Yes, yes and yes, but it’ll take a while. It’s a six year project overall.

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When you’re working with the binary representation of numbers.

In your code you had three numbers 25, 10 and 5. If we write those number in binary we get:

• 25: 0b00011001
• 10: 0b00001010
• 5: 0b00000101

(The 0b at the start is just a way of saying “this is binary”)

When you do a bitwise-or, it’s a bit like adding up but you don’t bother with carrying anything. So let’s do 25 | 10, starting at the right-hand end going bit by bit (bitwise):

• 0 | 1 = 1
• 1 | 0 = 1
• 0 | 0 = 0
• 1 | 1 = 1
• 1 | 0 = 1
• 0 | 0 = 0 for all the rest

So the result is 0b00011011 which is 27.

So now you’re asking “when would I ever need to do such a thing?” and the flippant answer is “you’ll know when you need it”.

You’re looking for more though, I know. Basically computers often put multiple bits of data into bitstreams (long sequences of bits). Think networking and file storage. Constructing these bitstreams is done with bitwise operators like |, &, ^, << and >>. Together they form a different type of maths to what you’re used to.

These operators work in a very similar way to how +, -, * and / work. They take two numbers and return a third. If we rewrite your code using operators you’re more familiar with…

    if coin == 25 | 10 | 5:  # if coin == 31
        ...
    if coin == 25 + 10 + 5:  # if coin == 40
        ...

…you can see it’s obviously wrong because you’re doing one comparison with the result of the operation (addition or bitwise-or), not three comparisons.

I doubt Trump will be alive when those fabs come online. It takes years. In the meantime he’ll place tariffs on technology imports without having the alternative domestic production.

as it’s spelled: im gur.

“I’m gur”?

Tony… Is that you?

There’s been been bills at the EU level, but they’ve been defeated. I think individual countries introduced their own bills if they were supporters of the EU one.

Basically browsers are big because they are operating systems for web hosted applications with huge attack surfaces and lots of legacy compatibility requirements amassed over 3 decades.

A rewrite isn’t the answer. Putting limits on browser functionality is. JavaScript was the turning point IMHO.

Personally I keep a copy of chromium around just for Google meet. Everything else is on Firefox.

Mainly just a case of developing the design. If you know how to get performance out of a processor then the instruction set is largely secondary. However, a high performance processor is not a simple thing to design.

That’s not to say the other factors you list aren’t an issue. The latest manufacturing processes are only available from TSMC and all production slots are bought out by nVidia, AMD and Apple. Everybody else has to make do with older processes.

Adoption is probably the easiest one. Linux support for RISC-V is pretty good and recompiling software for it is pretty simple.

The world functioned before recommendation algorithms. Even the internet did. Once upon a time, when Goggle worked, it didn’t modify its results based on your history.

Netflix could operate fine with classifications, ratings good tagging and search. It doesn’t need to monitor your viewing habits and recommend something based on them.

Well the alternative was too heinous to consider.

Been watching @TechConnectify 's latest?!

Yes. Yes I have.

Yes. Yes it is.

Yes the recommended feed is personalized. It’s optional. The main feed has no algorithm, just who you follow.

The thing is, a lot of social media sites have or had this. YouTube has the subscriptions feed. Twitter has (I don’t know anymore) a following feed. Reddit used to keep posts on your homepage only being from subscribed subreddits.

One problem. People don’t use them. They see maintaining subscriptions as work and so want to be fed posts by algorithm.

It’s a big elephant and you send “Toots!”.

How do you confused that with a cynical robot and a giant shark? You’d post “Quips!” or “Bites!”. Wouldn’t work at all. 🙄

Do you refer to the “Following” Vs “Discover” feed?

Apparently it’s very noticeable when a post hits the discover feed. The quality of responses dives off a cliff.

But we did leave…

…about a decade too late.

Main one is that it doesn’t manipulate your feed with stuff “you might enjoy” so you can’t be easily manipulated by the people setting the algorithm. Of course, this is exactly why people find it hard. People want to be fed stuff and told what to consume.

I’ve seen plenty too. They fly over sometimes. I believe they are called “helicopters”.

Why is the image on this story a paedobear?