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It's not a tree since you have transpositions. It's a directed graph, since it has cycles.
Re:It's the Memory Latency, Stupid on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:01PM (#50343685)
> Modern CPUs have hundreds of megabytes of cache.

Not for the cache that can load in a register in 1 cycle. L1i/d cache is still at 32k-64k per core.

Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:38PM (#50186420)
Ruby even uses goto!
Your dog will die one day.
Re:How Claude marks AI-generated content on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @11:45AM (#49260130)
> Just because we found a "cheat" button doesn't mean it's wrong for others to want to know.

One difference perhaps is that you think using LLMs is cheating, while others do not.

Re:Typing Speed Test, but for Developers on Saturday July 18, 2026 @09:55PM (#48964320)
Dude, just use vim.
Counterpoint: Adding in a custom, proprietary interpretation of your data makes your complex task more complicated.
Re:How I'm Productive with Claude Code on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @12:50AM (#47498713)
> Why do they outsource something that is meant to have been written by a human

Says who? The point of the summary is so that I don't have to go look at the diff and figure out what happened.

People still understand metallurgy and casting even though machines make all the paperclips.
> After about 4 hours and $75

Huh? The max plan is $200/month. How are you spending $75 in 4 hrs?

Re:John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists on Friday March 13, 2026 @08:21PM (#47371866)
> and this is the problem

Why? The software is still there and you can still go choose to use it.

Copyright is about originality and expression, not effort. US copyright law does not use "Sweat of the Brow" doctrine.
Re:Sir Tony Hoare has died on Monday March 09, 2026 @08:22PM (#47317650)
What is a black bar?
Re:Ruby 4.0.0 Released on Thursday December 25, 2025 @02:45PM (#46386609)
Ruby has always been typed.
Re:Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim on Monday January 13, 2025 @01:49PM (#42687034)
> I wonder if it's using the background tile map for this instead of sprites

Yes, it's all background tiles being loaded continuously from the SD card. We created the tiles with a custom tile de-maker.

Re:Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim on Monday January 13, 2025 @01:46PM (#42687000)
The bitrate of the PCM is determined based on how quickly you can write a byte to the register. The fastest you could write general data is once every 6 cycles, which gives ~298 MHz of sample rate, so 44.2 kHz is easily doable if that's all you want to do with the CPU.
There are craters on the moon that are billions of years old. Also, we could probably bury tablets and artifacts.
I'm somewhat surprised he didn't talk about evidence of space-faring ancient civilizations. If humans perish and a new intelligent species comes around in millions of years, they would be able to find stuff we've left on the moon, provided we pepper it all over its surface so as to survive any future meteor impacts.
Reject modernity. Return to fly.
Re:Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant on Thursday October 19, 2023 @02:49AM (#37939390)
I didn't know we became pyromancers on July 4th.
Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:00PM (#37560462)
> scales nicely to whatever size you make it

In Programmer mode if you type in a number larger than 32 bits and the window is scaled to its smallest size, the lower row of binary is cut off a little bit.

Re:Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:57PM (#37560429)
You cannot enter fractional values in programmer mode.

This is reasonable, but what is incredibly annoying is that when you type in a number while in Programmer mode, if you then change to Scientific mode, it blows away the number you typed in.

Re:Graham's Number Is Too Big to Tell How Big It Is on Friday January 26, 2018 @10:29AM (#16239861)
No. Even if you wrote a single digit in each planck volume of the observable universe, you'd run out of space.

It is safe to say that there are far fewer than a Graham's Number of things in here with us.

Looks like you need to indent that code

  (1..5).map{|n| n**n}.reduce(:*) == 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000
Or if we're golfing

  (1..5).reduce{|t,n|t*n**n}
Re:Using Git Wrong on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @01:36AM (#15078786)
A linked list is a binary tree, and using git in a centralized fashion is a legitimate use of git.

Not everyone wants a distributed version control system, and not every team is ready for a more complicated process.

Re:Truth Values on Friday August 18, 2017 @04:24PM (#15049441)
This statement is false.
Re:The Tor Project Defends the Human Rights Racists Oppose on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:39PM (#15041281)
Or so people stop emailing them asking what they're going to do.
Re:Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:34PM (#14991563)
Here's the branch for it:

https://code.launchpad.net/~andfagiani/terminator/tmux

And here's the discussion of it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1301605

You can see in comment 18 how to use it.

Re:Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:32PM (#14991525)
The disingenuous debunkings?

> The article perniciously misrepresents the nature and significance of known sex differences to advance what appears to be a covert alt-right agenda.

He must be a sneaky alt-righter! How else could he disagree with me?

Re:Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:16PM (#14991335)
The median income for a pediatrician is ~170k vs the median income of software engineer at ~80k, but 75% of pediatricians are women.

So no, it's not only the "less well-paid" jobs. And even if it were, a lot of the lowest paid jobs are almost entirely men, like garbage collectors and construction workers.

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