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by krajzeg 6y ago
It's mostly about the construction. The "miracle" part refers to just two clues (filled-in numbers) leading to a unique solution, which is a ridiculously low number.
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by krajzeg 7y ago
Interesting idea, but factoring a number does not compress it - the number of digits (binary or otherwise) will stay roughly the same. You can see this using logarithms: a x b = c implies ln a + ln b = ln c. But ln x is proportional to the
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by krajzeg 7y ago
A risk existing is not a reason to not start a business - nobody would start one if that was the case. The risks taken by this solitaire company seem to have worked out. They got to earn solid revenue for several years and even with MS back
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Target's Delivery App Workers Describe Culture of Retaliation and Fear(vice.com)
16 points by krajzeg 7y ago|0 comments
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by krajzeg 7y ago
I find it interesting that so much of the response here is negative, to the tune of "This shouldn't have been part of the HTTP protocol, it's useless". From my point of view, a web where this status code works correctly
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by krajzeg 7y ago
Shader languages do not include quaternions as primitives, so if you do have quaternions in your GPU shaders, it's your own code (or a library), not NVidia's. What is usually done in shaders is encoding all transformations (rotati
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by krajzeg 7y ago
From what I read, the viruses live in the intestine in bats. So no, only through consumption of bats themselves or contact with their excretions.
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by krajzeg 7y ago
While not a viable way to actually do things, it is fun to imagine crazy unicorns like WeWork being taxed on their outrageous valuations.
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by krajzeg 7y ago
The article mentions at least one reason why the incentives often aren't aligned: a carve-out agreement that guarantees specific people (often founders) a cut from the "preferred" part of the pie. As I understood it, this cut
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by krajzeg 7y ago
It's fun to think about: you have a structure which allows you to iterate all elements in order in O(n) time. Isn't this in many ways equivalent to the structure being "sorted", even if it doesn't have all the prope
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by krajzeg 7y ago
Your algorithm doesn't really work for graphs - it actually treats the vertices as a set of points (the edges are not taken into account, you're just looking for the largest Euclidean distance between two points). Unforunately, it
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by krajzeg 7y ago
It does apply a little if you extend the definition of "moderation" to include choosing the right set of features in order to direct your users' behavior. That said, I was mostly replying to the parent comment, not discussing
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by krajzeg 7y ago
"Choose two out of three" triangles are sexy, but I fail to see how this applies here. Doing nothing doesn't really mean choosing to be impartial and righteous at the same time, and there is no way to both moderate and be imp
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by krajzeg 8y ago
Doesn't this also assume that the testers have exactly the same area of responsibility? If you subdivide the work in any way, the probabilities of tester 1 and tester 2 finding a specific bug are decidedly not independent, but very m
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by krajzeg 8y ago
PICO-8 (and I assume, TIC-80 as well) are actually great for prototyping bigger game development projects - specifically due to its harsh constraints, which force a limited scope and sharp focus on the design. I'm actually in the proce
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by krajzeg 10y ago
There is a lot of material in the article on power-of-two vs non-power-of-two sizes and it definitely includes a discussion of how POT is convenient due to modulo becoming a bitmask (not a bitshift, which would be division).
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by krajzeg 10y ago
Sure, it's possible, and flickering is indeed the same as scaling the brightness (but randomly each line). I was under the impression that the table needed would be too big, but now that I actually calculated it (max_range^2*light_leve
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by krajzeg 10y ago
It was actually precomputed at one point, but there are two things that make it less appealing. They don't feature in the article until part #3, unfortunately. The first is flexible range - the light has adjustable brightness which mak
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by krajzeg 10y ago
Author of the article here, glad you liked it! To save on the wear-and-tear on your F5/Cmd+R keys, the plan is for that to happen next Thursday.
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by krajzeg 10y ago
Calling it a CPU is a simplification, but PICO-8 does emulate limited CPU resources by limiting how much code you can run per frame. Lua code runs at exactly the same speed inside the PICO-8 executable on a PC and in the HTML5 export on a m
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by krajzeg 10y ago
Indeed, the PICO-8 BBS [1] is a smorgasbord of open-source games of various kinds and quality. A lot of people (including me) practice extreme open-source for PICO-8 carts by licensing them as Creative Commons, which is easy to do - you jus
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by krajzeg 10y ago
Hey, at least let me have a few moments to bask in the glory! Actually, I've been working on the draft of part 2 when my Medium notification bar started going crazy - which is how I knew that something strange happened (the strange thi
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by krajzeg 10y ago
Yeah, the guy behind PICO-8 is big on education and having the whole thing as accessible to children as possible. There are a lot of people using it to introduce their children to game development and programming in general, and it's (
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by krajzeg 10y ago
Author of the article here - if you have any questions or feedback, I'll be happy to answer them or listen to it, respectively :)
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by krajzeg 10y ago
The scenario they wanted to handle is not a failing deletion request, but multiple requests caused by deleting one e-mail. This can happen if the index DB thinks the request failed and retries it, while it actually went through on the file
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by krajzeg 10y ago
It is also impossible to block you from moving cash you already have in your pocket. It is however very possible to refuse converting shares in a fund into real money, regardless of whether that money is cash or Bitcoin.
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Why Gold? (why gold became currency, part 2)(kevinlawler.com)
3 points by krajzeg 10y ago|0 comments
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by krajzeg 11y ago
A variant featuring only one number: cmVwZWF0IDQgNA0KcHJpbnQgNA0KcmVwZWF0IDQgNA0KcHJpbnQgNA0KcmVwZWF0IDQgNA0KcHJpbnQgNA0KcmVwZWF0IDQgNA0KcHJpbnQgNA0K
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Show HN: Compact Conflict, a 13kB (gzipped) strategy game in HTML5+JS(wasyl.eu)
3 points by krajzeg 12y ago|3 comments
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by krajzeg 12y ago
No random limits: cdb can handle any database up to 4 gigabytes. Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that the first thing after the "no random limits" heading is a random limitation?

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