TwoBit

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871.
by TwoBit 12y ago
NASA is working in imperial units? Why?
872.
by TwoBit 12y ago
99% of the PDFs I read work fine with the pdf.js reader, and I feel a bit more safe using it than a binary reader.
873.
by TwoBit 12y ago
What you're saying applies to FireFox of years ago, but that's changed, especially with the big memory cleanup of a year or so ago. It now performs ~equal to Chrome under low stress and better under high stress.
874.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Google is gradually becoming the kind of company they used to say they were not.
875.
by TwoBit 12y ago
The paper says that C and C++ don't support fixed point numbers, though with C++ you can write a fixed point class that's nearly the same as a native version. However, it would still be nice if C or C++ supported a native fixed po
876.
by TwoBit 12y ago
I think that while those tests do a good job of proving a certain amount of self-awareness, I don't think that a non-reaction by the animal disproves it.
877.
by TwoBit 12y ago
I have this theory that some animals (e.g. cats and dogs) do in fact recognize that mirrors are reflections, but they just don't care about what's in the reflection. We are fascinated by the idea that we are watching ourselves, bu
878.
by TwoBit 12y ago
One of my cats clearly recognizes me in the mirror and understands that the mirror is a reflection of me. I've done tests where I put the cat in front of the mirror and I stand behind the cat. The cat looks at me in the mirror. I pull
879.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Because usually what the companies are willing to pay is much too low for the actual effort involved.
880.
by TwoBit 12y ago
I have FireFox 29 and those pages rendered fairly fast for me. Maybe a couple seconds per first viewing of a page, worst case.
881.
by TwoBit 12y ago
I tried loading that and it worked pretty well for me. Not fully native speed, but just a couple seconds to draw complex pages. Certainly not a "throw the computer out the window" experience.
882.
by TwoBit 12y ago
The iPhone5s and iPad Air came out more than six months ago and still trounce all Android competitors in performance. How can you call that unimpressive?
883.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Isn't the US going to smart cards within a couple years?
884.
by TwoBit 12y ago
It depends on where you live in the Bay Area. If you avoid San Francisco and the peninsula then housing I'd about the same as the rest of California.
885.
by TwoBit 12y ago
I'm pretty sure Amazon's drone delivery announcement was a PR stunt and not real.
886.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Well it cost them some business, because some companies wouldn't use it due to performing poorly on other processors. I can't see how it would be beneficial for them to cripple AMD performance.
887.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Despite that no real-world quicksort implementations have that worst case (due to fallbacks to other sorts), it seems like it's useful to see the pathological case of pure quicksort anyway.
888.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Too bad it's missing Timsort, which is the fastest stable sort and the standard for some standard libraries.
889.
by TwoBit 12y ago
I have no idea if it's FireFox's fault that it crashes, but you'd hope the developer would test on the major browsers.
890.
by TwoBit 12y ago
I'll bet that if it could then suddenly they might start caring more about it.
891.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Everything seems like a nice architecture compared to x86. I do love the PowerPC instruction set though. I'm not a hardware guy, but it always seemed like PowerPC chips underperformed others and ran as hot as hell while doing so.
892.
by TwoBit 12y ago
I think games that use take advantage of high parallelism would do better on the 8 core devices. We just don't see much of that kind of game in the mobile market.
893.
by TwoBit 12y ago
I switched to TaxACT this year and it was at least as easy as TurboTax, much cheaper, and actually supports more functionality.
894.
by TwoBit 12y ago
It doesn't work for me with the latest FireFox. The interface won't let me do anything. Maybe the server is simply overloaded, because it's almost unresponsive and takes minutes to load the "high scores." It seems t
895.
by TwoBit 12y ago
FireFox (desktop and mobile) and Internet Explorer reject it. Chrome and Dolphin on Android fail to reject it.
896.
by TwoBit 12y ago
VC++ analysis is useful aside from the fact that it mistakenly thinks every pointer usage is a potential null pointer, but I've gotten better results with clang static analysis.
897.
by TwoBit 12y ago
You must be my doppelganger, because I've been saying exactly this for some time. Internet Explorer caused so much trouble partly because it accepted so much bad HTML. It would close tags for you, even.
898.
by TwoBit 12y ago
I think it further indicates that not enough review of the code was done before it was integrated. Dumb variable names like that should be caught at review time.
899.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Whoever said that OpenSSL was written by monkeys continues to be proven right.
900.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Well maybe his patch really wasn't in line with how it needed to be. I've always hated openssl but I'm not sure this is a valid case.

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