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Comment Re:I'll make a deal with you (Score 1) 178

Just as a reminder to everyone; nuclear causes around 1-2 orders of magnitude more deaths per produced terawatt-hour of energy than the usual fossil fuel suspects (oil, coal, natural gas), and this does not exclude large-scale nuclear accidents (or in the case of Chernobyl, a downright disaster).

Now there's a claim that could benefit from a citation.

Comment An old, yet still apropos quote... (Score 1) 174

"Nobody should ever need more than 640k of RAM."

Once everyone found it easier to just add more memory, the idea of efficiency started to go away... knowing the more efficient way to divide by 2, knowing how to avoid unnecessary program pointer jumps (if the first character of the string does not match, why run strncmp() for when you have a large data set)... these are things taught by experience. One of the best efficiency teachers would be to write for an embedded system with very limited memory. You learn very quickly about memory management and operational efficiency.

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