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Can you use this to bypass Spectre mitigations in Javascript? You would need to measure time, somehow.

A fake IRS phone scam? So it's a real IRS phone scam, and not a fake one?

Where I come from we obey the laws of thermodynamics, which implies setting our priors appropriately.

fyi he was mocking people who look down on people in poverty, in the style of the "lol meme". There was nothing particularly wrong with his comment.

He's using internet speak. Since it can't be communicated as such in any other way, it's likely an exception, although to someone who hasn't been read in it probably reads funny.

He's not wrong, but he's not taking into consideration the fact that it's a feedback loop. It's the same perspective as chiding the homeless for not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. They are in too much mental poverty to do it.

What's the best way to say this..

It's a masochistic method of programming where you insert a randomly generated layer of abstraction between the hardware and the programmer, and tell the programmer to make sure to add enough hints to his code to make sure that it runs quickly.

The benefits are unclear.

That's a stretch. If the only dimension you care about is whether or not the language spec is guaranteed to be invariant, sure, but that's essentially nitpicking. One more layer of abstraction gets you an asm->asm transpiler that never changes.

This is basically asm or microcode at a higher level.

Why is everyone expressing so much restraint? It is insanely difficult to get your entrepreneurial projects funded. This guy needs to get a lawyer!

10^15 is not that big. We could construct and compute on sparse matrices that large today.