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Your initial claim was that they couldn't be measured that way. You're right that they aren't stored as bits, but it's irrelevant to whether you can measure them using bits as the unit of information size.

Think of it like this: in the 1980s there were breathless articles about CD ROM technology, and how, in the future, "the entire encyclopedia Britannica could be stored on one disc". How was that possible to know? Encyclopedias were not digitally stored! You can't measure them in bits!

It's possible because you could define a hypothetical analog to digital encoder, and then quantify how many bits coming off that encoder would be needed to store the entire corpus.

This is the same thing. You can ADC anything, and the spec on your ADC defines the bitrate you need to store the stream coming off... in bits (per second)

All information can be stored in a digital form, and all information can be measured in base 2 units (of bits).

Amazing! This is great work!

Now, because this article got a little long, as per a friend's suggestion, here's a table of contents:

Optimization gives us optimal programs

Branch weights and the CPU's branch predictor

-O3 produces much faster code than -O2

Javascript interpreters JIT at runtime because they don't know which paths are hot ahead of time

If you have a compiler, you don't need an interpreter

The middle-end is target/platform-independent

The compiler optimizes for data locality

-O0 gives you fast compilation

Templates are slow to compile

Separate compilation is always worth it

Why does link-time optimization (LTO) happen at link-time?

Inlining is useful primarily because it eliminates a call instruction

The role of the inline keyword

The best production compiler to study is LLVM

Undefined behavior only enables optimizations

The compiler can "simply" define undefined behavior 99% correctness rate is ok

Great summary; thank you

Countries need to ban entry of any Russian citizens. Full stop.

They are a pariah state, and should be treated like one.

You might want to look at obtainium as a package source as well

I really like Stellarium on Android

She may be a narcissist, and you might benefit from looking for r/raisedbynarcissists or the equivalent Lemmy community.

Consider a chargeback if you bought it with a card

They will consider giving you your money back, and the merchant will eat it.

Emphasize that you don't have what you paid to receive

They want to make sure the trans woman is in their bathroom because they fantasize about it.

This is creepy AF

According to a source familiar with the matter and an email viewed by CBS News, the person who gained access went by the name "Altam Beezley."

Classic altam!

Not exactly universal but there is wide compatibility. If it looks the same then you are probably ok, but you need the right type.

This is it.

She lost because she and Biden are corporate assets

Delete your account

redditseppuku

Starting with Merrick Garland

What a complete failure

LOL

She and Biden had four years to demonstrate policies that help the working class. They did so little that the working class supported trump.

That's the concession: the built in support for corporate agendas, since that's where Democratic money comes from. You don't need to put it in your platform when it's obvious from your actions that "the economy", to you, means the board room.

I understood him to mean that Democrats were more interested in appealing to Liz Cheney as Republican lite, rather than advocating vigorously for the working class. They take money from corporate interests, and then pretend they don't protect them. They didn't do enough to address the problem of inflation, and American workers were angry.

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