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1M -> 4 months? o_O

If you want a file-based cache, yes.

Moore's Law

Pinky's AI has a bug: http://donhodges.com/pacman_pinky_explanation.htm

if your source code is compiled without symbols, or if your elf executable is missing the section headers, or you've run strip, the disassembler will not give you the function name…

LaTeX = this generation's ANSI?

steps 1 and 2 remind me of how Congress works

Oh man, I remember this one. These are truly incredible.

i used to collect future crew's demos

garbage collection makes not a language safe

gpu instances -> bitcoin mining

Probably because most of the commonly used components are maintained separately.

This is great!

it would also require a long poll, but is definitely useful for certain situations where a synchronous operation would take too long.

perhaps this would be more useful if it calculated the lowest upvote to downvote ratio

autonomous vehicles and biomechanical grabbing hands are completely different than engineering software. The aforementioned tasks, while an impressive feat (especially in computer …

Too much credit given to "robots". I see this coming from Hollywood, not Hacker News.

and how about water, sewage, gas?

as if electricity is the only utility, right?

I can dump my cable company if they piss me off. I can't do that with my utility companies