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there are tens of thousands of apps that use it, for billions of instances; most all of the most popular apps use it in some fashion. it’s a beast.

then you have added nothing to the problem. of course if you run the program and it halts, even if runs until T+heatdeathofuniverse^googleplex (which is a finite time) without an i…

damn. one of the best SF books - a fire upon the deep - ever. RIP Vernor

So what about a chaotic function like: (assume x is 64bit float) x = 0.035876; while true { x = 3.5699456 * x * (1 - x); if x == rand() break; } does it halt?

Consider: are all programs that don’t halt infinite loops? Perhaps one which experiences exponential growth in some variable.

always seemed to me like McKinsey just provided hired brains, ones more clever than any the client could attract on their own.

i’ve often wondered if mandelbrot is what you get when you do a simple quadratic iterator in complex numbers, what are the comparable sets for quaternions and octonions??

Kerosene lanterns. astoundingly solid.

ol’ Vint Cerf has tried for years.

just use LLCs, much easier, one per startup. need almost no paperwork.

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces Book by Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau

xv6 is a terrific project to grok the basics of Unix. very readable and gives you syscalls, context switching, and kernel/user space dichotomy. I also like 3EasyPieces from the cou…

i have a desk, built about 1720, in PA i bought with quite a bit of filthy lucre from one of my IPOs. use it most days.

no time zones on date/&times? they should be added.

there lots of examples, in many languages, of Dijkstra’s Two Stack calculator. this one is in ?javascript? https://switzerb.github.io/imposter/algorithms/2021/01/12/di... a very el…

i have it’s programmers guide around here somewhere.

no. i seem to recall only intel had a board in an S100(?) chassis? i think that’s the one i had access to.

i remember trying to use it with an Ada compiler at school. I was the only person on campus who had Ada exposure, and it was a remarkably slow machine. Could not get out of its own…

Kernighan’s history of unix, amazon has it, it might be print on demand “ UNIX: A History and a Memoir”

he was very clever; very smart - one of the smartest people I've ever met; he had pretty atrocious manners; and he didn't really "design" but rather reacted to a design, he had a v…

The several times I have seen this tried, it usually devolves down to a bunch school students asking sex questions and other students posting outrageous (and often incorrect and ha…