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by vortico 5y ago
Most powder models have O(n^2) interactions per step, so it's nontrivial to approximate it in O(n log n) while keeping it just as fun, especially when pushing the models to their limits.
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by vortico 5y ago
Ah yes, the solution to bias: Hide everyone's faces. That'll teach everyone to celebrate our differences.
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by vortico 5y ago
KaTeX supports server-side Node rendering pretty easily. https://katex.org/docs/node.html Maybe MathJax does too, but I haven't checked. I use this on https://vcvrack.com/manual/DSP to parse
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by vortico 5y ago
You could just square your quantity before applying the 1.5 factor. Instead of "Our shuttle is safe up to 150% of the required speed!" design for "safe up to 150% of the required kinetic energy (1/2 m v^2)". Then yo
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by vortico 5y ago
Giving up your wallet while at gunpoint should also be illegal!
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by vortico 6y ago
My sleep schedule has a ~25 hour period, so I'd actually use this. :) Been doing it for 20+ years. Most of 2021 I've awakened around 07:00 MTC. It's 10:27 as I write this, so I've been awake for about 3 (Mars) hours. ht
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by vortico 6y ago
Why in the world do we need 3 kbps audio for voice? It's so hard to hear people speaking over mobile phones. Why don't we use 32-64 kbps 48 kHz for all voice communication? GSM CSD offers 9-14 kbps down/up, 3G offers 384 kbps
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by vortico 6y ago
I'm always curious why the default behavior of many server frameworks exposes so much information. I think it should just drop the connection by default for this error.
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by vortico 6y ago
Bitcoin is only good for large transactions, but there are 1000000 cryptocurrencies that solve this problem such as BCH, USDT, and LTC. Use one of them.
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by vortico 6y ago
Also: https://dontasktoask.com/
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by vortico 6y ago
Oh sure, for donations that's a lot. A good rule of thumb is asking for donations returns 1-10% compared to selling software for a fixed price. So the game perhaps could have brought $70-700k. Highly dependent on the type of software i
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by vortico 6y ago
That's nothing for a game like this, taking 6 months.
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by vortico 6y ago
I've had a thought in the back of my mind to write a replacement/alternative for the GTK file picker for years. I've probably spent at least a day total using it throughout my life, so it would make sense to spend a few days
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by vortico 6y ago
Sure, you can do that if you want!
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by vortico 6y ago
I like the idea of an IDE distinguishing between scope types with colors, lines, or rectangles. Just this week I had to scroll up a few pages of C++ to check how deep a line is in scope. It would have been useful to see that the scope was:
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by vortico 6y ago
Has someone made a JS/WebAssembly implementation of Flash in order to allow Flash games to be played?
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by vortico 6y ago
Previous HN thread (2019): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20811004
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by vortico 6y ago
$112.45 from a crowdfunding campaign probably isn't enough to pay their repair bill.
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by vortico 6y ago
This looks really cool, but I can't get it to work. Clicking the Dropbox button when it says "Click Dropbox button to load content" doesn't do anything. Nothing printed to web console, or anything happening in the UI.
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by vortico 6y ago
The "Tom Lehrer Trust" probably has a budget, and they've probably already paid the server/domain fees until then but have no plans for the trust to cover renewal.
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by vortico 6y ago
Hopefully the Wayback Machine will pick it up. It only has the index page at this time. https://web.archive.org/web/20200302193816/https://tomlehrer...
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by vortico 6y ago
Are you saying that elderly prefer to see their children die first or themselves? We're not debating whether they want to die or not, that's obvious. We're debating whether they value their lives more than their children or c
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by vortico 6y ago
The older I get, the less I value the rest of my life. So it's fair to say that younger deaths are worse than older deaths on a society scale.
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by vortico 6y ago
NPR is just as bad as Buzzfeed with it's sensationalist headlines.
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by vortico 6y ago
No, -0.f is more interesting than 4.1045857301e23f. It's more interesting because it's more likely to fail a test where others don't.
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by vortico 6y ago
Does anyone have code to reduce the search space by a few orders of magnitude to test functions with a float64 argument or two or three float32 arguments in a few seconds? Perhaps by skipping "boring" floats that aren't near
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by vortico 6y ago
Oh, you mean using analyzing software. Yeah, I've never had a use for that. On the other hand, you could make my function append to a string and then return the string. Then it wouldn't have side effects so it would be analyzable.
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by vortico 6y ago
How would you define the `printMessage` function? The `pet` object doesn't have context about `staff`, and the `filter` function is filtering staff, not pets. It could return staff that have both cats and dogs, so it would incorrectly
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by vortico 6y ago
Wait a second, you left out the most important part: What's in the `log(...)` function? How do you get the name of the pet and the name of the staff in that line if they have the same accessor `.name`? That's my point. The fact th
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by vortico 6y ago
What's wrong with functions? A function `printCatsBelongingToStaff()` is much easier to read than a line of functional code. I don't understand what you mean by "analyzed much better" and "neat safety guarantees&quo

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