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Comment Go with the flow (Score 1) 191

"Programming is mostly about thinking, not typing."

That phrase... is half true. One needs both.

When I type in my blog or anything "normal text", I find that my thoughts are way faster than typing. The faster I type, the less my brains wait. Brains don't like idle time, thoughts start to wander away from the topic. Less idle time *anywhere*, closer to the flow one is.
Shaite, I have problems putting this to words, 'cause english is not my native language, I am tired etc, hungry and stuff.

Find the slowest procedure in ones work, make it faster and it speeds up the whole process of creating something. It's like using debugging tool to ones RL subroutines, finding out the slowest and making it faster, that's all.

Ok, You can program by thinking, sure. But I think... thinking gets slower because processes tend to syncronize given enough time. I am talking about effectiveness as a whole.

Comment Finally (Score 1) 4

... they are arguing inside US of A. Let them finish their fight.
That way they have less energy to concentrate on something really important.

Comment Yes. And no. (Score 1) 2

Yes, but:
Ppl do not LOVE drugs, alcohol and stuff like that. They NEED it, at least most of the ppl do. It is addiction we are talking here.

And that was the only con. I am for that Idea of not illegaling stuff. Your arguments are good and valid.
I vote yes.

Comment consult polyglots (Score 1) 104

me, a native finnish speaker (poems&texts&stuff), some swedish and vewy, vewy good english, i know. whilst i am watching (the walking dead, lately) i think in english. same when talking in english.
everything else i think in finnish.
the WAY one thinks in different languages is,.... well, different. languages have limits and freedoms. like "taivas" in finnish, it is both "heaven" and "sky". then "nuoska", "pyry", "loska" and so forth are all weather related names for "snow".
in first example finnish language is limited compared to english, in another, the opposite.
this is the most simple explanation. and the more languages one knows, the more ways of thinking differently he has, hence providing possibilities to be more creative and "McGyver".

Comment Risc == GPU (Score 1) 109

The reason why GPUs are good at some tasks, is because they are designed to do those task specifically.
Apple, I think, have some neural-processor in its new phones. Those too are ... kind of RISC processors.

What more reasons you need to figure out why Risc-professional is useful?

Until quantum comps are mainstream, we need specialized processors. And most probably after that, we need those too, if nothing more, then to transform ans transcieve information between quantum and traditional CPUs.

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