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  • Resistive heating is almost perfectly efficient. Where else would the energy go? Using a hot piece of metal to heat water might be slower than using microwave radiation, but that's a different kettle of fish.

  • Was there malloc in 1959? How did they implement the first Lisp interpreter on IBM 704?
  • Free-Storage List. At any given time only a part of the memory reserved for list structures will actually be in use for storing S-expressions. The remaining registers (in our system the number, initially, is approximately 15,000) are arranged in a single list called the free-storage list. A certain register, FREE, in the program contains the location of the first register in this list. When a word is required to form some additional list structure, the first word on the free-storage list is taken and the number in register FREE is changed to become the location of the second word on the free-storage list. No provision need be made for the user to program the return of registers to the free-storage list

    http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive/node4.html

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  • I endorse this post.

    Wikipedia is great, and they do have real operating costs, but hosting all the data is about 2% of their budget. All the admins and editors and contributors are volunteers. Most of the money is spent on projects not related to the encyclopedia and donations to miscellaneous social groups.

    Their accounting is public: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation

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  • I live in Europe spatially and temporally, and sitting at my 1998 Gateway pc in this abandoned gas station deciding whether things are internet funereal enough is just about the most internet funereal thing I can think of.

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