throwaway19937

> It is a call for more communication and understanding of different opinions.

It's a poorly argued rationalization for antisocial behavior from someone with a bad case of engineer's disease.

> Since I’ve posted it this article got flagged and unflagged multiple times, the first flag appeared within minutes (i.e. the user pressing the button did not even have a chance to read the article).

You don't have to eat the whole apple to know it's bad.

> I wonder what made people so aggressive and short-tempered about different points of view recently.

It might have something to do with the ongoing pandemic. I'm really not interested in yet another article from someone who's too precious to be vaccinated.

> Back in college, I would go to house parties and bars and do everything that everyone else was doing; the only difference is that I would have a Coke in my hand instead of a Rum & Coke.

I have found that I get fewer questions about my drink if I have the bartender put a lime in the Coke.

Are you willing to name the company? The ability to move that fast is an attractive quality for an employer.

> My guess is that the customer here is asking because of a mandate to prefer open source solutions wherever possible.

I don't think that HPC or the DoE have anything close to such a mandate. My guess is that the request comes from a a user who wants to try compiling their code with gfortran.

I would respond with "F2018 conformance will be fixed sooner if you help."

Never assume malice when machine learning will suffice as an explanation.

Every other automated system regularly screws up - why would Facebook be any different?