Aardwolf

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by Aardwolf 4mo ago
On what datatype though, e.g. for sorting arbitrary length strings? I think that is if the comparator is expensive, quicksort and variants do not win because they do a constant factor more comparisons
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by Aardwolf 4mo ago
It's about two and a half Ford Tauri stacked on top of each other
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by Aardwolf 4mo ago
> The payload is a single contiguous big-endian integer Why not little endian like modern CPUs?
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by Aardwolf 4mo ago
> He did not enter a plea and was released on a $2.25 million bond I'm not familiar with the US system of bond. Is this payment a kind of fine that you don't get back, or a temporary payment? And what does it give you? I mean i
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by Aardwolf 5mo ago
> An example of a galactic algorithm is the fastest known way to multiply two numbers,[4] which is based on a 1729-dimensional Fourier transform.[5] That number looked familiar, and yep it's the taxicab number. Coincidence? Neither
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by Aardwolf 5mo ago
That one is an approximation rather than returning all millions of exact big integer digits though (the approximation is more useful for real life statistics etc..., but doesn't look like what this article is targeting)
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by Aardwolf 5mo ago
I'd actually rather just have the compiler give some guarantees on producing SIMD code when you write regular C++ code doing sums, multiplications, etc... in a particular way. And perhaps add a few more operators/keywords to the l
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by Aardwolf 5mo ago
Great, I got the almost invisible red tank on a magenta background!
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by Aardwolf 5mo ago
But this is not valuable if doing so results in different numerical results, and I think that will always happen if ++ is executed at different times, there's no point in a compiler optimizing pointless code that can silently give diff
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by Aardwolf 5mo ago
What's the reason that C didn't define the order of this? The horrible undefined behavior of signed integer overflow at least can be explained by the fact that multiple CPU architectures handling those differently existed (though
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by Aardwolf 5mo ago
> and the trash collection truck passing by.. (guess the country I live in) Many countries have trash collection in the early morning, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by Aardwolf 5mo ago
Is side sleeping possible with these?
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by Aardwolf 5mo ago
"It looks like you're trying to visit our US site, but you're not based in the US. If you'd prefer to visit our global site, please click on 'Global site' below, alternatively if you wish to continue to the US
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by Aardwolf 5mo ago
> You could argue that I’m abusing 414 URI Too Long. I respond that it’s funnier this way. Other options I considered were: Another option to consider is "418 I'm a teapot": teapots usually also don't support query st
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by Aardwolf 5mo ago
> You came here from news.ycombinator.com. Your browser told us the address of the page you were reading before this one. Every link you follow tells the destination where you were. The page you just left knows you left. This page knows
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by Aardwolf 5mo ago
I don't even see how buildings can survive that actually... (unless it's happening very evenly)
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by Aardwolf 5mo ago
Firefox reader view on PC shows the exact same text as is in the article
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by Aardwolf 6mo ago
Too bad it seems to not do health monitoring, my main use case of a watch now is sleep tracking with as long battery life as possible
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by Aardwolf 6mo ago
Very neat! Some bugs I noticed: Searching for Zurich allows you to go to the article for the canton of Zurich, not the city. Clicking the link "Zürich (city)" inside of this article, opens this same article again about the canton,
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by Aardwolf 6mo ago
What's the effect of this in a populated area in a certain radius? Compared to nuclear power plants...
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by Aardwolf 6mo ago
The fact that Century-bandwidth has a dash but decade bandwidth has not is weird, I didn't make the connection due to that (one sounded like a brand name, the other not)
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by Aardwolf 6mo ago
Now please do it on a Cray-1 from 1976!
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by Aardwolf 6mo ago
> A freaking notepad app takes almost 50mb in memory when equivalent NOTEPAD done in pure Win32 C takes 1.8mb of memory. 1.8MB? I don't know how much it took on our 386 computer with 4MB RAM and windows 3.11, but hopefully not that
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by Aardwolf 6mo ago
But can you even express this function with the elementary operator symbols, exp, log, power and trig functions? It seems to me like no, you can't express "largest real solution" with those (and what's the intended resul
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by Aardwolf 6mo ago
Why not fix this at the browser level? E.g. long or double click on back button = go to previous non-javascript-affected page (I mean by that: last page navigated to in the classical sense, ignoring dynamic histories altered by js and dynam
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by Aardwolf 6mo ago
Interesting! One thing I wonder now: NAND is symmetric while this isn't, could something similar be found where function(x, y) = function(y, x)?
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by Aardwolf 6mo ago
Probably not often I'd say, but at least there were some games I played with wine where some executables to apply mods also ran in wine and worked, I vaguely remember some fix to make something be able to use more than a few GB of ram
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by Aardwolf 6mo ago
I don't seem to have issues modding games like Skyrim, Fallout 4 or Factorio on Linux
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by Aardwolf 6mo ago
Not if it's on a map anymore
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by Aardwolf 7mo ago
> I always found it odd that scaling down an image now and then scaling it back to its original size 2 seconds later with the same tool resulted in a loss of quality Maybe it's because I grew up with Paint Shop Pro 6 and such, but t

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