also the person apparently spent 2 million dollars to find the number. and the money is probably from stock compensation from nvidia

that does happen to be one of the defining characteristics of mersenne primes.

And searching for mersenne primes happens to be the easiest known way to find extremely large prime numbers (via the Special Number Field Sieve I believe)

Looks like the image I found cropped out the signature, seems to be jeremykaye.tumblr.com

Garbage collection is still allowed, and technically JIT languages are still compiled so it really isn’t that restrictive

every single language (except Vlang of course) is memory safe if you program it perfectly.

Very, very few humans are capable of doing that, especially with C.

Linux application development 2nd edition

can’t wait for gun companies to start advertising their guns as “intelligent” and “highly safe”

what kind of model calls you “Master” 🤔

yeah that’s not good, may get you prosecuted under “material support” laws

pretty simple. [the video site] sees how popular tiktok is and wants to get a slice of that “short format” pie. It incentivizes content creators to make content that fits the format by promoting it on the algorithm. If there is a shortage of content in that format (and for that type of audience), anything semi-decent will do, eg. highlights from longer videos. As the algorithm needs to fill that quota of videos somehow

…which ironically makes for a perfect parallel with “C/C++”

The one I was thinking of is the (hypothesized) reduction in jaw size due to less need for powerful chewing, while teeth stayed the same size leading to many problems

agriculture and its consequences (maybe)

if you include games with user-created levels there’s quite a few games with levels that are practically impossible for a human, eg. trackmania and super mario world

this is already a classic

fairly sure hezbollah has more than 2800 members

bonus points if you’re using a statically typed language but the library uses extensive metaprogramming seemingly for the sole purpose of hiding what types you actually need

I think the problems there are exacerbated a lot by over-eager type coercion and other crappy design decisions inherited from almost 30 years ago

if you can’t connect to a vpn using only open source software, that’s a crappy vpn