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Porygon

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    Comment #46430805

    Memoization to limit left-recursive recursion is nicely described in Guido van Rossums' article here: https://medium.com/@gvanrossum_83706/left-recursive-peg-gram... I recently tri…

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    Comment #46430706

    I do that, too! I use git for version control outside the docker container, and to prevent claude from executing arbitrary code through commit hooks, I attach the docker volume mou…

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    Comment #46430638

    I recently had a similar conflict with GPT-5.1, where I did not want it to use a specific Python function. As a result, it wrote several sandbox escape exploits, for example the fo…

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    Comment #41371686

    Here are some more interesting related resources. This Wikipedia article explains how the lightning strikes are localized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzortung#Detection_metho…

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    Comment #40955180

    I think this is the check box in question: https://pomf2.lain.la/f/8v4aq9sg.png It is located at "Settings" -> "Privacy & Security" -> "Website Advertising Preferences" and is chec…

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    Comment #29338857

    You have to 1. uncheck "segmentation" 2. check "text" https://i.imgur.com/n9P8N3c.png

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    Comment #29338822

    This sounds quite ironic to me, since "Super-GAU" in German stands for a disaster beyond all expectations (usually meltdown of a nuclear reactor). https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sup…

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    Comment #27751140

    Conjugate gradient descent with a multigrid preconditioner also works quite well in my experience, especially for larger systems.

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    Comment #22985379

    Wikipedia article for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midpoint_circle_algorithm The non-english articles have code.

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    Comment #22980666

    This is the n-body problem from the Computer Language Benchmark Game with the attribution to the original author removed. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgam…

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    Comment #20955415

    What is benchmarked here is basically the performance of the division operation on big integers and does not represent the general performance of a browser for everyday tasks.