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1. immibi+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-05-22 09:18:20
When you get to, say, 100000 stories, you can't build more stories. At this point your computer costs more than the Earth's GDP for a century, so talking about theoretical scaling laws is irrelevant. Eventually you run out of the sun's power output so you build a Dyson sphere and eventually use all of that power, anyway.
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2. frollo+VJ[view] [source] 2025-05-22 15:40:53
>>immibi+(OP)
Oh right, so the height is practically a constant. Square root for sure then.
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3. LPisGo+jD1[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-05-22 20:32:25
>>frollo+VJ
All algorithms are O(1) in this case
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4. frollo+7V1[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-05-22 22:10:06
>>LPisGo+jD1
You pick what things are constant and what's variable. If you're scaling a supercomputer to fit a problem, the height is going to max out quickly and can be treated as constant, while the other dimensions are variable.
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