Actually, it was quite a good analogy. You simply are not grasping the vastness of the Go search space. It is perfectly safe to say that it will never, ever be brute-forced with conventional (non-quantum) computers. And I feel fairly safe going on record saying that it will never, ever be brute forced even with non-quantum computers.
Each intersection in Go can have a black piece, a white piece, or nothing, making for 3^361 possible board configurations, which is around 10^172. If every particle in the universe were Deep Fritz working throughout a million lifetimes of the universe, we would still be many orders of magnitude short of brute-forcing Go.
Fair enough. Thanks for the reply. You must admit, though, there's a world of a difference between saying "libration points are very complex" and calling NASA scientists stupid yahoos who "didn't bother to check with anyone who actually knows anything about libration points".
Others have already pointed out various reasons that your smug troll is off-base. I'll just add that it's dangerous to put things in the L4 or L5 points because they are stable, and therefore filled with potentially dangerous space junk.
If it's really so hard to put things at L1 and keep them there, you better go tell the SOHO team who have successfully kept that satellite at the Sun-Earth L1 point for almost 7 years now, without ever being "headed for Pluto".
I have seen posts from people who didn't read a linked article, but this is the first one I have seen who doesn't even seem to have read the blurb sitting there right on the Slashdot home page.
This wasn't a question of whether CD-RWs would take over the world. It's only about whether they can be used by an individual in place of VHS tapes.
* and clamps at 1 to 64 sec afterwards. Note that 120 sec is
* defined in the protocol as the maximum possible RTT. I guess
* we'll have to use something other than TCP to talk to the
* University of Mars.
On all existing implementations, you cannot make a hard link to a
directory, and hard links cannot cross filesystem boundaries. (These
restrictions are not mandated by POSIX, however.)
If hard-linking directories were allowed, the directory tree would no longer be a tree, but an arbitrary graph, and lots of algorithms would become much more complicated.
Tiny, compact code is neat but I don't care about it.
Then don't read the article, genius. The author is shrinking executables because it's fun and he's learning something, not because he thinks it's the best software engineering approach.
Obviously, a human can write any code a compiler can given enough time and effort. I think realistically, what is more important is that time spent on improving compilers will provide more benefit to more software than time spent rewriting that software in asm by hand.
Where people _really_ like tubes is in guitar and bass amplication. And the reason is that tubes in overdriven conditions sound "better" than solid state "distortion" (which is really just clamping, fundamentally)
Hey, that's interesting. I didn't know that. Thanks!
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How could the parent post possibly be considered a troll?
Each intersection in Go can have a black piece, a white piece, or nothing, making for 3^361 possible board configurations, which is around 10^172. If every particle in the universe were Deep Fritz working throughout a million lifetimes of the universe, we would still be many orders of magnitude short of brute-forcing Go.
Yep, it's a repeat.
Good grief. Can't this just be a "news for nerds" site? Who said Slashdot needs/wants/has a political agenda?
Thanks.
Fair enough. Thanks for the reply. You must admit, though, there's a world of a difference between saying "libration points are very complex" and calling NASA scientists stupid yahoos who "didn't bother to check with anyone who actually knows anything about libration points".
If it's really so hard to put things at L1 and keep them there, you better go tell the SOHO team who have successfully kept that satellite at the Sun-Earth L1 point for almost 7 years now, without ever being "headed for Pluto".
This wasn't a question of whether CD-RWs would take over the world. It's only about whether they can be used by an individual in place of VHS tapes.
You may find this interesting.
Sorry, what was your point?
4k is "damn small"? Methinks you have not read the article. He ended up with a 45-byte executable.
Obviously, a human can write any code a compiler can given enough time and effort. I think realistically, what is more important is that time spent on improving compilers will provide more benefit to more software than time spent rewriting that software in asm by hand.
Lighten up, man.
Porn jokes are the "imagine a beowulf cluster" for the 21st century.
Yeah yeah, Go is cooler than chess. Someone says this every time chess is mentioned. Nothing to see here. Move along.
My, what a superficial treatment of a deep and broad topic.
Well, it was really meant to be a joke. :-)
Well, by the time the Clawhammer comes out, you'll be able to buy 3 4GB DIMMs.
This is the Clawhammer. The desktop is exactly where it is aimed. If you want a server machine, you want the Sledgehammer.