And we start cool, but end up hot. National map has us clearing today and tomorrow, so sunny and all the moisture in the environment will make it humid. Well, even more humid than usual. It was 85F and stifling when I went out last night but a cool breeze snuck in and dropped the temp to the 70sF by midnight. That should be our starting point today.
Did mostly small things around the house yesterday. It’s supposed to be a sort of holiday for dads, so I thought I wouldn’t work too hard. I hung pictures that had been sitting on the floor for at least 6 weeks, and some that had been sitting in my bedroom for a year? maybe more. Picked up and put away stuff, cleaned some pipe stuff and got it ready for sale, moved some stuff in my office… and watched a few auctions play out.
I did win the ebay auction for my replacement suitcase. It should be here in a few days. It feels … weird to be replacing the old one. It was my anchor, and continuity in my life for decades of work travel. Decades of different hotel rooms but the same suitcase and arrangement of clothes and the stuff I needed to be comfortable. Weird to be getting rid of it. Of course the new one is the same as the old, just not beat to h3ll. I guess I’ll learn if that makes it weirder or helps.
I’m most comfortable when surrounded by familiar stuff.
Today I’ve got several auction pickups, and a bunch of office stuff to do. And all the rest of the list, with additional car stuff for D1 scheduled for Tuesday. The list just gets longer.
But I plug away at it. I can grind, even if it’s not as effective as it was. And I can still stack, although the stuff that needs stacking is a lot less than when I started. And that’s a good thing.
nick
Good morning, slug-a-beds.
Now that I’ve got a small clue about welding, I’m doing some other metal repairs that have been hanging around. Spousal unit has an iron peacock in the garden, and one of the legs had rusted through. Of course, things are never easy: That leg, that looks like it is made of solid iron, turns out to be a thin tube. No way to weld to it, because it just melts away. So I welded a section to the foot and it just sticks into the remaining leg. Might hold a year, or two if lucky, before the rest of the leg rusts away.
Anyway, I have an entire week of…nothing! I can finally start some garden projects. The next-to-last dry stone wall. It will sit at the bottom of a slope, and I need to dig out the bottom of that slope to make space and a foundation. So the first step will be excavation work, digging out the bottom of the slope and prepping the foundation. The dirt is needed elsewhere, uphill of course. Fitness training 😛
Brad, slow and steady. I look forward to reading about your progress…don’t want to hear that you’re down for the count.
Uh-huh. Despite your six-hour advantage, you posted that only ten minutes before I woke, or a few more before I was up and moving. (Taking a Benedryl before bed leaves me loopy and sluggish in the morning. I’m fine once I’m upright but getting upright takes a few minutes.)
Though the days are in theory getting shorter now, three of the hens were already down, pecking at the food in the cage and ready for their freeeeedom! Alas for them, I let them out of the 18 sq ft cage but kept them in the 200 sq ft run. But they probably didn’t really want freeeeeedom quite yet. When I passed near the run again a few minutes later after taking care of something else, all were out of the cage and up on a roosting rail or something else up off the ground. The grass is wet and cold. Yuck. Treatbringer, fix it!
That’s the annoying part. No matter how much you get done, there’s always more to do. Not only more but more more.
I have two theories on that. The first is somewhat related to the Dunning Kruger Effect: The more you know about a topic, the more you realize that you don’t know everything about it. The more you do to maintain the house, deal with problems, and prepare to deal with future problems, the more you see that could be done.
The second theory is less neutral. It’s related to the effect you’ll see at work and other groups: The guy at work who’s always busy, because he’s handling tasks well beyond his official job scope, is the one who’s given the new task by his boss or coworkers. They know he’ll get it done. When it comes to the personal to-do list, kids, spouses, and people in organizations will put expectations on the busy guy because he’ll get them done and they don’t want to deal with that stuff.
I’d prefer to opt out of Tony’s vision of the future with my investments, but I hold broad market funds both inside and outside my IRA/401(k)s which will soon have significant stakes in the rocket grift as the major indexes relax their rules in unprecedented ways.
Tony has a funny way of showing concern about AI since he is well-documented to be one of my employer’s biggest customers for the hardware as part of
the merged company’s server leasing operations to Anthropic, home of Claude, one of the more worrying models.
Thanks to the organization’s recent obsession with AI, my co-workers produce a lot of output lately which they don’t understand at even the most basic level much less the C++23 code abstraction the model generates.
They “look” productive, however.
More lines = more productivity, bro!
