Who prompted ChatGPT with both "Appalachia Valley Hillbilly" and "West Side Story" at the same time and what were you drinking when you did that?

It's ONE equal sign to signify equivalence.

Every category theorist in the world would laugh at the sheer ignorance contained in this comment.

i have also invented entire episodes of star trek voyager this way falling asleep in front of the laptop.

TBH that's how I thought about half of the episodes of Voyager were actually written.

Awesome, this is the singular post in this entire thread that is worthy of being on Slashdot. Kudos!

They went for it and I scored an _extra_ 7 figures on that deal after only 1.5 years. ... And no I was never the 0.01% or the 0.1% or even the 1% consistently

If you made 7 figures and still somehow did not manage to make it into the top fraction of 1% consistently you were doing something very, very wrong.

The marketing term "32-Bit" often stood for not having 8086 style segmented memory. That way you could allocate memory regions larger than 64k without tricks. This was normal for 68k CPUs like on the Mac, the Amiga or the Atari ST, but not for the x86 world where it took until the 386 for it to become more or less normal..

What?

Segmented memory had nothing to do with memory allocation. 8088/8086-based machines had a 20-bit address bus but only 16-bit registers. In order to access all of the possible 1MB of memory, the physical memory address reference was obtained by shifting the segment register four bits to the left and adding the address register. The memory map was quite specific, too: BIOS, DOS, and video memory were all in specific segments, and the entirety of the rest of the address space was available for program use, +/- some quirky facilities in DOS/hardware (something about the A20 address line springs to mind) to access anything at addresses >= 640k. 68000 through 68020 CPUs did not have MMUs, either, but they also didn't have segment registers because the register sizes were all 32 bits - a single register value could reference any address in physically-attached memory. And without an MMU, all of the 68k-based systems of the time also specifically mapped memory out of necessity - there was no other way to handle that. Admittedly, anything that handled heap allocations on 68k was much simpler than the corresponding 8086 version, but there is nothing about segmented memory specifically that prevented > 64k memory allocations.

8088/8086 segment registers formed the basis of future MMUs built into future x86 CPUs: in 32-bit mode segment registers referred to an OS-managed memory descriptor that enabled the OS to map physical memory to a virtual address space per-process. Motorola added MMUs to their CPUs that performed similar functions around the same generation (68030 vs. 80386).

A little bit of Googling would have told you that Compaq released an 80386-based PC in 1986 which indeed had 32-bit integer registers. (Arguments about which OS was more capable is mostly just opinion.)

While a classification system may be a technical solution, it is not necessarily a feasible solution, for this simple reason: how many categories are economical to support?

Instead of having WNBA and NBA, we subdivide by height as well as power-to-weight ratio: 2.5m, 2m, 1.5m divisions, and 7, 6, 5, and 4 W/kg divisions. Now we have 12 leagues instead of 2. Do you suppose there are enough athletes in the world to have 12 leagues of 30 teams? Even if there were, why would the current players support this, since such a scheme would lower their salaries, possibly significantly? How many fans would show up to the 2m / 5 W/kg division vs. the 1.5m / 6 W/kg division? What about the person that's in the 2m / 5 W/kg division who is super-athletic that would totally dominate the 2.5m / 7 W/kg division? Ok, we create an "open" division, and now we're back to what the current NBA is, and then we have everyone else.

If you look at universities across the US as a whole that may be true, but if you look at universities that offer STEM degrees that are worth the paper they are printed on that is most certainly _not_ true.

We pay competitive salaries for our industry

Tell us you want to pay below-market wages without telling us you want to pay below-market wages.

People aren't enticed by "competitive salaries." Why on earth would I switch jobs for a salary that is exactly the same as my current salary? Enticing people away from other companies usually requires 20% on top of "competitive salaries" adjusted for cost-of-living.

Whatever. I live in the upper Midwest and those things are a scourge in the summer and early fall even without parasites. The faster we get rid of them all the better.

If doctors can't afford housing, the answer is simple there is an over supply of medical care.

For every question, there is an answer that is simple, stupid, and wrong, which you have just aptly demonstrated. 3 minutes of Google search plus about 10 minutes of reading would have told you that young doctors struggle financially out of med school due to the systemic failures and perverse economic incentives, none of which are easy to fix, even for doctors in fields that are underserved (like GPs.)

Based on my spam folder over the years, Russia and Eastern Europe have been trying for at least a decade with mail-order brides to little or no apparent effect.

You mean besides the ongoing large-scale medical experiment that has been going on live over the past 30 years with literally billions of participants that regularly use a cellphone without any evidence of a direct or even an indirect link to negative physiological effects?

USA makes its expats file and pay.

Yes, and there's a little section on the 1040 that says "deduct taxes paid to a foreign nation here" and most likely your net tax bill to the USA is zero. So you probably don't owe anything but you do have to file.