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by teraflop 3y ago
As far as I know, the requirement of the IOCCC has always just been to submit any obfuscated C program. A submitted program can do something interesting, or something ordinary in an interesting way, but there's no specific constraint
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by teraflop 3y ago
As far as I know, that's because way back when they introduced "new Reddit" (the redesigned web UI) they made the bizarre decision to use a slightly different and incompatible Markdown parser. So ever since then, posts and co
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by teraflop 3y ago
If 22% of patients in the placebo group died, and 12% in the test group, then that's a reduction of 1 - (12/22) = 45% in the risk of death over that time interval. The true value could easily be 51% if the percentages reported in
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by teraflop 3y ago
You have to be careful how you read that. The researchers did not find that the shingles vaccine does not protect men (from dementia caused by Alzheimer's). They failed to find statistically significant evidence , in their studied p
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by teraflop 3y ago
This doesn't (necessarily) have anything to do with rotation speed, and the article doesn't say it does. The fact that Betelgeuse is pulsating more quickly does not imply that it is rotating more quickly. Making an entire star
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by teraflop 3y ago
Yes of course, but that still means the compression offered by the tape drive is ineffective, even though that compression is assumed as part of the advertised tape capacity.
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by teraflop 3y ago
Just from a quick browse through Framework's replacement parts, almost none of them specify which version they're designed for. So either they're all interchangeable with any chassis version, or the website has an enormou
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by teraflop 3y ago
> That doesn't seem much better than having the browser poll the web server on a periodic basis... It could indeed be much better for performance. It means the polling happens over a (presumably) low-latency, high-throughput local d
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by teraflop 3y ago
If nothing else, Mouser has one enormous usability flaw (which has been an issue for years): you can't sort by price. Or rather, they will let you sort by the "pricing" column, but the effect is to sort parts by their unit
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by teraflop 3y ago
I've seen exactly the same phenomenon over on /r/whatsthatbook, where users try to identify half-remembered books based on their plots. Whenever a post gets popular enough, odds are good that somebody will ask ChatGPT and pos
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by teraflop 3y ago
Yeah, it looks like the font is scaled slightly wrong along the x-axis, so that the displayed pixels don't quite line up with screen pixels. Specifically, the text is rendered about 0.5% too narrow, causing a moire-type pattern that
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by teraflop 3y ago
Yeah, except that if the migration process doesn't work for some reason, you have zero recourse. Mojang/Microsoft tech support is apparently extremely uninterested in helping people who bought a supposedly "perpetual" li
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by teraflop 3y ago
I feel like I must be missing something. I read the submitted web page and watched the "promo" video, and didn't see anything that mentioned Intel or even remotely resembled the "Intel Inside" logo. Where are you se
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by teraflop 3y ago
Your description doesn't match what actually happens in "Dial F for Frankenstein". The protagonists are not directly involved in creating the global network, they're just passively observing its effects, talking about it
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by teraflop 3y ago
The mathematical explanations on this page will teach you lots of stuff that will be useful when playing KSP, but the reverse is much less true. Yes, KSP will help you build an intuition for orbital mechanics, but you can play it for year
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by teraflop 4y ago
Quick math: When viewed from the moon, the earth's diameter subtends an angle of about 0.033 radians. On the other hand, if the photo was taken from an orbital altitude of 100km, then the lunar horizon is about 600km away from the view
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by teraflop 4y ago
In English, you can say something like "He ate it", but just saying "Ate" as an utterance by itself is ungrammatical. On the other hand, in Japanese and other "pro-drop" languages, you can freely omit pronouns
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by teraflop 4y ago
Sounds like qntm's short story "Lena" ( https://qntm.org/mmacevedo ), and before that, Vernor Vinge's "The Cookie Monster".
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by teraflop 4y ago
HN has worked that way for a long time. The submission guidelines say: > If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "
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by teraflop 4y ago
No, it would give you the approximate shortest (least resistance) path between the source and sink, which is very different from the traveling salesman problem (which requires finding the shortest path that touches every node ). I say &quo
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by teraflop 4y ago
No, it makes sense. The parent is talking about continuous power measured in megawatts, i.e. megawatt-hours per hour, or megawatt-days per day. 300 million users * 4 hours/day * 5 watts = an average continuous savings of 250 MW.
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by teraflop 4y ago
Any half-decent electronic component seller should let you sort and filter by these criteria. Digi-Key is the one I use most frequently as a hobbyist.
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by teraflop 4y ago
> Doesn't gravity propagate at the speed of light This is technically true, but not in a way that matters for practical purposes. Changes in the gravitational field -- that is, the metric structure of spacetime -- do propagate at th
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by teraflop 4y ago
Seems to be talking about this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/optical-phase...
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by teraflop 4y ago
Just from a glance at the microcontroller datasheets, it looks like the RA4M1's current draw in "Software Standby" mode is much lower than the older ATmega328P's "power down" mode (5μA vs. ~50μA). But IIRC, the
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by teraflop 4y ago
Libraries' ebook lending programs are not legal because they require membership and use DRM. They're legal because they're authorized by the copyright owners , and those are the terms the copyright owners choose to impose (a
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by teraflop 4y ago
The first-sale doctrine was also covered in the ruling. According to the letter of the law (17 USC § 109) it specifically only covers the distribution of existing authorized physical copies; it doesn't grant you permission to make a
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by teraflop 4y ago
Legally speaking, what the Internet Archive was doing is exactly what copyright law prohibits: making and distributing an unauthorized copy of the book. The first sale doctrine (which libraries depend on) says you're allowed to to se
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by teraflop 4y ago
The full ruling does mention it, albeit briefly: > IA also argues that it made fair use of the Publishers’ copyrights during the National Emergency Library. The analysis above applies even more forcefully to the NEL, during which IA ampl
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by teraflop 4y ago
As far as I know, the resemblance is superficial. (For one thing, the standard dragon curve is based on 90° angles, and this tile has a mixture of 90° and 120° angles, giving it a 6-fold pseudo-symmetry.) There are many other non-periodic o

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