I would actually pay money for that, just to run games. It's the only reason I have a Windows installation.

It's actually just mongoose.

Yeah of course they will close their office in Ireland and then move the 100's of billions they stashed using the classic double irish, possibly with a dutch sandwich, back to the US to pay taxes. Although I am sure that their tax lawyers have alternatives planned for just that.

Of course everything will be available for everyone, but to get that $2000 Spaceship you will have to grind 2000 hours in game

I approve of the pedantry.

The story for Anathem actually came from Neal Stephenson thinking about a clock design for the Long Now Foundation.

Lets just hope he wasn't able to use his access to create a communications network for a drug gang that the police couldn't listen in without some sort of court approved measure.

How the fuck is one mile away far enough that you feel the need to drive? It is a fifteen minute walk, come on.

I think in this case there is a counterexample that shows Blums proof can not work. Its explained in one of the links in the summary

I think you are talking about Shinichi Mochizuki and his Inter-Universal Teichmuller Theory. After 4 years or so there are now about 2 dozen people that are quite familiar with it but it will take a lot more effort until it is going to be accepted, if indeed it ever will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... It's interesting to watch as a whole, but the takeaway is that if someone with basically infinite resources (i.e. NSA/CIA/GCHQ or whatever it's called in your part of the world) wants to get you then you are done. Quoth Rob Joyce from the video: "we own you"

Even the most mundane application you can write will depend on many thousand lines of code you did not write yourself, i.e. compiler/interpreter. Lets all reflect on trusting trust for a bit.

http://www.grcooling.com/ its what we do here http://vsc.ac.at/systems/vsc-3..., very out of date website sadly

You could try to configure your favourite text editor so that tabs are substituted with 4 (or whatever) spaces. In my experience that is enough, and if you cannot manage that then maybe you should find a different line of work.

If you take just one piece of information from this blog: Quantum computers would not solve hard search problems instantaneously by simply trying all the possible solutions at once.