hcles

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by hcles 6y ago
You can get the full stack of the crash point (and a few extra frames that handles the stack generation) in a deferred recover, ie https://play.golang.org/p/XvZteY6Y6fh github.com/pkg/errors is a simple way t
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by hcles 8y ago
You wrote a promise library in Swift on a whiteboard? What? How large was this whiteboard?
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by hcles 11y ago
If we're talking outliers then Titan, the largest moon of Saturn has a surface atmospheric pressure 1.4x more than Earth's, while being 2.3% of Earth's weight And then there's Venus' atmospheric pressure :-)
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by hcles 12y ago
A legit criticism, but who would transmit an 8Mb datablock using LZ4 over a network? There are far better compression schemes whose lower performance tradeoffs become negligible when network latency is involved. I am using LZ4 currently for
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by hcles 12y ago
> This classic article from Mario Wolczko first appeared on Usenet in 1986. An argument could be made that [1986] would be more accurate.
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by hcles 12y ago
> I wonder how much it'd shock Eugene if someone pointed it out to him that, in American racial discourse, Irish and Italian folk were once considered "not white." The title of his article is "How the Asians became wh
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by hcles 13y ago
No, that is a backronym. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Name
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by hcles 14y ago
> That means that no number may be more than 100 away from any other number once fully sorted (7 bits) It's possible that 90% of numbers are <1 million, and the remaining 10% are > 91 million. That's a 90 million delta possibil
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by hcles 14y ago
Most people will visit the page, scroll down a screen or two and leave it since they're not game programmers. So, just speculating, he's no stranger to bandwidth spikes so perhaps the approach employed significantly saves on bandwidth durin
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by hcles 15y ago
My experience with their B+ Tree database is that when your database size hits a Gb or more, closing the database can take up to 10mins or more (depending on writes queued), and opening a database that was not closed correctly rebuilds the
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by hcles 15y ago
To most Americans, the best known Dane would be Dane Cook Prince Frederik for Australians.
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by hcles 15y ago
No. It's a free energy scam. It will go away and in a couple years another scam will bubble up against all odds and make it into mainstream media. Call it zero-point quantum energy, call it magnetism, cold fusion, free energy by any other n
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by hcles 15y ago
> ... and I posit it has little to do with "presenting the facts" (where is their outrage about the claim that the stig can blink horizontally or is non-human?) Just, wow. How does one even reply to a comment so profoundly stupid?
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by hcles 15y ago
I don't know of a book reference, but if you sit down for half an hour and play though the algebra of stddev you can figure it how to combine multiple standard deviations into a single stddev. It's fairly simple and quite satisfying. The su
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by hcles 15y ago
> Bzzzt! Thanks for playing! Please don't do this.
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by hcles 16y ago
Do you know which developer in UW2 was responsible for the Servant Strike bug? That glitch wasted 6 weeks of my life! I recently started playing UW2 again through Dosbox, using a character editor written in 1994 to change save files is humb