I’m not even in tech. I teach maths at night school to support myself while doing my masters. Somehow I’ve become the ‘computer guy’ at my job. All the teachers and even office staff ask me to explain software to them that I myself have never even used. I need to learn to say no.

Since it has shareholders, the only way for it to stay in business is ever-increasing growth. Profit themselves aren’t enough. It needs to grow faster and faster so that dividends keep increasing, which is the goal.

Currently lmao. I’m using those tools as well but some specific event generators I’m using are in Fortran still

There’s no distinct generations of either physicists or codes that all retire at the same time

I had to learn Fortran for my thesis because it’s the industry standard in particle physics

If you’re able to correct them, you’ve understood what they’re trying to say. So what’s the harm?

Not with code, but i write a lot of LaTeX and that often starts working on second compilation

It’s not that we literally can’t find it, it’s just that it seems needlessly annoying on windows/ios/android after you get used to Linux