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by superjan 2y ago
Most touchpads can be configured to only register clicks when you actually press and get the click feedback. It should be the default. Swipes may still come through though.
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by superjan 3y ago
In principle, any object can become a black hole if it is made dense enough. It does not matter for the gravity at long distance: replace the earth with a black hole of the same mass, and it not change the interactions with the other bodies
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by superjan 3y ago
Just curious but what is keeping you from compiling x*3?
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by superjan 3y ago
Well, if we suppose all the anti-matter is in those black holes, we kill two birds with one stone. It’s ridiculous, I know, but your remark made me realize that an anti-matter black hole is essentially indistinguishable from a ‘normal’ one.
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by superjan 3y ago
What does it for me is that turing machines can be thought of as physical. In a way it is more tangible than an electronic computer. Btw: I think your site would look better with left justified text. Right justified looks best only for long
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Where Does the Word 'Mayday' Come From?(merriam-webster.com)
2 points by superjan 3y ago|0 comments
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by superjan 3y ago
And (mostly) no predictions that are testable. If it is not falsifiable it is not physics.
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by superjan 3y ago
And don’t forget cosmic inflation.
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by superjan 3y ago
For some background: here is an interview with Daniel Lemire who built an entire career based on the observation that I/O is often not the bottlenck. https://corecursive.com/frontiers-of-performance-with-daniel...
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by superjan 3y ago
Yes, and: “which is now predicted for around 18:56 CET on 8 March +/- 0.4 day” Prediction specified down to the minute with but the error bars are measured in days.
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by superjan 3y ago
Well the ship gets a little nudge in the right direction for free.
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by superjan 3y ago
Isn’t there a normally a mechanism that lifts the wire after the landing gear has crossed it?
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by superjan 3y ago
That’s no secret anymore, is it?
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by superjan 3y ago
On the GPU, vectorization is done for you by the compiler, and the cores are designed to hide latency. These techniques will do little to improve that. OTOH, you have control over how the code is vectorized (stripes or tiles), that could m
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A Submerged Stone Age Hunting Architecture from the Western Baltic Sea(pnas.org)
2 points by superjan 3y ago|0 comments
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by superjan 3y ago
They won’t. The car maker has the Budget product and the Premium product. The car maker wants to justify a high price for the Premium product, so they put in all conceivable features, useful or not. What you want is a Decent product. If th
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Chinese Coathanger malware hung out to dry by Dutch defense department(theregister.com)
4 points by superjan 3y ago|0 comments
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by superjan 3y ago
Bear in mind that comparing floating point NaNs is not transitive. IIRC, Rust considers floating point unsortable for that reason.
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by superjan 3y ago
Yes, and what other vulnerabilities would be out there? IP6 is something that nearly all machines have, and have enabled, but it is rarely used.
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by superjan 3y ago
A long time ago I practiced to use a kitchen knife properly. Rewarding AND timesaving.
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by superjan 3y ago
If that’s what it takes to get them compliant with EU’s GDPR, shouldn’t the same apply to youtube and gmail? Or the rest of google services, for that matter?
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by superjan 3y ago
Parser mismatch vulnerabilities. https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2022/04/11/what-is-parser-m...
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by superjan 3y ago
I speculate that beyond that, extra longevity can also be used to increase your budget. If you plan for six months operations, you have a lower mission budget. They won’t shut you down after six months as long the device is still working.
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by superjan 3y ago
The only times I worry about min/max/clamp performance is when I need to do thousands or millions of them. And in that case, I’d suggest intrinsics. You get to choose how NaN is handled, it’s branchless, and you can do multiple in
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by superjan 3y ago
Why is Brittney’s video not a reliable impartial account? Also note that nothing she says about her performance and feedback is in any way disputed during the call. They had nothing to say to the contrary.
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by superjan 3y ago
It is a mixed bag, but definitely improving. Some experiences: From Holland, It was impossible to do an online booking a ticket to Italy. Only possible via phone, or as separate legs. For long journeys with changeovers watch out that you do
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by superjan 3y ago
When there is more than one enemy, it can become worthwhile to simply use dijkstra from the player’s point of view, and then each monster can look up the optimal route to the player. It makes the computation cost more predictable when the m
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by superjan 3y ago
I have seen an article posted here that did A* on a low resolution versions of the game map, and use the output of that as the heuristic for the full res version. In that design, the low res version was auto generated.
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by superjan 3y ago
Agreed. It’s renewable, so who cares if it’s efficient?
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by superjan 3y ago
Well the argument not that it it readily available, but that most countries do have an administration of their inhabitants.

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