xhroot
Joined 15 years ago
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Comment · 24 days ago
> single bits are rarely used for booleans
SQL Server still has no boolean type and groups bits in the same row into a byte if possible.
Comment · 4 years ago
There was a guy who made a forum bet he could land a Cessna 172 - first try - with nothing but MS Flight Simulator experience.
Here:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34/other-other-topics/pro...
And outcome:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=35915547&p...
Comment · 5 years ago
Huh, it's pretty good at lassoing the intended subject. Even picks out a computer rendered vehicle well: https://xhroot.s3.amazonaws.com/roci.png
Original here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=86940...
Comment · 6 years ago
So if I go down the IOT aisle at Best Buy and say
"Ok, who is reading a city in Montana a letter?"
everything will light up?
Comment · 6 years ago
Seems temporary:
> Amazon Europe has requested we temporarily shut down operations in order to lighten their burden while they try to get necessary products into peoples hands.
> So, as of now, and likely until the end of the COVID-19 crisis, we will not have a working website in Europe.
https://twitter.com/camelcamelcamel/status/12421791057154539...
Comment · 6 years ago
Maybe they should have gone with a slight tweak of the 1963 version https://cdn.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BMW_logo_... and scored retro-nostalgia points with the older crowd, too.
Comment · 6 years ago
Heh, the icon is named "audible":
"displayName": "Dynamic command execution",
"detectedIcon": "fab fa-audible"
https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInspector/blob/08c91...
Comment · 7 years ago
> IronPython, IronRuby
"IronRust" would be amusing
Comment · 7 years ago
I-1000 is literally called "Affirmative Action and Diversity Commission Measure"
https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Initiative_1000,_Affirmat...
Comment · 7 years ago
Javascript in FF/Chrome:
> (-80538738812075974n)**3n + 80435758145817515n**3n + 12602123297335631n**3n
42n
https://twitter.com/xhroot