What a Computer Really Is
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What a Computer Really Is
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#2"Programmers: You Probably Don’t Know What a Computer Is" is too baity a title for Hacker News.
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#3A computer is a machine which you can use to "simulate" a set of rule. Any other definition is just pure fantasy and hand waving.
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#4A computer is a machine which you can use to "simulate" a set of rule. Any other definition is just pure fantasy and hand waving.
I like the fact that i's purely syntactic reordering between two encodings.
2 > __x_
1 > ___x
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#5A computer is a machine which you can use to "simulate" a set of rule. Any other definition is just pure fantasy and hand waving.
A hammer is just a long handle with a piece of metal on the end, but if you're not building something valuable with it, who cares?