munch117

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by munch117 1y ago
Thank you for making this. I have an idea for a gameplay that I think I would enjoy more: - If the first guess is within a factor of sqrt(10), then you win. - If not, you are given two choices for the second guess: Up or down. - Up
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by munch117 1y ago
Not only that, the compiler's optimizer might actually do a better job if you split up a big function. Because the smaller functions have less register pressure.
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by munch117 1y ago
> What does this sentence even mean? Apologies for my non-native English. I'll try putting more words on it and maybe it will come out less convoluted. It's easier to eat a lot of salad when it's finely cut. Then you jus
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by munch117 1y ago
If I'm understanding this correctly then this is about a tax disincentive, making it more expensive for US companies to poach R&D talent from other countries. Not all countries will see that as a problem.
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by munch117 1y ago
It is precisely a salad for people who don't generally eat salads. The big uncut leaves are suited for slow nibbling of token amounts of salad. Croutons are recognizable from a distance as a non vegetable ingredient, making it attracti
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by munch117 1y ago
I use a bookmarklet: javascript:void%20function(){document.querySelector(%22video,audio%22).playbackRate=parseFloat(prompt(%22Set%20the%20playback rate%22))}();
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by munch117 1y ago
Generating simple HTML instead of markdown would have been a solution. But I guess that ship has sailed.
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by munch117 1y ago
Agreed. To do accounting, you need to employ some kind of discipline to ensure that you get rounding right. So many people erroneously believe that such a discipline has to be based on fixed point or decimal floating point numbers. But bi
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by munch117 1y ago
FP does not introduce imprecision. Quite the contrary: The continuous rounding (or truncation) triggered by using scaled integers is what introduces imprecision. Whereas exponent scaling in floating point ensures that all the bits in the
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by munch117 1y ago
The answer is accounting. In accounting you want predictability and reproducibility more than anything, and you are prepared to throw away precision on that alter. If you're summing up the cost of items in a webshop, then you're
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by munch117 1y ago
Postel's law isn't about accepting arbitrary invalid inputs. It's about inputs that are technically invalid but the intent is obvious from looking at it, and handling those according to intent. In a distributed non-adversari
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by munch117 2y ago
Before you look up something on wikipedia, you need to know that it exists in the first place.
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by munch117 2y ago
Then what happens, if you're that type of person, after you've replaced or painted over something? Do you relax and become comfortable with what's left? Or do you move on to the next irritant, that will bug you until you&#x
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by munch117 2y ago
Whatever colour you put on the wall at home, you get used to. Your senses acclimatize to it because you see it all the time, even if it initially seemed "riotous". Once you step outside, it does matter though. If your own home i
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by munch117 2y ago
Whichever of his movies I watched last.
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by munch117 2y ago
"Thou shalt not kill" is a rule that appears in every shortlist of rules that has been issued by any king, ever. The rule is there because every society has that rule. It doesn't apply to how you treat people that the king
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by munch117 2y ago
Wait, can you tell me how to set it for the whole OS? Then please do!
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by munch117 2y ago
What I used to do is set the thousands separator to ' in the operating system settings. That made Excel read CSV files with 1,004 and 1.004 the same, as one and four thousands. No one puts thousands separators in CSV files anyway, so
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by munch117 2y ago
Even in German, mixing up o and ö or u and ü is still a spelling error. They sound very different, even if they are in some formal sense the same letter.
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by munch117 2y ago
That says more about how Google has been personalised to you than about Icelandic phonebooks. By the way, you are misspelling the name. The dots are not decoration, it's a different letter. Edit: But I guess you know that, and o is ju
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by munch117 2y ago
It's not a math exercise. The author poses a question that is in the realm of psychology or neuropsychology or something like that, and then jumps straight into solving it with pure math, picking premises out from thin air. The premis
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by munch117 2y ago
If this mysterious disc-accelerating force also accelerated the people and things on the surface, we'd all be weightless. I guess it must be a pushing force from below. So, who's doing the pushing? I'm thinking a big turtle.
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by munch117 2y ago
Ah, but would they actually be parallel on a flat earth? Say the earth is disc-shaped. Then the center of gravity is only directly beneath you if you're standing at the exact center. You get ever-so-slightly not parallel lines, just
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by munch117 2y ago
The w3.org validator says that https://rachelbythebay.com/w/atom.xml is a valid Atom 1.0 feed ( https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fra... ). It does seem like something's
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by munch117 2y ago
Do you need special-casing to recognise <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="/w/atom.xml"> ?
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by munch117 2y ago
I visited Syria in 2008. It was, by all appearances, a safe and peaceful country. A quiet place to live with children and family.
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by munch117 2y ago
This is based on an old scam, the core idea isn't Derren Brown's. But what a nice execution. I really liked how be complimented the core idea with a bit of sleight of hand in the last episode, turning the mark from a victim into
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by munch117 2y ago
7776 is 6^5. The exactly right number for the trick to work.
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by munch117 2y ago
Where does it say that? I can't find language to that effect in https://handbook.fide.com/files/handbook/wrbc_regulations_20... .
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by munch117 2y ago
Binary goo, barely distinguishable from random data, if at all. The arithmetic coder will make sure of that. It's the nature of compression: Any discernible pattern could have been exploited for further compression.

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