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Comment · 5 days ago
if someone finds a O(n^100) algo for NP complete problems, the obvious next step is to start lowering that 100 exponent.

Given the current developments, I would not be confident that it would not lower dramatically pretty soon.

Comment · 1 month ago
if your acres were in the middle of the city, with one lonely house surrounded by trees to stop the noise from outside, yes
Comment · 1 month ago
I wonder how that happened.

Maybe someone proposed Postgres and they said well who is going to support it. And then they'd have to pay some company to show they have postgres support anyway.

CSV has no support.

Comment · 2 months ago
well it is svg, it is doing it from circles and lines as primitives, it wants to do it simply and kind of builds the whole thing hierarchically. Making it 3d is way more complicated (as the POV example shows) and the prompt doesn't say 3d anyway
Comment · 2 months ago
You haven't searched hard enough then.

At some point Google gets suspicious of your persistent searches and makes you solve captchas and puts cooldowns on your searches.

Comment · 2 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule

Basically the following days have the same day of the week: Jan 3 or 4 on a leap year, last day of February, all the even pairs day / month days after that (4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12), 7/11 and 11/7, 9/5 and 5/9.

Comment · 2 months ago
Respect to 2, don't you just look up at the start of the (gregorian) year when stuff is?

I mostly do that in my country just to check when the holy friday holiday is, a few saint holidays, a couple of celebrations for the virgin mary, etc.

Like, I know Easter follows a weird lunar calendar but I don't really calculate it.

Comment · 2 months ago
It would work until you need to route an international call.

And there's a lot of telemarketing and scams happening across country lines.

I mean, they should still do it. It's just the first problem they'd face.

Comment · 4 months ago
I have to assume that unless the cost of buying at costco and driving back home is higher than buying it all at amazon and having it delivered.

The total price + driving cost is a good proxy for how efficient the whole process is; amazon will somehow include in the price somewhere the delivery home, and both companies largely won't subsidize their whole business method.

Social value is a little trickier; a lot of people benefit much from delivery, but in the end people probably don't buy everything from amazon or costco anyway.

Comment · 4 months ago
So how do you trace the boards?

I am assuming that you put the board at the correct angle on the floor, let it go over the upper entry floor, use a ruler to extend the line of the wall over to the board, trace that, cut it, then reverse the process but this time the part you just cut can go on the floor which will produce the correct angle on the wall?

Comment · 4 months ago
Maybe they could have included an option to switch between GC implementations, like Java had done before.

Maybe in all those years they could have thought of that.

Comment · 5 months ago
I honestly doubt this; very few companies have enough data. Maybe we could see mergers so it happens but basically it would mean everyone would need to be Google sized for it to work.
Comment · 5 months ago
Very few people are going to play this on a CRT, tho. And even if you included a CRT shader, most people will turn it off.

It's ok to pine for the old techniques, but this is a game made for a Genesis in modern times. It has to stride both.

Comment · 5 months ago
This is great but keep in mind that Go allows the programmer skip these invariants in various ways.

I wish Go had a serious type system. Never mind algebraic types, but one that fucking respected private values and did things like validating enum values.

Comment · 5 months ago
Newer, more expensive console runs better than older, cheaper one.

Insane.

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