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And who is "they" in this case?


Or alternatively, instead of evicting it all, can you move the data around in physical memory while updating the page table, so that you can clear a large enough continuous block of physical memory?


Not so fun fact: Mythicism around Proto-Indo-European is part of what made Hitler come up with the idea of "Aryans" because they hypothesized that there was some relation between the language having come from Iran (as "Urheimat") and then this leads to everyone wanting to be (indo)-aryan-decendent the most.


Hitler didn't personally come up with the idea of Aryans, in the sense of a historic ethno-linguistic group in Eurasia speaking a Indo-European language; that comes out of the scholarship of Indo-European prehistory. Which isn't to say that every 19th or 20th century scholar doing this kind of speculation was equally careful or free of ideological bias; but it's also a mistake to say that the idea of a pre-historic Aryan people is fake simply because the Nazis applied that label in a mythologized sense to gentile Germanic peoples.

Our current best understanding of the archaeological, linguistic, and genetic evidence (and the genetic evidence in particular became available only in the past 20 years or so), suggests that the archeological culture we label the Sintashta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintashta_culture), who flourished on the central Asian steppes c. 2000 BC, almost certainly spoke the language we reconstruct as Proto-Indo-Iranian (that is, the descendant of Proto-Indo-European ancestral to the modern Indian and Persian languages), likely used the term "Arya" as some kind of self-designation - and when their ethno-linguistic descents showed up on the Indian subcontinent in the mid-2nd-millennium BC, this probably mostly felt like a violent invasion from the perspective of the non-Indo-European-speaking peoples already inhabiting the region.

In other words, pretty much every modern Indian or Iranian person is in fact a descendant of an ancient people we can reasonably call the Aryans even if "Sintashta culture" is a more precise archaeological term; and this is the case regardless of what Adolf Hitler thought about how this applied to ethnic Germans in his day.


Note that in the 16th century BC we can already see Indic (not Indo-Iranian, but specifically Indic) speakers ruling territory in Syria:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitanni


Yes it is true in the unique model of second order PA, aka the computable model, aka the "standard" model.


They still have scientific instruments operating. These have produced new insight into the last few years, telling us e.g. how large the Heliosphere is. The investment needed to find this out with a new drone would be astronomical (heh) whereas using the existing tools is basically free.


Yes, in particular the slides by Kevin Buzzard (linked in there or here: https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/avigad/meetings/fomm2020/sli... ) are funny and educational on that matter.


No, Lean allows non-constructive proofs so a proof could be like "if the Riemann hypothesis is true the counterexample is 42 otherwise it is the first nontrivial zero" or something like this, and then you don't get a fully closed counterexample.


Football was doing fine before this all started. It just multiplied the wages of some people who already earn more per year than I will ever own in a lifetime.


Yes. One way to do so is by eradicating gambling (or at least the ads for it).

People will never be 100% happy, all the time. And gambling (like many other companies) prey on people in the moments where they feel down.


Chaitin's constant. Or rather, you can never see that it has been laid out in your infinite universe.


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