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Rule 3c: At least as many bits. Bits tend to not be as random as you think they are

This reinforces the comparison to compilers. Modern compilers produce better assembly code than almost every human programmer. Despite that, there are way more programmers than before compilers existed.

The job of a programmer is partially to automate away the current job of a programmer, and we've been successfully riding that curve at least since the days of punch cards.

Loading a float value of 3.1 does not have only one translation into assembly. On Godbolt, flipping through various ARM 32-bit compilers, I define a function that returns 3.1 as a float:

    float constant(void) {
      return 3.1f;
    }

And can get a handful of different results. I trimmed the function setup and teardown to simplify things.

Option 1 (loading high 16 bits and low 16 bits, then moving to fp register):

    movw     r3, #26214
    movt     r3, 16454
    vmov     s15, r3
    vmov.f32 s0, s15

Option 2 (hardcoding the hex value into program text and loading it into r0 via r3, no specific fp conversion):

    ldr     r3, .L3
    mov     r0, r3
    .L3:
        .word   1078355558

Option 3 (similar to 2, but using the load for SIMD and FP registers):

    vldr.32 s0, .L3
    .L3:
        .word   1078355558

I believe that number was floated before the RAM price spikes. At 36 TB max, you could be looking at over $500k in just DRAM at todays prices

I'm pretty sure this is the bingo card free space

$585B on new fabs, $357B on AI data centers, and $5.8B on humanoid robots. One of those numbers is not like the others

Run because cardiac health and general fitness are important. Manage calorie intake if your only goal is weight loss

> avoiding all sugar

I don't think you understand macros if you think a breakfast of yogurt, berries, and milk is avoiding sugar. Berries are mostly sugar, and lactose is a sugar which makes up a significant portion of yogurt and milk's calories. Your breakfast is close to 50% sugar. I would hate to see what the macros look like when you're not "avoiding all sugar".

Also 150 calories of whole milk is 8 fl oz. How big is your morning latte? Milk is a great food for bodybuilding, because it's easy to consume a bunch of calories without feeling that full. This makes it less good when you're trying to lose weight.

> apparently, 10 pounds of weight loss is roughly a clothing size [XL → L → M]

What? This is so wrong I'm confused how it could have possibly made it in. As a 5'7" guy, I was a M at 145, and still an M when I hit 175, though at that point I was close to an L. There is no way I was 3 separate sizes during that time

The Japanese word for shadow?

My understanding is that all current Teslas use radial flux motors

It's an odd article, because it claims that shops being open until 10pm (after a siesta break) is the solar-based schedule

This is the most significant record in running to fall since 1954 when a sub-4 minute mile was run. I think running can be front page news once a century

> always

Can you be more specific here? In an article about civilization 5300 years ago, where India has had a human population for at least 65,000 years, saying "always" is fairly vague