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Comment Re: MacBook SE, like iPhone SE and Apple Watch SE (Score 1) 70

What sort of developers? All the recent C++17 code I've written compiles and runs in reasonable time on a 2009 laptop with the latest version of slackware installed. But I guess if you're using some dog slow scripting language with bloated frameworks it might be a different story.

Comment Re: Based on the article... (Score 1) 248

" And an algorithm with lots of if-then-goto structures is still a mathematical algorithm"

No it isn't. The logical comparison may be mathematical but the then-goto part is not. Turings machine had to add that to be universal. If all it could do was arithmetic it would have been next to useless.

"And the physical models of computer games are either incomplete, or they don't contain Arithmetic"

Irrelevant. The simulation can be presented to an NPC inside it any way the authors of the simulation want. There is NO way to prove from inside the simulation that it is or isn't a simulation.

Comment Re: Based on the article... (Score 1) 248

Even with our current tech we can simulate tiny universes and set up the laws of physics any way we want, see any FPS game. Just because something is mathematically inconsistent doesn't mean its logically inconsistent, after all, the vast majority of computer programs contain a whole load of if-then-goto structures to provide functionality which could not be achieved just by using some pure maths algo. There's nothing so say that any simulation wouldn't have hard coded rules that say "if one of the NPCs looks here do this , otherwise do that"

Comment Never mind the fish... (Score 3, Insightful) 67

Speaking as someone with a couple of mercury fillings I'd be interested to know what they're doing to me. Its known that grinding and chewing can slowly abrade the filling and the particles are only going one way. Apparently this isn't considered a problem. Uh huh. How often have we heard hand waving expedient answers like that before.

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