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lsp_trwon Dusk OS: 32-bit Forth OS. Useful during first stage of civilizational collapse

We can get to working semiconductors in our garages relatively easily. They won't be anything like the integrated circuits we have today.

It would be an interesting hard sci-fi novel to see the village black smith replaced by the village semi-smith and wind mill replaced by the nuclear mill.

lsp_trwon Dusk OS: 32-bit Forth OS. Useful during first stage of civilizational collapse

Lithium batteries will be dead within a decade. Solar panels within 3. Think about that the next time you cheer on a huge solar installation as a win for the planet.

lsp_trwon Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)

>Why do we need physics degrees when we can just get more mechanical engineers?

lsp_trwon The theory versus the practice of “static websites”

Freenet has been doing this since the 00s.

lsp_trwon Evidence for a gravitational wave background from a galaxy-sized detector

Are there sites like astrobites for other fields?

lsp_trwon History of T (2001)

You can get away with having a single global state variable so long as it's an association table and you keep track of what variables you've introduced. I believe that the reason why people thought it would be slow then was that no one had used a data structure that could store multiple results for the same value.