Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: 17 Mar 2025 21:36:23 GMT Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <_LadnYkDg_cJGU_6nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@giganews.com> <0K6cnZni1tuZB0v6nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <67d745d8$0$11435$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net r0J5/YugQSQyXtPRD/t/mwHH3cR57GWByVuJQfNiVDMQYg2e+3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:k0ElbsdQdcbEe3u+68tj6/17nao= sha256:fN73g4mtecvFL+V2pb+g7h8p51NlXxt/VB3IHUa2Q1U= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:66463 On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 01:39:37 -0400, c186282 wrote: > Um ... before my mother's eyesight got too bad, she was complaining > about a "mystery" novel she got that was writ by a man who knew just > TOO much about mountain climbing. The amount of technical detail from > his expertise kinda jammed-up the main story. > > Basically "man-splaining" - but in paperback He doesn't really man-splain but uses nautical terminology that most readers would gloss over. There is a joke in sailing circles about a newbie who was instructed to let out the sheet but not make it fast who went into slow motion. I forget which mystery author laid a little trap for his readers when he described the character releasing the safety on a revolver. When the complaints rolled in he pointed out he had written in one of the very few revolvers to have had safeties. > In any case, the Vikings/Rus were VERY ROUGH PEOPLE for quite awhile. > Half, really over half, of my ancestry is Nordic (the volume of rapes > likely mean most of the rest is heavily so too). Wasn't until around > the Norman Conquest that Euro-style "sophistication" crept in. According to 23AndMe my ancestry is over 96% German which corresponds to what I know about my ancestors, which isn't much. The oddity is the Y chromosome, I M253. Currently the highest concentration is over 50% of the males in Västra Götaland, Sweden, and it spreads out from there. The haplogroup is associated with the early hunter-gatherers, not the farmers that moved in from the mid-east causing the neighborhood to go to hell.