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by Someone 4y ago
If the language spec says a piece of code must execute in constant-time, any deviation is a compiler bug. But yes, that may mean the language can’t be implemented well on lots of modern hardware. A lot probably can be done by avoiding some
3662.
by Someone 4y ago
> Microsoft was halfway there I see that more as “on a way there, without knowing how far they were, and even without being sure the road they were on would not reach a dead end”. What makes you think they were halfway? Even if there are
3663.
by Someone 4y ago
> Powering cargo planes seems like a niche market that would be suitable FTA: Most designs aim to produce a beam kilometers wide so that any spacecraft, plane, person, or bird that strays into it only receives a tiny—hopefully harmless—
3664.
by Someone 4y ago
Computing the profile wasn’t possible on Windows FTA: But there is one problem: PGO was up until now available only on Linux. I think they couldn’t use a profile generated on Linux because of differences in ABI and standard library. I als
3665.
by Someone 4y ago
I googled what a Su-25SM3 is. It ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-25#2022_Russian_inva... ) is an armored attack aircraft for close air support (I guess with a similar role as the US A10 Warthog) I also found (
3666.
by Someone 4y ago
You’d need 12 keyholes, with a single shot.
3667.
by Someone 4y ago
Maybe he shot a hundred, and he finally did it with the last 7, and missed the next one, after collecting his arrows. Or maybe he had to stop because the arrows break down when passing through the hole. For example, I don’t think it’s good
3668.
by Someone 4y ago
> where two numbers are equal iff their bits are equal? That’s not true. One of the features of IEEE floats is the existence of NaNs that aren’t (according to the standard) equal to themselves.
3669.
by Someone 4y ago
Converting a IEEE float to a string is tricky, too, IMO more tricky. It would be a lot slower, too, and wouldn’t work. How do you define “compare the result”? The strings “0.0” and “-0.0” would have to be equal to each other, and the string
3670.
by Someone 4y ago
I agree the video isn’t the best of evidence. There are views from the other side of the keyhole, but they’re in different shots. Who says they didn’t fit a steel funnel at the other side of the door to guide the arrow through the hole? Th
3671.
by Someone 4y ago
That is more or less what Transmeta did ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta#Code_Morphing_Softwa... ) The “without any drawbacks” part never panned out, though. It also is fairly similar to what Apple has done with
3672.
by Someone 4y ago
Migrate? I would only call it that if they 1) got an account there, 2) copied over their tweet history and subscribers, and 3) deleted their Twitter account. Did they? I guess all they did is step 1, which means they went there to see how t
3673.
by Someone 4y ago
That wouldn’t change the status quo. She doesn’t only want her own inherited wealth to be taxed away, but also that of all others in a similar situation.
3674.
by Someone 4y ago
> A typical well-designed class will usually be a few hundred lines of code, tops. Often less than 100 lines. It’s not the lines that take time; it’s getting the code to the “well-designed” state, double so (if not more) for an API.
3675.
by Someone 4y ago
> a planet that has four suns I remembered five; Wikipedia says six, two of which form a binary star system ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_an... ) I also remember reading that such a syste
3676.
by Someone 4y ago
> So you absorb 3 to generate 3/1, then you absorb 7 to generate (3×7+1)/(7×1+0)=22/7, then you absorb 15 to generate (15×22 + 3)/(15×7 + 1) = 333/106 The OP did not have the sequence of best rational approximati
3677.
by Someone 4y ago
I think it does the second indirectly, by staying around where it is supposed to be for longer. If you lose more of your radiation shielding on a trip to Mars, you need more shielding to start with to get the same average radiation protecti
3678.
by Someone 4y ago
“Trace their roots” seems too strong a claim to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthritis#History : Evidence of osteoarthritis and potentially inflammatory arthritis has been discovered in dinosaurs. The first known t
3679.
by Someone 4y ago
You’re discriminating against bases other than base 10 ;-) Why would the base you write the numbers down in affect whether a rational number is considered “best so far”?
3680.
by Someone 4y ago
You missed 13/4 = 3.25, 16/5 = 3.2, 19/6 = 3.16667, 179/57 = 3.14035, 201/64, 223/71, 245/78, 267/85, 289/92, 333/106, 52163/16604 https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2011&
3681.
by Someone 4y ago
I don’t think that’s a good name for this. Clearly, that code can be reached. From the name, I would expect ”throw new UnreachableException” to be something the compiler inserts to make it more robust in the sense that, if the compiler ha
3682.
by Someone 4y ago
> Or something less malicious, like "Donate to Wikipedia", or some other organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia : “Wikipedia has been blocked in China since 23 April 2019” ⇒ p
3683.
by Someone 4y ago
It’s social science, and a ‘proper’ experiment can’t really be done, but the scientists expect the gain from making helmets mandatory would be more than offset by the loss in health from making cycling less popular. Many people also don’t r
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by Someone 4y ago
That could end up being a two-headed monster, with some apps working fine in ‘iPad mode’ and looking awfully out of place in ‘Finder mode’ and other ones looking good in ‘Finder mode’ and bad in ‘iPad mode’. Unless (almost) all their apps (
3685.
by Someone 4y ago
Makes me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie : the use of a lie so colossal that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." And yes, I do not
3686.
by Someone 4y ago
My “Why?” isn’t about the video not playing, it’s about using a video as almost the sole way to figure out what the product does.
3687.
by Someone 4y ago
iPad
3688.
by Someone 4y ago
The video (why?) doesn’t load for me, so I can’t check features, but what’s wrong with split and csplit ? ( https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/spli... , https://man.openb
3689.
by Someone 4y ago
Project site: https://seabed2030.org . From the FAQ, they aim for something better than Depth range Grid cell size % of world ocean floor 0– 1500 m 100 × 100 m 13.7 1500– 3000 m 200 × 200 m 11 3000– 5750 m 400 × 400
3690.
by Someone 4y ago
It would be fun (but also highly impractical to implement) if the web were garbage collected, with all open windows and bookmarked URLs as root pointers.

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