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Here are some values that are (understandably) not listed on the blog. They happen only due to the limited precision of floating point formats. 128 = √(2 / √√(√2 - (2 / √2))) 8192 …

I can't recommend "return true to win" ( https://alf.nu/ReturnTrue ) enough to learn how to golf JS. I think it's more accessible to learn one 10-20 char snippet at a time than a b…

In certain conditions gcc will actually generate instructions that use this same bitvector described: https://godbolt.org/z/6Gfjv6PGd (notice the funny 130159 value in there) The o…

> They mate for life. Not really; see https://news.mit.edu/2022/divorce-albatross-shy-males-0913 and https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2020/02/13/albatross-reall...

I tried the demo and I liked it! I would prefer if I could pick a color in a faster way than switching to the color picker or using the palette: maybe middle click or Ctrl + left-c…

I've been playing the same 2 games for many years and I think I got pretty good at them and I've used multiple accounts - under your assumption I look like a cheater.

> but isn't the "general" architecture of most of our computers "von neumann"!? That's something I was also curious about and it turns out Arduinos use the Harvard architecture. Yo…

What would prevent me from walking around the street or in semi-public places recording non-stop on my phone? Heck, I could have a few phones in my pockets!

I was thinking the same; they have a map of their route and I see they went through Rahova, Ferentari and they somehow missed Zetari and the cemeteries there on their way to Anghel…

I'm always a bit skeptical about physics because whatever models we find and celebrate now will have to be adjusted at some point in the future. I wonder if there's any way of know…

I've never heard about the frostbitten onion before and I am Romanian as well - maybe it's particular to some regions? "It hurts in my dick" is just a more vulgar way of saying "it…

Related and on topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0RqK00b7Q4 Sexual Economics: A Model of Heterosexual Behavior by Dr. Kathleen Vohs

I'm going to ask a different question: so what if it doesn't handle it? Some of the hardware resources would be spent on dynamic shenanigans instead of the actual game content. In …

> having a trusted compiler could (eventually) massively increase performance by removing processes entirely (no more virtual memory! no more TLB flushes and misses! less task swit…

Tangential-ish: I used to live in a place where we had gas resources and gas stoves. Gas pipes would be painted yellow to stand out and people always had some sort of respect and c…