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by stkdump 7y ago
After the creation of cities and nation states, the smartphone is the next major step for the human race towards becoming a single superorganism. Maybe the last major step, seeing as full integration is probably a matter of many smaller adv
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by stkdump 7y ago
I hate that mantra, as it produced more bugs and inaccuracies in the code I have to work with than necessary. Actually you should be able to rely on the equality of a value with its copy no matter what. We are past the FPU days, so I think
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by stkdump 7y ago
You can choose any delta, so that f(t)*constant=f(t+delta) for every t.
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by stkdump 7y ago
No, a polynomial does not have a constant factor for every t.
605.
by stkdump 7y ago
Tell me another function for which this property holds, but that isn't exponential.
606.
by stkdump 7y ago
The very meaning of an exponential function is that any point t plus a fixed delta t the value is higher than the value at t by a constant factor. If that factor is getting lower over time it is not exponential anymore, even when it stays a
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by stkdump 7y ago
Ah yes, of course something military related. We had this moment in 1962: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_affair
608.
by stkdump 7y ago
Wait, are you saying that blog.mozilla.org serves malware?
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by stkdump 7y ago
Aldi cashiers didn't type the prices but numbers for the products. The register would lookup the prices. Cashiers would quickly punch those numbers in without picking up the items for many items and then swoop 5 to 10 items over the re
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by stkdump 7y ago
Without knowing it exactly I have an idea that Norway might be a harder nut to crack because it is outside the EU and some rules don't apply there. I seem to remember something like a butter (?) crisis over there some time ago. That co
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by stkdump 7y ago
I remember people used to do this in Germany when I was a kid ~20 years ago at bigger shops. They would walk up to people loading their cars and ask if they can return the cart for them. I always perceived it as a form of begging. Nowadays
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by stkdump 7y ago
I wonder if these cloud gaming efforts will also lead to latency improvements in remote application usage such as rdp and/or vnc. We are considering using 'heavy' software dev and CAD/CAM workstations on servers in our s
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by stkdump 7y ago
Who is to say that a smaller world pop is necessarily a bad thing? Many of the ecological problems we face today would be smaller at least. And who is to say that the current trend of shrinking pop in the long term stays the same. Maybe, on
614.
by stkdump 8y ago
I don't think they will have much luck with that. Also I don't have the feeling that Chinese investors have much interest in interfering with European culture (probably less so than American investors).
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by stkdump 8y ago
I have to say (as a person currently on a 25-30 hour work week), that I often times find meetings to be the most exhausting part of my job, especially when I am very engaged in them. Coding is like meditation compared to that (thought I cou
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by stkdump 8y ago
In the common 2 step generation model of C and C++, this information is not needed. When generating object files it is not relevant which .c/.cpp file corresponds to which header files, because they are no inputs to that. Linkong has t
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by stkdump 8y ago
> As I recall the GC will only touch things that have been deleted for some time (a month?), that's a long time to correct accidental deletions. That is what I mean by second class citizen. The same logic doesn't apply to delet
618.
by stkdump 8y ago
Come the next garbage collect, the file changes in a deleted branch are forgotten. If I don't want to loose changes, garbage collect shouldn't be a thing, because there is no garbage, just history.
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by stkdump 8y ago
Slightly offtopic, I have always considered a strange failure of git that branches are second class citizen in git, not worthy of the same versioning mechanisms as files. It is not unreasonable to expect a versioning system to be able to tr
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by stkdump 8y ago
> An outright ban on Huawei is seen as legally impossible, but German officials are looking at tools that would have the same effect. How can 'tools' with the effect of a ban be legal, when a ban isn't?
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by stkdump 8y ago
> Aldi's gain is our collective loss, the widespread embrace of an insincere "good enough", either because our budgets are truly crunched, or because we don't let ourselves value our mundane maintenance desires. Maybe
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by stkdump 8y ago
> What kind of savage codes with a proportional font? I did for some time. I only switched back because our coding standard limits the length of a line and that is hard to check with a proportional font. I honestly don't get why sou
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by stkdump 8y ago
There is no need to have the consumer PC running 24/7. Also there is no need to have the same uplink speed as downlink speed. Consumers on average just need to reach a seed ratio of 1, while downloading and consuming the content and th
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by stkdump 8y ago
I don't like the way he seems to connect the science to the political spectrum. I think it would be the thinking of the left that we need to improve the environment especially for the disadvantaged (including those disadvantaged for ge
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by stkdump 8y ago
Touchscreens are good for small devices like smartphones or tablets. For everything beyond that I can't imagine why anyone wants them. The distance between hands and eyes on the human body makes it a clumsy way to interact. You either
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by stkdump 9y ago
It seems that the early exit (the return false) in the middle of the loop prohibits the compiler from vectorizing the loop. The compiler can't know if part of the memory is inaccessible and so reading memory not being sure that the loo