But also bear in mind that the all the satellites over New Zealand (for example) will be wasted while we are asleep and at any given time a lot of satellites will be over empty ocean (sending 4K Netflix to cruise ships maybe).
I';; also counteract may own argument as to numbers with the idea that 16 million people could really mean 16 million households if they watch the movie together :-)
You'll get around that in your home by having the satellite module thing up on your roof and a cable to your wifi router.
What I don't understand about this though is the number of frequencies available to connect to all these satellites and how it might extend to ~300 million people (let alone a billion potentially).
I have started reading this after doing https://www.railstutorial.org/book to fill in some gaps in my own knowledge. It is very amusing (and very poignant). Full credit to the author. (Is it who I think it is?)
I have Windows Hello enabled on my phone (a 950) and it scans my iris with an infra-red camera/light. This means it still works in the dark and cant be fooled by a photo (or a 3d model I guess!)
If you know the range of numbers then I'd do a binary search. Get each server to count how many are higher or lower. Play the high low game.
When the two totals are the same you're done. I think this covers the authors edge cases too. :-)
I was very fortunate to get an Amstrad 6128 when I was 12. A big expense in New Zealand 29 years ago 8-). It came with a huge manual with lots of example programs to type in. Amstrad basic was a cool language with commands like move 0,0; draw 320,200; rem a line from corner to corner; and even while/wend.
If you've done some Scheme (or Lisp (or Haskell (or Curry))) then you will find this very readable. Section 2.4 has a good explanation of the Y combinator. I'm going to try and get through the whole book.
At first I thought the super-optimizer had made a mistake because the results are not the same but I think the error is in the original where line 6 should be
return -1;
Anyway, using assembler for CPU I made up in my head just now, how about
Hi,
Here is what I like:
It was $95 in New Zealand.
It has a quad core processor.
It comes with Office.
Live tiles and they way you can move then and resize them is just nice.
The OS only takes up 2.2 GB
Other apps seem to need much less space, like about half the space and they can be installed on an SD card which I haven't even got because I don't need one.
I'm a C# programmer by day so there's that too.
I made the switch from an Android Sony to a Lumia 530 this Christmas. Apart from the LCD TN screen the Lumia is easily the best phone I've ever had at half the price.
I wonder if the reporter has not mixed up lines of code with database records. Perhaps the database has a record for each and every American and 5 million of those records have incorrect data and need to be fixed up so that those people can use the website?
The article is definitely satirical and points out the futility of any -Hedron based device regardless of its theoretical truth. You can't calculate the volume of a fractal in fact some fractals can be proved to have zero volume!