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by BoppreH 12y ago
I think it's because there are two cases that require flawless performance: when you are pushing the limits of the hardware, and when you are adding a layer that people will build lots of software upon. Games are a perfect example of t
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by BoppreH 12y ago
I think this is an expansion of a previous project they had. I already have a coupon from May 2013, when only the GitHub Micro plan was included. This is an amazing opportunity and I'm notifying all my college friends.
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by BoppreH 12y ago
I've read parts of the eAthena source code recently ( https://github.com/eathena/eathena ) and was very impressed with the code quality. Maybe they fixed the code base, or I didn't hit the worst parts, but I le
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by BoppreH 12y ago
Isn't that addressed in the additional notes below the video? There are **infinitely** many 3D worlds stacked on top of each other, even if in the Wall level the ground texture makes it seem like there are only two.
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by BoppreH 12y ago
Not sure if my fault, by all images are returning errors, and their folder is 400'ing.
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by BoppreH 12y ago
Great article, but I think I'm missing something. Several times through it I thought: "ok, but what about obvious explanation ?". Examples: People who live in consistently loud environments often experience chronicall
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by BoppreH 12y ago
The Doomsday Argument works because the result (Doom Soon or Doom Late) affects the number of observers, and we can work backwards to update our beliefs on which one will be. That is why replacing the words with ponies and gold won't w
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by BoppreH 12y ago
I'm still waiting for a Firefox version, especially to avoid Adblocks's overhead. I currently have Privoxy installed as a replacement, but it's too cumbersome.
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by BoppreH 12y ago
This article outlines an argument that could make your life miserable just by knowing it. Thankfully we have some potential antidotes: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk#So_you.27re_w... I personally subscr
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by BoppreH 12y ago
The problem is strategy clues. I know how the game works, but that doesn't tell me where to play. Past a certain size I lose all intuition and start clicking everywhere until something manageable appears.
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by BoppreH 12y ago
If you are interested in Server-Sent-Events, I made a small library a while ago that may be helpful: https://github.com/boppreh/server-sent-events
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by BoppreH 12y ago
I can't speak for the others, but I almost downvoted you. And the reason is simple: the article was an eight paragraph piece, with your remark neatly answered in the sixth. People can get a little mad when contested by something refute
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by BoppreH 12y ago
From TFA: By international agreement, there are two official World Health Organization (WHO)-designated repositories for smallpox: CDC in Atlanta, Georgia and the State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology (VECTOR) in
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by BoppreH 12y ago
Just to remind everyone what we are dealing with here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_smallpox During the 20th century, it is estimated that smallpox was responsible for 300–500 million deaths. Half
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by BoppreH 12y ago
I always find amazing what one can accomplish when the scope is reduced enough. I don't think Dwarf Fortress would have a fraction of its features if it had sprites, non-tiled graphics, multiple visible layers, sound effects or a sane
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by BoppreH 12y ago
It does contain a direct download to an executable file. Maybe it's just fear of viruses and not something exclusive to Tor?
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by BoppreH 12y ago
I prefer `alt+.`, which does the same thing without having to reach for the ESC key.
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by BoppreH 12y ago
I agree the replies are in good faith, and I'm happy people took the time to respond to me. But somehow the good faith makes things frustrating. Trolls can be ignored, downvoted and banned, but communication problems are complicated. I
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by BoppreH 12y ago
I'm getting frustrated here. It does give you information on which parts of the world are more active in the project: the 3 biggest economic regions are the more mapped regions. That's exactly what the grandparent
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by BoppreH 12y ago
I hadn't noticed the small squares before. I stand corrected in that front, that is useful. But on the Europe vs USA case note how you are automatically adjusting for population. Because of this you can only interpret data for places
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by BoppreH 12y ago
But if it's the same as a population map, what good is it? If I had asked you about nodes density before you saw this picture, your guess would probably use the population density. If your guess remains the same after seeing the pi
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by BoppreH 12y ago
Density here is number of nodes by area, and if you distort the area it stops being density. It's like comparing the weight of different objects on different planets. "My shoe on Earth weights twice as much as my sandal on Saturn&
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by BoppreH 12y ago
By the way, West Wing had an excellent piece where they explain the need for accurate map projections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8zBC2dvERM
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by BoppreH 12y ago
I'm sorry, but I don't see any much use in this visualization. It's pretty, but gives almost no information at the global level, for two reasons: 1) It's not adjusted for population ( http://xkcd.com/1138
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by BoppreH 12y ago
If person died from diabetes, but drank, this goes into the "alcohol deaths" count, even if the person would have suffered from it without the alcohol. That would be a monumentally stupid way to conduct a resear
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by BoppreH 12y ago
If the distortion algorithm was public (and simple) we could try on different languages and see if that's the case. It's still interesting, though.
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by BoppreH 12y ago
Same here. It sounds like someone playing with a weird instrument and is not even close to a human voice. It reminds me of the beeps from R2D2 in Star Wars, but with less abrupt transitions. After many tries still no comprehension.
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by BoppreH 12y ago
For lower-level use of Bayes I have a library that can be helpful: https://github.com/boppreh/bayesian , or "pip install bayesian". It has simple belief updates and even some classification methods.
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by BoppreH 12y ago
Are you sure? He does say "binaries when run make no unexpected...". And matching binaries is not a trivial task because of OS, compiler and SDK versions. The last time someone did this for Truecrypt it made the news: https:&#x
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by BoppreH 12y ago
Why have dozens of steps and seventeen screenshots detailing how to migrate a Windows partition and only a joke line for the Linux version? And why Bitlocker? Then there was the license change, new version with different features... This im

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