A chance would be a fine thing. I was working, with the result that I am now, at 2pm, having breakfast.
I had about half of Saturday’s rack of meaty pork ribs left over, so I cleaned the meat off the bones, diced it and sauteed it with shallots, mushrooms and leftover potatoes. It is delicious. A fried egg on top would have rounded it off nicely, but that would be pure gluttony.
Amen. I have two of many everyday items, just so that I always have the correct-for-me gear to hand. No harm having two identical suitcases, even though only one is in use at a time. Maybe you can fix up the original?
AI is both a danger and an opportunity.
A couple of years in the past the VA sent me a tablet, at no charge, with an AT&T data SIM. I have no idea who is paying for the SIM and really don’t care. The tablet does work on WiFi. Naturally, it is a brand of which I have never heard “NUU”. It is running some version of Android.
Supposedly it is to allow veterans that do not have access to the internet, to gain access to the internet. I don’t need the tablet, but it was sent anyway.
It is an absolute piece of junk. Screen quality is poor, the device is slow, as in really slow. I have not turned on the device in about four months and decided to turn it on today and update the apps. I only installed two apps beyond the standard apps that come with Android. Twenty-seven apps need updating. Based on the progress over the last 20 minutes, I am guessing another hour to complete all the updates. I guess if a person has nothing, then something is better than nothing.
Whomever the VA contracted with to provide the devices probably paid less than $30.00 for each device and billed the VA over $100.00 for each device and thinks they got a bargain. The tablet lists online for $140.00 at the current price. I have no idea what level of device I have. Then there is, I am guessing, the recurring charge that AT&T is making and for which, again guessing, the VA is paying. Seems like an enormous waste.
I went to the VA clinic, the closest thing to a VA office and asked what to do with the device I do not want. The people had no clue, which is not surprising, and said to just keep the device. No one mentioned throwing it away as that is probably a federal crime for illegally disposing of government property.
AI is dangerous because Humans are stupid. I just rewatched “Colossus, The Forbin Project”.
Humans: “We built this super computer that is 1,000 times faster and smarter than Humans. Let’s name it Colossus, give it the nuke codes, and bury it so we can’t take them back.”
Colossus: “Thank you, dumb Humans. Do what I say or I launch nukes. Here’s one just to show you I mean it. Now kill the Soviet computer scientist. I only need Forbin, not some smarty pants Rooskie.”
Remember, there are three books in the series if you need some old timey sci-fi to read. It is probably on top of Musk’s reading pile.
Yeh, I remember that movie. It started out stupid then got really stupid. Based on what I knew about computers, being a programmer in the USAF, a computer locked away, with no ability to repair, was good for about 1.2 months, tops, before something failed, rendering the entire machine useless. At least they used real computers from CDC instead of boxes of blinking lights.
I used the FORBIN moniker in a lot of my work in the USAF. I liked to call my code as being “self-aware”, which was really nothing more than the code grabbing as much information from the OS as possible so the code “knew” in what environment it was operating. Some of the code would self-modify while running to change what it did based on the environment. Yeh, really stupid for debugging purposes. But, memory was tight and modifying code in the main module by using code in a disposable module, saved a lot of memory instead of having decision logic in the main module.
Because of the way that Burroughs medium systems worked, and the instruction architecture, an instruction that added 1 to variable, the INC instruction had the number 1 stored in the instruction. This was stored in the A-Address field which was six digits. Thus 5 digits were wasted space. A convenient place store a counter or temporary number. Yes, digits, as the Burroughs machine was a decimal machine to the user. Those five digits could store as much as 99,999.
There were several places where NOP, an instruction that did nothing, an instruction that was the operation code and an address, could be changed to BUN (branch unconditional) and change the operation of the code. Or the BUN could be changed to a NOP. It was trivially easy to change the operation of a program while it was running in memory.
Since we at Randolph were under the thumbs of the USAF Design Center, which controlled all program releases, getting fixes to programs was time consuming. The program had to be validated by the design center and that took time. Getting patches to programs took time. Some of the problems could not wait for the design center and their slow distribution (tapes).
Since the majority of the business logic for the personnel applications were in tables, these tables were not subject to design center testing. We developed a way where code modifications could be sent to the bases using the tables.
Every program on the machines had a hash code, a digital signature where any modification changed the hash. It was a way to verify program integrity. We could not change the code stored on disk as that would affect the hash number. Instead, the program loaded into memory, accessed the tables looking for patches, and modified itself in memory. When the program was finished there was no trace of the modification.
