m1el

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by m1el 9y ago
Then there's no minority either, so the word "minority" is not applicable. No matter how you look at it, the statement is absolutely ridiculous.
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by m1el 9y ago
By your own logic, the "majority" is going to be 1/3, which is self-defeating.
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by m1el 9y ago
The cost of doing this would be enormous - program shader for each pixel would have to calculate this function for every line segment. Instead, only triangles that cover the segment are evaluated.
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by m1el 9y ago
Author here. I'm not sure if this a typical case, but the reason I use serious-ish math is my major in physics. When I see a simulation problem calculus comes to mind first. In my experience there was not a single time calculus was ap
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by m1el 9y ago
I'll take a stab at your question. > Are there fundamental issues with JVM bytecode that make it impossible/impractical to have c++/rust/LLVM compile to it? Lack of pointers. Lack of true structs. Different memory mod
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by m1el 9y ago
A while ago, I wrote this little macro which does the same thing in racket: (define-syntax (-> x) (let ((arg (cdr (syntax-e x)))) (foldl (λ (l r) (if (identifier? l)
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by m1el 9y ago
No, that wouldn't help. Please look at the picture: you can see a neutrino detector being held. But what's also very important to detect neutrinos is shielding from every other type of radiation, so that you can differentiate betw
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by m1el 9y ago
Not doable. A neutrino detector, including radiation shielding, cannot be the size of a flip phone.
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by m1el 9y ago
While the simulation is really cool, I doubt it represents the reality (assuming the Moon blew up). Why I think so: the planets have formed out of space debris, they didn't all fall into the star. > Pairwise collisions between bodie
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by m1el 9y ago
I would be glad if this made Intel reconsider their stance on enforcing untrustable CPU features onto users. CPUs aren't cheap! Just give your customers full control over the product!
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by m1el 9y ago
> couldn't the err passed to the catch() expose the necessary parts of the scope like it could for exceptions not created by Promises? That would require Promises to create and use a new unique and intrusive API into the interpreter
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by m1el 9y ago
This cannot be done the way you describe it. We already have VM features to inspect the scope of a function that failed. The problem is, Promises "handle" the exception, and prevent users from using this feature. I will repeat the
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by m1el 9y ago
Earlier this year I asked the exact same question. When I learned the answer, I was severely disappointed in JS Promises. You can read about that here: https://www.joyent.com/blog/post-mortem-debugging-and-promis... h
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by m1el 9y ago
That is correct.
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by m1el 9y ago
Is there a reason an illustration is allowed and a photograph isn't? Why would you prefer a version of events warped through an artist's mind and hand OVER an exact picture?
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by m1el 9y ago
> I'm keeping my money on expansion and dark matter being hooey brought about by incomplete of incorrect understanding of light. That's a very interesting hypothesis. Unfortunately, it's easy to verify that photon-photon
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by m1el 9y ago
Nothing you said here is a counter argument to either the comment you replied to or the linked post. > All these women that are being talked about as statistics are real people. Nobody denies that. However, once you say that there'
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by m1el 9y ago
I might have a complete misunderstanding of the situation, but I see three main explanations: 1) Microsoft has absolutely no interest in Skype being a viable option, and wants Skype users to adopt some other Microsoft product. Why doesn&#x
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by m1el 9y ago
> Some things can't be written for a general audience. It can not be distilled that much. The fact that things cannot be written for a general audience doesn't mean that we need to limit access to information which cannot be un
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by m1el 9y ago
Please provide a link to the article so we can see what's the difference in files.
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by m1el 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ens%C5%8D
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by m1el 9y ago
There aren't any widely used hashes that require floating point computations. Other than that, floating point instructions are usually slower.
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by m1el 9y ago
But using the same set of instructions, z-order encoding and decoding is 8 instructions (5 if you exclude size conversion and return): zorder64_inv: movabsq $0x5555555555555555, %rax pextq %rax, %rcx, %rdx sh
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by m1el 9y ago
Windows command line parsing is crazy . I've recently stumbled onto this post, explaining various pitfalls in parsing command line arguments in windows: http://www.windowsinspired.com/how-a-windows-programs-splits...
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by m1el 9y ago
How much of that repo is protected by patents and cannot be reused?
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by m1el 9y ago
> But I don't think you should state that the standard model is evidence of that emdrive cannot work I specifically said that reactionless drives contradict conservation of momentum. This is a direct result of all useful physic
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by m1el 9y ago
While I too prefer mpv, I suspect that there are plenty of vulns in that player.
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by m1el 9y ago
> because I don't understand how to calculate the integral, there can be no way anyone else can > Just because some people don't know how to do something doesn't mean its not possible. While this is a wrong place to con
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by m1el 9y ago
User Steuard explains why EmDrive doesn't work and responds to an ad-hominem attack https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9473209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9476202
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by m1el 9y ago
There's a few map projections I really like that don't have most of these problems: HELAPIx[0] and Dymaxion map[1]. HELAPIx is designed to have pixels of the same area, and Dymaxion is designed to have the least distortion. [0]:

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