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by smallstepforman 8y ago
The affected PRNG (90's design) was reseeded every 100ms and only had 96 bit resolution. These days the PRNG is reseeded every 10 ms (+-5ms sliding interval) and use a minimum of 1024 bit resolution.
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by smallstepforman 8y ago
In most states the Gaming profits are taxed, hence up to 30% of the states budget is funded by Gaming operations (here in Australia it is). Regardless of the media rhetoric, no government wants to lose 30% of its budget funding, hence it d
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by smallstepforman 8y ago
VESA is suprisingly good with Haiku. Since most GPU manufacturers have ignored Haiku, the community has spent some time getting the VESA driver as good as it can get, and it is very respectable. Most users will not be aware that they are
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by smallstepforman 9y ago
My windscreen would disagree with you ;)
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by smallstepforman 9y ago
The article keeps iterating how they’ve tested for every conceivable condition they can think of, and yet the narrative says that they were stunned to experience a communications loss which they never tested/conceived of. It’s not reas
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by smallstepforman 9y ago
There are probably many geniouses that came and went through the ages, the problem is that of “financial stability / partnerships”. If I’m too busy making Widgets for a company in order to feed my family, I dont have any energy left to
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by smallstepforman 9y ago
Speaking of modern jet fighters, here us a scary Fly-by of Su35 beside Su30 in Syria (couple of days ago), at full speed meters apart: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SlNyL9jxRP0
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by smallstepforman 9y ago
The article misses the key point which is worrying the Pentagon - if NKorea launches a missile, the trajectory goes over Russian airspace (the world is a sphere, so the shortest distance between NKorea and USA is over mainland Russia). If
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by smallstepforman 9y ago
As oppossed to any western mouthpiece (BBC, CNN, ABC, Washington Post, NYT etc)? Every news outlet parrots the opinions of its investors, and even when you think that a report is neutral, the adjectives try to slant the message in a certain
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by smallstepforman 9y ago
Human psychology studies are a tricky thing, where everyone only focuses on data which matches their preconceived notions. I'm sure that some university group has researched the cost of fashion addiction, music addiction, car addiction
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by smallstepforman 9y ago
Disclaimer: I design the machines and games for a living. 1) regarding near miss, with basic math knowledge you can easily calculate the odds of near miss. Eg. with 2 special symbols per 30 symbol reel, for a 3x5 reel game, you have a 1:5 c
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by smallstepforman 9y ago
There’s one example of autocorrect in use :)
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by smallstepforman 9y ago
The issue not mentioned in the article is number of lines on the keyboard matrix used to detect keypresses. Cheaper non-gaming keyboards can only detect up to 4 simultaneous keystrokes. Gaming keyboards can detect up to 6. That may not s
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by smallstepforman 9y ago
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