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·vor 7 Stunden·discuss
We had Denver and Barney and The Land Before Time but kids suddenly memorizing all the latin names of each species was not a thing before Jurassic Park. (I think.)
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·gestern·discuss
I guessed HOPTO and PHOOT but none of them worked unfortunately
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·gestern·discuss
Then we'll have to decrease the radius a bit.
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·gestern·discuss
Whenever leap seconds were added, Google was running the clocks on their servers slower/faster over a longer period of time (hours) so they would slowly drift back in sync with the solid platinum, perfectly spherical grandfather's clock sitting in NIST or whatever: https://developers.google.com/time/smear
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·vor 4 Tagen·discuss
Does Andy know what Jeff thinks is going to happen?
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·vor 4 Tagen·discuss
What is making it complex for authors to sell directly?

Edit: hah, only 15 minutes late with my attempt at Socratic spiel: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48810056
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·vor 6 Tagen·discuss
Thanks everyone, my C++ knowledge has been greatly expanded today.
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·vor 6 Tagen·discuss
The first one too? Isn't that the map-reduce fork-join golden example of multiprocessing?
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·vor 6 Tagen·discuss
The first form is easier to send to 32 beefy cores or 1024 small CPUs or a Beowulf cluster or a GPU or people sitting in a room.
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·vor 13 Tagen·discuss
For me the smaller footprint, lower power consumption and portability (admittedly between desks only) are the three advantages of using a laptop over a desktop for these purposes.
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·vor 13 Tagen·discuss
Polarizing filter? One-way mirror?
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·vor 16 Tagen·discuss
Shadow volumes were the big feature in that one, but this is a rendering, non-gameplay advancement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_volume
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·vor 17 Tagen·discuss
You could generate sweet stereoscopic images with two differently colored foils placed in an eyeglasses frame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_3D
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·vor 18 Tagen·discuss
Banking also appeared on the platform in the form of EMS.
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·vor 18 Tagen·discuss
This didn't even occur to me. The title in the submission is cut short; most outlets including this article includes a "close to zero", "near zero" at the end, which has this overly cheery feeling (at least to me) that we can pat ourselves on the back, it's not just done but done-done, on to the next disease, huzzah. Whereas this whole thing is the result of a systematic nation-wide vaccination program that has been going on for quite a while (2008) and a study looked into its effectiveness and found that yes, this concerted campaign may have moved the needle on that population-level gauge.

It can happen elsewhere but it hasn't happened yet! Or who knows!
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·vor 19 Tagen·discuss
My issue with it is a missing "in mice"-style qualifier, but this time it is of the geographical nature. The study is focusing on England: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/news/latest-news/2026/medicine-and-de...
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·vor 20 Tagen·discuss
What about the Su-27 and Eurofighter games (from a bit later)?
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·vor 20 Tagen·discuss
The mission scenario descriptions were circulating both as a text file and in the hint section of a computer magazine we had, but I didn't get either for a long time. "Zulu alert" mode lets you take as many enemies off the sky as you can, with infinite ammo.

Edit: I now remember that the first training mission is something like "shoot two target practice boards in sector E5". You have to be very meticulous to find those just by flying around!
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·vor 20 Tagen·discuss
On its own it's a good fun fact. But just look for it in this comments section, when it becomes a reflex to mention it in relation to slop/generated content it slowly loses its color. (That's what she said)
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·vor 20 Tagen·discuss
Sounds like a pink elephant exercise. Low-background steel has now creeped back into our collective consciousness.