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by jcl 11y ago
I think this may be the most important thing in the article. If the conspirators really were communicating via in-game ephemera, the communication probably wasn't encrypted at all. If so, the hurdle that the security forces faced is
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by jcl 11y ago
The game is solvable -- no tricks, just something you've overlooked. (Hint: Someone who doesn't know about parity might try scrambling the puzzle randomly, then find that they can reach the goal state about half of the time.)
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by jcl 11y ago
Bob's Burger is CG, so I imagine it has a production structure closer to South Park (also CG) than the Simpsons, in that certain kinds of animation changes are much cheaper to make even late in production.
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by jcl 11y ago
Reminds me a little of some mobile games that are supposed to improve your vision by training your brain to be better at interpreting fuzzy input. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/can-an-app-help-you-ditch-your-r...
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by jcl 11y ago
I can't help be reminded of Jack LaLanne's two rules of nutrition: "If man made it, don't eat it", and "If it tastes good, spit it out." Of course, he was not exactly a scientist, but he's right that
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by jcl 11y ago
Ah, I wasn't aware of this. Looks like it was first stocked in Apple stores in January (despite it and other styluses being available well before): http://www.macrumors.com/2015/01/21/pencil-available-ap
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by jcl 11y ago
The stylus is interesting in that it's a total about-face for Apple. So far as I can tell, no Apple store has ever stocked an iPhone- or iPad-compatible stylus -- not the cheap capacitive ones nor even the iPad-exclusive pressure-sens
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by jcl 11y ago
That occurred to me, too. It certainly hurts any competing ad networks who don't have a Flash-to-HTML5 converter ready. On the other hand, I think Chrome is the only major browser that ships with the ability to play Flash, so one coul
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by jcl 11y ago
FWIW, he got the name from Jonathan Swift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laputa
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by jcl 11y ago
This reminds me of the GPU technique to generate Voronoi diagrams by rendering conical geometry... And, sure enough, it looks like someone else already thought of using cones to generate distance fields: http://gamma.cs.unc.edu&
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by jcl 11y ago
Agreed about the SEO of the documentation... I'm learning Haskell, and just last week I was trying to parse binary files using Data.Binary.Get. I spent a fair amount of time looking for a way to handle parse errors outside an IO mona
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by jcl 11y ago
Note: I just looked at the docs linked in creichert's sibling post, and I noticed that Debug.Trace provides traceShow as a helper.
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by jcl 11y ago
For one, theta is parametrized on {Poirot, Marple}. According to the list on Wikipedia, only about 45 of her novels featured those two detectives.
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by jcl 11y ago
Clang is not a good example... It was adopted by Apple for its technical merits over gcc rather than its license. And, in fact, Apple tried to license clang/llvm under the GPL as a contribution to gcc but was rejected: http:/&
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by jcl 11y ago
This reminds me of a talk at last year's CppCon about modernizing legacy code. In it, they talked about a core output function of the MSVC standard library that had accreted enough #ifdefs over the years that the function signature al
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by jcl 11y ago
FWIW, there is some research that shows that low levels of radiation may be better than no radiation in certain situtations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis#Studies_of_... I agree that clinical trials
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by jcl 11y ago
Not quite... If that were so, you'd expect Texas to be visibly bigger than Florida (27M vs. 20M), but their area in the distorted land value map appears to be about the same.
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by jcl 12y ago
It's because polished white rice took more effort to make, so it was more expensive, so it became associated with the upper classes and success. http://ask.metafilter.com/149004/History-of-white-not-wholeg...
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by jcl 12y ago
Someone pointed out to me that the Arc de Triomphe is quite fun, with a big enough window size.
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by jcl 12y ago
If you just want a slab with an inscription, there's no need to 3D print it. Plastic (and metals!) are already easier to mill than stone.
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Really? https://github.com/wting/hackernews
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by jcl 12y ago
One thing I thought was particularly gutsy is that Disney started making The Jungle Book while the story was still under copyright, releasing it after the copyright expired: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120910&#x
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by jcl 12y ago
Eric Chahi's article about the game's architecture (linked to from the article) shows that the original Amiga version uses the same virtual machine architecture as the version that Fabien Sanglard dissects. The game was designed
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by jcl 12y ago
That's weird... The following article has a quote from one of the dementia study authors that specifically calls out loratadine/Claratin as an antihistamine that does not have anticholinergic effects: http://www.teleg
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by jcl 12y ago
Yeah, the bug report response is a little silly. But the OP's complaint is also a little silly, given that his Vapory library works by writing a temporary scene file, then running the POVRay renderer executable to generate an image fil
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by jcl 12y ago
A personal favorite: the motion graphics in this "making-of" video for a 1983 HBO intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqzihgR_-SI#t=309 This is the pre-Tron era, where the easiest way to get a picture of a chro
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by jcl 12y ago
The interviewer was trying to figure out why the subdivision process doesn't turn everything into a blob -- which is understandable, given that the examples he was shown were squares turning into circles and cubes turning into spheres.
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Also, each puzzle has its own custom constraint solver to generate fresh puzzles with desirable characteristics. For example, the version of minesweeper in the collection generates puzzles such that the first click never reveals a mine and
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by jcl 12y ago
If you want to see programming-as-carefully-formatted-English taken to the extreme, check out Inform 7, a system for writing interactive fiction. For example, here is the complete source of a game: http://inform7.com/learn&
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by jcl 12y ago
Actually, it's quite different from OpenTTD. OpenTTD's source is based on a disassembly of TTD. So far as I can tell, OpenAge is being coded from scratch.

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