GNU and scheme. I know that's kind of an obvious answer, but they're things I appreciate. Unfortunately guix hasn't really worked for me as a distribution. I'll probably look again some time in the future.
That's almost always false unless the hardware is faster and thus more power hungry and hot than your CPU. That's rarely true. Some fpga accelerator? Maybe. GPU/TPU? Sure. Your hard drive? Not a chance that it would have even remotely competitive processor.
The point of hardware acceleration is usually that your CPU doesn't need to do a task so there's less CPU load and it can spend that time running applications or respond faster.
I don't think I ever saw the figures here in Finland. But I think I managed to find (in second hand stores) and read the entire run of comics eventually.
Istr that Ramanujan claimed that Kali gave him ideas in his dreams. Maybe he was actually a mathematician from the future but decided that telling the truth would not be feasible.
Over 280 000 days and still not finished.