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541.
by gridspy 10y ago
Putting "The sky is black" as a title seems incorrect to me, even though the statement "The sky is black on the Moon" is true.
542.
by gridspy 10y ago
Better title is 2 mod 2 == 0
543.
by gridspy 10y ago
A combination of the python pixel capture and memory scanning (for the captured value) could work here.
544.
by gridspy 10y ago
That's the interesting thing about looking through the output of any computer algorithm. I have often done this with random walks using markov chains. By editing 200 lines into just 3 or 4, you are actually adding a lot of information.
545.
by gridspy 10y ago
Because when humans do, there is an obvious (sometimes less obvious, but present) reason to do so. There is no such link made in this example between the usages.
546.
by gridspy 10y ago
I got 6/6 I didn't even read that far. It was obvious by here: SONNET #2 The dirty rusty wooden dresser drawer. A couple million people wearing drawers, Or looking through a lonely oven door, Flowers covered unde
547.
by gridspy 11y ago
Encryption won't protect you - the cloud provider has access to executables (in ram and perhaps on disc), your keys (ram and disc) and the data both pre and post encryption (in ram). Because they control the hypervisor, they control ev
548.
by gridspy 11y ago
People who emerge onto the footpath are often not prepared to avoid a cyclist cruising along at >4x the speed of a normal pedestrian.
549.
by gridspy 11y ago
1000 of something on the shelf - that was the easy part done. Yay. 1000 boxes / envelopes stuffed, addressed shipped, through customs and to clients - OMG so much pain, so much time.
550.
by gridspy 11y ago
It's a marketing channel. You pay real costs to provision and support free users so that some of them will become paid users. It only works if there is a high enough proportion of conversions to paid.
551.
by gridspy 11y ago
Only if your couch makes it through a security screening.
552.
by gridspy 11y ago
You need to add a test at the start of your quicksort function - when the number of elements for this invocation is < 500, invoke native sort on the current subset.
553.
by gridspy 11y ago
dupe. Use edit instead.
554.
by gridspy 11y ago
The best way to get a full featured anything is to start with a Minimum Viable Product and improve it by degrees. It's much easier to start with a dependent colony and slowly solve the dependency problems until it is actually independe
555.
by gridspy 11y ago
Yes, it shares that 'feature' in common with JavaScript.
556.
by gridspy 11y ago
When I first talked to AI gurus for FPS shooters about AI I thought that true intelligence and emergent behavior from the actors are good things. I quickly learnt that most players want a gratifying and somewhat predictable experience. If y
557.
by gridspy 11y ago
I commented earlier that I didn't like the timer. I much prefer this version. Also despite my criticism I do love the UI, polish, sound and gameplay. Kudos and well done! :)
558.
by gridspy 11y ago
Exactly. I play a game like this to relax. This game is stressful due to the timer aspect, while I love 2048 I will never play this game again. I loved it until the timer was introduced. I got to 15.
559.
by gridspy 11y ago
I'm fairly confident it would destroy the jet engine. The shrapnel from the drone is likely to blow the very tight tolerances between the compressor blades and the body of the jet engine, causing jams.
560.
by gridspy 12y ago
Based on this quote "static friction in bipropellant valves introduce a lag that the control system couldn't handle" It sounds like the fuel valves which control the engine's throttle took longer to turn up or down the r
561.
by gridspy 12y ago
The first instance of 8 way unrolling loop: acc += A acc += B ... was inefficient because each add instruction is dependent on the one before it. The CPU has to pause constantly to wait for the result in acc in orde
562.
by gridspy 12y ago
Performance thought: I like the way you raytrace the entire image at once. Clever, but you might be able to make it faster... Right now you process the entire image in one hit. However a 1080p * 4 byte image is 777,600 bytes - from a quick
563.
by gridspy 12y ago
Don't undersell your experience. You might not realise it, but occasionally an insight to use a particular approach might shave days to weeks off the development timescale. It's not all about how fast you can hammer out bits and
564.
by gridspy 12y ago
What you should do to fix that is to make the very last frame and very first frame much longer. That would make the loop obvious. Nice graphics!
565.
by gridspy 12y ago
If you simply don't believe in god, you're agnostic. If you actively believe that there is no god, you're atheist.
566.
by gridspy 12y ago
Squares can push other squares sideways.
567.
by gridspy 12y ago
There are good reasons for this - When the battery has just started charging, the voltage will not be high enough for the phone to actually work, because the draw from the battery exceeds the plug pack input - Sometimes when transmitting, t
568.
by gridspy 12y ago
We'd rather tell our story and encourage word of mouth than just purchase clicks. So we invested our advertising budget into a film for more organic marketing. We're really delighted to see how much our client (AJ Bates, who talks
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4 points by gridspy 12y ago|3 comments
570.
by gridspy 12y ago
The merge stage of merge sort will only work if the input lists are already sorted. In this case they are unsorted. I'd ignore the fact that there were initially 2 lists and just concatinate them and sort. I.e sort(unsorted1 + unsorted

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