troyunrau

I'm strongly pro-nuclear from an environmental perspective. But NIMBYism always stalls it. There's a fallback location near Thunder Bay, but I'd wager a shiny nickel that it gets ruled out after aboriginal consultation.

For some of these projects, the government really just to move forward by dictat, in my opinion. At some point you buy a dying mining town just for this purpose or something.

It was designed from its very start to be used for numerical computing. So the language it built around it and it sort of excels in that use case.

This used to be the holy bible of numerical methods, if you want to see some sample code: https://s3.amazonaws.com/nrbook.com/book_F210.html

A lot of the underlying libraries in python are actually written in Fortran (or were when they were conceived, and the Fortran components later replaced). Numpy, for example, was originally pretty much a wrapper on top of BLAS and LAPACK.

This gets even more complex if you're using a toolkit of some sort. C++ has a batteries-included way of doing something, then STL has another, and Qt yet another... Etc.

Don't get me wrong. There is still a time and a place for Fortran. And this will also likely always be the case for C++. But I'm not sure it is entirely wise to choose it if you're creating a new project anymore.

I've done a bit of C++ coding in my time. The feature list of the language is so long at this point that it is pretty much impossible for anyone new to learn C++ and grok the design decisions anymore. I don't know if this is a good thing or not to keep adding and extending or whether C++ should sail into the sunset like Fortran and others before it.

Making jelly out of our grapes. One plant produced 8kg of grapes this year, which meant 3L of juice. This froth is the cauldron where I'm boiling it with a metric fucktonne of sugar...

If it's a game I'm going to get hundreds, or sometimes thousands of hours from, then I'll pay more. If you look at price per hour spent on entertainment, it's hard to compare. However, you often have to wade through a bunch of shitty overpriced games to find those gems.

Okay, back to EU4 now ;)

The lighting bothers me. The froth was transient however and I didn't really have time to adjust lighting.

Can't remember. But it was worth a picture

Very true. I went in with perhaps unrealistic expectations and didn't enjoy the gameplay loop. When I enjoy a game, I really enjoy a game, with several titles having 1000+ hours.

Someone needs to introduce Bethesda to Markov chain based storytelling if they're going to use procedural generation. Anyway, I digress. I'm looking forward to Outer Worlds 2 ;)

When I ordered, the server comes up and says: we're out of Nutella pie -- can we substitute this other pie? And we basically burst into tears because it's a cocktail topper pie slice...