As far as I know, the MAX software fully complied with its software requirements. The problem was crappy system requirements, and Boeing actively lied to their pilots to conceal that they added a brand new automatic flight control system that can push the elevators down independent of the autopilot and stick pusher.

That last part is what sent people to jail.

Both git and svn started around the same time, in or about 2004.

Violates CERT C ENV33-C.

In addition to the other reasons already stated, Canada doesn’t have the capacity to store up the power and sell it back later when things turn around.

So if they did just pull the plug, they would also have to stop generating the power, and Canada would lose our on that revenue.

No. For several reasons.

Fortran is older than Basic and C. In fact, Fortran is more or less the first high level programming language. The first Fortran compilers date to the early 1950s.

Fortran was created mainly for the purpose of linear algebra: operations with (giant) matrices. Linear algebra is used to compute approximate solutions to ordinary and partial differential equations, and this is a major part of what people needed computers for (and still do).

Programming concepts like subroutines, functions, if statements with blocks and else clauses… All of those were not in original Fortran because no one had thought of them. These things entered Fortran over time as they became popular, and goto slowly became less popular. Syntax from the punch card era was replaced in Fortran 90, but it is still available as an option for compatibility purposes.

Structurally, I prefer to describe Fortran as like C, but with better built-in arrays, and no built-in general purpose pointers. Not having the pointers allows the compiler to do certain optimizations that C can’t. But C is the better systems language, because the pointers let you naturally express all kinds of data structures besides arrays.

I do like me some salami on toast.

Medical device programmers:

Rule of thumb: 1,000 mph at the equator. 1,600 km/hr. So 1600 / 12 = 130 km or so in five minutes.

Though here’s a more subtle thing: the speed of anything at the surface from rotation depends on how far north or south of the equator you are. On the equator, it’s about 1,000 mph, and at the poles, it is 0.

So if a flight takes off from Quito and flies to Anchorage, it has to slow down by a fair amount along the route, and it does this but gradually turning.

Also, on Gentoo Linux, there will be an ebuild that integrates all of the cmake options into the rest of the packaging system and manage the dependencies

I preferred the Facebook group “If 2,147,483,648 people join this group, then an integer overflow may occur” back in the day.

Even if you do have an MMU, there’s no guarantee that you’ll get a segmentation fault from a memory bug. You can still just get the weird side effects, if you fail to access the incorrect memory.

Undefined behaviour means exactly that. You have no idea what you could get.

Like any other convention, it’s not really a big deal either way. Fortran gets along just fine with 1-indexing.

Really I worked a project once that just had post-its stuck to the wall. It worked as well as Jira does.

When you enter the United States, customs “inspects” all the stuff you’re bringing back. If it’s more than $850 worth of stuff, then you have to go to the cashier and pay a tax.

The tax is a percent of what the stuff is worth. The percent rate can depend on what type of goods it is, and what country it’s coming from. There are massive tables to look this stuff up.

The stuff you carried out of the country and are now bringing back with you doesn’t count toward the $850 limit.

If you’re shipping stuff in but not traveling with it, there is no exemption. Tax applies right away. You also have to hire a guy called a broker to help you with the CBP paperwork and to submit payment.

So let’s say somebody is importing sugar from the Caribbean, and there’s a tariff. They have to pay a percent to the feds every time they ship in some sugar. They raise the price they charge on the sugar to cover that. Then sugar from Louisiana looks more attractive on the store shelf because it’s cheaper.

Who pays? Whoever is shipping the goods in pays, but they make it up by charging more for the imported products.

Why do it? Usually, you want to make some domestic industry more attractive by raising the price of the foreign competition.

In the sugar example, sugar is more expensive to farm in Louisiana because people get paid more, and the equipment is more expensive. If there wasn’t a tariff, people might stop farming sugar in Louisiana entirely. That might make some people sad. On the other hand, all Americans would be able to pay less for sugar without the tariff.

Foreign nationals, let alone foreign governments, are not allowed to give money to political campaigns in the United States. Actually illegal. Bill Clinton got in trouble for it

If you can prove that an NFT scheme was foreign campaign money laundering in court, people can go to jail.

Most places in the US will have nothing about severance written down anywhere, but it’s very common to actually pay severance in a mass layoff situation (unless the whole business is going under).

Current IT best practice is that passwords should never expire on a set schedule, but they should expire if there is evidence they’ve been breached.

If wasn’t full garbage collection in the spec. It was some infrastructure support in the spec that would make it easier to write garbage collectors in C++.

There’s also D. You could just upgrade to D.