Kenji

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by Kenji 10y ago
This is well-known by everyone who works with float determinism. You have to set the FPU flag with assembler to force the desired width (among other things). See: fldcw, LDMXCSR, etc. Take into account rounding modes and denormals too, and
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by Kenji 10y ago
The relentless and smug moralising in this article makes me feel nauseous. This kind of simplistic worldview is highly toxic. Art inspires. Without any doubt, computer games have inspired a large number of people to get into programming or
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by Kenji 10y ago
Or like Soylent Green. We are not there yet, luckily :)
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by Kenji 10y ago
Wow, really?? What a radical thought in progressiveland. This is what it has come to. People have to hide behind throwaway accounts to speak their mind about the most basic matters that should be blatantly obvious to anyone.
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by Kenji 10y ago
>This is the modern Buddhist and psychology influenced interpretation of stoicism and apatheia. No, it is not. Read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. The man certainly argued for a certain inner brilliance that does not come from emotionle
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by Kenji 10y ago
Note that stoicism is NOT rejecting and ignoring your feelings. If you feel bad about something, that too is a fact that you have to accept and deal with in the best way possible. Stoicism is about keeping your head up in the face of advers
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by Kenji 10y ago
>This is only a problem in the US (aka "list of countries with private healthcare"). This is complete nonsense and I'd like to see the source of this. Do you really think the state has any incentive to prevent health ins
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by Kenji 10y ago
One is never fully educated until after the fact ;)
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by Kenji 10y ago
For some reason, I thought this is about the update step in games that happens once per 'tick', that is, the physics engine loop. It's about lossless compression and downloading update packages though. That's also fine w
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by Kenji 10y ago
Attach Wireshark to the program and capture the network traffic. This might already give you some insight if it's a very simple authentication mechanism - maybe you're even able to edit your hosts.txt file and make a fake server y
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by Kenji 10y ago
> My comment wasn't an attempt to engage in discussion. That tells me everything about you that I need to know.
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by Kenji 10y ago
I can often estimate what HN's reaction will be to my comments and whether or not I get downvoted. However, I think it is of utmost importance not to censor myself and also spell out unpopular things that I am convinced of, even if it
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by Kenji 10y ago
May I offer a counterpoint? In the current climate in western culture, it's more like women know exactly what they want and how to demand it, the problem is more that it is given to them without challenging them enough, thus preventing
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by Kenji 10y ago
I love how, once again, the states are clueless, forcing companies to wash the eggs on one continent, and forcing them not to on the other continent. Another useless law, hampering the production of vital goods.
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by Kenji 10y ago
>Creating anonymous magic Internet money out of thin air, then selling it. Well, not much different from what our banks do.
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by Kenji 10y ago
Oh, she'll be fine. For CEOs it's "fail big, gamble bigger". Only the little people have to carry the burden of responsibility for their work and track record.
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by Kenji 10y ago
It's pretty much impossible to draw pixel-perfect lines in OpenGL. Even the library code of SDL2 fails to do it in certain instances, when its 2D drawing functions use OpenGL - and SDL2 is super clean and solid like a rock. Sometimes,
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by Kenji 10y ago
You don't need a PhD in mathematics. Firstly, they explain the (already existing) concept of a closure (think for example transitive closure, which seems to be exactly what they're going for). Y.ϕ is a notation that means we apply
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by Kenji 10y ago
facepalm of course, even if I use gcc, if I compile a.cc it switches to the c++ compiler. Thanks.
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by Kenji 10y ago
I'm sorry, but the answer this website gives to 1. is wrong. See for yourself: int i; int i = 10; int main(int argc, char* argv[]){ return 0; } Try to compile it. It doesn't work (gcc.exe (GCC) 5.3.0), the err
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by Kenji 10y ago
If you write a paper that contains mathematical proofs, it is extremely unlikely that this distinction will play any role whatsoever.
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by Kenji 10y ago
I read it, but I still don't comprehend why anyone would stress the difference between To prove ¬ϕ, assume ϕ and derive absurdity. and To prove ϕ, assume ¬ϕ and derive absurdity. It just seems exactly the same, given that ¬¬ϕ = ϕ. &quo
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by Kenji 10y ago
Oh wow, I wish I would have watched that 6 years ago. But maybe it only makes sense now because I already learned it all.
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by Kenji 10y ago
>The lesson learned was that I needed to start questioning my convictions more. Just "feeling sure" isn't enough to certain of something. Well, that's the life lesson I learned in the maths lectures and exercise sessi
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by Kenji 10y ago
>"Modern left" leaning groups are so easy to disrupt and destroy it is child's play. That raises the question, whose fault is it? If people are so sensitive that they get spooked by halloween masks and triggered by witty r
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by Kenji 10y ago
Windows solved many of the GUI problems 20 years ago that Linux still struggles with today. Windows was and is ahead and this is why it was and is more successful. It is that simple. I would take Windows 95's window manager over Ubuntu
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by Kenji 10y ago
I said it before (and I got downvoted a lot), but I'll say it again: Willpower is not about forcing yourself to do something, but to deliberately put yourself into a situation that forces you to do it. This is how self-control really w
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by Kenji 10y ago
Now if the media reports on something you don't like someone else will tell you what you want to hear. I don't see the problem. I don't want to hear lies, therefore I create a demand for true news. I don't need a nanny
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by Kenji 10y ago
Doesn't that complicate the mainboard design vastly? Memory & caching, clocks & time, concurrency, etc.
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by Kenji 10y ago
No, what you experience is normal. Typing speed is never the bottleneck, unless you write some boilerplate code - which, frankly, is something you should avoid and automate anyway. As a rough estimate, I spend more than half of my time draf

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