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by bhickey 8y ago
I've got a Snoo on order, if it works it's worth every penny.
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by bhickey 9y ago
My role was a minor one. The last thing I pushed was a Wang tile layout system that makes the Crypt more visually interesting. > Are there any other similar games (proper roguelikes or not) you've found as enjoyable as DCSS? Brogue
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by bhickey 9y ago
Hey, I was a crawl dev from 2009 until whenever I pushed my last commit. Your reaction suggests that you're either unfamiliar with or misunderstand crawl's development philosophy. Crawl development strives to eliminate grinding an
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by bhickey 9y ago
A friend of mine ended up on the Forbes "30 Under 30" because he was friends with the journalist who was compiling it. He was "qualified", but there are thousands of other people who are just as good.
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by bhickey 9y ago
I disagree with her leadership style, but it's unfair to blame Yahoo!'s collapse on her. The company was doomed with or without her. She took on an untenable role in exchange for a big pay package.
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by bhickey 9y ago
Having worked closely with some of her old lieutenants, I don't think this is accurate.
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by bhickey 9y ago
> “Good students are good at all things.” This is an unfounded and dangerous belief. Skills do not necessarily transfer. Ben Carson, for example, is by all accounts the most talented neurosurgeon to ever live. He doesn't give the im
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by bhickey 9y ago
Slime molds are another excellent model for studying cheating. They're typically single cell organisms except when starved. Then they chemotax an aggregate into a multi-cellular organism. At this point they undergo sporulation, produci
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by bhickey 9y ago
The captain flew the next day without seeking medical treatment after being incapacitated midflight? That's outrageous if I'm reading this right.
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by bhickey 9y ago
> Americans would have to pay taxes in both Canada and America. You deduct foreign tax payments on foreign earned income against your US tax bill. My assumption is that Canada has higher or comparable tax rates to the US which makes this
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by bhickey 9y ago
While that thread breaks down the idealized probabilities, it doesn't say anything about the RNG behavior itself. Some generators have bad seeds. It's conceivable that Billy got lucky and hit one of these. I sincerely doubt that&#
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by bhickey 9y ago
This is easy to resolve. Just dump the ROM and look at the RNG.
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by bhickey 9y ago
I previously subscribed to Clarkesworld in paper. Last year I switched to digital only so that Neil would get more money.
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by bhickey 9y ago
> Actually the exact opposite is happening. You're mistaken and given your responses elsewhere I think you're either confused or arguing in bad faith. The mean tax rate paid by the top 0.1% of earners in 1979 was just over 40%.
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by bhickey 9y ago
Why on earth haven't they removed him in a diplomatic bag or handcuffed to their ambassador?
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by bhickey 9y ago
I wrote a gruesome wang tile implementation for dungeon crawl: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/d0efa662383971e981fb52f8... In addition to color it supports 'oriented colors': blue+ matches blue-
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by bhickey 9y ago
We should also start allocating H-1Bs through a salary auction rather than by lottery. It'd put an end to body shops.
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by bhickey 9y ago
> Monte Carlo simulation is the obvious exception It depends. :) Even then very few realistic simulations are going to be RNG bound. Even fewer of those are going to care about the difference between Xoroshiro and AES-CTR (with AESNI). A
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by bhickey 9y ago
Looks like it: https://www.outsideonline.com/2191911/american-climbers-conf...
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by bhickey 9y ago
Rescues above 7000m aren't really an organized affair. When I traveled to the Himalayas I carried rescue insurance and it specifically excluded any efforts above 7000m. When you hear about attempts made to save people at high altitude
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by bhickey 9y ago
I'd rather see Nepal ban fixed ropes and yank the ladder off the Hillary Step, but that'd kill the whole industry.
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by bhickey 9y ago
> There's already more than a few bodies up there now. Some are a little famous, like the green boots guy. The bodies can't be removed. The Times just had an interesting feature on Everest body recovery: https://www.
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by bhickey 9y ago
> csprng: 909 ns/Op OK, go ships a lousy csprng. I've been asking the team to replace it but no one has gotten around to it. AES-CTR, for example, is competitive with Xorshift and Xoroshiro. > Xorshift128+ is what all major
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by bhickey 9y ago
Since the discussion seems to have already degenerated into waxing poetic about this RNG or that I'd like to throw in: Do not use pseudo-random number generators. Use cryptographically secure random number generators. From a performanc
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by bhickey 9y ago
This letter is disingenuous in its argumentation. > the earnings on the assets were taxed year after year Given the stepped up basis upon death, gains accrued during life are never taxed.
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by bhickey 9y ago
Good thing no one has ever sold their rivals to American forces claiming that they were enemy combatants. https://www.propublica.org/article/uighurs-sold-to-us-milita...
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by bhickey 9y ago
Not so much. I spent a chunk of 2009-2010 hanging around with British bitcoin enthusiasts. It was predicated on greater fools then and it still is.
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by bhickey 9y ago
Tulips are on their way back. Let's get in on the ground floor!
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by bhickey 9y ago
This isn't how things work. They appointed him precisely because he's a hack.
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by bhickey 9y ago
This is a fantastic market distortion. They've established a quality floor for food without regulatory overhead.

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