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by emtel 9y ago
See "The First Sally -or- Trurl's Electronic Bard", page 12 of the pdf (43 of the book) http://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Reading/Lem... Keep in mind this is all a translation fr
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by emtel 9y ago
There are a lot of places in the valley where it is illegal to build child care facilities, due to environmental hazards. This may not necessarily be an oversight on Apple's part.
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by emtel 10y ago
This won't happen to any large extent for the simple reason that in 95% of the software that people write, deciding what constitutes "correctness" (aka business requirements) is the bulk of the work. Further, those requiremen
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by emtel 10y ago
> Don't use anything from STL that allocates memory, unless you don't care about memory management. I don't even know what to make of this. If you can't afford to use dynamically allocated memory at all , then there&
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by emtel 10y ago
I think saying that "evolution selected consciousness for a reason" is a potential category error. It seems a bit like saying that evolution selected blood pressure. Evolution selected circulatory systems - blood pressure is an in
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by emtel 12y ago
This paper has a lot of false information in it. The sawtooth wave example is just not correct. There is exactly one band-limited (i.e. no frequencies greater than half the sampling frequency) waveform that corresponds to a set of samples.
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by emtel 12y ago
2 samples of a sine wave does not result in a sawtooth wave being reproduced by the DAC. A perfect sawtooth wave actually contains infinitely high frequency content and thus can't be perfectly represented digitally. Check out this vide
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by emtel 14y ago
Realm of The Mad God used procedural generation for its levels, and was hugely successful, so yes, this way of doing things is a change, but it's also not completely unprecedented.
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by emtel 14y ago
It's not really a "hack" so much as how all networked multiplayer games work these days. But it doesn't really get you around the speed of light. If somebody is 100ms away, you can't know that they shot a rocket at you until at least 100ms