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7y ago
And that's enough. One bit is enough, less than one bit of randomness is enough if you can just repeat the process enough times.
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7y ago
The math was just the prelude to my real world experience. Please try to read and comprehend the rest of my post. If you can't comprehend it, then feel free to ask for clarification or just leave it be without adding any snide remark
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7y ago
> When your render times are 6 hours per frame Ok, let's say we're rendering at 8K (32 megapixels), 200 rays per pixel, 20 bounces per ray. And rendering that frame takes 6 hours. How many (mega)bytes of random data do we nee
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7y ago
Round where I live, it's the wheel noise that gives me a massive headache whenever I go for a walk. Engine noise barely registers, except in the case of some (intentionally) loud cars or trucks. Simply reducing speed limit in urban &a
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7y ago
> The biggest problem is that instead of vendors submitting drivers for their devices in the mainline kernel and profit for all the fixes being done there, everyone makes a fork The other half of the problem is the companies that actuall
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7y ago
Yeah? I just counted six netsplits in the past 24 hours that affected a channel I'm on on IRCnet. I still love IRC. My second home.
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7y ago
And speaking of cycling, it's not uncommon for the wind noise in your ears to deafen you to nearby cars. You just can't rely on ears.
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7y ago
> If you want the most BSD-like distro, it's probably gotta be Slackware. As someone who's used OpenBSD for more than a decade.. no, I do not find Slackware to be BSD-like at all.
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7y ago
> So again, our individuality is lessened. But worse, you are average. Mediocre. When there's 100 biologists in the world, you can always find some way to be slightly different. With 3,000,000 biologists in the world, how could you
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7y ago
> What I don't get is why the escalator manufacturers don't make the risers the same height as normal stairs. The taller the step, the shorter the escalator. Doing that saves space and money.
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7y ago
Oh yeah, that should be easy.
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7y ago
> It's kind of freaking me out. Is the test that hard? You didn't show us the test so let me flip a coin... One can get pretty far in embedded just knowing how to OR flags and mask & shift values. I guess that's somet
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7y ago
Assuming companies are omniscient.. I suspect it's really difficult to tell from within whether your bottom line is being hurt or helped by the interview process. The effects are not immediate, and you rarely have the possibility to
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7y ago
Even freenet is kind of a ghost town..
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7y ago
Don't we all know what BJJ is.
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7y ago
> We just had a group of people who were told to stop playing online Chess all day. What was their job? We're not talking about software developers here, are we?
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7y ago
> 2. Fully remote companies are generally of 3 kinds: a. companies you've heard of and they're serious but since they're looking to hire from a global pool they are extremely picky There are many serious remote companies t
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7y ago
Just like nobody ever did their homework? Because after all, nobody sees you not do it and nobody cares if it's not done when it was supposed to be done. And nobody bats an eye when the feature you talked about in the previous standup
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7y ago
Introvert here. Just being around people is usually straining. I guess I also suffer some kind of social anxiety or whateverthehellitis. It's difficult to relax and focus with people around. When I commuted, the commute was the best
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7y ago
Yeah well I didn't see anyone in my country advertise full time remote positions but I got one by offering to take a job and do it remotely.
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7y ago
> Even with all the annoyances I found when working from home I had a lot of trouble “stopping” — it felt like I was always at work. I'm curious because I never had this problem... Did you have a dedicated computer & desk for wo
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7y ago
> Why do women typically keep long hair while men keep short? Does technology have an answer for this?
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7y ago
> I don't understand this sentiment. The whole point of choosing a permissive license is that you want others to have the right to profit off of your work and give you nothing in return. > > If you don't want others to ha
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7y ago
ssh probably doesn't read the password from stdin.
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7y ago
> The only way to defeat spam No, no, no. There are many ways to combat spam, and there is no silver bullet. "Determining whether you're a bot or not" is just one tool among many, and one that lets human spammers throug
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7y ago
Why does oneplus launcher report to google and how do I turn that shit off?
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7y ago
> These are all MacOS | LibreSSL problems Just MacOS. > If you want documented examples, everyone should know this is where man pages suck in general, they are usually just reference manuals. OpenBSD is generally pretty good about pro
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7y ago
> 4. Apple didn't make LibreSSL. Other systems besides Apple use LibreSSL, and the authors complaints about their lack of documentation are relevant regardless of what Apple does. No, this is specifically Apple's fuck up. The
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7y ago
It should be a massive condemnation of our laws, which they just try to uphold.
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7y ago
I've never been asked how I want the product I buy packaged, or what material its shell should be made of. I'm also never asked whether I'd prefer the product without a design flaw that makes it trash in a year or two (if no
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