Eventually we figured out the hash routine used by the design center. We developed code that would pull the patch from table, then modify the program on disk, adding information at the end of the code file that would keep the hash code the same.
I guess we were the original hackers to get around the draconian procedures of the design center people who liked to lord themselves over the major command software developers.
Yeah, I’m up. Sunny and warm. Coffee before brain…
n
Delusional despot dies, death decades delayed….
Alan Greenspan, Longtime Fed Chair And “Maestro” Of Markets, Dies At 100
“I was right 70% of the time, but I was wrong 30% of the time.”
n
Well, put down 800# of decorative rock yesterday morning … and I don’t care for the appearance. Too bland in a large 16’x3′ bed. Sometimes that happens, I had ordered the wrong rock blend but didn’t want to be bothered to return it.
I could move it to a less visible spot, but that’s quite the chore. And the 4th of July bottle rocket menace is on its countdown, there are other measures I need to take that will take up time. There is about 14′ left to do, I can spread it out and mix something in/over I suppose.
As a famous philosopher once said: “it’s always something!”
Shocker: Adam Schiff Now Concedes Trump DOJ May Have Case Against Newsom
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/06/22/shocker-adam-schiff-now-concedes-trump-doj-may-have-case-vs-newsom-n2203594
Newsoms, plural, as in both husband and wife.
If the reporting is at all accurate about the financial flim-flams and associated tax fraud, then they should be treated like every other DOJ target: indicted and charged with every count. But inasmuch as these are supposed to be leaders of the people–and indeed Mr. Newsome aspires to be president and uphold the laws of the land–the bar should be set as high as possible and if there is prison time in the statutes then the prosecution should demand it. No plea deals for a pattern of activity over years.
Cloudflare again
When their “prove you’re not a bot” service fails, there’s not much you can do.
n
“Texas, facing 438 GW queue, approves initial large-load interconnection process”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-facing-438-gw-queue-approves-initial-large-load-interconnection-pro/823367/
“The first projects to navigate the process will be called “Batch Zero.” The Electric Reliability Council of Texas says its large-load queue is almost 90% data centers.”
Texas’s peak load to date is 85 GW. I wonder how many of these projects are unfunded? I suspect 80% are unfunded.
On the other hand, the opportunity: AI plus robotics could take over a huge amount of human labor. People used to work subsistence jobs for 70, 80, 90 hours a week. We’re now down to 40. What if we could be down to 20? 10?
More time to drink alcohol and do drugs.
Faithless in my fellow human beings, who me?
On the gripping hand, this trip may take us somewhere completely unexpected…
Yes, the human race only has so much capital. We seem to be spending it all on AI machines so we can have more leisure time that we cannot afford. I talked with an AI this morning for 20 minutes before it gave up and sent me to a real live person. If my wife had not been in the room, I would have said many nasty words to the AI that Jesus would have a problem with. Until, Jesus had to talk to one of these idiots.
Remember, there are three books in the series if you need some old timey sci-fi to read. It is probably on top of Musk’s reading pile.
Nah, he is rereading the Culture series, trying to decide what to name his latest Starship.
https://www.amazon.com/Consider-Phlebas-Culture-Iain-Banks/dp/031600538X?tag=ttgnet-20
@brad
“On the gripping hand, this trip may take us somewhere completely unexpected…”
All humans are Eloi, with AI playing a variation of the Morlock part?
“Green Fiasco: Asbestos Discovered in 1,000 UK Wind Turbines Imported from China”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/06/22/green-fiasco-asbestos-discovered-in-1000-uk-wind-turbines-imported-from-china/
“Asbestos has been found in at least 1,000 wind turbines throughout the UK after components containing the banned substance were imported from China, sparking concerns about worker safety and prompting calls for a government investigation.”
Buy crap from China, get cancer.
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/06/22/trump-admin-vows-to-take-action-after-video-of-gulf-war-vet-being-abused-in-care-home-goes-viral-n2203595
Pound a pound up the pooper and set music to the twitching.
A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/a-bold-satellite-rescue-mission-came-together-in-record-time-but-will-it-work/
Shades of Fast and Furious? DEA Allegedly Let Hundreds of Thousands of Fentanyl Pills Hit the Streets
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/06/22/shades-of-fast-and-furious-dea-allegedly-let-hundreds-of-thousands-of-fentanyl-pills-hit-the-streets-n2203596
We need a law that makes failure to uphold the oath of public office directly resulting in death of citizens a criminal offense. We could either make the penalty five years minimum for each death and a maximum of the death penalty, or we could simply remove all constitutional and human rights from the offender and let the public decide the penalty. In the latter case there should be a caution that injuring other folks is not allowed unless they are giving aid and shelter to the soon-to-be-cooling body.
