Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "Computerphile" channel.

  1. I guess you wouldn't be able to get it to play Farmville.
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  2. Having been to Milton Keynes, I can say it's probably fairly quick to mock up the architecture in a 3D modeler.
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  3. It was even tricker than that. It actually adjusted its operating parameters while the external testing was occurring.
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  4. I got everything up to about the description of how the race condition operates to cause the problem. Then it just seemed to be "it does race condition stuff". The other background stuff isn't too bad.
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  5. Yeah, I get the general idea, I'm more looking for a point-by-point description. I'm probably better off looking for a text based article for that anyway though.
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  6. You need to make the robot lazy so maybe it would benefit from pushing the button but it's just a hassle man and I'LL GET TO IT OK!!!
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  7.  @nimcompoo One issue with bitshifting is it can obscure the intent of the code and may be an unnecessary optimization anyway due to other parts of the code being slow or because of compiler optimizations.
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