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by cmiller1 10y ago
In some of these lines I feel like I'd prefer to see more parenthesis. Sure, I can figure out what is happening here: } else if (D < 2048 - 2 * 256) { but if it were grouped with a few more parenthesis it would take a litt
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by cmiller1 10y ago
Some of these lines look too sinusoidal to me. I would want more randomness for the "hand drawn" look.
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by cmiller1 10y ago
>The ratio can now be as much as 1:100, so a supercomputer is forced to spend the vast majority of its time moving data to and from memory. This is spurring the adoption of data-tiering hardware and software that try to maximize CPU eff
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by cmiller1 11y ago
I suspect it's not a "why" but simply a "I didn't think to check for that" from the point of view of the person writing the browser.
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by cmiller1 11y ago
Sorry, I work in a photonics lab so in casual conversation more of the spectrum is "optical" to me. I just meant to ask if you just increase your sampling rate doesn't that mean you have to worry more about things like dispe
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by cmiller1 11y ago
>higher sample rate ADCs and DACs becoming more viable Question, on optical networks doesn't this make dispersion more of a problem?
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by cmiller1 11y ago
Another example: the Sega Dreamcast was the last video game console designed from the ground up with 2D graphics in mind and still retains a cult following for this reason.
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by cmiller1 11y ago
>Open issue: how to deal with a command that requires interaction. Yet this problem is solved very simply in bash and other shells by simply allowing you to explicitly tell it when to run a command in the background and when not to using
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by cmiller1 11y ago
I found this statement interesting. >The new guts are getting you better performance but also better battery life with what Apple says is 10 hours of web browsing or 11 hours of iTunes movie playback. Movie playback used to be considered
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by cmiller1 11y ago
One of the things I kind of miss about the table based layouts of yesteryear was it seemed to be a lot easier to make sites that looked good in terminal/text based web browsers. The modern idea of doing all of your actual layout in CS
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by cmiller1 11y ago
I already use w3m to read hacker news most of the time anyways.
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by cmiller1 11y ago
Nope, all circles have a perimeter of 19.7392088022.
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by cmiller1 11y ago
> The trees on the 30th floor will never have a thick trunk, because they will die And won't it be lovely to see these trees falling thirty stories onto unsuspecting pedestrians.
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by cmiller1 11y ago
Maybe I'm behind the curve, but I still use TextMate, is there any chance a plug-in is in the works for it?
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Random Walk Using Race Conditions(gist.github.com)
1 points by cmiller1 11y ago|0 comments
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by cmiller1 11y ago
Sort of? You're not supposed to DEPEND on it as your only means security, but it certainly lowers the likelihood of something being broken into when combined with other methods of security.
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by cmiller1 11y ago
>The iPhone did not get less secure. It has always had this security hole. Although given the fact that it was made public that they found a security hole, won't that change the behavior of malicious actors? Now that it's know
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by cmiller1 11y ago
Is it only five fails on TouchID to delete data? I don't have the option to delete the data enabled on my iPhone... but it often takes more than five tries to just get it to work on my finger that is legitimately registered in touchID
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by cmiller1 11y ago
Comcast has a 300GB data cap... Google Fiber offers 2Gbps service. If Comcast had Google Fiber's speed you could hit your data cap in 20 minutes.
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by cmiller1 11y ago
I tried Löve a few times as well as many others while searching for an engine to make simple graphical/physical simulations using a dynamic scripting language in for work (using other libraries). It was okay but my favorite was Gosu (
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by cmiller1 11y ago
Technically you can run any of the window managers you use for Linux or BSD on top of X11, but you can only run *nix software, not Mac specific software, in those windows.
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by cmiller1 11y ago
Oh! I didn't see it in the list of operators on the tutorial so I assumed it didn't.
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by cmiller1 11y ago
I threw together a quick, naive, FizzBuzz in it on their online demo, was surprised to find that it doesn't have a modulus operator. Can anyone come up with something simpler? let divisible = fn (x, y){ return (x-(x/y*y))
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by cmiller1 11y ago
I don't have anything to add to this other than me too. I think I watched the VHS about a million times in the 80s when I was a wee one.
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by cmiller1 11y ago
I was a part of finding a secret in the SNES version of Sim City that had gone almost undiscovered for over 20 years after release. These things happen.
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by cmiller1 11y ago
I believe I heard that the soviets experimented in the early days with ternary computers, and took it further than anyone else did. Does anyone have more information on that?
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by cmiller1 11y ago
That sheet music isn't Apex Twin, it's a "joke" unplayable piece of written music called Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz made by John Stump
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by cmiller1 11y ago
>Does homebrew still work? When I installed it I just had to manually restore write permission on /usr/local/bin, which it allowed me to do with SIP still on.
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by cmiller1 11y ago
I kinda like the homage to the original Mac OS. It's so faithful you can tell the creators were fans.
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Microsoft Not Holding Up Promise to Extend Office 2016 Preview
13 points by cmiller1 11y ago|0 comments

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