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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

also the person apparently spent 2 million dollars to find the number. and the money is probably from stock compensation from nvidia

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

that does happen to be one of the defining characteristics of mersenne primes.

And searching for mersenne primes happens to be the easiest known way to find extremely large prime numbers (via the Special Number Field Sieve I believe)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Looks like the image I found cropped out the signature, seems to be jeremykaye.tumblr.com

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

..which ironically makes for a perfect parallel with "C/C++"

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (28 children)

fairly sure hezbollah has more than 2800 members

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago

bonus points if you're using a statically typed language but the library uses extensive metaprogramming seemingly for the sole purpose of hiding what types you actually need

 
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the problems there are exacerbated a lot by over-eager type coercion and other crappy design decisions inherited from almost 30 years ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

if you can't connect to a vpn using only open source software, that's a crappy vpn

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

importantly it's (hopefully) an ISP that operates from a less copyright-happy country and isn't tied down to tons of expensive infrastructure and long-term contracts

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

but sometimes "👍🏽".reverse() == "🏽👍"

 
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