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by stefs 10y ago
maybe, but i don't it's likely. experienced hikers wont chug e's for fun if they're in a potentially dangerous situation. the undressing is due to hypothermia, as explained above. the missing tongue is most likely due to
602.
by stefs 10y ago
Jordan messes up and rm -rf / instead of rm -rf /dev/sdb slapstick classic
603.
by stefs 10y ago
not really related, but i wrote a freecells solver some time ago. it either solves the board in a couple hundred milliseconds or runs out of memory in a couple of minutes for unsolvable boards. one thing i've been interested in was see
604.
by stefs 10y ago
wow is another good example of something like this for the "collect 10 wolf pelts" types of quests. in the beginning you had a drop chance of, say, 30% and a dice roll on every kill. so after ~30 wolves you should have your ten pe
605.
by stefs 10y ago
as being said above: this is probably a micro-benchmarking compiler optimization mistake. i.e.: don'tignore your result or the compiler will probably optimize it away.
606.
by stefs 10y ago
i recently tried to implement a monte carlo ai for four in a row, so i thought i'll give this a try. downloaded the java starter bot and reuploaded it again without much modification. failed. first, there's a null pointer exceptio
607.
by stefs 10y ago
"Kansas City Penetration Testing & Information Security" they're probably back in the u.s. again. it's unlikely they'll send an assassin overseas.
608.
by stefs 11y ago
another recent example of "never trust the client" is the amazon kindle unlimited debacle. in case you missed it: the client syncs the last page read. so you can buy a book, jump to the last side and amazon marks it as read, witho
609.
by stefs 11y ago
coincidentally i re-read the post about the riot games league of legends automated testing infrastructure yesterday. it's fascinating (and honestly, i'm even a bit envious!). in case you haven't read it yet: https:/&#x2
610.
by stefs 11y ago
now that i think about it - doesn't GTA5 suffer from the exact same problem? cheaters spawing tanks above people practically must be a client game state problem.
611.
by stefs 11y ago
nah, a better example involving a bank would be: you have two accounts. the client can do transactions. the server sends to the client: account A has $100, account B has $200, make your transaction. 1. trusted client client says: i&#x
612.
by stefs 11y ago
in reality, at some point it's just not cost effective anymore (for the attacker) and other targets become more promising.
613.
by stefs 11y ago
my guess is this is because of hardware limitations and the absence of the mythical sufficient smart compiler. in the one language you write to appease the hardware, which makes it fast. the other language appeases the programmer, which mak
614.
by stefs 11y ago
i sometimes have sleep problems, so i do take some time off to nap in the middle of the day if my work quality is impaired and if there are no pressing issues. i do stop the clock on those though, so my company isn't paying me for the
615.
by stefs 11y ago
it's a pattern that "moves forward", i.e. recreates itself at another position.
616.
by stefs 11y ago
ah, well - when reading "blocking io" i first thought about the file system. so does my point still stand? using a threadpool for disk IO does go against "threads should only be used to exercise multiple CPU cores and never
617.
by stefs 11y ago
i think this is strange. i'm not a c++ programmer, but the evented frameworks (node.js or vert.x) are doing it the other way round: use threads only for IO (or computation so heavy it's practically blocking). the complete opposi
618.
by stefs 11y ago
for those who don't know joel veitch/rathergoods musical homage to the bagger 288: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow
619.
by stefs 11y ago
well, how to identify "damaging" pull requests? i mean, that's what politics is.
620.
by stefs 11y ago
don't be silly - my code will long be replaced when python 4 comes out! it's just a temporary hack/short term solution anyway.
621.
by stefs 11y ago
that wouldn't have been a catchy enough title to make me read the story.
622.
by stefs 11y ago
To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer”.
623.
by stefs 11y ago
i was immediately thinking the same thing: was john carmack's genius practically negligible for id software? how about fabrice bellard's worth (for telekom paris)? could have ten other average ("non-toxic") programmers a
624.
by stefs 11y ago
warning: not all of the graphs in the venturebeat article start from 0!
625.
by stefs 11y ago
I can't say for sure, but one of my guesses would be stability . By that I mean that the noise is acceptable for a single static image, because it doesn't change - but distracting in an animation if the dithering completely cha
626.
by stefs 11y ago
>But, hey, it's an airline: releasing software is not exactly their bread and butter. it's not pilots and flight attendants coding that application. they've got an IT department whose bread and butter IS releasing software
627.
by stefs 11y ago
on the internet nobody can tell if you're joking or not. as you're obviously a jew yourself you'd better make it a bit more obvious, otherwise people may believe you're just a run-of-the-mill troll.
628.
by stefs 11y ago
as i commented above: "when i learned about WW2 in school in the 90s we weren't really thaught that we were hitlers "first victims". we did learn about the widespread vote manipulation and effective propaganda, but also
629.
by stefs 11y ago
> “It’s pretty controversial. Austrians have for the most part perceived themselves as Hitler’s first victims, and as you can see through a lot of these films it was really not entirely that way. There was a lot of immediate sort of acce
630.
by stefs 11y ago
with the training/test data sets, wouldn't it be possible to find the best parameters with a genetic algorithm? i mean, sure, it'd take really long ... well, probably too long.

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