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Comment · 17 days ago
They might've pushed it from beta to stable reactively, but an improvement to startup times was in their beta channel last month: https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/4397053?emclan=103...
Comment · 18 days ago
Rust does have undefined behavior, though.
Comment · 1 month ago
Some of those details are available here: https://discord.com/safety/how-discord-estimates-age-without...
Comment · 1 month ago
That first question is answered in the thread:
> Yes, when using either 32-bit or 64-bit number, the lowest portion can output a zero, as I suggested on the attached example file as a modification to fix the problem. But a true zero (fitting the requested size), on AMD, never happens.
Another person (on page 2) confirms those results on an older AMD processor (but failed to reproduce on a very new one, 9950X3D).
Comment · 1 month ago
I had a different initial confusion - it seems this company has no relation to the company formerly known as Typesafe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akka.io
Comment · 1 month ago
The article is talking about symbols that were lost. The sentence should be interpreted as "these [symbols], for Insert (now gone) and Delete (still with us)". The photo is of a symbol for 'insert', an 'a' with a caret above it.
Comment · 1 month ago
See also https://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/, a 2012 game that did the same thing
Comment · 1 month ago
They link to their code on GitHub - see footnote 2 on page 2. I don't see it linked anywhere else, which makes it easy to miss. https://github.com/rjha18/vec2vec/
Comment · 1 month ago
I think they've gotten worse about this as an organization over the last few years(?). Earlier this year an update to their mobile app introduced loading time, and resulting slowness, for opening menus that used to be ~instant. To me that smacks of once having known not to do that, but that knowledge having been lost (or priorities having shifted).
More specifically, I'm talking about tapping the '...' on a track for the options menu. That should be latency-free, and used to be.
Comment · 2 months ago
Years and years ago, there was an article about the way Amazon.com's menu dropdown worked. It had the same spark (of careful attention to user behavior and needs): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5330998 / https://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega...
Comment · 2 months ago
Her husband was Carl Dean.
Comment · 3 months ago
Cities on the water make fun shapes for obvious reasons. Atlantic City, Seattle, Chicago, Galveston, New Orleans. The slices can go very far or even be omitted due to not hitting the contiguous US. Chicago's is probably the most interesting, they cross Lake Michigan before getting sufficient density to stop.
Comment · 3 months ago
> I'm sure the record standing so long is partially down to the fact the mile isn't run at major championships
I'm not so sure about that. The 1500 is the equivalent race run at major championships (and most paced time trials). But that record (3:26.00 by Hicham El Guerrouj) has stood one year longer, and is generally considered a stronger record. This is possibly the closest anyone's ever come to an equivalent performance to the 1500 record, in either the mile or the 1500. The second-fastest 1500m time ever is 3:26.34 by Bernard Lagat in 2001. The World Athletics scoring tables value a 3:42.66 at about 3:26.3, eyeballing the midpoint of given values. (Or taking the WA point values on the top lists, Josh Kerr's new mile record is 1298, Lagat's second-best 1500m is 1297, and El Guerrouj's 3:26.00 is 1302.)
I don't know whether the WA points or other conversion methods actually have small enough error bars to distinguish between the Lagat and Kerr performances, but the 1500 record beats the mile record by a big enough margin that I don't think we need to worry about that.
https://worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/middlel...
https://worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/middlel...
Comment · 3 months ago
> I think El Guerrouj set the previous WR in a race without pacers.
El Guerrouj had two pacers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvCsj7eJKKA
In fact, looking at this race, Tanui (the second pacer) actually stays on the track for longer than today's pacers did.