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by rmidthun 12y ago
In a similar vein, my 10yo daughter used to play a now-defunct MMO called Pixie Hollow. In it, you played a Disney fairy and took care of pets which needed to be fed and played with to remain happy and healthy. Months after the game was s
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by rmidthun 12y ago
My Roland digital piano has several temperaments it can use including meantone, just, pythagorean. It's a low-midrange model HP203, make to look and sound more like a piano.
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by rmidthun 13y ago
Once again, Max Headroom proves to be the most prophetic show of the 80s. "Deities" has a church using exactly this sort of technology to offer "immortality".
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by rmidthun 13y ago
Ok, how about it? http://www.superliminal.com/cube/cube.htm There's also a 5 dimensional one and links to all kinds of crazy. Interestingly, solving higher dimensional cubes isn't more difficult from an algor
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by rmidthun 13y ago
What about "Answer" by Frederick Brown? http://www.roma1.infn.it/~anzel/answer.html Perhaps the shortest SF story worth reading... There's also some other "big scale" SF like Greg Egan's
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by rmidthun 13y ago
This is just a guess, but in ruby, you can perform methods directly on any value, such as "3.succ", which returns 4. I don't think that works in Python. Ruby allows you to extend any class with more methods, so you could c
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by rmidthun 13y ago
D'oh. Good point. At least I can point to it as another example of someone not expert in the field making a stupid statement about crypto... I think the general problem of padding with random values resulting in non-determinism would
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by rmidthun 13y ago
Obvious? Didn't that word already cause enough trouble? What are you going to pad it with? Random values? In that case, I'll just make two requests for the same information and clip it where they differ. Some sort of value bas
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by rmidthun 13y ago
Actually, in this case "Limit" is perfectly accurate. The only result of checking this is that the application must call advertisingTrackingEnabled before using the identifier. If enabled is NO, then the developer can use the i