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Comcast complains to FCC that listing all of its monthly fees is too hard (arstechnica.com)

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Comcast blasted for seeking "loopholes" in rule requiring disclosure of all fees.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The airlines managed to figure it out, weirdly enough. Calculating the price of an airline seat is Turing-complete, and at least one airline software service, ITA, needed the runtime compilation feature of Common Lisp to do it efficiently. Yes, when a user asked for a ticket price, their systems wrote and compiled a piece of code to determine the answer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oml thats actually insane and incredible. My goodness wow

[–] ott 1 points 1 year ago

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit....