought in the older one in along with a monitor arm. Same with nice older mechanical keyboard and mouse. There is significant jealousy when people see my display until I tell them what I did, then people are flabbergasted I would do such a thing.

Nothing other than my laptop. I have better stuff than they'd ever buy for me at work. I have 3 3440x1440 and 2 2560x1440 monitors on my home workstation. I have better keyboards and mice than they give me at work. I can't run any of my software on my workstation, but I can attend virtual meetings as long as they are done with the external systems and I can also use our web browser based citrix system to log into my workstation at work.

Mostly I just follow the Babylon 5 mantra. I also often catalog the stupidity I'm about to do prior to doing it.

Is there really anything else ever needed if you have bash, awk, sed and grep?

Exactly right. Everything in that report says bad or insufficient systems engineering process (which was encouraged under the Faster, Better, Cheaper mantra). As a result, missions with approximately the same capability are now back to costing three or more times as much. His quoted cost for the program is ridiculous as well. (not a spacecraft test system engineer, but have read a great deal on it)

The real issue was bad, or woafully understaffed, systems engineering on a program that was underfunded with a process where some documents issued by the managing organization weren't part of the contractual requirements and were directly in conflict of the actual contractual documents. The fact that units were involved is secondary or tertiary. It could have been any other data type that was passed between the two completely independent software organizations that didn't share any top level organizations. Also that cost is so stupidly and grossly overestimated that the person should be put on charges or at least sued for libel. Mars '98 Fact Sheet (Orbiter) [^] According to this the entire spacecraft development (including managing organization involvement) was $327 million for two spacecraft.

In this case, "Haunt" is more amusing than harmful, isn't it?

You say that like it is some form of harmful radiation. I like. ;)

Wait. I'm not the only person using Fortran on the forums? BLASPHEMER!

Since words have meaning, lets focus on that. phys·ics noun: physics the branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy. The subject matter of physics, distinguished from that of chemistry and biology, includes mechanics, heat, light and other radiation, sound, electricity, magnetism, and the structure of atoms. sci·ence noun: science the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. Thus physics is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the nature and properties of matter and energy through observation and experiment. So they could easily have revolutionized that study, which is to say physics. Study of physics is reading a book of someone else's science.

If I do this, will I also be required to go hunt down Sarah Connor?

I think you could also put in a "goto" instead of setting "keep_going" if you want to break up that nested if architecture. :cool::suss: ;P :laugh: