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Re:Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should by penagwin on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:12PM (#25084517)
> no pesky laws of physics

To be fair we still are bound by mathematics - boolean algebra, graph theory, information theory, etc. N=NP comes to mind

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Re:Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should by avip on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:26PM (#25084780)
Pretty sure at this point code also obeys the lows of Thermodynamics
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Re:Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should by Koshkin on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:30PM (#25084868)
That’s right, the entropy grows for sure. (Code also takes up any volume given to it.)
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Re:Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should by ChrisMarshallNY on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:19PM (#25084656)
I used to have an employee that is a physicist. He would get bent out of shape, when I said that. :)
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Re:Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should by andi999 on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:38PM (#25084982)
N, NP doesnt matter. Most likely O(n^100) is too large for any sizeable n.
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Re:Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should by davidgay on Friday November 13, 2020 @04:57PM (#25088006)
Let's not forget the speed of light (latency) either.
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