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by kmm 15y ago
I'm afraid that unless the Monolith is somewhere under Gran Sasso, those effects are completely negligible. The time scales of the experiment are very short indeed (1e-9 seconds), but the influence of General Relativity is even smaller (1e-
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by kmm 15y ago
Very true. I think most hate for C is really misplaced or for completely the wrong reasons. I like to think I'm a good C programmer, and I use most of the techniques you describe. But lately I've been wondering whether I'm not actually codi
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by kmm 15y ago
No you're right! The idea is to implement Dart VM's all major browsers. It is claimed that due to the design of the language, these implementations will be a lot faster than JavaScript. But as no Dart implementations exist yet, people are s
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by kmm 15y ago
Shouldn't string manipulation be more efficient if you have to everything by hand? Besides, using a recursive memory allocator takes away most of the pain and it's more efficient than a garbage collector.
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by kmm 15y ago
I didn't take it seriously of course, I just saw this question and I was myself curious what the chances of a birthday collision actually are.
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by kmm 15y ago
I have four browsers installed, including Firefox and Chrome. I choose what to use. Don't make me feel bad for using a browser.
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by kmm 15y ago
What is so bad about the C standard library? What would you change? I find it lacking a lot of essential features -- can you believe strdup isn't part of the C standard? -- but simplicity and minimalism has always been C's strongest point.
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by kmm 15y ago
He doesn't really give any reasons for switching, apart from the memory use and privacy concerns. I don't care about privacy but the memory use is a problem. I have 2 GB RAM which should be plenty, but Chrome way too often locks up my machi
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by kmm 15y ago
SHA-1 has a digest size of 160 bits. The first two bytes of these beautified hashes are predetermined, which lowers the size to 144 bits. For a more than 50% chance of a collision, more than 4 sextillion hashes[1] would have to be generated
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by kmm 15y ago
I doubt it, as no single packet manager has delta updates, which is a crucial asset of their own solution. More importantly, they have no control over what comes in and goes out of the repositories. I doubt Google would want to deal with ev
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by kmm 15y ago
They're not on the server any more. I tried uploading a ROM on my own webspace and editing the script to load it but I get a XmlHttpRequest error: XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://home.scarlet.be/~umeerts/NES-XR.nes . Origin http://fir.s
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by kmm 15y ago
Does anyone else have problems with Vim on AZERTY keyboards? It's really annoying that I have to hold shift to enter numbers.
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by kmm 15y ago
I don't see how that would work. With the 4 vertices, he defines a square quad that gets "textured" in the fragment shader. If one were to use a point, only one pixel would be sent to the fragment shader.
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by kmm 15y ago
I've read the article[1] and what they do is compare the proton flux as measured in Geneva with the neutrino signal measured in Gran Sasso. The proton signal is timeshifted a small amount until the curves overlap maximally. Where the leadin
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by kmm 15y ago
Most such software is still written in C. He should be being downvoted for a knee-jerk reaction against C, which is still very well suited for application software.
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by kmm 15y ago
That's coincidental. I once made a Linux kernel function hijacking module and I had the exact same idea. Well, without the freezing of other (kernel) threads, I didn't realize the problems yet. Now that I think about it I'm even more surpri
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by kmm 15y ago
Again I don't know for sure but I fear that predicting the position of Snoopy over a period of more than some months is impossible. There's not only the gravitational interaction, but also the orientation dependent radiation pressure, tidal
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by kmm 15y ago
Of course it's easier, I was just trying to show that we do have the technology to identify objects of a scale of some tens of meters from a distance of hundreds of thousands of kilometres. It's a pretty amazing feat of technology, which al
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by kmm 15y ago
While this may seem impossible, it has been done before. A supposed asteroid has been identified as the fourth stage of the Saturn V [1]. This is so fascinating. What I would give to get a look in there. I presume it's still in pristine con
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by kmm 15y ago
No, the physics are still valid in the event horizon. It's just the singularity at the exact centre of the black hole that is problematic. Interestingly, if we ignore only the point at centre, it can be shown that an object that falls in a
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by kmm 15y ago
A ball will not roll uphill, even when time is reversed. Gravity really is time-reversal invariant. But when you reverse time, you do have to invert all velocities. So the inverse of your experiment of a ball rolling down an incline is a ba
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by kmm 15y ago
I can touch type in the sense that I don't look at my keyboard when I type, yet I don't really use ten fingers. I was never properly taught to type. Coincidentally, I'm trying to learn real touch typing as I think it could help me in Vim.
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by kmm 15y ago
Huh? The body of the document is enclosed in <sarcasm> tags. Also, I once want to commit with the message "Added unicorn option".
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by kmm 15y ago
I've got the opposite feeling. Only three years and so much has happened.
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by kmm 15y ago
I've been using Vim for about three years but I've never been very handy at it. I'm now wondering that that might be because I touch type with only four fingers and whether it's possible to relearn my typing methods.
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by kmm 15y ago
Very pretty. It's a lot less crowdy if you change line 105 in your script to var speed =(nr_elements - i)/1000;
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by kmm 15y ago
Related: http://wheelof.com/whitney/index.php?var=v6 Warning: Flash + sound The mathematics behind this are pretty simple. It's just that the human mind is great at picking up patterns.
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by kmm 15y ago
I wish they were standard GCC behaviour. Sometimes when I rapidly make a toy program, I forget something important, like including stdio.h and without warnings, I won't know until the program crashed.
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by kmm 15y ago
I'm having difficulties believing that specialized programs can include all these strategies.
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by kmm 15y ago
Is your single-use fee always 250 USD or did you ask a higher number because they took it without your permission?

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