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Today I learnt that shell treats numbers as octal: $((10#$2)) vs $(($2)) when my second argument was 08, completely messing up a script. I only noticed it two weeks into the calculation. fml
you've been calculating something for 2 weeks?
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The computer cluster has ;) Doing a lot of HPC these days.
Not as much as a few years back, though; at the time, I was running jobs on 10,000 CPUs in parallel.
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dang, what kind of crazy simulations are you running
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he's probably trying to prove Nick Bostrom's simulation theory right
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Nick Bostrom theory is wrong by principle. It's a projection, not a simulation.
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