That's only a weak proxy for financial cost, but it still suggests that electricity costs >> initial purchase price if you're planning to run these devices 24/7. So power efficiency improvements pay off *very* quickly.

Corroborating this: I read up on the environmental TCO of computers a while ago, and the consensus seems to be that *for servers*, lifetime electricity usage has a much higher environmental cost than the initial manufacturing (and the opposite for consumer devices, due to different usage patterns)

The vaccine is pretty astonishing. Just look at that green line.

On a lot of hardware, converting to and from floats *is* the fastest option. And if you use the same width of float as integer (i32 -> f32, i64 -> f64), the rounding error will be well below 0.5, so since you know the input is square, `round(sqrt(x))` will always give the right result.

Way, *way* too many. The collection of "all sets" and the collection of "all functions between those sets" are both what are termed "proper classes". Which more or less means "collections that are too big to be sets". They're even too big to have a meaningful size, beyond "larger than any set".

No, surf rock is black metal without disto

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