dsamarin

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by dsamarin 8y ago
I knew this would be created eventually but I was thinking it would just be a shell. This looks impressive at first glance, implementing everything with OpenGL.
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by dsamarin 8y ago
I can't tell where you draw the line. Would you share your alternative to credit scoring information for private money lenders? And government watch lists?
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by dsamarin 8y ago
I thought of the same episode. Either way it seems very dystopian no matter who is providing the ratings to influence citizen's prospects.
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by dsamarin 8y ago
If we go down that rabbit hole, are you allowed to perform well in your job using confidential information in order to gain a promotion?
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by dsamarin 8y ago
Yes but you don't need exact colors. Just a limited set of colors that can be matched up, especially after correcting for white balance.
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by dsamarin 8y ago
Makes me want to start a RAM-as-a-service company.
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by dsamarin 8y ago
You might really enjoy Rainpaper then. It lets you choose a background or download popular images from Reddit. But my favorite feature is the integration with Dark Sky so the rain and intensity is activated when it really is raining. https
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by dsamarin 8y ago
A terminating null element or logical equivalent in an array is helpful in lots of situations. As one example it simplifies the logic of looking for an element in an array and performing some special operation if it was not found. No bool f
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by dsamarin 8y ago
Seems like a very useful short snippet for creating threads without having to learn a new threading API coming from a JS background. It seems to me like it would be more useful however to implement these functions using a queue and run loop
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by dsamarin 8y ago
Seems odd to decentralize monetary power away from the government if it were to have been created by a government.
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by dsamarin 8y ago
What word do they use for that in (I'm assuming) Tennessee?
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by dsamarin 8y ago
Well, I have done just about all I can to do to make the Matrix digital rain, but I am sadly 100 bytes over. I am out of time to kill, but if you aren't, please take this off of my hands. :) with(x)for(fillStyle="#000",fi
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by dsamarin 8y ago
Fun fact: For most cars the sweet spot on the speedometer is about 40 to 60 mph, and generally, doubling your speed requires more than double the horsepower. Speeders likely already spend more than $0.25 in gas per trip from lost fuel effic
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by dsamarin 8y ago
> Heathrow Airport seems to have been in denial that anyone might save data to drives or, if they did, would fail to secure them properly. Just entertaining myself here by speculating, but could it have been possible that someone attempt
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by dsamarin 8y ago
So I suppose that header = (struct header_t*)(block - 1); would be UB then.
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by dsamarin 8y ago
What a stark difference! Thank you for this.
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by dsamarin 8y ago
It's definitely exponential. Would be great to see a chart for active websites over the years. Knowing that 75% are parked domains shows more how much people are buying domains only as a precaution.
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by dsamarin 8y ago
How do you expect a driver to maintain a dead man's switch the entire time they are driving in manual mode? Or conversely, suppose the switch must be maintained while the car is in autonomous mode, should the car pull over and stop on
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by dsamarin 8y ago
Instead of averaging, I can recommend my go-to L-estimator for this sort of thing: the midsummary. Take the average of the 40% and 60% percentile as your measure of central tendency of performance.
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by dsamarin 8y ago
Given 60fps games, with 5 minutes of play, and 8 NES buttons, it seems reasonable to search through just under 4,608,000 possible plays to find the shortest run! 5 mins * 60 fps * 2^8 button possibilities = 4,608,000 button possibility fram
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by dsamarin 8y ago
I once had to multiply the `rsi` register by 3 so you bet I used `imul rsi, 3`, right? Nope. This does the exact same thing with an unknown or small performance advantage: lea rsi, [rsi + rsi*2]
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by dsamarin 8y ago
Funny though since a netcast is already another word for podcast according to Wikipedia. Netpods, anyone?
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by dsamarin 8y ago
Why are mathematicians so scared to look at and validate his proof? I would love to see a good faith effort and have any mistakes found sooner rather than later. Does it have to be so personal? I don't consider myself a mathematician b
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by dsamarin 8y ago
Interestingly, the author has come around to the idea that the algorithms can be trusted to act in an unbiased manner, even so far as to prefer a programmed criminal judge: https://youtu.be/lUqzVH1GjQo I'm sure this co
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by dsamarin 8y ago
I made this[0] a while back as an implementation of merge sort in JavaScript with continuation passing style. His seems very similar but uses quicksort. Surprising since merge sort has fewer comparisons than quicksort's average case[1]
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by dsamarin 8y ago
Does this essentially make an equivalent of a refrigerator at a quantum scale?
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by dsamarin 8y ago
Thanks, "fixing now!"
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by dsamarin 8y ago
I am currently taking this class, and am happily surprised this made it here. The book needs more work, but I still believe it's an great resource. For example, on page 11 it says "Note that when the lower 32-bit eax portion of th
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by dsamarin 8y ago
The Game Boy Camera has an analog output (a technical data sheet for the chip is available[1]), so the dithering is done in software. Although I am speculating, at first glance it appears to be ordered dithering[2]. EDIT: I did find a docum