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- Comment on I am just silly 22 hours ago:
Sounds like a stray photon flipper your sign bit on. You can flip it back with this:
num_milks ^= 1 << (sizeof(num_milks) * 8 - 1);
- Comment on I am just silly 1 day ago:
Your typical weirdos would bring home six milks, but programmers would come home with seven.
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 3 days ago:
It’s illuminating to ask an LLM a question, and then say it was wrong. In my experience they will do a 180 every time.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 1 week ago:
Can I interest you in an IBM WatchPad? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_WatchPad
- Comment on Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point. 2 weeks ago:
It’s gonna be hot Hot HOT!!
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
Is that true? Sounds kind of discriminatory.
- Comment on LibreWolf team has joined Mastodon 4 weeks ago:
Y’all remember Amarok or am I old?
- Comment on The science speaks for itself 5 weeks ago:
FWIW, I would never ask someone about an injury during a job interview. I’m just a stranger on the internet, though, so who knows.
- Comment on Understimulated 1 month ago:
The Orville was actually pretty good. This may be heresy, but it felt more like Star Trek to me than some of the nu-Trek shows coming out. And for the record I can’t stand Family Guy.
- Comment on A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. 1 month ago:
I wrote my comment not to antagonize you but to point out that you’re asking the wrong questions. I failed to articulate that, and I’m sorry for being harsh.
Your prior comment indicated that you have used hash tables in Java, which were very fast. You said that your program accessed the hash tables, but did not “search” the table. These operations are the same thing, which led me to believe you’re out of your depth.
This last comment asks me how much this paper’s contribution speeds up an average program. You’re asking the wrong question, and you seem to be implying the work was useless if it doesn’t have an immediate practical impact. This is a theoretical breakthrough far over my head. I scanned the paper, but I’m unsurprised they haven’t quantified the real-world impact yet. It’s entirely possible that despite finding an asymptotic improvement, the content factors elided by the big O analysis are so large as to be impractical… or maybe not! I think we need to stay tuned.
Again, sorry for being blunt. We all have to start somewhere. My advice is to be mindful of where the edge of your expertise lies and try to err on the side of not devaluing others’ work.
- Comment on A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. 1 month ago:
Everyone prepare for your minds to be blown:
- Comment on A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. 1 month ago:
Sorry to be blunt, but you don’t know what you’re talking about.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 1 month ago:
Free your mind! There is another way. Video game servers should be open-source, and the games should permit you to choose a custom server. This way, games can survive the bankruptcy of their creators’ companies.
- Comment on critical latex mod 4 months ago:
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 4 months ago:
I wonder whether there was an infantarchal society where they took direction from toddlers. I suppose they wouldn’t have lasted very long if they did exist…
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 5 months ago:
I’m sympathetic if you’re living off the grid and don’t use public infrastructure. But the “sovereign citizens” that we usually hear about have already implicitly accepted the social contract and are now trying to weasel out of the consequences. The license plates that say “private; no license required” are just utter balogna.
That said, I’m completely in support of nonviolent resistance against unjust laws. But most sovereign citizens, in my estimation, are not protesting in support of any higher cause.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 5 months ago:
Nor I, as a sovereign citizen in the United States.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 5 months ago:
Teach your kids to play music with
cat /dev/fd0 >/dev/snd. - Comment on *screaming* 5 months ago:
This is Deadpool wearing a Spider Man costume
- Comment on At the doctors 5 months ago:
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 5 months ago:
If the earth stopped rotating, days would be about 365x longer.
I wanted to figure out a more exact answer, but I’m hung up on the fact that the length of a day is influenced by rotation and revolution together.
I have a feeling this requires calculus. If Sir Isaac Newton were here, I think he’d know what to do.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 5 months ago:
Maybe the procedure would fix whatever’s wrong with their brains. Like, maybe Trump would slowly regain the ability to form complete sentences. I’m imagining a Flowers for Algernon situation where he wakes up one day, reads his own Wikipedia page, and is briefly ashamed before the non-neural parts of his body crap out.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 5 months ago:
Yes, please focus on the Global Dryness problem first. I must be wet at all times.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 5 months ago:
rm -rf penis/Oops
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 5 months ago:
It’s not a failure of the web, it’s a failure of corporations to accept their place as just a tab in my browser. It’s also easier to track users, exploit vulnerabilities, etc. from within a mobile app.
- Comment on GOTY 5 months ago:
That’s neat, I’d never heard of it before!
It is an open question whether an Angel of some power k can escape forever.
Looks like you’re quoting the Proceedings of 11th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics from 2005: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/2958119.2958180
Apparently, it was solved (twice!) the next year.
In late 2006, the original problem was solved when independent proofs appeared, showing that an angel can win. Bowditch proved that a 4-angel (that is, an angel with power k = 4) can win[2] and Máthé[3] and Kloster[4] gave proofs that a 2-angel can win.
- Comment on Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed 5 months ago:
Yeah, there really should be some expectation of stewardship in exchange for absurd post-Disney copyright durations.
- Comment on Nap game 5 months ago:
Well I know that I’m late for school, but I can’t go back after everyone saw me in my underwear. Wait, I’m a 40 year old man…
- Comment on Yes No 5 months ago:
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