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by a_cardboard_box 4y ago
If our consciousness is merely observing the universe, why do our physical mouths talk about the consciousness we experience? It sure seems like our consciousness is affecting the material world.
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by a_cardboard_box 4y ago
I think butlerm was saying that dereferencing a null pointer has system-defined semantics in machine code , and that C should inherit those semantics. > If you dereference it, you have a bug no matter what the manifestation on a specifi
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by a_cardboard_box 4y ago
It's not moving 2 squares orthogonally. It's moving sqrt(5) squares orthogonally. In normal chess, the knight can move to any square which is exactly sqrt(5) units away.
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by a_cardboard_box 4y ago
You can also tell it's made by programmers because of the en passant "feature", which clearly only exists due to the programmers' incomplete implementation of the 2-square first move.
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by a_cardboard_box 4y ago
In this case the Tesla slammed on the brakes and changed lanes, so there wasn't a realistic way for the other car to prevent the collision.
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by a_cardboard_box 4y ago
A fixed background might look fine with some pixels being smaller, but if you scroll it around you change which pixels are smaller which is very noticeable at a 4:5 ratio.
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by a_cardboard_box 4y ago
> Canadian tech leaders who have built apps for large corporate clients have described Ottawa’s $54-million price tag for ArriveCan as outrageous, explaining that in their experience, most apps are built for less than $1-million. Why did
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by a_cardboard_box 4y ago
The French horn is a popular answer to "what's the hardest orchestral instrument?". It has longer tubing and therefore a lower fundamental frequency than a trombone, but typically plays in a higher range. The higher above the
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by a_cardboard_box 4y ago
I just repro'd the bug with 5 whys: "Why. Why. Why. Why. Why."
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by a_cardboard_box 5y ago
Internally it evals your input, so it accepts inputs like 23//00 since everything after the // is a comment. You can also get it to create a regex like /0000/ but it doesn't do anything interesting with it