HPC folks who care about performance don't use gfortran.
It's borderline dishonest to compare rust performance unless the target compiler is something like Intel's Fortran compiler from the OneAPI suite, or the newer flang compiler.
Not really, because the convincing point seems to have been the simplicity of AI-poetry:
>Our findings suggest that participants employed shared yet flawed heuristics to differentiate AI from human poetry: the simplicity of AI-generated poems may be easier for non-experts to understand, leading them to prefer AI-generated poetry and misinterpret the complexity of human poems as incoherence generated by AI.
There are now a couple of smaller disc-by-mail startups who aim to serve that market. I've signed up with DVDInBox out of Florida and they've done a good job thus far.
From what I've seen their biggest current challenge is their mailer. Netflix spent a lot of time designing their signature red envelopes, working with the USPS on ensuring they would survive a trip through the postal sorting machines. DVDInBox has yet to reproduce it - their envelopes sometimes arrive fairly mangled, or have not arrived at all (lost to the bowels of the machines).
That way, there's no arguing about net worth, etc...
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