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- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 4 weeks ago:
also the person apparently spent 2 million dollars to find the number. and the money is probably from stock compensation from nvidia
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 4 weeks ago:
that’s one of the defining characteristics of mersenne primes…
mersenne primes happen to be the easiest known way to find extremely large prime numbers (via the Special Number Field Sieve I believe)
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
to be honest, 80% of their customers probably don’t even know what an emulator is and don’t follow news about nintendo
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 1 month ago:
yeah that’s not good, may get you prosecuted under “material support” laws
- Comment on jealousy 1 month ago:
The one I was thinking of is the (hypothesized) reduction in jaw size due to less need for powerful chewing, while teeth stayed the same size leading to many problems
- Comment on jealousy 1 month ago:
agriculture and its consequences (maybe)
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- Comment on I'm just gonna stick to slotted, thanks 4 months ago:
because the goal of “tamper resistance” is to make it harder to unscrew without apple’s approval
- Comment on Tech Firms Prey on Poor Under Guise of Expanding Access to Financial Services 4 months ago:
other techbros have praised him, citing the exact list of symptoms google gives for “high-functioning psychopath”
(disclaimer: google may give bad medical advice)
- Comment on Elsevier 4 months ago:
I wonder if it’s common for those steganography techniques to have some mechanism for defeating the fairly simple strategy of getting 2 copies of the file from different sources, and looking at the differences between them to expose all the watermarks.
(I’d think you would need sections of watermark that overlap for any 2 or n copies of the data, which may be pretty easy in many cases, though the difference makes detecting the general watermarking strategy massively easier for the un-watermarkers)
- Comment on _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 months ago:
monospace means the width of the character is the same, but the width of the visible part of the character is usually not
- Comment on near zero 5 months ago:
floats
- Comment on near zero 5 months ago:
cosmologists: sin(x) ~= 10
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 6 months ago:
Nokia bought the parent company of bell labs in 2016. By that point bell labs had already been completely restructed to the point that it has basically nothing to do with the historical bell labs.
- Comment on Old advice, but good advice. 6 months ago:
if you accelerate it to exactly the speed of light, it will destroy everything within about 15 billion lightyears (galaxies further than that are safe because they recede from you faster than light)
- Comment on US to award Samsung up to $6.6 billion chip subsidy for Texas expansion, sources say 7 months ago:
it soars because the profit was near zero before and is now returning to “normal” (their competitor SK hynix made a 5 billion operating loss in one quarter last year)
- Comment on apep 7 months ago:
- Comment on Round 2 🚢 8 months ago:
I read on a pop sci magazine years ago that “this is not the first time we have offered a design, but nobody was willing to buy one so it didn’t get built”
- Comment on Core i9-14900KS overclocked to 9.1 GHz, breaking numerous world records 8 months ago:
nowadays dwarf fortress has built in multithreading
- Comment on efficiency 8 months ago:
I managed to recreate almost the same screenshot in 5kb (and with much less compression artifacts!)
before adding the text and circles it was only 1.6kb
- Comment on AI shouldn’t make ‘life-or-death’ decisions, says OpenAI’s Sam Altman 9 months ago:
probably about half of the executives this guy talks to
- Comment on See? You still have a chance! 10 months ago:
grandma has a lot of friends
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 10 months ago:
are you sure? There’s only 1 way to find out
- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 10 months ago:
- Comment on Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections. 11 months ago:
Considering it took this long for them to figure out “empty user agent means it is a bot” and “well-known vpn may be used by bots”, and old.reddit still apparently bypasses thism, I’m going to guess they are not going to have much success.
- Comment on Choose A or B 11 months ago:
Every rare fish is the only one of its kind
- Comment on Universal Paperclips 11 months ago:
A game that requires you to click a lot cannot possibly be a progress quest ripoff
- Comment on Why Git is hard 1 year ago:
While I agree 100% with your main point,
"it’s a graph of commits” makes no sense to a layperson
every coder should know what a graph is, the basic concept at least. Really if elementary schoolers are supposed to understand multiplication, they can be taught to understand graphs too.
the word “diff” makes no sense
diff is short for difference. And that basically explains it
- Comment on Space is 2D, right? 1 year ago:
do it right and it could even look very good and immersive. But at least with the skills, technology and budget of an 60’s TV show, and especially with certain wack ship designs it’s far easier to just have everything oriented the same way
- Comment on Why is Steam (Windows PC version) the only program (to my knowledge) that natively snaps to windows displays? 1 year ago:
On windows 11 I’m having a hard time finding apps that it doesn’t work with. Firefox, paint.net, inkscape, audacity… all work. And every single application made by microsoft, it seems to work with
