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by a1k0n 16y ago
I would wager this is almost certainly why his cholesterol dropped and explains many of the effects. This is basically the central premise of the book The China Study, which is what convinced me to go vegetarian myself about a year ago (I
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by a1k0n 16y ago
Have you tried de-duping files to save space? I imagine there's a finite number of MIDI files and "under construction" GIFs that could just be symlinked to save a ton of space...
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by a1k0n 16y ago
Not really, because every changeset from the new-ui-widget branch shows up after the point at which the rebase happened, so there is a clear cutoff in the git log between branch changes and master/upstream changes after you've rebased.
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by a1k0n 16y ago
The Kindle is effectively "off" in standby mode. You can't send books to it, unless you use a USB cable, in which case it boots up in USB mass storage mode. Or is wifi still on on the Kindle 3?
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by a1k0n 16y ago
The reason for this restriction is because your process and your opponent's run simultaneously on the same machine, so you only get one CPU. Doing your own userspace threading or whatever is fine.
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by a1k0n 16y ago
But from what little I know, you also aren't allowed to list Southwest prices on other online booking aggregators. Our company travel site makes us open their site separately to check prices for this reason (I think -- it seems highly unli
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by a1k0n 16y ago
Yeah, there's an extra /qa/ in the URL. Removing that works.
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by a1k0n 16y ago
Discover has had a little Flash app for generating one-time-use numbers for many years now.
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by a1k0n 16y ago
My dad fell for that. Twice. Man I hate those people.
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ICFP Contest Retrospective(cdsmith.wordpress.com)
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by a1k0n 16y ago
My pet peeve is Handel Gothic D. It's Papyrus's high-tech cousin. http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/handel-gothic/d-bold/
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by a1k0n 16y ago
Well, the C64 for instance had complicated enough video and sound to warrant separate devices, plus a bunch of peripheral ports (joysticks, etc) and then you need address decoding logic to support all of that. It all depends how much of it
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by a1k0n 16y ago
The best one is the Conan/Leno story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y04H5mFUFM
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by a1k0n 16y ago
Perfect rational betting without card counting is to not play at all, since the house has a ~0.5% edge on a fresh deck (depending on the exact rule variations).
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by a1k0n 16y ago
Or really, any computer supporting OpenGL. This stuff is always an issue: figuring out the correct depth buffer size (not as much of a problem as it used to be), finding the vendor-specific version of the extensions you need to use, differ
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by a1k0n 16y ago
The various grammatical errors picked my interest as well.
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by a1k0n 16y ago
Strangely enough, I just turned down a job offer from Google today, for a complex variety of reasons. Mainly, though, I had a choice between a promotion at my current company, where I know exactly what I'm getting into, and a job at Google
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by a1k0n 17y ago
The contest site had a problem with their JVM which interacted badly with their sandboxing environment. The 1-second time limit would disqualify any Java entry that took something like 50ms or more for some unknown reason.
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by a1k0n 17y ago
> Did you do any sort of memoization of the minmax evaluation? None. Considered it, but didn't really think it was worthwhile. I was mostly focused on having a good evaluation. I know a lot of my competitors did that, though, but wit
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by a1k0n 17y ago
You know, I didn't even once mention the language I used. Realtime constraints and searching speed were the driving factor here; you have to return a move in under one second. I didn't want to risk GC pauses, and I'm not good enough with
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by a1k0n 17y ago
So would I, but I'm afraid to find out. Most of the development was done after putting my son to bed and before collapsing of exhaustion at 3am.
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by a1k0n 19y ago
I'd like to see an AJAX ssh/terminal client. How do you plan to do that? Lots of XMLHttpRequest polling? I hate that there isn't a way to do some kind of persistent socket connection in browser-Javascript, unless you include Flash into