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by Boxxed 8y ago
You might consider looking into putting the matrix elements onto the heap with malloc -- that way you won't limit the matrices to MAX_ELEMENTS and you also won't waste lots of space for small matrices. It'll complicate the us
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by Boxxed 8y ago
Naively, couldn't you extract helium by liquifying everything else and taking the leftover gas? So instead of cooling to 4 kelvin, cool to the boiling point of the element with the 2nd lowest boiling temperature. Or is that not helpful
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by Boxxed 8y ago
Some crypto is for actually encrypting things (e.g. SSL). You want that to be fast. Other crypto is used for things like password hashing, which is something that's a common target for brute force attacks. You want that to be slow.
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by Boxxed 8y ago
He's able to ask for multiple posts in one request so the actual request rate is fairly low: > Here’s how we do it. We find the starting post ID, and then we get posts individually from https://api.reddit.com/api&#x2
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by Boxxed 8y ago
Cool! Very similar to MHRD -- give that a look if this is your thing. https://store.steampowered.com/app/576030/MHRD/
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by Boxxed 8y ago
A lot of people consider Starship Troopers to be pro-military (the US military itself has it on the recommended reading list for the enlisted). Heinlen's background and the situation surrounding the writing of the book also suggests
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by Boxxed 8y ago
Yes, this same lack of imagination is why kludge after kludge is piled on at so many software shops. That and an absolute dearth of people that actually take pride in their work.
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by Boxxed 8y ago
Then it will cost more.
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by Boxxed 9y ago
Everyone here is asking about hardware encoding/decoding, which is obviously important. My question is, at what level do these encoders work at? Are they basically specialized SIMD instructions, or are they fully featured chips that ta
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by Boxxed 9y ago
What exactly does it mean to have an optical link in space that's not a radio? Radiowaves are light, aren't they? Is this just semantics in regards to light near the visible spectrum vs not?
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by Boxxed 9y ago
In a pond, gravity is uniform in all directions and not dependent on the distribution of objects -- everything is competing to get to the bottom.
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by Boxxed 9y ago
In a pond, you have the force of gravity (i.e., buoyant force) to do this sorting. This force doesn't exist in space, or at least not in a way that's analogous to the pond.
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by Boxxed 9y ago
Personally, I think Gradle (and a whole lot of other software) needs to stop the whole convention-over-configuration idea. It makes things way too difficult to debug and learn from, all to save some one-time typing. Making everything implic
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by Boxxed 9y ago
How does that make the above statement any less ridiculous? Isn't that exactly what he or she is pointing out? That the system is explicitly preventing these people from serving jailtime?
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by Boxxed 9y ago
That's like saying, "I have yet to hear a legitimate argument for why burying a body is wrong." Well, yes, putting a dead body in the ground is not by itself wrong. But step back a tiny bit and think about why that might rais
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by Boxxed 9y ago
Ah yes, the standard nitpicky dismissive HN comment makes its appearance.
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by Boxxed 9y ago
Wow, just took a look at your renderer and it looks amazing. What kind of people / companies / markets do you tend to sell to, if you don't mind me asking?
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by Boxxed 9y ago
I think that sounds like a bad idea. I could see pain arising from the shared usage of the database -- e.g., during migrations or heavy usage. I'm not really sure what the benefit is, either: each team will likely want to be the owner
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by Boxxed 9y ago
My main complaint with ORMs is that the workflow goes like this: 1. Roughly imagine the query you want to execute 2. Map said query into whatever annoying interface the ORM actually exposes 3. Attempt to reason about its behavior because it
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by Boxxed 9y ago
Unfortunately the whole world isn't developing a react app. And the fact that create-react-app even exists is definitely proving the point!
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by Boxxed 9y ago
Wow. I bet you're really fun at parties.
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by Boxxed 9y ago
Pretty sure that's the semantics of an `auto_ptr`: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/memory/auto_ptr/
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by Boxxed 9y ago
How does Serpent.AI help with scraping game state? In my ignorance of the state of research here I would think that's the most common barrier to entry.
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by Boxxed 9y ago
You can cluster a table by an index: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/sql-cluster.html Or am I not understanding what you're asking for?
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by Boxxed 9y ago
Maybe grandparent poster just likes Sublime better. If he was an emacs user, would you have posted basically the same thing with "...and I hate to be this guy (not really), but... Sublime?"
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by Boxxed 9y ago
I think you're confusing "states" with cells on the tape. They are completely independent. All turing machines have an unbounded tape, but a well-defined number of states that act as an automaton controlling the head on the t
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by Boxxed 9y ago
"It can just take a while" is a pretty egregious understatement. As the busy beaver question shows, even an extremely simple turing machine with just a handful of states can execute for a completely unfathomable number of steps.
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by Boxxed 9y ago
What a guy slash gal; cool!
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by Boxxed 9y ago
It wasn't that large a database if I remember -- maybe 1TB? The sstable sizes seemed reasonable at the time, I think it was just explosion due to json. Anywhoo, one huge file is fine, what's not fine is having one huge json obje
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by Boxxed 9y ago
I'd say it's absolutely the worst. For about ten seconds it seems like it's a nice higher level abstraction, but then you realize how that abstraction is hiding exactly what you care about: how your data maps to the underlyin

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