Comment Re:All I know is... (Score 1) 72
Its from bits - - we already are beings of pure information. It's information all the way down and all the way up, even us lumpy bags of dirty water.
Its from bits - - we already are beings of pure information. It's information all the way down and all the way up, even us lumpy bags of dirty water.
Could be an input of locally-sourced humanure instead of Haber-Bosch N. I should think a hot dry place would be a good place for controlled composting.
How can anyone program sanely in the presence of this: currentPos = new Point(currentPos.x+1, currentPos.y+1); does a few things, including writing default values to x and y (0) and then writing their initial values in the constructor. Since your object is not safely published those 4 write operations can be freely reordered by the compiler / JVM. [...] I'm not anywhere near smart or careful enough for that... I think I'll stick with Haskell.
I wasn't as hardcore as the friend measuring isotopes in sulfur gases; all their equipment was custom because sulfur reacts with so many materials, and their raw material was 'parts per trillion, baby!'. I had parts per million.
Conveniently, you are unlikely to learn so much that you become less employable, so you won't even suffer in the long run.
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