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by acqq 6y ago
In fact the "status access violation" message would be much more confusing for the "normal" non-programmer person. I believe the actual error would be "access violation", status is only the prefix. But I don&
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by acqq 6y ago
>> But in reality, all it takes is a mistake or a madman to set off nuclear armageddon. > The works us a lot more interconnected and interdependent. What would Russia be without the west to export its oil and gas to? What would Ch
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by acqq 6y ago
> There were countries that mandated and propagated masks long long before CDC stopped claiming masks do nothing. The first country that immediately used masks was, of course, China. Followed by Taiwan and many other Asian countries. But
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by acqq 6y ago
I'd expect it's fixed since PHP 7.1.0: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rand.php "Note: As of PHP 7.1.0, rand() uses the same random number generator as mt_rand(). To preserve backwards compat
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by acqq 6y ago
That statement that you refer to regarding the instructions for transcendental functions in 80 bits doubles is the result of the way the hardware and the microcode for these functions are implemented. Internally, out of 80 bits, 64 bits are
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by acqq 6y ago
> but not all instructions computed all of them correctly ( https://www.infania.net/misc/coproc.html ) I failed to find which instructions weren't computed correctly in the text linked, and I'd like to know
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by acqq 6y ago
The quote from your link, from March 1st: - "CDC does not recommend that people who are well wear a facemask to protect themselves from respiratory diseases, including COVID-19," the CDC says. "Facemasks should be used by peo
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by acqq 6y ago
Indeed: 386, introduced 1985: http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/80386/Intel-A80386-16.html Typical/Maximum power dissipation: 1.85 Watt / 2.3 Watt And even no Pentium III 1999-2003 needed more than around 30
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by acqq 6y ago
The article is not about randomness in general, once one reads the whole. It's just the title and the longish intro that can mislead. It's about: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03830 "The Fast Loaded Dice Ro
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by acqq 6y ago
Imagine you have 16 cores available. Allowing parallel compilation where it is sequential at the moment, you get 16 times speedup on such a machine. 32 cores machine -- 32 times speedup etc. Or even 10 such machines -- 320 times speedup. On
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by acqq 6y ago
> Perhaps qubits could be constructed in the same way fuzzy bits are -- use a device which writes multiple pieces of data at a higher resolution -- then measure that data with a device that reads at a lower resolution. https:/&#x2F
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by acqq 6y ago
> There was a wine derived thing that used to work on Win64 to run win16 apps Does that mean winevdm doesn't work anymore? https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
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by acqq 6y ago
Let's imagine, for the sake of argument, that the tests are indeed with the false negative rate of 20%. Imagine also that the tests are done to protect a community of 100000 people and that there is simply no more than 10000 test avail
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by acqq 6y ago
> Bulgarian ethnic and religious minorities Note that I never talked about "Bulgarian ethnic and religious minorities". My perspective was much broader. If you ever believed I'm part of these specific minorities, I can ass
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by acqq 6y ago
> who was neither holy, nor roman, nor an emperor It's a trope that "sounds good" but IMHO doesn't get one more knowledge. a) It was de facto an empire, but with an emperor allowing huge independence to the local rule
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by acqq 6y ago
> it's more than a little silly to blame it on the Turks. Not somebody who would be ready to unconditionally defend Bulgarians, but here I don't agree at all. The "Turks" weren't there "500 years ago "
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by acqq 6y ago
The surveillance, including the mass surveillance of the communication, existed even in older times. It is, for example, documented that both British and US secret services went through all the telegrams that passed their commercial infrast
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by acqq 6y ago
As a good point (maybe even intentional) the article is contradictory itself, using sentences like "This" "analogy, while tempting, fails to take into account" ... and then continuing with other shallow explanations. And
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by acqq 6y ago
> You can use Benford's law to detect made up counts like people did with Bernie Madoff's frauds Do you know more than what is claimed in this article (1) ? 1) https://www.businessinsider.com/2008/12/b
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by acqq 6y ago
> In the same image, the pedestrians up top do have crisply drawn features The are supposed to have them, in order to match the figure where the joke is. Larson jokes are in big part visual jokes: he draws intentionally so that a reader
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by acqq 6y ago
> And it is even worse not to communicate publicly but to reply that people should have followed the relevant mailing list. From the article: "the community spotted changes to the code that broke the embargo ". So it's re
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by acqq 6y ago
> I'm sure this is to some extent intentional to avoid drawing too much attention to these peripheral features Yes. The goal is the opposite of not having that blurred. If you expected something else... it's not him, it's
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by acqq 6y ago
The videos are removed because somebody reports them. The "reporters" should also have "a skin in the game" e.g. their "karma" should suffer (i.e. the "amount of belief in their claim") every time the
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by acqq 6y ago
"Making of" landing gear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77oRSCxGmYA "Gear Stats: •3 months' work between design and build (early June - early September). About a month per side. •Over 200 hours of wor
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by acqq 6y ago
> Spectrum BASIC was very slow especially compared to BBC Basic. Yes. The commercial games were all assembly anyway. The BASIC was just to get the idea what is possible, assembly to achieve the speed. > a stack based VM for floating p
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by acqq 6y ago
The original book presenting the disassembly was: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780861611164/Complete-Spectrum-R... by Dr Ian Logan and Dr Frank O'Hara, 1983 published by Melbourne House, here is the scan of their c
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New Stuff – Fresh from Larson’s Lab(thefarside.com)
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by acqq 6y ago
The article is effectively creating a conspiracy theory by leaving out the most important aspects of the motivation of the whole research: - The virology experts have known for decades that "spillovers" from animals to humans happ
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by acqq 6y ago
> I have a collection of old Linux game demos from late 90s and early 2000s and i tried them a couple of years ago in a modern distro Let me point again: I started the thread describing the opposite scenario: Developing a program and del
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by acqq 6y ago
How about: Demonstrate state-of-the-art approach for a simple task of: - making a program to encrypt or decrypt the file, given a password. - implement that in small number of lines of code of C, so that it can be easy to verify the impleme

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