mrpopo

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1. 601.▲
   by mrpopo 10y ago

   I'm not seeing these numbers either and I'm running Firefox 49. In the resource monitor, I see firefox writing to disk 10kB every 15 sec. I bet there is something else to the story of this guy.
2. 602.▲
   by mrpopo 10y ago

   Power transmission on large distances is a very difficult subject. To put it simply, wires have a non-zero resistance to current, increasing with its length. For instance, Morocco plans to put solar panels in the Sahara. The solution that i
3. 603.▲
   by mrpopo 10y ago

   I seriously hope Bing translation service is more advanced than a static key/value word map! Probable additions would be a grammar parser, and a NN-based translator, with a training set constantly updated.
4. 604.▲
   by mrpopo 10y ago

   The real value being : 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 that is, the approximation was about 80% of the real value. Half of the approximation was in Stirling's formula, and anot
5. 605.▲
   by mrpopo 10y ago

   Interesting implementation. Given that it seems to perform more moves than a regular vector, I'm wondering how much more efficient this would be if it could just memmove the whole block around (AFAIK, the spec doesn't allow it bec
6. 606.▲
   by mrpopo 11y ago

   You can see a half-dozen of "mega-fees" on this graph[0]. The public nature of bitcoin transactions is very interesting. [0] https://blockchain.info/charts/transaction-fees?timespan=all...
7. 607.▲
   by mrpopo 11y ago

   This is somewhat unrelated, but I find that switching from analog to digital hardware is also forcing consumers to replace their hardware instead of fixing it. Turntables and tape recorders, you could somehow tweak it and it would "wor
8. 608.▲
   by mrpopo 11y ago

   Exactly. I think, in contrast to chess or go, Starcraft is not only a "mind game", but also requires physical agility and precision for command outputs. Those Starcraft top players all have had wrist injuries and so forth [1]. If
9. 609.▲
   by mrpopo 11y ago

   Uncompressed video is typically stored in YUV colour space. A typical pixel format, YV16 stores 1 luma for each pixel, and one Cb/Cr for every 2 pixels, which does account for the two bytes per pixel you got :)
10. 610.▲
    by mrpopo 11y ago

    The absolute minimum that average users of the C++ memory ordering system in std atomic loads, etc. [1] should know is that the default memory access scheme is 'sequentially consistent ordering', whereas to get the ultimate perfor
11. 611.▲
    by mrpopo 11y ago

    I don't know why you got downvoted. I see your point, and I agree with it. Although the ultimate solution against assholes is not to let them drive a car in the first place (hence a good reason to talk about the self-driving cars).
12. 612.▲
    by mrpopo 11y ago

    OP's statement, as I understood it, was that the people who will get their lives saved by this new system, are the people who overtake trucks recklessly without proper visibility, a.k.a assholes.
13. 613.▲
    by mrpopo 11y ago

    Yes, all decent C/C++ IDEs (Eclipse, Visual Studio, CodeBlocks) use different syntax highlighting for macros and functions. The problem with nested macros like this is a common bad programming practice, highlighted here in the C/C
14. 614.▲
    by mrpopo 12y ago

    Interesting location choice ... right down the capital of Pakistan and next to the airport. Whatever this is, I think this was not meant to be hidden.
15. 615.▲
    by mrpopo 12y ago

    I know my company has had many problems that were pinned down to Dropbox hooking some Win32 API functions that we use. I am not familiar with the semantics of hooking, but could it be related to that?
16. 616.▲
    by mrpopo 12y ago

    I was actually disappointed to see yet another Go promotional event. Can't the IETF complain for infringement? I guess not...
17. 617.▲
    by mrpopo 12y ago

    "Rocket engineer"? I think surgeons work on bodies, not rockets :)
18. 618.▲
    by mrpopo 12y ago

    I was thinking so hard trying to give myself a clear explanation of why this type of compression was impossible! Thank you. Here is the pigeonhole principle on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principl
19. 619.▲
    by mrpopo 12y ago

    There would be France and the UK. Why do you consider the UNSC as an interesting subset when comparing governmental abuses? This is a genuine question.
20. 620.▲
    by mrpopo 13y ago

    About this particular event's "other side of the story", see [0]. "[Read Zuaiter] did not try to seize the gun of a soldier as Israelis claim, an eyewitness at the scene said Tuesday. The Israeli army stated after the ki