· 35 min read · Cover: Salomon de Caus's pinned-cylinder water organ, engraving from Les Raisons des Forces Mouvantes (1615). Compiled for an RTX 4090, and launched, it does correctly work out that 1+1=21+1=21+1=2, a million timesI didn’t check all of them.. Telling you that involved tens of millions of CPU instructions, a couple of device files, nine hundred ioctls, and one memory-mapped ...