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by nwallin 6y ago
The 100% achievement speedrun involves setting numerous biter related settings to 0, including both the time and pollution evolution factors. I don't remember all the settings which are changed, but it's a substantial list. Biters
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by nwallin 6y ago
SPM depends on LPM, but LPM doesn't depend on SPM if you just throw away the white science. So SPM is a more holistic measurement.
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by nwallin 6y ago
> Unfortunately, I'm discovering that my DDR3 era PC can't cope with such large bases, I need faster gear... This is really unfortunate. "Fortunately" it seems to be a result of the simulation engine using only a sing
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by nwallin 6y ago
I agree. One other thing to note is that a tiling WM goes a long way towards making a wider, shorter screen more useful.
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by nwallin 6y ago
> Probably because the announced hardware is clearly entry level. Yes, but why compare it to an entry card that was released 4 years ago instead of an entry card that's been released in the past 12 months? When the 1050 Ti was rel
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by nwallin 6y ago
> > Almost all developer countries, urban centres, where majority of people live anyway. > At -80C? Absolutely. This is a solved problem. You can buy dry ice at your local supermarket. I buy meat from a ethical farming operation th
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by nwallin 6y ago
> children in cages and family separation are not a trump policy but an american policy and obama and previous president did it too. This is completely false. Family separation was never a policy of any administration until Trump. https
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by nwallin 6y ago
I've been using my Brother laser printer for something like a decade now. I bought toner for it once in like 2013. Never had any problems. The linux drivers are through a third party repo but they work great. In the days when you'
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by nwallin 6y ago
> and this sped it up by 100% Over 1,000%. x87 fsqrt took ~70 cycles on the Pentium MMX x87, x87 fdiv was ~39 cycles - so doing inverse square root on x87 was ~109 cycles. The fast inverse square root routine was in the vicinity of 10 cy
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by nwallin 6y ago
I agree that Prop 22 is not a perfect solution. But I think Prop 22 is a better solution than AB5. If independent contractor work is insufficiently protected, then independent contractors should be given better protections. Gig workers need
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by nwallin 6y ago
It's valid to perform research on Earth by taking satellite photos and examining them for land cover use. It's valid to use a laser range finder to map the land elevation of the entire planet. Among the various governments which h
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by nwallin 6y ago
The primary goal of this announcement isn't that Zen 3 is better than Zen 2, the goal is to show that AMD/Zen 3 is better than Intel. Zen 2 is already better at nearly all workloads, with the only exception being gaming. They co
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by nwallin 6y ago
> 32MB L3 Cache is going to be very useful for certain types of Application. "Going to be"? The Ryzen 3600 ($199) and above already have 32MB L3 cache, the 3900X ($499) and above already have 64MB. The big L3 cache is already a
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by nwallin 6y ago
The linux kernel has the option CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME, which adds syscalls for 32 bit time_t. If this option is not enabled, much badness happens if you run 32 bit binaries, for instance, Steam and many 32 bit native linux games fail to
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by nwallin 6y ago
A previous coworker of mine had a sticky note with "LONGITUDE FIRST, LATITUDE SECOND" (or something to that effect) stuck to the wall in her office.
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by nwallin 6y ago
That video is about dimethylmercury, which is chemically completely different than the mercury in fluorescent lights. That's like saying DNA is bad because is has carbon and nitrogen in it, which is what cyanide is made out of. https:
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by nwallin 6y ago
The 1st Amendment applies to US citizens and non-citizen US permanent residents. It does not apply to foreign nationals. AFAIK Assange is not and was not a US permanent resident, so the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to him. That being sa
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by nwallin 6y ago
I do. (Frontier FIOS, Southern California) I pay for 150Mb/s up/down and always get those speeds, even at peak times. (I don't get the full speed on my wireless devices, 100BaseT ethernet devices, or network over USB 2.0 devi
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by nwallin 6y ago
Names are important. If you wanted to start a club, and you called this club the Ku Klux Klan, people would assume you were a bunch of racists, even if you insisted you totally weren't. Even if, in reality, you actually weren't.
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by nwallin 6y ago
This article is barely mentions formation of mountains on Earth. The article is almost entirely about lunar craters, lunar central peak craters, and lunar peak ring craters. Interesting article, terrible headline.
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by nwallin 6y ago
Perhaps you're thinking of minimax? It's an unrelated concept to min-max heaps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min-max_heap
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by nwallin 6y ago
Here's the full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhgq-BqyZ7i7MTGhUROZy...
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by nwallin 6y ago
If you have health insurance, and you keep your health insurance through whatever your medical emergency is, you won't have a financial problem with regards to medical bills. I'm splitting this up into two parts: how it works, and
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by nwallin 6y ago
What do posits do when you run out of bits? 32 is ... not very many bits.
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by nwallin 6y ago
Incidentally, this is also why +0.0 is distinct from -0.0. <+something> / +0.0 is +inf, but <+something> / -0.0 is -inf. And if you want to do a >/< comparison afterwards, you need the +/-.
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by nwallin 6y ago
The GDPR still applies in the UK, even after brexit. The EU has kind of a weird system IMO. The main EU body decides on a thing. Then each country in the EU reads the thing, and enacts legislation that does the thing. Notably, each country
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by nwallin 6y ago
There are a plethora of full disk encryption tools. Linux has dm-crypt, Windows has BitLocker, iOS and Android have it. I assume there's a way to enable full disk encryption in OSX but I'm not familiar with the ecosystem. They can
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by nwallin 6y ago
What you're describing actually exists, it's called Heterogeneous Systems Architecture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneous_System_Architect... It's nifty, but it's generally only used as a
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by nwallin 6y ago
A good text editor solves this problem. I can vouch for emacs, but I would be shocked if there weren't a good way to get vim to do this for you. The list of hard programming things is long; things that are trivially solved by a tool sh
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by nwallin 6y ago
It's kind of a garbage filesystem though. HN gets all bent out of shape about minor differences between btrfs and zfs. Like how zfs supports raid5/6 but btrfs raid5/6 support is immature. Meanwhile NTFS doesn't even supp

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