I’m on the reservation list for Valve’s Steam Machine which dropped today.
“They Know”
https://areaocho.com/they-know/
“On Saturday, we talked about how you are being followed on the internet, even if you think you aren’t. Yes, I know there are plenty of people out there who claim they can’t be tracked because of their elite computer skills. All evidence says they are wrong, but I won’t be able to convince them otherwise, so I won’t try. A great example is how I replaced my electronic locks on my safe with mechanical locks. That step makes it more difficult to get in, but not impossible. Sure, there are things I can do to make it harder to get in, but I can never make it impossible.”
“It gets worse than that- you are being followed in meat space, as well, whether you realize it or not, and it isn’t just license plate readers. As you travel, the things that travel with you are constantly emitting electronic signals unique to you, and those are being used to monitor your every move.”
“Your Bluetooth earbuds, your cell phone, even the tire pressure monitors in your car (which have been required in every car made in the past 25 years), are constantly sending out electronic signals that can and are being used to track your movements. They are even using the chips embedded in your pets to keep track of your location. It’s pervasive, and there is no hiding from it. Defense contractor Leonardo is promoting a new technology called SignalTrace that will package plate cameras with sensors that can scrape unique identifiers tied to your smart devices and make that data available to law enforcement:”
Yes, and lovely, just lovely.
lyin’ PLT’s doin’ what they do…
The Denver Post’s Wolf Pup Problem
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/06/the_denver_post_s_wolf_pup_problem.html
“Confirmed”
https://areaocho.com/confirmed/
“Thanks to Tulsi Gabbard releasing formerly classified documents, we now know all of the conspiracy theories surrounding COVID were in fact true. We now know why so many people had to receive pardons from President Autopen on the way out. They massacred millions of people:”
“I have come to the conclusion that our government is truly evil.”
Yes, it is.
I had the Koof twice besides being vaccinated.
Crude Oil for August is down to $74 per US Barrel today.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CL%3DF/
SpaceX is way down from $211 to $154 today.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPCX/
Senator Schumer just admitted that the Dems have 25 million ineligible voters on the rolls.
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/06/22/the-save-act-would-remove-25m-people-from-voter-rolls-n3816190
He did not break down the numbers for dead people, illegal alien invaders, multiple registrations, etc.
Makes it clear why they are so opposed to voter ID.
After we purge the rolls we need to indict, try, and convict every Democrat involved–elected or otherwise–for treason. Senators, congressmen, state officials, and hokey-pokey Dem poll watchers, should get the death penalty. We’ll probably uncover a large number of journalists, news readers, and other media types that should get the death penalty, too.
We could drain the reflecting pool, march them all in, and contain the mess when sentence is carried out. Be a good time to get rid of the vandals that have destroyed the newly installed lining. When we’re done we can reline to pool and fill it back up.
Oh, forgot to mention: The jury pool should consist entirely of parents who lost children to fentanyl during Potato Joe’s open borders for drugs program.
The Culture novels were OK, the AI were generally good.
I have just started re-reading the Hyperion series by Simmons, pretty sure the AI are the bad guys, but it’s been 35 years…
“Commiefornians Left With Surging Health Insurance Premiums Amid Proposed Tax Increase”
https://thelibertydaily.com/commiefornians-left-surging-health-insurance-premiums-amid-proposed/
“(The Daily Caller)—California state lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill to preserve federal funding for the state’s Medicaid program amid concerns that the proposal may cause private health insurance premiums to soar.”
“The new bill responds to recent federal rules mandating that California overhaul its managed care organization (MCO) tax, which the state collects from health insurance plans, CalMatters reported. Senate Bill 125 would decrease the tax on Medi-Cal plans while increasing the tax on private plans to the same level, according to the outlet.”
So, the people who pay for their healthcare insurance in California are paying extra for the illegal aliens on Medicaid in California. Gotcha.
Sucks to be a Californian nowadays.
Tony is borrowing more money to bury the cash outflows for xAI and some lockouts are starting to end.
Apparently, the $75 billion raised in the IPO wasn’t enough cash to pour into the Monkey Trick.
Rockets? You think he’s building rockets with that money?
Sweet Summer Child.
