Khoth

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by Khoth 7y ago
There are more options than "just serve the images" and "bloated monstrosity that takes so long to load on mobile that I actively avoid imgur links". For example, they could have, but didn't, make it a page with adv
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by Khoth 7y ago
In the UK, when exchanges moved to digital, they deliberately kept the old behaviour because some people relied on it (eg, hanging up their main phone, then walking to another room and picking up the call on an extension phone), with a time
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by Khoth 7y ago
> I mean, I understand that the GUI thread in question might be heavily pre-empted by medium-priority threads, but eventually the GUI thread is going to be given enough time to finish whatever it was doing with my lock, and life will go
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by Khoth 7y ago
If it happens in a polynomial number of steps on average, but you might get unlucky, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZPP_(complexity) If it can just take as long as they want, then the probabilistic part is basically irr
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by Khoth 7y ago
In my experience I'm more likely to be running more inefficient algorithms, wasting more processor cycles, or transferring more data in general if I do upgrade software than if I don't.
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by Khoth 7y ago
Assuming these people 10000 lightyears away from the black hole are also on a planet, their reference frame is almost the same as ours - the relative speed of different planets is very small compared to the speed of light. So they'll a
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by Khoth 7y ago
The description in the article is vague and I can't find any information elsewhere, but the reference to the functionality depending on which metal is used for the inner cylinder makes me think that it's actually a voltaic cell us
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by Khoth 7y ago
There isn't potential for further growth if it gets bought. They just want to serve malware to the existing userbase.
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by Khoth 7y ago
I agree. And if I "forgot" to unclick a checkbox somewhere it's almost certainly because the website used some dark pattern to make it easy to get wrong.
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by Khoth 7y ago
Part of the user agreement, near the top, is "I agree not to speed up the scrolling by holding down alt"
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by Khoth 7y ago
To paraphrase stuff from Scott Aaronson that I can't find right now: The currently known laws of physics say yes, and nobody's proposed any new laws of physics consistent with current observations which say no and don't allow
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by Khoth 7y ago
I think having multiple exit points is good when the early exits are all at the beginning for trivial parameter validation, but likely to be bad if they're buried in the middle of the function. In either case, there's the disadvan
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by Khoth 7y ago
60 frames per second is because (in the USA) electricity suppliers standardised on 60Hz mains frequency, and in the early days of TV it was easiest to make the refresh rate match the mains supply. (In the UK the mains frequency is 50Hz, as
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by Khoth 7y ago
Actions in Magic: the Gathering let you create "tokens" which are like cards but aren't limited in number. Although you can only have a finite number in any given game, there's no upper bound on how many you can have.
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by Khoth 7y ago
> Why would you need to communicate with any process? Maybe I need to communicate with the currently running instance of "HTTP Server App" or "Database Engine App", not with an unrelated process my program knows nothi
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by Khoth 8y ago
I agree about where he got most of his following. From the embedded instagram posts, he has 800.1k followers, which seems... rather close to a round number.
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by Khoth 8y ago
Yes, terminals could be a lot faster. A major advantage that often seemed to be overlooked in the rush from terminals to web pages is that if you pressed a key that took you to the next screen, your next keypresses would be queued up and th
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by Khoth 8y ago
It opens on Thursday apparently.
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by Khoth 8y ago
The terms you're looking for are "single compilation unit" or "unity build". It's used sometimes, I think mostly to help the compiler optimise better. Build times for a full rebuild may be faster, but may not,
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by Khoth 8y ago
It doesn't have trig. The algorithm just requires 32 precomputed trig results that are stored in a lookup table.
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by Khoth 8y ago
> Its one of the few reasons I could think of for "blank" robo calls. Telephone spammer software dials a load of numbers, and when someone picks up, only then do they connect the call to a human on their end. It's why you
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by Khoth 8y ago
Something that comes up moderately often in low-level stuff is: You have a bunch of objects, defined in different files, and no code is aware of what the complete list of objects is. You want to iterate over an array of all these objects. H
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by Khoth 8y ago
IIRC their iPhone app had about 20000 classes for some insane reason, and the system didn't handle that well.
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by Khoth 8y ago
From TFA: let _rows = sql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username=?", &[username]); The statement is static, but the [username] part is not, it's just a variable that can have whatever username you want.
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by Khoth 8y ago
The party registration isn't counted as a vote for that party - when you show up on election day you can vote for whoever you want. What it affects is which parties' primaries you can vote in.
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by Khoth 8y ago
I'm not a fan of anything that writes to a register just by assigning a value to some variable. I much prefer having some kind of READ_REG/WRITE_REG inline function (or macro at a pinch). Sooner or later you're going to find
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by Khoth 8y ago
Doesn't the latter also risk the compiler deciding to emit a store of less than a whole word and the hardware then ignoring it or throwing a hissy fit in some unexpected way?
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by Khoth 8y ago
It doesn't really matter which method you use for counting, so long as you're consistent.
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by Khoth 8y ago
I use iTunes 10. It's responsive, does everything I want and still has iTunes DJ which is the best method I've found for listening to random things from my music collection.
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by Khoth 9y ago
That's not my experience. The addons I use that it broke were all being maintained, but FF57 didn't provide any API to replace what they were using before, so their authors reluctantly abandoned them or provided limited, crippled

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