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Happens all the time (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That's what makes us humans different from computers. We don't ask how high, we just do it. Now, if it were a C pointer it would jump anywhere from 0 to 2^32-1. That's why C is more suited for artificial intelligence than it might initially seem. Thanks for coming to my tedx talk

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Pointers are ackshully 48 bits on amd64 (which is most PCs and servers)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Well ackshully newer CPUs support 5-level-paging which uses 56 bits.

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