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by kayamon 10y ago
> One common scheme electronic voting machines help prevent is forced votes. A bad guy gets their hand on a single empty ballot and writes the name of the candidate he wants to win on it. He then comes to you and threatens you and your f
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by kayamon 10y ago
Alas, while researching this[1] article I discovered that there are no active WebRings still in operation. (the few sites that claim to be working webrings are in fact fake) [1] http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/under-co
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by kayamon 10y ago
It's been a while, but I seem to remember there was an additional indirect texture unit for doing just this kind of stuff.
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by kayamon 10y ago
It's a common misconception that the Gamecube doesn't have fragment shaders. The GPU (called the TEV) is almost a straight implementation of DirectX's ps1.0, the same as a GeForce3, with a few extras added. At my old company
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by kayamon 10y ago
I doubt he wrote that speech. Don't believe for a minute that he's had some kind of change of heart. Just listen to the non-scripted stuff he's been saying at his rallies lately -- that's the guy we're going to get.
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by kayamon 10y ago
It's not an actual term, it's just some guy who keeps editing Wikipedia to try and introduce it.
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by kayamon 10y ago
Until next month, when Flamphf replaces Yarn.
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by kayamon 10y ago
I just use ZIP, that way I can still open it in 10 years.
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by kayamon 10y ago
I'm kinda surprised at how bad the OSs deal with this. If you can't get a DNS lookup, would it be so crazy to use the last-known cached value for it? There's no reason for a computer to not be able to find a site I've be
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by kayamon 10y ago
It's not twitter that's the problem - twitter is just a place for humans to post things. The problem is that the great unwashed masses are assholes.
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by kayamon 10y ago
> You missed the point. No he didn't. > iTunes is a old product holding together well. No it's not, it's a terrible product and always has been. > You are naive if you think iTunes one day will work well. He doesn&#x
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by kayamon 10y ago
I think they mean Joules.
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by kayamon 10y ago
It's usually the same in the gaming world too.
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Debunking Euclideon's Unlimited Detail Tech(codersnotes.com)
2 points by kayamon 10y ago|0 comments
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by kayamon 10y ago
Search engines have the same problem. The solution is simply to not use HTTP GET for destructive links - use PUT or POST instead.
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Learning to Wrangle Half-Floats(codersnotes.com)
6 points by kayamon 10y ago|0 comments
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by kayamon 10y ago
Using bullets is not the same as being succinct.
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by kayamon 10y ago
That _is_ what they're doing. They're not recreating it from scratch.
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by kayamon 10y ago
Steve Yegge's "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns". http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
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The Multi-Project Programmer(codersnotes.com)
4 points by kayamon 10y ago|1 comments
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by kayamon 10y ago
I really did try to find an active webring while writing the article, but there aren't any. webringworld.org doesn't actually offer any real services.
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by kayamon 10y ago
Heh, yeah the context menu on the scroll bars is my go-to tell to discover whether it's a real scroll bar widget or an imitation one. (Gotta write an article on that too one day)
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by kayamon 10y ago
He said in the video he wants to use as close to "original" parts as possible, namely an original power supply.
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by kayamon 10y ago
A lot of their "improvements" could be done just by using C99 designated initializers.
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by kayamon 10y ago
While true, an aliasing 'miss' in C just causes a pointer reload, while the same miss in Python causes a hash table lookup.
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by kayamon 10y ago
Meh, sometimes there are easier ways than GC. Just allocate all the list items from a big pool of memory that you own. When you're done, throw the whole lot away in one go. Languages like C++ tend to encourage micromanagement of data b
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by kayamon 10y ago
FYI you most definitely can beat LLVM in terms of quality. Its diassembler was designed originally only to support the instructions that the compiler could generate. While they've since filled out most of the instruction set, there are
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by kayamon 10y ago
Check the DOOM 3 source code, they have a pretty good mesh-vs-mesh solver.
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by kayamon 10y ago
If that was all you wanted, you'd still be running MIMIX.
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by kayamon 10y ago
Go read the Jack Crenshaw series of articles. It's not the most relevant nowadays, but you can't beat it for simplicity.

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