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by fzort 7y ago
> Do you have a clear concept of a viable solution? Nuclear. Solar farms take 450 times more land than nuclear to produce the same amount of energy (source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018
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by fzort 7y ago
This is hilarious, thanks for sharing. I used to work at companies like this, except they weren't worth billions of dollars.
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by fzort 7y ago
You still need to know a bit of assembly to take advantage of SIMD (even when using compiler intrinsics). See for instance https://github.com/lemire/simdjson
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by fzort 7y ago
> you input N and it will produce the Nth prime Look for Willans' formula (there's a nice explanation in the book "Hacker's Delight").
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by fzort 7y ago
> If an entire Sci-fi continuity were limited to just Sol and Alpha Centauri, this by itself would constitute an inexhaustible number of potential settings. "Saturn's Children" by Charles Stross is a good one (unfortunatel
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by fzort 7y ago
Yeah, and with OpenGL ES/OpenAL support it was pretty easy to port C++ games to the iPhone, with just a thin Obj-C wrapper.
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by fzort 7y ago
As someone living in a third world country, I can't help chuckling every time I see people discussing "poverty in America".
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by fzort 16y ago
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -d news.ycombinator.com -j DROP
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by fzort 16y ago
http://www.fzort.org/mpr/junk/greplin-3.pl.txt Perl, 7s. Looks like I arrived at the same recurrence that madars used, but I swear I didn't look at his solution... Memoize magically turns it from exponential to polynomial.