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by greenbit 3y ago
And where does bad code go when it dies? Idk it's just me, the title made me think of Nirvana's Lake of Fire
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by greenbit 3y ago
Audio tracks of sounds from PCs.
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by greenbit 3y ago
In the conclusions section, there is reference to "three conjectures on how one might enhance energy- momentum to spacetime curvature coupling" - which might be shortened to something like "e-m gravity coupling", but tha
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by greenbit 3y ago
Was half expecting the robot child dialog to swerve into "so if there were no functioning society, what I did would not be wrong? One moment .."
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by greenbit 3y ago
Trying to understand the weather from maps that just grey out Canada is like trying to figure out what's going on in a chess game if you can only see half the board.
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by greenbit 3y ago
Not sure they're talking about fry, there. With the vocal fry you can hear some serious hang time while the speaker grinds out that croaky noise. But this other thing sounds almost choked off, definitely not drawn out.
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by greenbit 3y ago
Location, location, location. Ceres, that's where you want to set up. Just enough gravity so you probably can't jump off it, lots of ice, a fair bit closer than Ganymede with easier take offs, convenient halfway between Mars and a
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by greenbit 4y ago
The Marlin Perkins who somehow always managed to be safely overhead in the helicopter, while his associate Jim was down in the tall grass with the lions/wading in the river with the crocodiles/grappling with 30ft long snakes, etc?
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by greenbit 4y ago
Once you tangle with it, you can't help but study it, learn what it looks like in all seasons, what kinds of places it likes to grow. It seems to like the sunny edges of clearings, and hard rocky places other plants reject. So naturall
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by greenbit 4y ago
Might not be a good place to walk in the rain
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by greenbit 4y ago
It's good to recognize the vines that run up tree trunks as well. Easiest when they have leaves, but they don't always have leaves especially in shady areas. The bigger vines tend to have a hairy or bushy look, lots of little root
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by greenbit 4y ago
I'd never even heard of Efinix until right here. Wondering what their toolchain is like - would be awesome if it's not a 600lb gorilla like big X's
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by greenbit 4y ago
No two ways about it, you've got to learn to drive the ship. Trying to hold the center is nigh impossible. Also, the cannon has a short cool-down after 5 rapid shots, so you need to get that 1-2-3-4-5- pause cadence baked into muscle
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by greenbit 4y ago
Sounds a bit like the java.util.concurrent CyclicBarrier
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by greenbit 4y ago
Would like to feed this voice samples, cat's meows, birdsongs, and laughter. Maybe the same voice in different emotional states. Looks fun to play around with.
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by greenbit 4y ago
But wouldn't the GPU help if you were mapping e.g. 256x192 virtual pixels to say 1024x768? I.e., each of the pixels from the low-res space being represented by a NxM patch of actual screen pixels, like a Win32 GDI StretchBlt() call. If
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by greenbit 4y ago
What are you talking about, that movie is a National Treasure.
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by greenbit 4y ago
From what I've heard, the problem is that the reversal can take a few years, during which there may be almost no field strength. That, and there's no guarantee about exactly where the new poles will develop, apart from them appear
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by greenbit 4y ago
Marketers these days would spin that as a "wireless monitor"
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by greenbit 4y ago
Don't forget to draw a diagonal line across the side of your card deck. Don't skimp and use a pencil, get a nice felt tip marker.
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by greenbit 4y ago
It was a combination of things. It allowed a simple line entry system to organize a collection of lines as a linked list, yielding a really simple program editor AND at the same time provided convenient (for the interpreter) labels to use a
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by greenbit 4y ago
What if you delete it, and then make your own shortcut to something else and give it the exact same name Edge was using? Would it delete your shortcut, to make way for its own? Or would it see your shortcut and mistake it for its own?
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by greenbit 4y ago
A trove of links in that, a pdf-hoarder's delight. Some of the linked pages appear to be in Japanese, though scrolling down on those reveals a fair amount of English content, for those who don't grok Japanese.
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by greenbit 4y ago
The news about the breakthrough in FTL will reach Andromeda long before that patent clerk's quaint musings about bendy space ever will.
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by greenbit 4y ago
It's usually stated in meters per second, a somewhat dry, cognitively inaccessible number. Try flipping it around though .. 3.336 microseconds per kilometer People, software engineering types anyway, have a feel for what a microsecond
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by greenbit 4y ago
Commodity PCs back in the 80s and 90s didn't have error correction but they did have parity (iirc). Correction requires three extra bits per byte compared to parity only carrying one extra bit per byte. I recall around 1990 you could g
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by greenbit 4y ago
Anecdotal - I've seen yellow jackets take an interest in deli meat on multiple occasions. Apparently it has something to do with the time of year. I want to say it's springtime when they crave the protein, but, not sure.
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by greenbit 4y ago
Would be interesting to know how long ago this trait evolved, and whether the current state of affairs is stable or if adaptations are in progress. It's not too hard to imagine a mutation from a toxin that causes painful bites, to some
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by greenbit 4y ago
Polarity of the current, too. You have to pull current out of the base of a PNP transistor to get C-E current. If you pull the base of an NPN toward ground, that shuts down the C-E current, but if you pull the base of a PNP toward ground,
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by greenbit 4y ago
Romans supposedly liked mulled wine. Warmed, mildly acidic fluid in a pewter vessel would pick up a bunch more lead than plain old water would.

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