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811.
by prvc 7y ago
Does not seem to be very convenient for figures which are not the product of one of the first few members of the Fibonacci sequence and a power of 10, at least compared to multiplying by 1.6.
812.
by prvc 7y ago
>Escape rooms Referring to a form of structured entertainment; not to be confused with "panic rooms" or "escape hatches".
813.
by prvc 7y ago
It was an eBay bid, to be specific.
814.
by prvc 7y ago
What would their business motive be for pivoting to mainstream content? Doesn't that eliminate the one thing that differentiates them?
815.
by prvc 7y ago
Your general point about becoming accustomed to one's own privileges may be true, but the attitudes demonstrated in this article are so absurd, that they are far from typical examples of that trend. The article was one of the most ludi
816.
by prvc 7y ago
The inventor's name was David Warren. The invention was the flight recorder. Perhaps the title could convey this information, making it more informative on its own.
817.
by prvc 7y ago
Using a tool such as graphviz directly allows for more flexibility. Reasoning is not simply reducible to syllogisms and lists of pros and cons.
818.
by prvc 7y ago
>there is no evidence to indicate that the movie influenced their naming decision I'd like to add that the existence of a popular contemporary movie whose title is simply a list of names, half of which are the entirety of the names
819.
by prvc 7y ago
>Some people have suggested that the 1969 movie Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice was the origin of Alice and Bob. While it is possible—even likely—that Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman might have been familiar with the movie, there is no
820.
by prvc 7y ago
From reading a few excerpts only, I am reminded of a lot of popular science writing, which too often adopts a condescending casual tone full of flimsy, inaccurate metaphors and chatty asides, and which too often omits simple statements of t
821.
by prvc 7y ago
Does not bode well for the future of ARM Macs
822.
by prvc 7y ago
>Also, his video makes it seem rather easy aswell. The scanline circuitry is quite simple. Making it seem easy != easy
823.
by prvc 7y ago
So since he managed to avoid prosecution from the initial theft, he is presumably in the clear? Wished the article had touched on this question.
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by prvc 7y ago
>I’d be curious of how the builds using the 3700 are doing, though. They pack a punch. If I'm looking at user-submitted benchmarks properly, there's only a very slight difference compared to the 3500U. Seemingly not worth the u
825.
by prvc 7y ago
Need a quick primer on the differences between various current flavors of open router firmware.
826.
by prvc 7y ago
No mention in the article of the possibility of mouth bacteria being the vector.
827.
by prvc 7y ago
Warning: this is a podcast. Would have been nice to have had the highlights in text form.
828.
Decades ago, he stole a tree branch. Now he is the Durian King(latimes.com)
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829.
by prvc 7y ago
I imagine that someone who is inclined to cadge a $4 dessert does not have a lot of prestige to offer in return.
830.
by prvc 7y ago
>The dongles and USB-C are a mess. The failure here is that they did not leverage their power over the market to drive adoption faster. Apple managed to get all the music labels in line back in the day, perhaps they could have done a lit
831.
by prvc 7y ago
They're going to come up with some putatively face-saving alibi for this if true, but beats me what that may turn out to be.
832.
by prvc 7y ago
To clarify: I do not mean that making reports per se is the putative mechanism for this advancement. Perhaps there is some more fundamental quality that causes both. Also, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and that creates an incentive, li
833.
by prvc 7y ago
>But unexpected, says Stratmann, was that women in leadership positions reported experiencing sexist behaviour at a higher rate than others If making such reports is rewarded in a way that can help career advancement, then it should not
834.
by prvc 7y ago
It may be a good deal for the individual confronted with the binary choice, however, that does not change this phenomenon's essential reliance on the exploitation of the poverty of the developing world. The same dynamic is what enables
835.
by prvc 7y ago
>The odds of Mr Mills correctly guessing the combination are pretty long, says the University of Toronto's Jeffrey Rosenthal, author of Knock on Wood: Luck, Chance, and the Meaning of Everything. >He calculated the chance of corr
836.
by prvc 7y ago
Article contains some a priori speculative criticism of the test. I wonder if its empirical efficacy has been assessed in the current epoch, and how that would compare to using AI to assess facial features towards the same end. Peculiar tha
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by prvc 7y ago
Just to clarify: the question regarding LFSRs is not in how to implement them (which I think was described adequately), but how to determine what their orbit is upon repeated application, and how to choose one that generates a complete perm
838.
by prvc 7y ago
>Wolf3D ran fine on a 286, it ran great on a 386 Highly dependent on the VGA card, believe it or not (there's a nice set of benchmarks showing this in Game Engine Black Book).
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by prvc 7y ago
>Fabien's Game Engine Black Book >Hovertank and Catacomb One omission from that book that would have been nice to have been included is an explanation of how the 3D scenes are drawn in those games. In one of the quoted passages,
840.
by prvc 7y ago
I don't understand what the benefit of overloading truth values is compared to using functions and modal operators, except as a vector for introducing back-door obscurantism.

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