SpaceX is way down from $211 to $154 today.
– like pretty much every ipo in the history of IPOs, especially the ones with ‘buzz’ behind them.
n
Don’t forget the Hospice care.
California has 10 times the number of Hospice patients per capita than Florida, parts of which are known as God’s waiting room.
I (actually, duck.ai) can’t find a per capita count, but it did find the following statistic showing the rankings by state (for the first 27 states in the rankings).
@Greg – Do you have better sources that would confirm your statement?
@Greg – note that the duck.ai could not find any publicly accessable data for an actual count of hospice patients (all patients, not just Medicare patient). The duck.ai said that the count data seems to be hidden by paywalls.
I first heard the stat in one of Nick Shirley’s videos, but the most relevant one doesn’t have it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kegwwB4RHgA
Fine. Retracted until I find it. Happy now?
yeah, DM, but still someone wrote it, and someone let it be published thinking people would click on it.
Jennifer Garner’s son Samuel, 14, nearly towers over her on LA outing… after her gushing Father’s Day tribute to ex Ben Affleck
I’m talking about the “NEARLY TOWERS OVER HER”. The kid is still an inch or two SHORTER than his mom which is completely obvious in the two pictures under the headline.
He’s “nearly her height” at best. The f? kind of statement is “nearly towers”?
We’re LIVING in Idiocracy.
n
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/06/22/fired-fl-probation-officer-leaked-arrest-warrants-to-alleged-drug-ring-members-n3816197
113 separate and intentional acts, which should be charged and sentenced individually.
Paid by somebody.
A favor would be onesy/twosy, not over 100.
ayup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obe-cVMuUPc
LOL.
Attorney pleaded for 3 minutes for bond reduction before getting denied.
$10,000 x 113 plus another $10,000 for misuse of a communication device.
You just noticed? An impartial observer might wonder if someone who has only just noticed that we’re living in idiocracy, is himself part of the idiocracy.
You might want to get some additional perspective. Ask your teenage children whether you are an idiot or actually quite intelligent.
(Bonus conversational ploy: When, not if, they say you’re an idiot, point out that they get half of their DNA from you, so odds are that they are idiots, too. Not only that but if you’re an idiot and their mother chose to have children with you, she’s probably also an idiot. Two idiot parents pretty well guarantees that the offspring will be idiots. Then ask the children if they wish to reconsider their answer. Why, yes, I did do this with my teenage children. Shut them up for a while.)
“tire pressure monitors in your car (which have been required in every car made in the past 25 years”
Not accurate. Not even close to being accurate. If the source is not accurate on a trivial detail such as this, why trust them on anything?
I think the spy company is overselling their ability. The TPMS thing took a researcher a while to even get to a proof of concept implementation.
The other stuff I have wanted to do myself at home for years. Some WAPs have “presence sensing” and will automatically log every wifi and bt that passes thru the range. I’d like to at least do that to correlate with my street video.
Would be interesting to see if the kids stealing guns from cars are carrying phones with names like Raasheede’s Iphone…
n
Reading a Bluetooth serial number from a device moving at highway speeds relative to the transceiver is a 50-50 proposition under ideal circumstances with carefully placed antennas.
As long as tollway authorities still issue transponders or RFID stickers, assume that they can’t track you based on Bluetooth IDs.
I am so tired of watching genius builders on YouTube:
My neighbor took down the stair to his second-level deck last week. Water got between the fascia board and the outside stringers, rotting them.
If you like raw wood so much make yourself a custom toilet seat. Who cares if it’s butt-ugly when you are just going to sit your butt on it. Who cares that wood is porous? And who cares about splinters?
Black. Measure the light level before and after you paint. Learn to work by feel.
Just as durable as your average laundry basket.
Make sure your 5-year-old knows where the ladder is when he wants to get into that top tote.
ADDED:
Almost forgot the best feature: OSB. Such a pleasing look.
Man, I really missed that three seconds of sunlight that we lost today.
“Latin America Keeps Moving Toward the U.S. Model”
https://texasinsider.org/articles/latin-america-keeps-moving-toward-the-u-s-model
“Stephen Moore: Unleash Prosperity Hotline – Add Colombia to the freedom revolution going on in Central and South America – thanks to election results this weekend.”
“When seven countries in a single region swing politically to the right in the space of 18 months, we’d call that a Trump Trend.”
Good. They have a lot of work to do. And maybe some of their people will stay home instead of trying to sneak into the USA.
