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by teraflop 4y ago
No, the file names of compilation units do matter to javac. To quote the Java Language Specification, section 7.6: > If and only if packages are stored in a file system (§7.2), the host system may choose to enforce the restriction that
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by teraflop 4y ago
Why must a company be "behind" this change? 2 minutes of sleuthing seems to suggest that the author of the JEP is a freelance developer who contributes to OpenJDK independently.
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by teraflop 4y ago
I had the same issue when I tried at first (on Firefox), but I waited a while and when I tried again, it worked correctly and gave me a controllable character. Not sure if something failed to load the first time or what.
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by teraflop 4y ago
Another piece of this puzzle is that in a lot of cases, chemical reactions have an exponential sensitivity to energy levels. The visible light spectrum corresponds to photons with energies of roughly 1.6 to 3.4 electron volts. That's
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by teraflop 4y ago
Yup, this post is how I found out that they changed their name. > Game Developer was first founded in 1997 as Gamasutra and has strived since its inception to be a leading resource and reference for game development and industry knowledg
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by teraflop 4y ago
It's hard to say for sure without seeing more technical detail, but I would expect that a modem connection would "just work" without any further changes. The point of a modem is to translate data into an analog signal that ca
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by teraflop 4y ago
No, we have no evidence that the universe has any kind of "edge" that is topologically different from its interior. There is a boundary to what we can see. As the early universe cooled, it changed from an opaque plasma to transpar
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by teraflop 4y ago
rsync does use fixed-size chunks, but the rolling hash allows them to be identified even at non-integer chunk offsets. So a change partway through the file doesn't force rsync to actually re-transfer all of the subsequent unmodified ch
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by teraflop 4y ago
TL;DR they rediscovered the context-dependent variable block size technique that Tarsnap uses: https://www.tarsnap.com/download/EuroBSDCon13.pdf
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by teraflop 4y ago
That question is also relatively easy to answer: https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&t... The "rate of return" isn't quite as simple to define when you're talking about multipl
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by teraflop 4y ago
This is extremely normal in the US. Employers (above a certain size threshold) are required to ask these questions, and to report aggregated statistics to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on an annual basis. But employees/
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by teraflop 4y ago
The great thing about holding $400,000 of your customer's money is that that's $400,000 they can't spend on suing you.
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by teraflop 4y ago
It's easy to make a digital circuit that counts clock cycles with perfect accuracy. But for any clock, the actual length of each cycle is dependent on analog processes, and it's impossible to completely eliminate errors. 15 second
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by teraflop 4y ago
Those numbers aren't really comparable, because the meaningful decision you can make is between "getting vaccinated" and "not getting vaccinated". If you don't get vaccinated, you still might not contract COVI
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by teraflop 4y ago
The bill is not a regulation itself, but merely directs the FCC to create a suitable relation that implements the intent of Congress. So it's not necessary to specify every last detail. Presumably this would be covered by existing ru
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by teraflop 4y ago
Yeah, and the name of "Full Self-Driving" tells you that it can drive "by itself" i.e. without human intervention. But names aren't everything, and artificial neutral networks are "inspired by" but in trut
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by teraflop 4y ago
14 evokes a couple of great Greg Egan short stories: "Reasons to Be Cheerful" and "Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies".
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by teraflop 4y ago
The "soap opera" effect is mainly a perceptual response to the high frame rate itself , even if there are no interpolation artifacts. That's why it has its name: soap operas are typically filmed at 60fps, with cameras that c
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by teraflop 4y ago
Based on a brief bit of googling about this board's CPU (the Bouffalo Lab BL808), it seems to have one RV64 and two RV32 cores. The RV64 core may be capable of running RV32 machine code, if the OS sets various flags correctly, but the
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by teraflop 4y ago
There are plenty of cheap-ish commodity cameras that use ONVIF to stream video over a LAN. That by itself doesn't guarantee that they aren't also exfiltrating the data somewhere, but you can put them on a firewalled VLAN.
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by teraflop 4y ago
The "blocking" and "non-blocking" APIs do completely different things. With the old API (webRequest), Chrome calls an extension's event handlers before every network request, and uses the result of the handler to de
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by teraflop 4y ago
Part of the point of this style of challenge is that you're not given all of the test cases up front. And even if you are, you generally can't come up with those "canned values" without actually figuring out an algorithm
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by teraflop 4y ago
But this is a demonstration that OpenAI doesn't produce correct results, which becomes obvious as soon as you hit the "Submit" button on Leetcode.
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by teraflop 4y ago
So you're saying the interviewer expects a wrong solution, and the wrong solution they expect is the same wrong one the AI generates (which happens to be twice as long as the correct version), and the interviewer doesn't bothe
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by teraflop 4y ago
This code superficially resembles a correct solution, but it is not correct, and if it passes, it's only because the test cases for this problem are woefully sparse. (EDIT: I tried actually submitting it, and it doesn't pass L
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by teraflop 4y ago
Generally speaking: "Data engineering" means building systems that can manipulate data (e.g. storing, retrieving, and delivering it). There are usually fairly well-defined functional requirements about what the system is suppose
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by teraflop 4y ago
Apple doesn't allow any other browser engines on iOS except Webkit. Despite the branding, "Chrome for iOS" and "Firefox for iOS" are fundamentally different products than their Android or desktop counterparts. The
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by teraflop 4y ago
It seems really odd to view a law granting individuals the right to use land for personal recreation as "authoritarian" and not "individualist".
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by teraflop 4y ago
Software development pays incredibly well by the standards of the average American. You can spend that money on lifestyle inflation, or you can save/invest it and buy yourself an enormous amount of financial freedom. Whether you call t
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by teraflop 4y ago
It's a bit more nuanced than that. The parent commenter is correct that modern game engines don't need to sort polygons to render them correctly (with some exceptions e.g. transparent objects), and doing so at a fine-grained lev

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