jmpeax

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by jmpeax 10y ago
That's not sample bias, that's bias blind spot.
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by jmpeax 10y ago
When principles and reality clash, reality wins. In principle the website should make perfect sense to everyone.
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by jmpeax 10y ago
What does it have to do with Australian Rules Football?
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by jmpeax 10y ago
arXiv is not a peer reviewed journal.
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by jmpeax 10y ago
You've linked to the main page, which at this moment in time happens to have the bullshit blog post at the top. It's better to link to the actual blog post: https://stactivist.com/2016/05/29/bullshit
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by jmpeax 10y ago
You can x = malloc(sizeof(x) + <variable_length>); x->ptr = x + sizeof(x);
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by jmpeax 11y ago
Minimize? Get rid of it entirely.
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by jmpeax 11y ago
> SG14 - Games & Low Latency Can't help but think Jonathan Blow's new language designed for games will blow C++ out of the water, and will probably arrive much sooner than these long drawn-out C++ committee features.
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by jmpeax 11y ago
> Why should we use from-0 indexing for all eternity? Just because it's always been that way? This is a real question if you have the answer. Here is the answer: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcri
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by jmpeax 11y ago
Pixar switched to a path tracer for Monsters University, and it made it easier for the artists (once they unlearned the tricks and hacks they would have needed for less sophisticated renderers).
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by jmpeax 11y ago
Yeah, I can google too, just kernel developers can find what the function overflow_usub does. That's not the point.
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by jmpeax 11y ago
wtf does "bike shedding" even mean?!
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by jmpeax 11y ago
"Out to lunch", "bike shedding". Ironic how colloquialisms are used so freely in an industry that despises counter-productive complications.
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by jmpeax 11y ago
"Businesses that try to weasel their way to a higher rating (paying off grumpy clients, for instance) have their Yelp pages branded with a red warning." If you really hate a place, just give it some scam-looking reviews and watch
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by jmpeax 11y ago
It's $9.99 per-month, where in the article the word "month" doesn't appear once. Great journalism there techcrunch.
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by jmpeax 11y ago
This is cool. If I do something illegal, I'm not only allowed to, but obligated to delete all evidence of it.
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by jmpeax 11y ago
"The process was outlined in a paper published today in Nature Communications". NO LINK TO THE PAPER ARGGGHH!!!!!
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by jmpeax 11y ago
It will pass, just like when use of that ridiculous word "grok" passed.
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by jmpeax 11y ago
I wonder why it was introduced.
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by jmpeax 11y ago
If anyone is considering downloading this to use his voice to annoy your best friend John with things like "Hello, my name is Steven Hawking. The universe is big, but not as big as John's mother.", let it be known that this s
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by jmpeax 11y ago
> But I never trade directional or have any market outlook I'm an amateur to all of this, but isn't trading volatility the same as directional trading? Volatility goes up and down just like price goes up and down, isn't it
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by jmpeax 11y ago
"If anyone even hints at breaking the tradition honoured since FØRTRAN of using i, j and k for indexing variables, namely replacing them with ii, jj and kk, warn them about what the Spanish Inquisition did to heretics." Hold on, s
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by jmpeax 11y ago
It depends what you mean by "replace". It can be anywhere on the spectrum from an exact clone of each tree, to the same count of trees. You're looking at a narrow part of spectrum of the meaning of "replace" where y
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by jmpeax 12y ago
"Microsoft uses bad performance reviews (“The How”) as a tool to eliminate the elder (40+) and senior ranked employees." Proof please. This not only reeks of confirmation bias, but could it also be explained by resistance to acqui
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by jmpeax 12y ago
I was using 64 bit for about a week until only just a couple of days ago. It crashed often and in between crashes it kept popping up windows saying that pages were non-responsive (if I want to "wait" or "kill"). Some wer
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by jmpeax 12y ago
I don't quite understand how it works. My guess is that it doesn't actually perform any test itself, you're the one that is deciding whether the refresh rate is actually 60Hz. The big green "VALID" doesn't say
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by jmpeax 12y ago
...and yet another ignoramus who doesn't understand the debate and so blankets it with the predictably safe "you're both wrong". Almost stopped reading at the hilariously rubbish statement "All the models have limit
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by jmpeax 12y ago
> Any micro optimization you can make with C++ will be an order magnitude less significant than O(log n) vs O(n) Wrong. See (from about 46min): http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/2-661
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by jmpeax 12y ago
> Even if you were creating creatures, simply varying the amount of limbs would only produce so many interesting results. That's exactly what I was thinking when I saw the gazelles, the diplodocus, and that oversized rhinoceros plow
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by jmpeax 12y ago
Why did you choose to store the state in a database? It seems like an unusual choice for a game.

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