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by aaaronic 3y ago
The GBA has native support for integer division, but it does not have any hardware support for floating point arithmetic at all — compilers will insert a virtual floating point unit that does IEEE 754 in software, which takes hundreds of CP
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by aaaronic 3y ago
I think the edge cases were entirely unclear in day 1, part 2. I had to redo it in a "dumb"/brute-force way to avoid using fancy regex tricks I don't know. It's quite clear the small sample data was chosen intention
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by aaaronic 3y ago
With the bug I saw years ago, just having certain accessibility features of the browser enabled _at all_ caused the bug (we were able to temporarily mitigate by disabling some obscure Edge accessibility feature via a launch parameter). So,
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by aaaronic 3y ago
This is _so_ familiar! I have seen accessibility tools in Chrome lead to this kind of issue in the past with a dropdown menu -- to the point where it could be replicated with a miniscule amount of HTML. The particular bug I hit 2 years ago
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by aaaronic 3y ago
Probably the least crazy of his ideas. With the runaway inflation there, I get why the idea seems like a good one, especially at first glance. I know the realities of such a change are pretty complex and nuanced and that doesn't seem l
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by aaaronic 3y ago
3+ body orbits can be wild! It doesn't make any sense in a 2-body orbit (those are all conic sections).
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by aaaronic 3y ago
I feel like I used to use a tool called Beyond Compare that presented _many_ different views of a diff (and even supported N-way diffs) back around 2012.
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by aaaronic 3y ago
The "everything must be a SPA" mentality these days just saddens me. I get that GMail and similarly complicated apps get benefits from being SPA, but I've worked at too many places that just insist on a mess of complexity on
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by aaaronic 3y ago
Web browsers in particular have become operating systems unto themselves. The "modern web" has so many features, often implemented in half a dozen competing ways... Just text rendering on modern hardware can be a HUGE lift. Modern
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by aaaronic 3y ago
Why won't they see another generation of star formation when supernovae push gases into dense regions again? It seems like the stage you're talking about is more than a few billion years away (more like 10s of billions).
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by aaaronic 3y ago
"As a concrete example:..." I ended up completely misreading that line at first because my brain was desperately looking for a pun.
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by aaaronic 3y ago
I just read this as an argument for tiny incremental changes and very short-lived branches. This can work well for a team that is very highly engaged and where Code Reviews get immediate attention. When I've worked for startups, I&#x27
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by aaaronic 3y ago
Or more, indeed!
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by aaaronic 3y ago
Finally! It was only hidable via a registry hack when it first came out.
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by aaaronic 4y ago
Won't the new Bing be used by DDG? I thought DDG was on top of Bing already.
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by aaaronic 4y ago
Sure, but .1 is definitely representable, so they can be excused for finding it a little unreasonable that .1+.1+.1+.1+.1+.1+.1+.1+.1+.1 doesn't equal 1 in many languages. Explaining _why_ .1 isn't representable requires explainin
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by aaaronic 4y ago
Asbestos is, sadly, completely natural and mined directly from the ground. The other things in your list are obviously not. GMOs are a very complicated topic, and I can see both sides of the argument having some merit. Proving that new thin
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by aaaronic 4y ago
Yeah, I was really going for something like "the more things change, the more they stay the same."
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by aaaronic 4y ago
Good to hear you're doing relatively well, and I agree that injecting positivity where you can is probably one of the sanest ways to live.
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by aaaronic 4y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head there with the survivorship bias and the raised in a bubble comments. Most people are raised in a bubble because children generally can't cope with how messy and complicated the world is. And system
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by aaaronic 4y ago
Geodes?
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by aaaronic 4y ago
Isn't this just a bunch of static object pools? That's extremely common in embedded programming. I'm glad to see someone recognized it could apply to a database. My students do this on the GameBoy Advance specifically so they
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by aaaronic 4y ago
I believe in Star Trek cannon, Romulans use artificial black holes as the power source in their ships.
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by aaaronic 4y ago
Office Space has relevant scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8
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by aaaronic 4y ago
This 100% aligns with my own experience and reasons for switching teams in the past.
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by aaaronic 4y ago
poorly monitored -- the vote up/down is typically used in internal performance metrics and when it dips too low, then someone analyses the feedback to see where they can improve the scores. Some teams stay way more on top of the metr
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by aaaronic 4y ago
But the sock puppet sings exactly the quoted line...
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by aaaronic 4y ago
Too true in the case of the multi-sig wallet I lost one of the keys to :'( (thankfully only a fraction of a single BTC).
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by aaaronic 4y ago
I worked at a place that was trying to do this for thousands of restaurants, only they wanted to configure the POS system (all the items, variations, modifications, combos, etc.) using just the PDF menu. We never got very far with automatin
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by aaaronic 4y ago
I share this with my students when I talk about paletted display modes on the Gameboy Advance. A couple of students actually made use of it this semester on their projects.

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