jdmichal

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by jdmichal 4y ago
My AP calc teacher was an expert on writing tests that would trigger calculators into approximation mode. Pretty much every homework problem, the calculator could easily do an exact answer. But you better have learned, because come test t
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by jdmichal 4y ago
Since you're an expert, I'm sure you won't mind these corrections: > IEEE 64 bit floats That should be IEEE 64-bit floating-point . The name `float` is a 32-bit floating-point. > are accurate to just past 15 decimal d
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by jdmichal 4y ago
Not calculators, but I did some tests a few years ago, and I'm pretty sure the BCD instructions on modern processors are no longer implemented in hardware. They were no different than using an equivalent string of other opcodes.
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by jdmichal 4y ago
GP didn't say odd, or at least not numerically odd, but rather "ending in impossible digits". Floats have varying precision, not uniform. The closer the number is to zero, the more precision it has. There's a point whe
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by jdmichal 4y ago
AFAIK the IRS has always been accepting of truncating / rounding values to full dollars and discarding cents. It's certainly been that way for the decades that I've been doing taxes.
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by jdmichal 4y ago
This discussion is already in the context of layoffs, not firing for non-performance.
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Exactly this. Bleeding small numbers of people is absolutely terrible for morale. Everyone will be wondering whether it's their turn this week, and that will 100% have knock-on effects. If you have to do a layoff, your goal should b
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by jdmichal 4y ago
My second job, I agreed on a start date having forgotten that I had a week-long cruise booked for the very next week. It had been arranged a year or so before by a friend and just was not on my mind. So I started week 3 of that job with a
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by jdmichal 4y ago
I feel like C++ is not just big, but in arcane ways. Like needing to know move semantics, but for being such an important concept, there's very little in the way of the language helping you understand it. Also, it's changed a lot
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by jdmichal 4y ago
> Even modern grass-finished beef is raised mostly eating grasses. I meant, "Even modern grain-finished beef is raised mostly eating grasses."
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> And one of the [DC] airports is right on the metro As of November 2022, the DC silver metro line now includes Dulles International (IAD). So both of the major airports are now directly connected. https://www.wmata.com/
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by jdmichal 4y ago
> Animals also eat. I'm curious: what do you think they were eating? Livestock was and is used to convert plants humans can't eat into milk and meat that we can. Even modern grass-finished beef is raised mostly eating grasses.
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TFA has an entire paragraph covering your question... > Even without finding the plane, a number of lessons have been drawn from the disappearance of MH370. Many of the responses to the disappearance centered on the fact that in the 21st
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by jdmichal 4y ago
We already knew that. Everything is coded as a minion. It's an geeky in-joke from the old Warcraft3 DotA and early LoL days. Please don't murder me. https://www.reddit.com/r/dotamasterrace/comments/4
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by jdmichal 4y ago
I agree with you 100% on that. I just disagree that Disney is well positioned to take part in consolidation. They might be able to pull off some content licensing like Netflix used to do. But right now, the only thing holding Disney aflo
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by jdmichal 4y ago
A lot of federal-law-telling-states-what-to-do is not tied to criminal punishment, but rather financial punishment. Federal taxation basically permits the US government the first share of our income. The US government then chooses to redi
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by jdmichal 4y ago
The US is a big and varied place. One could certainly spend an entire lifetime here and not feel left out of much. And I say this as someone with a meager but existent share of international travel under my belt.
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by jdmichal 4y ago
There are certainly industry-specific constraints which include legal burdens. Just a subset of ones I'm personally familiar with: * Security clearances. * Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) in finance. * HIPAA i
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by jdmichal 4y ago
Disney is currently suffering under a load of debt from their Fox acquisition. I'm not sure going on a spending spree is in their favor. With Netflix's low debt load and free cash flow, they should actually be in a better positio
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by jdmichal 4y ago
I love how obvious this makes the fact that truck headlights are perfectly placed to shine directly into the rear window and mirrors of a car. I've had to angle my side mirrors down sitting at a light with a truck behind me. They don
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by jdmichal 4y ago
Interesting. But I assume it's not a separate function from cooling, right? It might just over-cool the house in order to meet the humidity target?
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by jdmichal 4y ago
I stand corrected. Apparently 60% humidity or so is the line. That said, I live in Florida and haven't ever had an issue, but maybe that's because the A/C runs so much anyway...
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> ... but rather about "backing up" our species and civilisation in additional places. It would certainly cease to by "our civilization" within a very short time frame. It could eventually cease to be our species als
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by jdmichal 4y ago
From the Rockbox devices page: > Sansa Clip Sport / Clip Jam / Clip Sport Go / Clip Sport Plus > These are based on an Actions Semiconductor ATJ2127 chips, with under 100KB of available memory and all audio decoding hap
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by jdmichal 4y ago
Unless you have a very strange setup, centralized A/C does not have humidity sensors nor run just to dehumidify. Nor does removing humidity increase the load on the A/C system. Removing humidity is just a happy by-product of how
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by jdmichal 4y ago
I think missing `return` works if the language is designed around everything being expressions, so the function is just written as a single expression. I agree that in procedural type paradigms I like having the `return` keyword over thing
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You only need dynamic dispatch if dynamic types are involved. If you can always resolve to concrete types, then you can statically resolve the required function.
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by jdmichal 4y ago
I've seen plenty of tasteful and smart joke threads on here. What's not tolerated are low-effort and meme jokes.
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by jdmichal 4y ago
If you're in VSCode already, just install the Microsoft "Polyglot Notebooks" extension and get full Markdown with a multi-language .NET runtime. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...
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by jdmichal 4y ago
Did I miss the dirt road part? That looks like it starts on a rural but paved road, and ends in a town.

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