David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Oct 30

I did not have Trump killing the Fortran 77 compiler industry on my bingo card.

(The F77 compiler industry is entirely subsidised by the DOE, because they have a codebase written in F77 that, by law, cannot be modified unless its revalidated. It can be revalidated only by modelling a nuclear bomb exploding then actually exploding one and seeing whether they are the same. They would love to move it to F90 or newer but can't as long as the test-ban treaty is in effect.)

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@david_chisnall so conflicted. On one hand restarting nuclear weapons test could begin a chain reaction that ends with the destruction of all life on Earth. On the other it sure is a peeve of mine when test doubles get overused and I support occasional integration testing with real dependencies so I guess I’d be a hypocrite not to go with this
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@stiv @david_chisnall the way things are going now they are definitely going to be testing nukes vibe-coded and directed with LLMs
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