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Comment Re: Millenial languages (Score 1) 172

My understanding of statically compiled and containers is that at large scale on shared resources such as VMs footprint matters as its cost will outweigh the cost of other factors. It is also critical that development, testing, and production environments are as similar as possible in order to ensure that testing in one environment is valid for the others. Containers and static linking help achieve this.

Comment Re: Millenial languages (Score 1) 172

I believe FORTRANs strength was that itâ(TM)s math operations were strongly defined e.g precision. C for instance was allowed to ignore parenthesis in some cases and reorder for efficiency. When dealing with finite precision the associative and communities properties of operations no longer strongly hold due to accumulated rounding errors. FORTRAN also has highly optimized and numerically sound packages that can be relied on.

Comment Re: Thank you for trying (Score 1) 43

Exactly. Not sure what the news is. Company comes up with an idea, company researches idea, company obtains hard data, company analyzed data and finds out hypothesis is wrong. Repeat with a new hypothesis. If they went to market knowing it would not work, that would be an issue. Thank you for doing the right thing.

Comment Re: Makes sense to me. (Score 1) 115

Bacteria has co-evolved with humans and the bacteria that feeds on sugars produce chemical compounds that make us crave sugar. I believe eating only healthy foods will allow other bacteria to crowd them out and make it easier over time. The remnants are, however, always waiting for a moment of weakness and will explode in population given the chance.

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