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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Technology => Topic started by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on February 17, 2024, 02:01:37 pm

Title: Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on February 17, 2024, 02:01:37 pm

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/12/drowning_in_code/

One of the most fascinating articles I've read in a long time.

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Computers are getting more parallel. But, as far as anyone knows, it is simply impossible to automatically take algorithms and parallelise them. Only a human mind can do that, and yes, usually, it is a mind, in the singular.