Man, I really missed that three seconds of sunlight that we lost today.
Winter is coming.
I have having lots of fun moving a 6,217 line Fortran subroutine to C++. Not.
The massive subroutine calculates the bubble point temperature or pressure or the dew point temperature or pressure of mixtures containing up to 1,000 chemicals. The mixtures can be up to four phases: vapor, hydrocarbon liquid, aqueous liquid, and solids. Of course it is very iterative and contains several caches trying to speed things up.
As long as tollway authorities still issue transponders or RFID stickers, assume that they can’t track you based on Bluetooth IDs.
– They do though. TxDOT uses bluetooth readers to do traffic speed monitoring. I saw the patch antennas years ago and it took a lot of looking before I found the article describing it. I discussed it here, so there might be some search terms that would bring it up… they were talking about discarding the tracking, discarding all but one if there were more than one in a vehicle, etc. but I wouldn’t bet the kids’ college money that they actually discard any of it.
No idea if it’s in any kind of a searchable db, or if they built something after the system went live. They keep expanding it though, now I see the readers on main surface streets as well as the highway system.
It may not grab everyone, or even half, but it grabs enough and they follow them long enough to do the speed thing.
n
Tiny little fire once the temp dropped a bit. 85F when I went out. Less than that now. No gunshots or racers, but something swooped out of a tree, landed in the yard, then flew back up. Some sort of small owl I think, but it was just a streak of movement. There were some owl-like calls around the same time.
A very mild breeze helped keep it tolerable out.
Time for a shower and bed, as D1 arrived just before her curfew timed out.
n
“Watch: Emotional ‘Sharia Law Survivor’ Begs Schools to Keep Out Islamism, as Lib Teen Mocks Him Literally Behind His Back”
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-emotional-sharia-law-survivor-begs-schools-keep-islamism-lib-teen-mocks-literally-behind-back/
“During a public forum for the school board in Wylie, Texas, last week, an Iranian man who identified himself as an Iranian “Sharia law survivor” was given his allotted time to speak on the experience of his home country and the fears he now has, living in the West.”
““You have no idea … what kind of a hell is coming towards your country right now,” he said at the June 15 meeting.”
““It’s 2026. I escaped that hell years ago and I’m seeing the same thing happen over here in the United States. There’s three levels of Sharia law that is happening. Right now is Level 1. They come in peace. They come and tell you, ‘we just want rights.’””
“He then referenced the United Kingdom for Level 2, with its two-tiered policing, police collaborating with Muslims, and blasphemy laws being pushed. Again, refer to the young man behind him, unconcerned with reality, he’s putting his hand over his face in disapproval. Who is this man, fleeing political persecution, to tell his story?”
“The Iranian then referred to Canada as his Level 3 example, “People are being jailed,” before adding, “people are being raped in the United States,” telling the board that Muslims are protected despite their crimes.””
Yes, this is happening now.
I have having lots of fun moving a 6,217 line Fortran subroutine to C++. Not.
The massive subroutine calculates the bubble point temperature or pressure or the dew point temperature or pressure of mixtures containing up to 1,000 chemicals. The mixtures can be up to four phases: vapor, hydrocarbon liquid, aqueous liquid, and solids. Of course it is very iterative and contains several caches trying to speed things up.
BTW, without Microsoft’s Visual C++ which is a part of Visual Studio, this would be pure hell. Visual Studio lets me hit several problems at a time before recompiling and resetting.
@ greg, I didn’t find my original comment but we were discussing the same thing almost word for word in 2023
https://www.ttgnet.com/journal/2023/01/06/fri-jan-6-2023-pickups-deliveries-lots-of-driving/
https://www.ttgnet.com/journal/2023/01/05/thur-jan-5-2023-and-im-still-typing-2022-automatically/
Shite, maybe we are just an echo chamber….
n
@ greg, I didn’t find my original comment but we were discussing the same thing almost word for word in 2023
https://www.ttgnet.com/journal/2023/01/06/fri-jan-6-2023-pickups-deliveries-lots-of-driving/
https://www.ttgnet.com/journal/2023/01/05/thur-jan-5-2023-and-im-still-typing-2022-automatically/
Shite, maybe we are just an echo chamber….
The whole world is an echo chamber. We are constantly rehashing the same stuff over and over again. Iran, Global Warming, Global Cooling, who has the biggest army, who has the biggest navy, is Starlink gonna block out the Sun?, the price of crude oil, has China stolen all of the intellectual property yet?, and so on and so forth.