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by T-hawk 13y ago
Turn on Num Lock and it still works, including in Firefox.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Would it be accurate to say those 4 stones are about equivalent to one pawn in chess? As a back-of-the-envelope calculation, one pawn is 1/43 of your starting material in chess if the king is included as a four-point fighting piece. F
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Read up on the Hill sphere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere How much mass you need to retain rings isn't an absolute quantity. It depends on distance and size of other masses. A 250km body in Earth orbi
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by T-hawk 13y ago
At one move per second, this would take about 8 hours to beat at 65536. Enjoy the rest of your day...
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Love the sprite work to fit each of the numbers into 8-pixel-wide sprites. (The sample screenshot lacking what would be a rather chunky 256 may not be a coincidence.) The 2600 has no text or character capabilities, so the only way to disp
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Dumbphone aficionado here too. I know full damn well I'd be a smartphone zombie glued to the thing constantly if I had one. I do have an iPad which serves as a great middle ground, portable nearly full featured computing when I need i
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Rubik's cube twisty puzzles. Far beyond the original 3x3x3 cube, which I've known for years. There's been a boom lately in newly designed puzzles of pretty much every polyhedral shape you can imagine. It feels amazing to d
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by T-hawk 13y ago
An alternative explanation is simply that a lead of 11 points tends to dwindle because the good players relax at less than maximum effort while on the court when the win is in hand. That would be statistically indistinguishable from intent
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by T-hawk 13y ago
> (Also, why even bother charging me $4? Just make next-day shipping free and charge $4 more for the thing.) Because people are psychologically manipulable idiots. They'll click on the cheapest search result and go buy from the oth
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by T-hawk 13y ago
This is an amazing post. Every word of the first paragraph rings true. More and more layers of abstraction that don't really accomplish anything we haven't seen before, except doing it on a cloud platform or some such. I'm
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Just wondering, was that SF2 clone Super Fighter, with Pho Huang among the characters? I did the same thing about figuring out which keys would block my opponent from moving, both in Super Fighter and in the PC ports of the Mortal Kombat ga
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by T-hawk 13y ago
The raw numbers don't paint an accurate picture of dating inequality. The pairwise nature means you need to subtract out those already paired with a dedicated partner. That will vary for different groups and can cause extreme imbalan
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Some take the distinction further: only if it forms an actual word, like PATRIOT Act, is it an acronym. If it's pronounced but not a word, like NATO, it's an abbreviation.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
This is functionally equivalent to permanently moving into the next time zone eastwards and not observing daylight savings at all. That seems to be the more common interpretation than daylight savings year round.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
That was proposed (with a numeric suffix rather than letter), but rejected because we often would do 3 to 5 in a day, and somebody decided that would still leak too much information about our hotfix workflow. Another aspect would be that h
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Greenland's span of longitude in degrees is greater than that of the continental US. That is what this map projection is displaying. Even though Greenland's distance is smaller, it's more longitude and time zones because th
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by T-hawk 13y ago
This actually hit my previous company in a software context. We would number our hotfixes sequentially. Many would be items demanded by a single client, so would get deployed as hotfixes only to that customer's site, and just rolled i
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Once information has been transmitted away from your device, it can never be undone. At best you might stop it from sharing future deltas, but once somebody has your data they will always have it as far as you can ever know.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
By contrast, my job is a much better usage case for SVN. We have only three developers, a single trunk, and rolling production deployments. We're never concerned about release or feature branches or back-porting fixes. SVN is the ri
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by T-hawk 13y ago
This is unnecessary - it's functionally equivalent to just waiting a moment before launching for the orbiting birds to progress. There's nothing absolute about the positioning of the launching bird, it's all only relative to
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by T-hawk 13y ago
I'm incapable of playing something like this without laying out some strategic principles: When launching, hover the bird at the edge of the atmosphere for a few clicks, to give it time to tilt into horizontal orientation, so your thru
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Eugene Roshal, the inventor of RAR.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
It's a typing tutor, so typos should make you lose. Avoiding them is exactly the point of such games.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Not on HN. I confess to doing it on Reddit on occasion, when the vote counts are small enough that the single downvote will make the difference on comment order. HN not showing the scores does help discourage it for me.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Moore's law is that the density of discrete components (transistors, storage cells) increases. Cost and speed are knock-on effects. It just so happens that density does drive CPUs to be faster for the same production cost and stora
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by T-hawk 13y ago
So, when you're dropping from N to N-1 dimensions, you lose something, something that you can sort of get back if you add some motion in. Adding the motion restores the subtracted dimension as time. That's why that works.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Diablo 3 was something of a different story. Blizzard knew players would create their own functionally-IAP black market anyway, because it happened in Diablo 2 and World of Warcraft. So Blizzard figured they may as well bring auctions in
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by T-hawk 13y ago
At that scale you could make errors of several hundred feet at each corner and they wouldn't be visible from such a zoomed out overview.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Lore has it that in the golden days of IBM, Casual Friday meant you could work with your suit jacket unbuttoned . While we're calling out our favorites, I'll nominate Prolog. I know nothing about Prolog but that entry makes me l
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Power law distribution. A small percentage of the content gets a large proportion of views and attention, because it's the best content that everyone wants to see. This particular article is probably something like the top 1% of the

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