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by kmm 14y ago
I don't see how a Copying GC can be faster than Mark and Sweep. Transferring a book may be easy, but copying an object can be quite costly. I can't imagine copying almost all objects everytime the GC runs.
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by kmm 14y ago
> DirectX is a very good option for games. OpenGL on the other hand is a more generic 3D API I don't know about that any more. I have heard that for about a decade, but with the massive changes that have been made to OpenGL, I don't see
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by kmm 14y ago
Your old OpenGL books would have been worthless, as they can only have talked about the fixed pipeline which has been deprecated (thank god).
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Why is this Java raytracer slower than the JavaScript version?(redcode.nl)
46 points by kmm 14y ago|1 comments
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by kmm 14y ago
The fact that not everyone is using fish instead of the ridiculously inflexible, unintuitive and underpowered bash means that the shell mustn't matter that much. I'm just glad I found out about fish.
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by kmm 14y ago
Such a long reply repeating the same thing is very obnoxious. Don't do it. If I could downvote you I would. Do you really know what you're talking about, huh? Your pigeon-hole example is pretty wrong because you can't use intuition (with co
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by kmm 14y ago
It's clear some disturbances must be measurable because as I walk around the room, the magnetic field measured by my smartphone constantly changes and since the magnetic field of the Earth is practically uniform over small distances, this m
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by kmm 14y ago
The have discovered a boson, but it's unknown what it is. There's just three things we know about the new particle. Its mass, its charge (0) and that it has integer spin (0 or 2).
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by kmm 14y ago
As someone who has only had a cursory learning of JavaScript, I predicted correctly. The concept of overriding is known to me, although it's clearly in a slightly different context here and that 010 is 8 in octal I knew since I learned C. I
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by kmm 14y ago
We chose our basis because it is convenient. It's called a Fock space[1]. You can choose any basis you want, the equations of motion derived from the Lagrangian will tell you how any wavefunction evolves, independently from your choice of b
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by kmm 14y ago
Are you under the impression that all particles live in one All-Embracing Majesty? That is not true, although all particles of the same type are excitations of a single field, different types of particles have their own fields. For example,
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by kmm 14y ago
If we find no Higgs boson right now, there's still other options: multiple Higgs bosons, composite Higgs bosons, etc. We're only looking for the most simple configuration right now. If does do not exists (and it will take many many years to
433.
by kmm 14y ago
Don't worry, don't worry. This one of the most complicated theories in physics (apart from string theory) to grasp intuitively. I'm a physicist and I could try to help you. Think of an excitation of the field. One of the "axioms" of quantum
434.
by kmm 14y ago
Thank you. I was wondering if such headphones with a microphone would need five connections.
435.
by kmm 14y ago
I wish I could do that. I wonder if Facebook paid HTC a lot of money to make the Facebook app un-uninstallable.
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by kmm 14y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the canvas still for? The given CoffeeScript code draws a small arc. But is this necessary if they're doing the final animation with CSS3?
437.
by kmm 14y ago
Their argument about the normal distribution is completely off though. There is completely no reason to group the two with the standard deviation. Their biggest argument seems to be that the area of unit circle is exactly pi. Sadly, there i
438.
by kmm 14y ago
He wasn't attacking him. What's sad is that you need to feel persecuted. The point is exactly as you say, just because you have faith you don't get any privileges. I and many others cannot understand how one can bring the empiricism inheren
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by kmm 14y ago
Using strncpy is not a remedy at all. The function was never designed for safe string copying, but for copying fixed-width inode names[1]. The fact that is protects against buffer overflows is pure coincidence. [1]: http://stackoverflow.
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by kmm 14y ago
I think it's wonderful. Whether you think it's inane or not (and it is), internet culture is a major part of the cultural knowledge of a large amount of people. I think we can learn a lot of new things about human psychology by investigatin
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by kmm 14y ago
>If there are old features that you would like to discourage the use of, then you mark them as obsolete -- but you do not remove them because thou shalt not break working code. > If you don't agree with that, then please, get out of
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by kmm 14y ago
> You would need a detector the size of the solar system in order to collect any meaningful data volume in real-time. That's absolutely untrue. Why would you need to detect all neutrinos? Even if you were capable of detecting only a qua
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by kmm 14y ago
Absolutely not. I think a lot of people are intrigued by this.
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by kmm 14y ago
The sounds are extremely loud and some of them are recurring. Impossible for a fish to cause something like that. The explanation is probably quite prosaic, like ice creeping over Antartica, yet the sounds do carry some significance.
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by kmm 14y ago
Doesn't it bother you that you won't be the one doing the exploring? I'm insanely envious of these people and sometimes I wish manned spaceflight would end. Standing on the Moon sounds like the most amazing experience I can imagine and it p
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by kmm 15y ago
That's more the distributors' problem. An Ubuntu package (well, .deb) and an RPM for Fedora are the only necessities and the other distributions will do the hard work themselves.
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by kmm 15y ago
I notice this too every time with the Humble Bundle. I mean, go to humblebundle.com right now and Linux wins again. Can anyone explain this?
448.
by kmm 15y ago
I'm doing a Masters in theoretical physics and I've got to ask, is it common to first go work a few years before going into academia? It surprises me how little we are informed of these things. Being locked in is my biggest fear for going f
449.
by kmm 15y ago
That's bizarre, I found it quite palatable. Maybe I'm on the right side of the ocean.
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by kmm 15y ago
I'm not able to downvote so I didn't, but what if I'm not interested in a discussion about sexism in tech again . Most certainly not one that started of on the wrong foot, as the LSL games aren't sexist, at least not against women.

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