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

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)

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

fairly sure hezbollah has more than 2800 members

Rules of thumb can be very useful for a relatively inexperienced programmer, and once you understand why they exist you can choose to ignore them when they would get in the way. Clean Code is totally unhinged though

other techbros have praised him, citing the exact list of symptoms google gives for “high-functioning psychopath”

(disclaimer: google may give bad medical advice)

Nokia bought the parent company of bell labs in 2016. By that point bell labs had already been completely restructured to the point that it has basically nothing to do with the historical bell labs.

it soars because the profit was near zero before and is now returning to “normal” (their competitor SK hynix made a 5 billion operating loss in one quarter last year)

CRT TV with extra steps

nowadays dwarf fortress has built in multithreading (and the combination of other optimizations and the progress in CPU power has made it a fairly well-performing game overall)

probably about half of the executives this guy talks to

I don’t think “learning” is a word reserved only for high-minded creativeness. Just rote memorization and repetition is sometimes called learning. And there are many intermediate states between them.

noticed that the story is now being summarized in dictionaries, haha

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nazi_bar

Considering it took this long for them to figure out “empty user agent means it is a bot” and “well-known vpn may be used by bots”, and old.reddit still apparently bypassing this, I’m going to guess they are not going to have much success.