saucetenuto

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by saucetenuto 16y ago
In some places, such laws were enacted to keep drug addicts and other such delinquents from hanging out there after hours. No idea whether that was the motivation here.
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by saucetenuto 16y ago
> Unfortunately, my fair use claim was denied without explanation by the copyright holder. Wait, what? Why is it the copyright holder that gets to decide what constitutes fair use? The present system seems subject to abuse.
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by saucetenuto 16y ago
From the friendly article: "The same thing happened when the test was switched to a similar task based on tonal differences, indicating the success of gamers wasn't simply the result of their focus on visual cues."
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by saucetenuto 16y ago
> This is an oversimplification to say this but at some level generics are implemented as syntatic sugar for typecasts between Object and the type parameter type. This is not true. Java generics work this way (google "type erasure"),
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by saucetenuto 17y ago
Space leaks are the real problem, and not just for the reason you state. These days it's hard to even buy a computer with less than a gig of RAM, but the Playstation 3 - the most powerful console of the new generation - has only 256 megs.
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by saucetenuto 17y ago
It's always fun to watch non-programmers underestimate the difficulty of human-equivalent AI.
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by saucetenuto 17y ago
I'm not the OP, but: Whenever you update a reference count atomically, you need to use a memory barrier to ensure that that memory write becomes visible to the other cores before any other memory operations you want to make. Those are not
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by saucetenuto 17y ago
"Since function calls usually take a long time, getchar is often implemented as a macro." And then I stopped reading. Does anyone know of a meaning for this sentence that's more sophisticated than "function call overhead is punishing, don'
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by saucetenuto 17y ago
The author claims that OnLive has to deliver latencies of no more than 150 milliseconds. I'd put it at 50, 20 frames per second, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how you'd hit that, even with something like Akamai's IP Accelerato