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That seems a bit small seeing how doubles can represent 53 bit integers accurately.


    >>> 2**53/(1000*3600*24*365)+1970
    287586.41472415626
There's a lot of milliseconds.


Well, 2^53 milliseconds is indeed 285 414 years.


Lua is nice on small platforms like a Motorola 68030.


Lua is written in C89, perhaps a good example of that.


Dungeon Master (1987) on the Atari ST was mostly written in C.


Then compare orca brains to ours. Theirs are larger and more wrinkly.


Yeah but their body is immensely larger, which I assume will require more neurons for basic biological duties. (yet another napkin theory)


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Must be a VIC20.


ChaChah is a stream cipher and was never a SHA3 candidate.


Yes, FrexxEd is great. I've done quite a bit of work on the source code to extend it a little, and have overhauled the scripts also.


And now youtube videos about technology are a thing.


The difference is that the TV shows came from a place of technological optimism and the YouTube shows from commercial apathy. Society isn't optimistic any more, especially about technology.


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