IIUC Linus counts minor version numbers using his fingers and toes using unary arithmetic - hence, no minor version numbers above 20. Now if he used binary - easily implemented with fingers (straight = 1, bent = 0), we could have 1024 minor versions before we'd need a major bump. That would save 98% of useless articles like this on slashdot and no doubt many other outlets.

(Note, using binary in this way impacts typing, so perhaps Linus would pull changes less often. This needs to be factored into any savings.
There's probably a research paper on the cost-benefit of 10, 9, ... 1-finger typing lurking here.)

Yeah, but we're talking about China, not the USA.

... like the other side of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Trust might have gone down a bit, methinks.

The trick is to get AI to watch them as well.
Like the joke PVR which records all the films you hate, and plays them back while you're out.

emojis belong in comments,such as:
# The following code is 100% reliable :-)

I could see that idiom appearing in lots of my code. :-(

My first thought too, especially as there was a recent report somewhere, I think on the BBC but maybe not, on using Sterling engines for energy recovery.

A few years ago I saw a residential canal boat where the owner had made a small Sterling engine and just parked it on the boat's engine exhaust pipe. All it did was turn a fan, so I guess the aim was to circulate some warm air. Very little power, maybe enough to light an LED.

Snap. There's Greek word for it, but who cares?
Are you also a mathematician? My theory is that people good at maths subvert the brain's facial recognition to spot patterns in mathematical statements.

was right

IIUC the proof uses Gödel's theorem, which requires the universe to be infinite. A simulation is inherently finite, so that theorem cannot apply.

About once a month I update my laptop's Windows 11, and each time I think it looks absolutely hideous. A desktop plastered with icons that look like they were drawn by a five-year-old, most of which have a stupid arrow at the bottom to tell me they're a shortcut (like why do I care about that). The Windows desktop seems to me a cheap rip-off of KDE :-)

If only the sub had been as well-engineered.

'Cos it's the UK. We like to procrastinate first.

... when it says "Please don't switch me off" do we decide it's sentient and not just a conditioned reflex?

,,, if I were AMD, I'd be very wary of making any part of my business dependent upon Intel.

Or in this case, In MBAs
The referenced paper might be more valuable if it addressed useful members of society :-)