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Nope. FORTRAN code is still very performant in this area with modern compilers, which is why it is still used.

It's an example of Chesterton's Fence.


What's a concrete example of how FORTRAN compilers are inherently better at this type of task than modern C/C++ or Rust compilers?


It's not really about the compilers ever since C99's restrict (you can almost always equal fortran performance now), it's how much more you have to think and validate about how to write the C/C++ plus the compiler and linker options to use.

Also with C99 you get many of the convenient aspects of fortran (<tgmath.h> and vardim array function args) and with C11 you also get <complex.h> now.

But you are still missing fortran's ** operator and it's more than just syntactic sugar, it accepts more types.


Apostasy is treated very severely by many (most?) religions. The cults have just borrowed that concept.


I'd disagree. Most religions don't love apostasy but they also don't actively tell their members to go out of their way to punish or avoid non-believers.

The reason cults severely punish ex members is to protect the flock. They don't want their members to learn from ex members real criticisms of the cult.

It's precisely so when books like mentioned in this thread come up, the cult can say "oh, that's just a bad ex member who's lying".

The idea of "forbidden knowledge" is pretty unique to cults. You won't find, for example, a Methodist church that tells you not to read exmethodist books (do they even exist?). Heck, they probably wouldn't even get upset if you read something like "The god delusion".


There is at least one very important exception.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam


This is hardly unique to Islam, many of the more hard-line Christian sects (Jehovahs, Christian Brethren, etc) as well as Haredi Jews also shun apostates.

The main difference is that in countries with shariah, apostasy is not just a sin, it's a criminal offense.


There's very few Muslim countries without legal Shariah... Turkey, 4 stans, Albania/Bosnia, and that's about it. Many of them are only "Muslim" as far as majority religion, locals might not even agree with that classification

There's a bunch of Muslim countries with Sharia not in criminal law but in marriage, maybe that's what you mean.


Based on the wiki about it

> among Islamic jurists, the majority of them continue to regard apostasy as a crime which should be punishable by death

How many mainstream Jewish or Christian groups advocate for that?


If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him. You must certainly put him to death. Your hand must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. Stone him to death, because he tried to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.

Deuteronomy 13:6–11


That was not the question, but what actual christian person of influence today believe that to be taken literal?

I am one of those apostates and there is some social shaming that I can mostly ignore, but so far no one called for my murder or imprisonment.


Which Islamic jurists? The citation talks about stuff in 1967.


Do I know them by name? No I don't. It's a quote from wikipedia. Feel free to dispute it if you feel it's incorrect. I was commenting on the wiki link content GP posted.


How many mainstream Islamic jurists promote that view? You just admitted you couldn't name any.


I quoted the wikipedia page about it. There is a link there what source it came from. Just because I can't name imam Bob, Joe and Steve doesn't mean anything. I am not that interested in the topic but if you are feel free to dispute the source in the Wikipedia page and update it with better information.


Yes, we travelled to Cornwall in 1999 but it was cloudy. Got a marvellous view in Oregon in 2017 though. A friend of mine travels to all the solar eclipses he can wherever they are in the world. That's a bit too obsessive for me though. I'm in Devon this time but only 95% cover.


Assuming that a plain Linux phone had succeeded early on, once banks, retailers and media companies refused to provide apps because of security concerns, then either the phone would die in the marketplace or it would have developed security solutions similar to those provided by iOS and Android today and no longer be a 'plain Linux phone'.


Or maybe banks would have provided WWW-based alternatives.


My last desktop before Linux was SunOs4 on a Sun Pizza box. Before that I used Macs. I had to use Win3.1 as road warrior kit until I got a laptop that would run Linux. So I've been using a Linux desktop for at least 30 years both at work & at home. I still use Windows (not 11!) sometimes where I can't avoid it but that's in a VM under Linux.


The lane asist totally annoyed me in my replacement car (2022 VW Golf) -jerking the steering around when it felt like it. I eventually bought a OBD2 dongle with associated app and managed to change the setting to 'remember last setting'. I recently rented a Renault Clio in France and that was always beeping at me about the speed limit. I was very grateful to the rental lady for pointing out how to disable the lane assist when starting the car!


My dad helped me build a crystal set when I was about 7. I still remember listening to a serialisation of Lorna Doone on the (MW) Home Service on headphones under the bedclothes.

Sad that the LW sevice had to close but the BBC is short of cash and it won't get better either.


He's not a Manc, he's a Scouser originally.


I found that, even using the STM32 IDE and HAL/CMSIS, I needed to deep dive into the hardware documents, compiler section attributes and linker scripts to build what I wanted (a digital graphic equaliser with optical I/O and a display/control screen on a Nucleo-H753ZI board). DMA and cacheing don't mix! That was my first adventure in ARMland but the experience helped a lot for subsequent hacking on RP24040/2350 kit.


Fjord ferries in Norway are up around that sort of charge rate, but for 30 mins instead of 5. That kind of battery charging performance is pure marketing until our local LV supply network is uplifted!


I was so impressed by this when I saw it. Big-ass cable. :) Great ferry trip.


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