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Can someone shed light on these two steps in the approximation? * since cos(x+y) ~ cos(x) - sin(x)*y * ~ cos(x) - x*y, For the first, maybe it's an approximate identity I'd never h…

SongTable won’t compile (on any modern compiler) because the number of initializers (36) doesn’t match the declaration (32)

In addition to the sibling comments, one simple opportunity available to a JIT and not AOT is 100% confidence about the target hardware and its capabilities. For example AOT compil…

Thanks, those are specific requirements I could definitely see WASM struggling to meet. In my experience in a large+mature enough codebase (particularly one that is already multi-p…

The first thing to point out is that our implementation isn't pure WASM. We attempted to compile Postgres for WASM directly from source, but it was more complicated that we anticip…

The word expert is not being used in the colloquial sense, but in the technical sense of an "Expert System": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system

So if I make a new, identical copy of a GPL'ed codebase - should I feel free to use it for whatever purpose I want and ignore the GPL?

The full game isn't playable on that page. I believe all three sets of assets (HLDM, Uplink, Hazard Course) are from demos or free products. Making the full game playable would pro…

It's totally reasonable to lament duplicated effort, but it's worth pointing out that this particular attempt is from a company[0] whose business is Qt consulting - so it's easy to…

I think GP is reacting to the word "obligation" (I certainly did.) I'd claim there are actions that may be "morally justifiable" yet not raise to a level that creates a "moral obli…

Not GP, but the code in the article passes 'unsigned int mutex' by-value, and then operates on its address (which will potentially be at a different stack address on each invocatio…

Perhaps confusingly, the term "immediate mode GUI" usually describes an API style. NOT an implementation detail. It suggests a particular implementation, but in practice most nontr…

It seems like the brownout should be publicized on the front page of github.com - or at least githubstatus.com ? (Although I'm not an active git/github user, so maybe there's an ev…

> Education is insanely overfunded Can you cite a source for that claim? Genuinely curious, because I don't know if I've ever heard someone suggest it. (Conversely, the idea that e…

Variations on the Bridson paper you linked are commonly implemented in games and graphics circles under the name "Curl Noise" - for example Houdini[1] or Unity[2] Google that term …

Perhaps, but it's quite convenient for any software that wants to ingest PSD files without the (nigh-intractable) challenge of reimplementing the entirety of Photoshop's parser and…

Most* PSD files contain a "preview" copy of the fully-flattened document (which is compressed.) Flat white image compresses far better, so that portion of the file doesn't take as …

Seems to me like you're tacitly agreeing with GP here - you're just making a claim about which currency system you trust more! (And attempting to convince others of the same positi…

Using GP's definition: "custom" engines -- i.e. engines that are not provided commercially by third parties it's pretty easy to argue Fortnite also uses a "custom" engine. (And tha…

Yes! The 010 Editor's templating language is a nearly unique (in my experience) hybrid between C-like declarations and imperative flow that's exactly what I want for parsing arbitr…

I've always seen it called "justified" alignment, which appears to be the common term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment#Justifie...

It's important to remember that "beyond a reasonable doubt" means exactly that: no "reasonable" person would doubt it. (The definition of reasonable is left to the jury.) Some peop…

Where on Wikipedia did you see 1 in 50 for Spanish Flu? I'm seeing a much higher number: "an estimated 10% to 20% of those who were infected died' [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/…

I didn't read the parent post as using it that way - I believe they're saying that any claim that "supply chain security" (of videos) will combat deep fakes* isn't necessarily a cr…

None of the audio samples play for me (In neither Chrome nor Edge... Other sites play just fine.) Makes it very hard to evaluate claims of codec quality, which seems like the prima…