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There is plenty of demand for so called "secure code", where such coder arrogance will not be tolerated. Trust me on that, I know it.

If your code may be compiled, to use the Intel x87 numerical coprocessor, an important issue is the so called "excess precision": Different values on chip can collapse after being …

In order to demonstrate something exceptional, you have to establish a baseline. This baseline is called the "null hypothesis" in classical testing.

Statistical clueless amateurs found something they did not like, but of course were unable to convert their suspicions into something sound. They do not even think about it. Nevert…

Just HI slop. Ask any decent model, it can explain what's wrong this this description.

They must love dogs really deeply to go to such length to rediscover them.

>However when “few enough” pieces remain on the board (in the endgame), the number of possible game states is small enough that it’s possible to brute force solve the game from eac…

They are giving their stuff away for free, hence they can do whatever they want. It goes without saying, that spiritual teachings are not there to create quarrel and division.

Beautiful cheat sheet for the modal editor helix

It is terrible to lose a relative in young age. But at least 80% percent of all heart diseases are known to be fully avoidable. The risk factors are known for ages and as matter of…

>... I sadly found the explanation of coroutines utterly incomprehensible. Same for almost every other explanation I found on the web. Nice to see a mirror of my experience.

For the records: I'm taking it very seriously and had this book in mind: Elizondo, L. (2024). Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's hunt for UFOs. William Morrow. The tone is very dark t…

For the informed nerd (e.g. read Elizondo first or Greer, Bledsoe) it should by now be established, that we have a serious UAP problem. Hence it's a good thing that all the inciden…

Turns out that old versions of Visual C++ used their own typedef of bool as int: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4897844/is-sizeofbool-de...

IT professional were asked to think out of the box. Big mistake...

There is also nice discussion of the beautiful and practically relevant "Saavedra position", which does have an under promotion to a rook. https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess/saaved…

Tim Krabbés blog is recommended for this type of question and in general: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/minor.htm

>Bruce helped the young athlete understand his movements in a way that seemed to decelerate time. “Bruce showed me how to harness some of what was raging inside me and summon it co…

The explanation is, that the number is _not_ the infinite string of characters, but the sum of the scaled digits of the string. This sum is defined as the limit of the partial sums…