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by T-hawk 8y ago
Besides the physical length, 8-1 also starts you with 300 ticks on the timer rather than the usual 400.
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by T-hawk 8y ago
Nitpick: 3-1 and 6-2 have cloud areas and 4-2 has several pipe areas that aren't shown.
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by T-hawk 8y ago
Diablo II specifically includes design elements to be playable via 56k dialup. 1) Latency hiding. The results of actions are determined ahead of time. The hit chance and damage value for melee swings and missile shots (arrows, spell effec
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by T-hawk 8y ago
Including union demands for operators to exist and get paid as part of that legacy.
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by T-hawk 8y ago
Bandwidth bottleneck, no. Latency, time to first usable content on screen, absolutely.
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by T-hawk 8y ago
It wasn't arbitrary. The states that had pre-existing laws kept them. The original decision prevented states from passing new laws to enable gambling, but didn't strike down or repeal existing laws, thus those states essentially
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by T-hawk 8y ago
No line of latitude is straight, except arguably the equator. Think about the line of latitude at 89.9999°. It will trace a circle around the pole of a few meters radius. 60° south is the same such circle, only bigger.
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by T-hawk 9y ago
> It works sometimes however. Tone counts for everything when complaining about downvotes. Asking politely where you think you went wrong often does work. If it's hostile like "wake up sheeple", you're digging your
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by T-hawk 9y ago
Remember the principle of multiple endpoints. We only noticed this one example because it hit; we never notice all the cases that don't. If between 10^6 and 10^7 cameras have been tried out by taking pictures of space, then this one s
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by T-hawk 9y ago
Diablo 2 doesn't use OpenGL. It does use Glide, the native hardware API for Voodoo cards. And it looks amazing and silky smooth with Glide compared to the game's Direct3D mode.
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by T-hawk 9y ago
Distance from Earth and solar aphelion aren't the same thing. The former will be larger by 300 million km (the diameter of Earth's orbit) when Earth is on the opposite side of the sun. It's unclear which value Musk was refe
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by T-hawk 9y ago
Scrabble isn't a word game. It's an area-control game with 150,000 rules that define legal placement for your resources.
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by T-hawk 9y ago
This encourages gaming the system: companies will seek to designate as the copyright holder the youngest available employee, to make the term last longer.
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by T-hawk 9y ago
Mame is a platform to keep old games playable on modern open hardware. Emulation is an implementation detail. It may be the best approach or it may be abstracted away.
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by T-hawk 9y ago
Could this be that the SNES hackers are modifying existing games instead? There's all sorts of fan hacks and remakes of Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Zelda, Final Fantasy, Mario Kart, Castlevania, and more. But the Genesis doesn&
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by T-hawk 9y ago
It's unnecessary, though, and makes the point harder to read. "It works even better" would be a perfectly sufficient description. "It works not as well as but better" is an unnecessary rhetorical flourish.
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by T-hawk 9y ago
That's your browser doing the checking, not anything that's part of the HN page.
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by T-hawk 9y ago
> Why don't we do at large proportional elections instead of district based plurality elections? Because the seats going to the smaller parties would come at the expense of the parties currently in power, who are thus strongly disin
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by T-hawk 9y ago
Microsoft fixed this after 2010. VS 2012 and onwards can open a 2010 project file with no changes. A mixed population of Visual Studios from 2010+ can work on the same project file.
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by T-hawk 9y ago
The POTUS has 300 million users. Facebook has 2 billion.
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by T-hawk 9y ago
It's not just the quantity; it's the overall efficiency, of quantity compared to the cost of infrastructure and operations. Buses hold more but cost a lot more to build and drive, including stations and maintenance facilities, an
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by T-hawk 9y ago
Counter-anecdote here. I've biked to work on and off for a total of about 5 years worth over my career, at distances of about two miles each way, in a dense city. I've never had any accident with a car. My one collision ever wa
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by T-hawk 9y ago
The purpose isn't to generate the ranking list. The purpose is to evaluate hands. The list is a one-time cost however you make it, but evaluating the randomly dealt cards would have the ongoing cost of sorting every time if not for t
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by T-hawk 9y ago
Because 3459T is equivalent to 345T9 and 34T59 and all the other permutations. You need to either hash all the permutations (making your lookup table 5! times bigger) or sort the hand by card value. It is faster to multiply the 5 prime fac
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by T-hawk 9y ago
> it's actually quite likely that at least one of them could have a pretty high probability of experiencing one in 500 chance of something each year. This is the key point here, and it's called the fallacy of multiple endpoints
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by T-hawk 9y ago
> (or at least give people $10k/yr towards tuition) This just means the colleges will raise their price by $10k/year. They will charge what the market will bear and capture the subsidy for themselves.
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by T-hawk 9y ago
Be careful about selection bias in your empirical data. Suppose you're 50. You probably know more people 10 years away from your own age than 40. So no surprise you see more people die at 60 than at 90, because you know more at 60 in
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by T-hawk 9y ago
The alternative is to treat the simulation as a series of immutable instants. Every step of the simulation is encapsulated and represented as a data structure. So the core loop would look something like nextState = advanceFrame(currentSta
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by T-hawk 9y ago
This often comes up regarding Dropbox. It's not that Dropbox couldn't offer a cheaper tier than $10/month. It's that they don't want to. $10/1TB is not a ratio to be arbitrarily divided, no matter how much pe
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by T-hawk 9y ago
The RF modulator is huge because it's also the power supply. Yet another odd quirk of this machine's design.

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