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   by fferen 15y ago

   The " kwds" technique is actually something I came up with independently to solve a different problem when I was using PyGame: ridiculously long argument lists when constructing sprites. In this case it significantly increased the flexibil
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   by fferen 15y ago

   Got the same answer with a slightly improved brute force search, in about 3 minutes. I spent more time than that trying to find a "clever" way to do it, lol.
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   by fferen 16y ago

   I think parent was referring to the definition on the Wikipedia page: "When n is a positive integer, exponentiation corresponds to repeated multiplication." And then an equation that suggests an iterative approach.
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   by fferen 16y ago

   For all the people saying X search engine is better, here's a tool to compare Google and Bing (and Yahoo) results without bias. It simply shows you three columns of results, you click on the one with the best results, and it reveals which o
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   by fferen 16y ago

   +1. Plus the speed of reading is many times higher than the speed of speaking/listening. Also, videos often cause me to space out after a few seconds and do something else, thinking, "I'll listen in the background." This usually doesn't wor