My comment is more about how we have this decentralised tool, but we’re unable to get our collective heads out of the centralised model. We e ended up turning it back into centralised VCS.

Ah… Git.

The decentralised version control system.

Computer programming, regardless of language, is hard. The computer does exactly what you tell it to.

Is that an armadillo? Forgetting how my own code works is my forte.

I have a lot of respect for this project. I lurk on the discussion forum and issues and I’ve always seen mature discussion even though the project was born out of issues which could have been quite emotive.

It’s also a lot nicer to run than any other git forge that I’ve had experience with.

The most difficult part is to keep track of the big picture because it is so verbose. Otherwise it’s a handful or two of instructions you use 90+% of the time.

It’s a long time since I wrote any assembly in anger, but I don’t remember this being an issue. Back then Id be writing 2D and 3D graphics demos. Reasonably complex things, but the challenge was always getting it fast enought to keep the frame rate up, not code structure.

As you say, I think you just establish patterns to decompose the problem.

Indeed

Only the most very basic compilers. C compilers are in C mainly.

Lucky it was set in America.

…or the research is flawed. Gender identity was gained from social media accounts. So maybe it’s a general bias against social media users (half joking).

• Slurm cluster
• MPI development

Totally understandable choice.

Half marks

Death by wasps

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Final flight checks:

“It’s off, so I turn it on and … WALK AWAY!”

Not even a forum.

Documentation is not a snapshot of a discussion. It largely falls into two categories

• collections of facts e.g. what command line switches there are, or all the options in the config files.
• Guides on how to use the software.

The first is vital. The second is really really useful.

The docker thing really grinds my gears. I see it as the ultimate “works on my machine” mentality. Basically they can’t be arsed to write software that is robust to changes in hosting platform.

We’ve ended up with a 50:50 chance of what any repo is doing. All depends on when the repo was created (old ones are all master) and if the creator tried to preserve consistency or not (yes: master, no: took the default of main).

It’s annoying and pointless.

Yes. Yes it is.