absurd MacOS High Sierra bug

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Wed Nov 29 16:06:21 PST 2017


On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:46:12PM +0000, \0xDynamite wrote:
> > Top posting now ...
> 
> Shin!  Sorry about that, thanks for pointing it out.
> 
> > First thought was "thoughts", but the electron synapse reaction time
> > is rather measurable I believe, and so in principle the manifestation
> > of the thought as a set of images (or words or what have you), is
> > most likely O(1).
> >
> > Perhaps O(0) is things that could have happened, but did not happen?
> 
> In C, printf("Hello world.") is an O(1) function (the number of
> charactes is constant), but in Python, I'm suggesting that it might be
> O(0) due to Python being designed as a high-level language, where the
> # of characters isn't considered for computing the function, but as
> seen as one operation.

That's called O(1), unless Python makes it worse.


More information about the cypherpunks mailing list