Comment Re:Yawn. (Score 1) 403
And if he never existed, who would have written GCC? And without GCC, how would free software development have gone?
And if he never existed, who would have written GCC? And without GCC, how would free software development have gone?
With comparative advantage, even if you do better at both things than everybody else, the world derives more benefit if you do most of what you're absolutely best at, even if you're better at everything compared to everybody else
Also, what would be the demand for such batteries if Tesla stopped manufacturing cars?
be the next Edward Snowden.
FTFY..
Is Turing computability sufficient for your purposes?
Hint: Pi is a computable number.
Only under a certain use of "computable". Will we have arbitrarily long periods of time to get sufficiently good approximations?
I would say that the font distinguishes the post, but not in a good way.
OMG did you just put Al Franken and Rand Paul in the same sentence?
No, machineghost put "Al Franken" and "Rand Paul" in the same sentence.
NSA apologist trope #57: [insert foreign country that has no 4th amendment] routinely does the same thing we do.
Does the Fourth Amendment apply to the NSA's spying on foreigners?
Yes, but those don't always have the real-time demands of driving.
Rules of the road are supposed to form our expectations of what traffic will do, because they are supposed to determine what the traffic will do.
So now we have to adjust to fifty (forty-eight?) sets of laws?
As Jefferson would say, only eternal vigilance can protect us.
Quantum mechanics can be approximated by Turing machines, but I'm not sure if the integrals can be exactly evaluated by Turing machines.
Apache doesn't start if networking is down.
What if just want to run Apache locally (to test web apps)?
What algorithm do we have for computing pi? Hint: Infinite series are not computable.
Are brains Turing machines?
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.