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by d110af5ccf 6y ago
For the record, most (not all) of those quotes are taken somewhat out of context. Even in 1950, it was trivial to come up with examples of sets with more than (for example) 2^32 elements. When it comes to address space allocation (ie IPv6)
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by d110af5ccf 6y ago
2^128 is ~10^38. For frame of reference, there are ~10^22 atoms in a penny and ~10^50 atoms in the entire planet. Alternatively, 585 years is "only" ~2^64 nanoseconds . 2^128 nanoseconds is on the order of 10^22 years, while the
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by d110af5ccf 6y ago
It means that everything a relational database is capable of (from CS theory) can be done with a single column of values per table. Note that each such table also has a "column" of primary keys; in other words, it's a simpl
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by d110af5ccf 6y ago
I don't know, I have pretty mixed feelings about the whole thing. In theory, it appears that the articles are supposed to be self contained Git repositories. In practice, this article loads a bunch of assets from Google's Cloud St
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by d110af5ccf 6y ago
> Wild pigs, while omnivorous, eat mostly plants and extremely small animals That's almost certainly because they aren't very good predators (ie minimal opportunity to hunt in an evolutionarily advantageous manner). > why no
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by d110af5ccf 6y ago
> Can latex produce this level Yes. I was quite serious about the space shuttle analogy. https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/158668 It can be quite a bit of work configuring custom templates though and any one o
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by d110af5ccf 6y ago
> how dependent the entire world is on TSMC Isn't Samsung nearly on par with them? (Not that two is a much better situation.) It (perhaps naively) seems like most applications could theoretically make due with older processes, but I
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by d110af5ccf 6y ago
From experience, Microsoft Office (Word plus PowerPoint for diagrams) is capable of doing approximately all of what you see there. I'm not sure what the current state of LibreOffice is when it comes to advanced typesetting, but I expec
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by d110af5ccf 6y ago
> NOT even close to rural In Washington you can sometimes do better in certain rural counties thanks to municipal fiber networks maintained by the local PUD. However, the rules surrounding them appeared complicated last time I checked
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by d110af5ccf 6y ago
At 756 pages, this looks to be longer than many textbooks. > Microelectronics power all AI, and the United States no longer manufactures the world’s most sophisticated chips. We do not want to overstate the precariousness of our position
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by d110af5ccf 6y ago
> who experience weight gain following said advice > it doesn’t matter how little they eat they gain weight A few thoughts in no particular order: * Weight gain (of the adipose sort) is quite literally your body storing energy. * Ener