Aardwolf

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by Aardwolf 8d ago
> the implementation may assume any thread will eventually do one of the following: terminate, call a library I/O function, access a volatile glvalue, or perform a synchronization or atomic operation Why is that rule needed? I could
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by Aardwolf 10d ago
> We chose taus88 mainly because it is the fastest from boost’s generators. That's an RNG from 1996. It seems neither recent C++ standards, nor boost, know anything about the modern PRNGs that are much faster yet better at passing t
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by Aardwolf 13d ago
I know this brand even though I'm not Australian! Thanks to "Australian guy that screams at ipods" DankPods
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by Aardwolf 19d ago
Some of the mouse-overs don't seem to match, hovering over 'viruses' shows a raccoon, and hovering over 'lungfish' shows a bird eating a fish
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by Aardwolf 20d ago
What's wrong with titles starting with "How"? Of the various title rewriting rules on HN, this one seems to cause the most meaning-changing modifications (Article title: "How I feel about AI". HN title: "I feel
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by Aardwolf 28d ago
I clicked the picture first without reading any of the article and was wondering "where are the mice? they must be well camouflaged!"
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by Aardwolf 1mo ago
If LLMs are oxen, harnesses are... the harnesses
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by Aardwolf 2mo ago
What causes this style of linkedin posts anyway? What causes so many people to adopt that writing style? The one where there's some short paragraph intended to evoke some feeling or thought, then longer ones that elaborate on it in som
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by Aardwolf 2mo ago
I guess it'll keep existing with the name EA? "Public investment fund" doesn't sound too fitting for a game company
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by Aardwolf 2mo ago
Personally I'm disappointed 128-bit floating point (quadruple precision) never properly made it into CPU's (sure it appeared in some niche ones here and there, but not in what we actually use today). After all, in the 1980's
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by Aardwolf 2mo ago
> In order to put the emission peak in the visible spectrum, the filament would need to run at ~5700 °C (...) No metal can survive these conditions: Tungsten melts at "only" 3422 °C. Hmm, can we possibly find something that
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by Aardwolf 2mo ago
Is there any info for a way to check this on your SNPs from genome sequencing data?
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by Aardwolf 2mo ago
It has the option to play a tutorial that explains the controls
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by Aardwolf 2mo ago
Techmoan has to visit this place
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by Aardwolf 2mo ago
What is one to do? Unicode has dozens of arrows for each direction, but each of them has its height compared to the text rendered differently depending on font or platform
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by Aardwolf 2mo ago
That's less than I expected for worldwide Apparently Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, etc... were not really into castles, while Japan was?
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by Aardwolf 2mo ago
4 successful landings before disaster struck, not a bad first day as ATC
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by Aardwolf 2mo ago
If I were in a tomb for 2000 year I wouldn't even mind if they can learn about the history of my era 2000 years later
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by Aardwolf 2mo ago
So if I squint my eyes I'm a human, if I don't squint them I'm a robot
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by Aardwolf 2mo ago
It would be neat if it were a steampunk-style civilization traveling around their atmosphere in helium airships. But probably just helium escaping from rocks...
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by Aardwolf 2mo ago
> One thing that's lovely about Linux is this kind of analysis is not only possible, but meaningful. If only they'd actually DO something with this meaningfulness. I love and use Linux as my daily driver, but desktop environmen
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by Aardwolf 3mo ago
The eyes receptors are RGB too and they definitely capture all visible colors by definition (to be pedantic, yes there's also the rods for night vision, and the 'R' is more like yellow)
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by Aardwolf 3mo ago
Why not 64 minutes and 64 seconds for the hexadecimal in the base 16 clock? The second duration would be closer to the real life one (1.3 seconds) and 64 is closer to 60 too
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by Aardwolf 3mo ago
Even the acoustic coupler seems to have had compatiblity issues, see timestamp 1:10 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqJ159pngY8 ("1986: Email - the Perfect Tech for the Jet Set? | Micro Live | BBC Archive")
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by Aardwolf 3mo ago
> https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/?page=LKBGE51F3... Wow this is awesome, they had box-drawing characters in 1785!
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by Aardwolf 3mo ago
Maybe they can't make real friends if all the others are engulfed in social media
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by Aardwolf 4mo ago
I had no idea what I was looking at until I read the hacker news comments, what I was thinking it was was AI-hallucinated images of a combination of the Backrooms and the Metaverse
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by Aardwolf 4mo ago
Any idea how much adder designs changed on modern CPUs compared to back then? I mean there's only so much you can optimize in those, I think...
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by Aardwolf 4mo ago
I don't know any since I'm not playing any golf simulator games myself, but most games on Steam work in Linux with Proton so you might find something there. That's not open source of course but you had it in parenthesis which
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by Aardwolf 4mo ago
I'd love the robot to fill and empty the dishwasher and put the stuff in the correct drawers and cabinets edit: but if the robot could in addition also do dishes in the sink and not need a dishwasher at all, that'd also save up sp

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