tarpherder

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by tarpherder 11y ago
Isn't it all a gamble in the end?
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by tarpherder 12y ago
The silly thing is that nobody seems to realize that the public has only seen 1 leaked copy, probably from 1 source. HBO could be using any number of techniques and none of us would notice any of them because we have a sample size of 1. Eve
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by tarpherder 12y ago
How can people so easily assume that the watermark was truly the only tracking present? HBO wouldn't immediately come out swinging even if they knew who or where the copy was leaked.
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by tarpherder 12y ago
I share your concern that this will result in a lot of sloppy solution to lots of little problems which in turn results in one big mess of sloppy-but-it-works solutions which can be a big problem (but doesn't have to be). However, even
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by tarpherder 12y ago
The bigger question to me, is how would game developers on the PC market (OSX/Linux included) would scale their games? You would need different assets (level of detail? mip-mapped texture levels? meshes?) - but tuning this t
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by tarpherder 12y ago
Its interesting to see the difference in type of names between Football Coach (Dan, Bill, Mike, Jim, Rich, Steve) and Electrical Engineer (Bernard, Eugene, Edwin, Charles, Alfred, Harvey). Short (one vowel each), common, English versus long
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by tarpherder 12y ago
It is done on PC as well, but we can't assume very recent instruction sets. We'll have to do with semi recent instruction sets.
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by tarpherder 12y ago
Almost everyone was already enjoying 90 days of ignorance. And almost everyone could have enjoyed indefinite ignorance with the same relative safety if Google had waited for patch Tuesday.
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by tarpherder 12y ago
Not aging implies that you won't age beyond a certain point, or do you mean something different? Also, the question you ask is relevant even today with regular aging, and it's already hotly debated looking at euthanasia. I'm
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by tarpherder 12y ago
More like step. There is no such thing as time. The simulation could be paused for (real) years, then continued and there would be no way for entities in the simulation to notice that. This is also why we technically don't need super f
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by tarpherder 12y ago
The GGD site has information on how to tell them apart: "Test it by placing a pinch of the powder on your tongue. If, within a few minutes, this does not have a numbing effect, it is not cocaine. It could be heroin instead." http
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by tarpherder 12y ago
No no, you are mistaken. His reply is a special one. See, it not only refers to your reply, but it refers to itself as well! It's amazingly efficient, no need to respond to it any further!
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by tarpherder 12y ago
The PIN system as used in Europe (or at least where I live) always requires you to physically enter your PIN-Number with any purchase, even online. The card alone is useless as you MUST enter the PIN-Number, and 3 wrong tries blocks the car
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by tarpherder 12y ago
*0xff/255 Simple but potentially dangerous right? :P
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by tarpherder 12y ago
You are going to think your boss is mistaken/wrong/lying in the first hour you meet her/him, during a job interview? Nah. You're not.
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by tarpherder 12y ago
Just a note: "a==a is false for NaN" is only true if compiled with precise or strict floating point mode. It will return true in fast mode, which is often what is used. Do not rely on this behavior for checking NaNs, use isnan ins
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by tarpherder 13y ago
Might not be Java but still interesting, it made me think of one of my favorite little quirks in C++: #include <cmath> //Floating point model: Strict:Precise:Fast //Will code execute float a = nanf(&qu