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I guess it'll keep existing with the name EA? "Public investment fund" doesn't sound too fitting for a game company

Personally I'm disappointed 128-bit floating point (quadruple precision) never properly made it into CPU's (sure it appeared in some niche ones here and there, but not in what we a…

> In order to put the emission peak in the visible spectrum, the filament would need to run at ~5700 °C (...) No metal can survive these conditions: Tungsten melts at "only" 3422 °…

Is there any info for a way to check this on your SNPs from genome sequencing data?

It has the option to play a tutorial that explains the controls

Techmoan has to visit this place

What is one to do? Unicode has dozens of arrows for each direction, but each of them has its height compared to the text rendered differently depending on font or platform

That's less than I expected for worldwide Apparently Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, etc... were not really into castles, while Japan was?

4 successful landings before disaster struck, not a bad first day as ATC

If I were in a tomb for 2000 year I wouldn't even mind if they can learn about the history of my era 2000 years later

So if I squint my eyes I'm a human, if I don't squint them I'm a robot

It would be neat if it were a steampunk-style civilization traveling around their atmosphere in helium airships. But probably just helium escaping from rocks...

> One thing that's lovely about Linux is this kind of analysis is not only possible, but meaningful. If only they'd actually DO something with this meaningfulness. I love and use L…

The eyes receptors are RGB too and they definitely capture all visible colors by definition (to be pedantic, yes there's also the rods for night vision, and the 'R' is more like ye…

Why not 64 minutes and 64 seconds for the hexadecimal in the base 16 clock? The second duration would be closer to the real life one (1.3 seconds) and 64 is closer to 60 too

Even the acoustic coupler seems to have had compatiblity issues, see timestamp 1:10 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqJ159pngY8 ("1986: Email - the Perfect Tech for the Jet S…

> https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/?page=LKBGE51F3... Wow this is awesome, they had box-drawing characters in 1785!

Maybe they can't make real friends if all the others are engulfed in social media

I had no idea what I was looking at until I read the hacker news comments, what I was thinking it was was AI-hallucinated images of a combination of the Backrooms and the Metaverse…

Any idea how much adder designs changed on modern CPUs compared to back then? I mean there's only so much you can optimize in those, I think...

I don't know any since I'm not playing any golf simulator games myself, but most games on Steam work in Linux with Proton so you might find something there. That's not open source …

I'd love the robot to fill and empty the dishwasher and put the stuff in the correct drawers and cabinets edit: but if the robot could in addition also do dishes in the sink and no…

On what datatype though, e.g. for sorting arbitrary length strings? I think that is if the comparator is expensive, quicksort and variants do not win because they do a constant fac…

It's about two and a half Ford Tauri stacked on top of each other