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None of the suggested changes in the paper give black equal or more wins than white. At best they reduce the number of draws, or reduce the disadvantage of black: https://dl.acm.org/cms/attachment/2b6acfe5-8a20-463
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At the rate of 1 bit in 18 minutes (assuming to just coding the signal as off/on every period), that's 34.2 years to transmit 1 MB. Without error correction. If its aliens, they're not in a particular rush to transmit the lat
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I’m curious why all the Electron apps fail at napping. As per the linked Apple documentation, there’s no need to opt in or call an API or anything, the app is simply required not to be constantly redrawing the window. Is this where they fai
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On macOS, there's App Nap: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Pe... I can see in the Activity Monitor that many apps actually are suspended this way: all the Apple stuff like Safar
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This seems a bit disingenuous, listing the max/center PPD for your product, and the average PPD for the Quest.
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I don’t understand the pixel per degree calculations. Quest 2 sits at 20.58 PPD in the table, which makes sense, as that’s 1832px/89deg. How do you arrive at a 35.5 PPD for the Simula VR with 2448px for 100 deg fov? It links to a [2] i
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For some perspective, in Germany we've seen rising number of university students since 2007: 1.94M students in 2007, 2.94M in 2020. From 2020 to 2021, numbers have stagnated (+0.1%). There's few private colleges (mostly internatio
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Trying to allocate memory the size of an underflowed uint64 does not seem safe. Is this possible in safe Rust code? Is there a Rust build flag that would catch this behavior?
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Maybe the archangel of cynicism can come back in a future episode. I'd like to know what they are up to.
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At 30 switches per second for video playback (which this device supports), a lifetime of 10m switches would be gone in around 93 hours.
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Anybody interested in getting a just-for-fun HN user leaderboard going? Here's my code: 194284-90c48b41 In the last couple years I usually stopped up after a few days when I didn't find the time to do one of the puzzles or got stu
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The blog post mentions that seeking to any point works very well without having to create keyframes, just from the speed of the implementation. It would be great if the progress bar could actually respond to click-and-drag events, to quickl
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I started watching the channel after the videos were suggested to me by the algorithm fairly recently, maybe a year ago.
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A large percentage of road deaths are pedestrians and cyclists. Especially in countries with fewer cars and more pedestrians. So it's more that as a Somali car owner, you have a 6.5% chance of killing somebody with your vehicle, annual
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I don't think this method fits camera raws particularly well. The real world is noisy, so it becomes very unlikely that you would ever hit the two most compressible methods of QOI, (1) pixel value repeat or (2) index into one of the pr
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by w-m 5y ago
I'm not sure how common this was: the shuffle function in a CD player I used always used the same order for the same CD. Maybe they had a predefined shuffle-list of integers, that they used mod the number of tracks on the CD. Or seeded
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Having worked in both Germany and France as a programmer, I just gave in, and am using an English International layout everywhere. The mental load from switching between QWERTZ, QWERTY and AZERTY (which also messes with the M key) was just
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by w-m 5y ago
Start working on a way to print uniquely patterned contact lenses now, to be ready at launch. Even thisisnotaniris.com is still up for grabs, have fun with your infinite number of tokens!
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Like the example given in the article, I also take different routes from and to work regularly, with my bicycle. This habit developed naturally, I didn't really plan it. I was reflecting on why I do this, and your explanation of street
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Berlin A+B is included (one of the 130 cities). Or do they live outside, in zone C?
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Which is a bit silly, but more a theoretical problem, right? I'd assume (I can't actually find a map of the coverage), that people for whom a BC 100 makes sense travel mostly by train, thus live near a train station with a good co
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Ok it's feasible, let me reword: it's awkward. You have to hunt for the "start a bounty" link in the question, not the answer, and then presumably still have the minimum bounty period of 24 hours, after which you have to
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Since all votes have the same weight I guess it makes sense that the answers to most basic questions or highly common problems will get the most points. Maybe SO should have a button to donate points to an answer that really saved your baco
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I'm answering questions about Pandas (the Python data analysis framework) on StackOverflow from time to time. It's an exercise in patience, because many people will post screenshots of their data instead of a reproducible code exa
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It wasn’t me, it was a corner case in an HN feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28644848 How fitting for a StackOverflow link submission :)
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At ~1 cable per 1M pop they are probably leaving most countries behind them in a cable/person ratio, being topped only by the transit hubs in the pacific.
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A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow(stackoverflow.com)
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This is a better headline, as it clarifies the situation. The Reuters headline, that influencers must label posts as ads when money changes hands, is not really news - the law was voted on this June, and goes into effect at the beginning of
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If the driver isn’t paying attention already, this can’t work in the worst case. The roads and their speed limits are designed for the driver to safely come to a stop if there’s an obstacle in the road. If you add another 3-10 seconds for t
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In the first months after starting to wear a watch (smart Apple or any other kind, really), I kept forgetting that it also tells the time. The habit of looking up the time on the phone was so deeply ingrained, if I tried to find out the ti

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