tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: Ceres RC3 Animation: Bright spots revealed to be composed of many smaller spots
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tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: Ceres RC3 Animation: Bright spots revealed to be composed of many smaller spots
Scattered remains of a huge alien spaceship?
( Sadly it is probably just ice. )
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: Class action lawsuit filed against Lenovo over Superfish
Is it possible that the "cyber" laws are designed to be effective towards individuals.
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
Why don't you instead just make 10 better?
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: “Superfish is currently transitioning our focus”
Is modern web really that bad, and are those the reasons that just visiting some of the popular websites overwhelms my brand new cpu?
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: Fast Approximate Logarithms, Part I: The Basics
You need only one table look-up, a couple quick operations and no conditionals or multiplying.
The table size required to beat the accuracy of fastlog2 is 512 elements.
edit: The speed ratio is actually about 0.6 in favor of look-up versus fastlog2. Enabling -O3 changes the ratio to 0,9. This is of course not measured in a real-world program where the cache is shared by other stuff.
edit2: I have removed the if statement from fastlog2 and compiled with -O3. The ratio was 1,2.
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: Fast Approximate Logarithms, Part I: The Basics
This is faster than a look-up table at the cost of some accuracy. Also no cache misses.
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: This is what happens after you die
A housefly lives for a day and with exponential growth it could take just a couple of days, so it is plausible.
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves
That wouldn't work because it would introduce a new key. Also every power-up takes effect immediately, this would break the consistency.
@developers
This is a bug on firefox, sometimes the dotted border from the remove wall power-up doesn't disappear giving the impression that the power-up is still active, thus killing players
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves
Wow that was fun. I'm tempted to implement a similar version in C.
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves
Just keep the background black and prevent from choosing too dark colors.
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves
@developers
Players are choosing the color of the background, thus making them invisible. Please fix this.
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: Fractal Lab
And according to the mentioned site, it is impossible to have a website without google-analytics.
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: Test drive of a petrol car
Hey there. You are arguing against a strawman...
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I'm way over here!
Hi.
You completely missed my point, which was, that the desire to drive an ICE car is generational.
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: Test drive of a petrol car
Tesla S has a range of 400 km. This makes the cost 5.31 € per 100 km. An average ICE car of the same size uses, let's say, 8 L per 100 km. The cost for the ICE is then 11.2 €. Twice as much. Don't forget that: you can charge at free stations, charge at a free supercharger, and you can charge the car at night when the electricity price is lower( 25ct is quite high btw ), while the price for the petrol is always the same.
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: Test drive of a petrol car
I've only learned to drive and have owned my car for a year now (I'm in my mid-30s), but I just love the engine of my petrol car starting. Often times I choose to drive with my radio turned-off just to hear the engine's sound. Mind you, is a regular 1.4l hatcchbak, nothing sporty or the like.
You have a valid point, but... anyone here misses typewriters? I didn't think so.
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: Test drive of a petrol car
You can always occupy yourself, now free of unnecessary tasks, with audiobooks.
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: Quadratic Voting (2014)
How do you mine it?
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: What happens after you’re arrested at a protest in New York
You can bill them? Surely you have to inform them beforehand that any further conversation about IT will be considered as a paid consultation, i.e. make a verbal agreement.
tgbrter | 11 years ago | on: Integer Overflow Bug in Boeing 787 Dreamliner
I was not implying that.
Nothing. Built in arithmetic will do the job nicely.
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