Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 22:43:05 -0500, c186282 wrote:

   "Sales-speak" and objective reality are two different things
 
   Esp if selling to males, "bigger"/"stronger" is what you want to
   convey to the rube ... er ... customer.

Works every time. The .38 Special has a bullet diameter of .357 but .38
sounded better when selling it to the military. The later .357 Magnum went
back to truth in advertising with a case 0.10 longer so you can't fire it
in a .38. 9 mm is .356 so it's about the same although the ballistics of
the three vary widely.

I had a Yamaha Seca 400 that was a hair under 400 cc to meet the European
tiered licensing breakpoints. It didn't sell in the US because it was too
small. I put a lot of miles on that too small bike, including a trip up to
a trailhead on a road designed for goats.

https://vividness.live/riding-solo-to-the-top-of-the-world

Great movie. At one point he's up around 18000' pushing the bike because
it won't run. He's not running very well either but he made it. It
definitely isn't a Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman trip with expensive
BMWs and a film crew.