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by utopcell 8y ago
There are no DDG results: DDG serves Bing results. What you are really saying is that you prefer Bing to Google results.
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by utopcell 8y ago
The modelling for the movement was simple: The Moon rotated on a cycle, whose center was itself rotating on a cycle centered at Earth (see [2] from [1],) but the part of the antikythera mechanism that was devised to simulate this was purely
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by utopcell 8y ago
The problem is not that we don't have more of these devices but rather that little written remains of them. It's as if references to them were systematically destroyed. Mind you, we wouldn't even know about the Antikythera me
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by utopcell 8y ago
Unless of course the author is self-employed. Then it's time to worry again.
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by utopcell 8y ago
GCC applies the same optimization and compiles to a single constant if overflow does not occur. To see this, you can change '1000000000' to '1000'.
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by utopcell 8y ago
What did he listen to ?
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by utopcell 8y ago
I get the article's point -- no arguments there. But calling the macbook "an inferior machine at a higher price" seems kind of a stretch IMO.
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by utopcell 8y ago
Size is a big feature though.
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by utopcell 8y ago
Not sure I agree that the Macbook is "an inferior machine at a higher price". At 12", it is the only <13" offering currently.
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by utopcell 8y ago
Exactly. I stopped reading as soon as I saw that image.
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by utopcell 8y ago
Nicely done :-)
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by utopcell 8y ago
Solid argument. Everyone that has a positive opinion about Google works for them. You might want to search for the threads of my not positive opinions as well though.
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by utopcell 8y ago
Agreed.
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by utopcell 8y ago
Biased towards Google ? I stated my opinion: I _trust_ Google. I do _not_ trust a company that chooses to increase their revenue by numerous smearing campaigns. As for putting down a 'competitor' [sic]: Google owns 'duck.com&
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by utopcell 8y ago
By accident: Bing (their main backend) would obviously not leak personal information to a third party site such as DDG.
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by utopcell 8y ago
Indeed I am. I'm sure your first thought was to use Google to find this information.
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by utopcell 8y ago
Hang on, do you think Quora is being paid to allow such answers, or that they allow them because controversial answers are popular ?
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by utopcell 8y ago
Quora is not a forum for product placement. The CEO ad was not answering the question.
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by utopcell 8y ago
What does that have to do with the point being made ?
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by utopcell 8y ago
The two big US search engines use personalization to give you better results. One of them is your main partner. You accuse only the other of evil-doing. I thought the reasoning was pretty clear.
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by utopcell 8y ago
Google does.
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by utopcell 8y ago
It was initially developed in Zurich.
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by utopcell 8y ago
I believe the design is similar because Google presented the SwissTable design more than a year ago in CppCon [1]. If I'm reading the link you sent correctly, then there was an initial bias in the benchmarks that favored F14, but after
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by utopcell 8y ago
Indeed. It raises the baseline that Google itself had set many years back with dense_hash_map.
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Swiss Tables and absl::Hash(abseil.io)
80 points by utopcell 8y ago|18 comments
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by utopcell 8y ago
Star Trek TNG summed it up best on its last episode: ``[..] you had such potential, but then again, all good things must come to and end'' [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-olnnGBJQV4
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by utopcell 8y ago
Much like the space program [1], colonizing Mars will be a focal point for developing technologies for improving life on Earth. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies
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by utopcell 8y ago
Valid point, but with a crucial correction: The Lunokhod landers landed on the moon way after Apollo 11 [1] so they are in no way pre-Apollo. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme
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by utopcell 8y ago
IMO, the best way to experience the Apollo 11 landing is on [1]. [1] http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com
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by utopcell 8y ago
Put it differently: both faking it and actual landing were monumental engineering feats for the time

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