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by tbirdz 9y ago
As far as I am aware Patent Documents are public domain, and not subject to copyright, so if someone wanted a printed patent poster they could grab the document and take it to any large format printer and have it printed there cheaper than
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by tbirdz 9y ago
The algolia api has more bulk operations, so you can get more than one response per api request. Also if you look around, there are some datasets where people have downloaded all the HN API json responses, and have made them available, so y
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by tbirdz 10y ago
In practice, I don't think IEEE 754 floating point is deterministic, especially not across multiple ISAs, multiple vendors of the same ISA (Intel, AMD), different generations of the same vendor's cpus, different compilers and diff
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by tbirdz 10y ago
There's always fixed point integers[0]. They're less flexible than floats, but at least the amount of precision available is much more clear and uniform, and all the rounding is pretty explicit. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by tbirdz 10y ago
I would be interested in hearing what exploits in particular that the person did inspired you to take them on as a role model. To me a role model would not just be someone who does good work, but someone who you would aspire to emulate. The
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by tbirdz 10y ago
That's very interesting. I had always thought of role model as referring to a specific individual, I haven't encountered the idea of collective role models forming "cognitively available success cases" before.
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by tbirdz 10y ago
I tried very hard to make sure my comment did not come across as dismissive, evidently I failed. Just to reemphasize, I am not in any way trying to deny these women's responses. I have just seen this concept of a role model bandied abo
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by tbirdz 10y ago
>Rob is right that role models are important. I've heard this thought expressed a lot, but I have to ask a genuine question: Does anyone here really have any role models that were influential to their interest in the field? I'm
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by tbirdz 10y ago
I think there is something like a 1% rule for elections. small group runs for office larger group helps run the campaign (volunteers, etc) larger group donates larger group votes even larger group doesn't vote at all As the amount of e
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Decentralization is good to help protect the user against abuses from the central service provider. It also encourages competition, since the user can switch to a different service, and not be penalized by network effects preventing them fr
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by tbirdz 10y ago
I'm sure there are many historians who would jump at the chance to go back in time and observe ancient bronze casting first-hand. In fact, it seems like almost every period of human history has at least 1 historian who has devoted thei
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Does anyone have any resources on how to break out of this "isolation cycle" if one is currently already in it?
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Kyle, thanks so much for all your hard work setting up Neocities! I think it's a wonderful thing you are doing. Also, since we're talking about neocities, here, does anyone have any cool neocities sites they know of and want to sh
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by tbirdz 10y ago
>In humans, even a small loss in genetic variability such as cousin mating 1.5% is bad enough that we have laws against it in nearly every society. I thought this sounded suspicious, so I looked it up, and it's not true. Cousin marr
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Not true. Chez Scheme has been released as free open source software: https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme
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by tbirdz 10y ago
I know the author doesn't intend this code to be "production ready", but I just wanted to point a problem that may not be completely obvious, if you are trying to use this structure for multithreaded communication. The struct
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by tbirdz 10y ago
I don't think this is true. I tried the sample out, and gcc, clang, and intel's compiler all generate a cmov for the code instead of a branch with -O2. I don't think all these compilers would have used a cmov instead of a bra
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by tbirdz 10y ago
I've been using this knot for 8 years, and it hasn't come untied on me once! I'd highly recommend it.
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by tbirdz 10y ago
That's only true if your compiler actually outputs a modulus instruction when it sees you doing N % pow2. It really should optimize that into N & (pow2-1) for you, so whether you write the & or the % it will end up running the
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by tbirdz 10y ago
>iterating backward through memory is horrific for cache performance This isn't true for Intel chips since Netburst Pentium 4. The hardware prefetchers can handle predicting iterating through an array forwards, backwards, and even s
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by tbirdz 10y ago
You could also do a predicated conditional move instead. Just do the subtraction every time, and use something like cmov to only do the write if you need to. I don't know if it would end up being faster, though.
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by tbirdz 10y ago
I know of at least 2 commercial implementations: VFX Forth by mpe[0] and SwiftForth by Forth Inc[1]. Both companies are still in business, selling their tools for hundreds to thousands of dollars, so there is obviously some people using the
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Moving Forth is pretty good: http://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/moving1.htm There are 8 parts to the series, you can look at all of them and other Forth writings by the author on his website: http://www.bra
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by tbirdz 10y ago
It's a label you can jump to. I guess FARTF stands for the function name: FcAppendRgchToFn. Then the number is used to differentiate each label.
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by tbirdz 10y ago
If you are interested in this kind of stuff, Craig Finseth's The Craft of Text Editing is a great read: https://www.finseth.com/craft/
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Or James R. Kirk, depending on the episode: http://i.stack.imgur.com/KLPqJ.jpg
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Dynamic web hosting and OpenBSD (2010)(marc.info)
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Cool! I'll definitely have to try it out when I get some free time. And hey, there's nothing wrong with reinventing the wheel when you're just trying to have some fun!
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Very interesting. Do you have resources you could recommend about working with/programming with voxels? Or how using voxels differs from using polygons in practice?
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Eben Moglen on GPL Compliance and Building Communities: What Works(linux.com)
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