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by johntb86 11y ago
Duck typing is far more important.
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> "I believe this mode is used for meshes very far away or transitioning between LOD levels, it allows to save on fillrate and shading calculation by discarding certain pixels." I think this is a better answer for why they use
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by johntb86 11y ago
Why don't we put a light at the entrance to the roundabout to create a gap between cars only when necessary?
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by johntb86 11y ago
> a map the requires four colors has four nodes and 6 arcs That's not the only case - there are an infinite number graphs that require 4 colors. It's possible that all of them have a subgraph with four nodes and 6 edges connect
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by johntb86 11y ago
It took 16 years (1901-1917) to get from russell's paradox to a set theory which didn't allow it, but which was able to create a lot of interesting and useful sets (ZF). So it seems like a big deal. And we still can't talk ab
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by johntb86 11y ago
It's not just a figure of speech, it's a useful abstraction. The protons don't move, but the holes seem to do that. Not only that, if you pretend the holes have a certain amount of mass you can predict how they move, and they
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by johntb86 11y ago
> Perhaps security guards could use these on the job or even cops (eventually) for their own safety. You mean as a body camera?
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by johntb86 11y ago
I'm curious how that works. LLVM bitcode backwards/forwards compatibility is quite poor, from what I've heard. Will they fix some bitcode version to transmit, and have translators on the client/server sides? Have a bunch
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by johntb86 11y ago
And in 2 years of continuous mining it could generate $0.62 of bitcoin. Seems simpler to just ship it with the bitcoin preinstalled.
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by johntb86 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-DOPA#Side_effects : The side effects of L-DOPA may include: ... Disorientation and confusion Extreme emotional states, particularly anxiety, but also excessive libido Vivid dre
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by johntb86 12y ago
> If they knew what the next number to be pulled from the random number generator was, they could, for example, delay firing a weapon by a frame or two, to get more damage. This is similar to a crit hack in TF2: https://wiki.t
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by johntb86 12y ago
But these are high-frequency trades, which mean that they're executed by a computer programmed to do that. If you can examine exactly what it was programmed to do then that could probably help prove intent.
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by johntb86 12y ago
Why would they foreclose on the house when the loan's underwater and it's being paid off normally? That seems like the worst possible time to foreclose.
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by johntb86 12y ago
This was already linked from the announcement: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/blob/gh-pages/app-in...
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by johntb86 12y ago
Computers behind some types of NATs can't use peer-to-peer video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traversal_Using_Relays_around_N...
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Another example is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3BB8SsIEtA , though even in that case the launch ship wasn't too damaged.
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They lock containers together with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twistlock (and probably with other mechanisms) though of course if the ship tilts enough there can still be problems.
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Driver of what? Maybe a dry-cleaner or cafe is happy with the size they are, because expanding would involve turning the business into a chain or something else the owner doesn't want.
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by johntb86 13y ago
Here's a paper on why it's easy to detect whether you're in a VM: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jfrankli/hotos07/vmm_detection_hotos0...
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by johntb86 13y ago
Hopefully Linux doesn't allow anything like Windows' shared data sections: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h90dkhs0(v=vs.90).as...
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by johntb86 13y ago
What browser would support HTTP 2.0 but not SNI?
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by johntb86 13y ago
Aren't we talking about geared turbofans, as described in the article and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geared_turbofan ? Geared turbofans, unlike the ungeared GEnx, presumably have gears in gearboxes.
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by johntb86 13y ago
How else would credit history (and credit in general) work?
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Yes, then all they'd have to do is hire a bunch of people to write documentation, like AMD's done for their open source driver. To the extent that they have documentation currently, it's likely wrong, incomplete (because the
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Also, it has a large enough speed advantage that it doesn't have to go straight to the city center to have a time advantage over air travel, and that would be a big part of reducing the cost while keeping it viable.
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by johntb86 13y ago
I think one advantage of the hyperloop is that it would probably be quieter (they claim the compressor uses <150 HP) so that would make putting it on a pylon simpler and would reduce the need for noise barriers. Also the separation betwe
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Complete source code, except for the applications you want to run.
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by johntb86 13y ago
Can you send a message to someone who's currently offline using OTR? It seems to use diffie helman, so I'd expect not.
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In that case it turns out that some extremely simple intuitive rules can generate some very unintuitive results. Those results may perhaps best be approximated by extremely complicated mathematics. c.f. chaos theory and turing equivalent 1-
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It's already started: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230337920457747... Lawyers are being replaced by computers for doing pretrial document review. Currently only low-skill low-creativity jobs are being replaced, but that wi

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