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Comment · 5 days ago
We will see the day your toothbrush has more compute than the original IBM PC.
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Comment · 1 month ago
Maybe that is the reason the initial Hubble did not have focus on infinity? Ok, very speculative, but the link comes to mind immediately.
Comment · 1 month ago
So, what profiling support is available to find the critical parts of your GDscript or C# code. Before needlessly jumping into c++ hassle for performance reasons? Tfa addresses functional reasons, which is ok.
Comment · 1 month ago
100km is the height where meteoroids ablate. You must mean 100k miles and even there the largest meteors start to become visible.

Indeed at the bottom tfb quotes heights of 190-250km for model calculations.

Comment · 1 month ago
No, they are just grumpy.
Comment · 1 month ago
Later on he cites an Anil Seth paper that makes the same unproven suggestion of substrate dependence of consciousness.
Comment · 1 month ago
I assume some of the solutions are stable against small perturbations, while others are not. That would be interesting to see.
Comment · 1 month ago
Could it be the reboot thing is legacy code from Windows 1.0? Wait, then Gates himself was at th wheel.
Comment · 1 month ago
It feels unnatural that a white bishop can move to black squares.
Comment · 1 month ago
See https://www.quantamagazine.org/theory-of-fluids-enters-the-2... if you want to know what the Navier Stokes equations are about.
Comment · 2 months ago
Strange to start with a clause that is irrelevant to the rest of the page.
Comment · 2 months ago
Decrypt later, I suppose.

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