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Comment · 9 months ago
Almost as close, sorry.
Comment · 9 months ago
That's not good, but their command structure will still have learned the LOAC, right?
Comment · 9 months ago
Anchorage is closer to Nuuk than to Minneapolis by air... Just saying.
Comment · 1 year ago
As far as i can tell they have trouble with sustained satisfaction of multiple constraints, and asm has more of that than higher level languages. (An old Boss once said his record for bug density was in asm: he'd written 3 bugs in a single opcode)
Comment · 1 year ago
Until you've used an oscilloscopes to debug your buggy kprintf, you haven't lived.
Comment · 1 year ago
As they say, a coprocessor is a box that turns your cpu-bound problem into an i/o-bound problem.
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Comment · 1 year ago
Running in the woods supports TFA: 180 steps per minute * 16 possible locations per step = 12 bits per second; maybe there are fewer or more possible footfall spots but no matter what it's more than 1 bit per second and less than 100. (and way less than 1e9)
Comment · 1 year ago
Also, ivanbakel's answer was good ; the llm one was long and unfocused.
Comment · 2 years ago
Algol 68 was certainly too much language for the tiny machines of 1970, but on a 2020 box it might be fairly decent.
Comment · 2 years ago
It seems to me that academia grew out of the church doctors who grew out of the knighthood: thé eldest son of an aristocrat would inherit the land without lifting a finger, but to earn their spurs they needed to convince existing knights they were capable of doing equivalent work in the field. So, out of major feudal institutions, it was among the least nepotist.
Comment · 2 years ago
It is possible to leave and vote.

As to leaving and making political contributions, i suspect in the worst case a US domicile company could make them.

Comment · 2 years ago
What's even the point of being a billionaire if you're still scared of Trump?
Comment · 2 years ago
Lack of aliasing was historically fortran's advantage over C.

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