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I would expect the LLM-ese to not repeat "called" like that.

Events of Back to the Future II (2015-10-21)

Same, seeing the title and having not read Bradbury for a long time I was thinking either The Veldt or that one (The Long Rain). I did remember it on reading, though, and it's an u…

Maybe I'm not communicating the point clearly. In order to use a table to do the whole multiplication it has to be much larger than the largest number you would want to multiply wi…

Well, yes, which is why they don't measure it your way, as it doesn't lead to discovering anything interesting about computation to have a shortcut like that. Or if they do it's pa…

An algorithm is a finite sequence of instructions, and so can't include an infinite table. More generally, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_method

> If you're a carpentry shop that just bought power tools for the first time and you're worried that your employees are sticking with hand tools because that's what they know, then…

Though the ancients did recognize as occult forces magnetism (Thales, according to Aristotle, gave the motive power of magnets as an example that even apparently inanimate objects …

Pitch is the offset between the start of consecutive rows of pixels in the image, used to convert y coordinates into the start of any given row, so you access a pixel as buffer[y*p…

If we're collecting anecdotes, it happened for me in more of my office jobs than not. Might have been relevant that these were smaller offices.

I liked it, still find good answers, and it was gratifying to provide answers when I could.

enum Bool { True, False, FileNotFound }; https://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_

Some of my earliest programming exposure was a dBASE IV book my dad had for work, though it was some time before I put any of it into action. At that time I was reading manuals lik…

> millenials got the birth of social media ..and a lot of us weren't thrilled about it.

It's a honeypot for pedants

> Or you do not consider MUL/DIV "arithmetic", or something. Multiplier and divider are usually not considered part of the ALU, yes. Not uncommon for those to be shared between exe…

I phrased that badly, Dragon's Lair was the example of low process intensity.

Even on NES a lot of games use CHR-RAM so arbitrary bitmaps are at least possible, though only a small part of the screen is unique without some rarely used mapper hardware. Zelda …

Chris Crawford called this "process intensity", he noted it at least back to 1983 with Dragon's Lair, discussed in this 1987 article https://www.erasmatazz.com/library/the-journal-…

Or you can just hit the Random button https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

There's a restrictions on games with even simulated gambling

You are more quickly being carried by the ground further from where you would otherwise be. Hope that clears it up.

Not the same thing but I was reminded of a joke about the puzzle game Stephen's Sausage Roll: > I have calculated the value of Pi on Sausage Island and found it to be 2. https://we…

As they say in a somewhat different context: worse is better