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There are some really dense people

> At every place X in the following expression, introduce a boolean negation if there isn’t one (or, equivanently remove one if there is), and I think it should read: At every plac…

A shift is faster than an add.

Once I flew north-west at the time of sunset. I had the view of the most beautiful big red sun right at the edge a sea of snow white clouds for more than an hour.

> The vote was 136 for and 70 against. Amazing that apparently noone just realizes that 136 is less than the double of 70.

?: "Since the word processor was irrelevant to the Shuttle, I wonder why this card wasn't removed to reduce weight." !: "We obtained access to a Shuttle teleprinter (probably a dev…

Granted.

I once needed a special blade for my saw. They only offered a 3-pack so I ordered that, and received 3 3-packs. I don't know, but I felt that I should report it. Fiddled around for…

Go for what you already have. Use your supervisor to cut and twist your proposal plan to fit 5 months. I don't know where in this world you are, but where I've taught, a master's t…

My imagination hears the protesters yell Toxinough! Toxinough!

It is subtle. 'Radio activity' is one word, the same word, in German.

I wonder if the, probably accelerating, effect of relocating millions is included in their model.

Sure, but "get away with" is not something to strive for in a programming language. I've allways hated C for the unnecessary brainpower it sometimes takes to parse a construct.

"by definition" is a little harsh, and "with an x86 processor" is a little too narrow: "The designation "PC", as used in much of personal computer history, has not meant "personal …

> ...don’t have to do any conversion to distances... Are you advocating for the use of Manhattan distances for everything?

As late as 1983 Denmark and Sweden had a dispute about another small island in the area: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesselø

The meaning of life by Jr Minkel NewScientist 5 October 2002

You are probably over-interpreting this interpreter.

If they can keep C at the same value in a higher voltage version.

No, the kid i Bergen is twelve.

> ... uint8 as your only data type Ahem! uint8 or int8 by the programmers discretions that is.

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From a comment there: > Thematically this is similar to a (much longer) essay Dr. Thurston wrote several years ago, which I highly recommend: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236

Computers are general concrete state machines. Computer programs behave by conducting a computer into a specific state machine behaviour. So it can't be wrong to say that all compu…