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skylabmelody

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    Comment #44744222

    My suggestion is straight from the C++ guidelines by Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter (ES.102: Use signed types for arithmetic), for reasons that you don't seem to grasp.

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    Comment #44743780

    I would suggest to never use unsigned int for values that will involve any sort of calculations on them (health, damage, speed). This is considered bad practice due to overflow and…

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    Comment #39041505

    Quite incredible that the aviation industry haven't introduces sticks with force-feedback despite video game industry having them for about 30 years. Probably because it's a patent…

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    Comment #39041394

    By "dual input system" I was referring to the fact that both pilots can apply input into their sticks or trim wheels simultaneously resulting into inputs cancelling each other out …

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    Comment #39041235

    I don't want to minimize pilot errors but I can't stop thinking this dual inputs system easily ranks in the top 5 of the worst design ideas in history. Probably just behind the MCA…

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    Comment #38804310

    And the classic "Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!": https://learnyousomeerlang.com/introduction

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    Comment #37179978

    Nature Biotech comparing Moderna to Theranos in 2016: https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.3488

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    Comment #36859988

    Thank you for the Bitsummit coverage, glad to see that the spirit of Sanqua magazine still lives on.

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    Comment #35118629

    Once you know roughly how ChatGPT works under the hood (see ChatGPT API), most of these claims on ChatGPT seems to emerge from us humans being easily tricked by our own anthropomor…

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    Comment #35101440

    VCs have plenty of billions let's have them do the bail-out this time around.

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    Comment #34817996

    Really getting quite tired of the misuse of the word trope.

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    Comment #34137495

    It's officially recommended in Denmark: "Based on a precautionary principle, we recommend aspiration before injection." https://en.ssi.dk/news/epi-news/2021/no-19-21---2021

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    Comment #33557535

    The writing was on the wall: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=blockfi

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    Comment #33557523

    The writing was on the wall: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=blockfi

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    Comment #32809002

    Bloomberg: "China is able to secure cheaper supply and resell shipments from more expensive exporters to utilities in Europe and Asia, while Russia can continue selling fuel at a p…

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    Comment #32808568

    Europe is buying Russian gas at a premium through China and India.

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    Comment #32190464

    Seems exactly like broad phase and narrow phase in games physics engine.

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    Comment #32185701

    There is nothing whatsoever that says that the given employee is Charlie Lee. Since you are the one here making that claim, isn't that exposing you to slander if it turns out to be…

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    Comment #32185551

    Why you keep spamming that link here? That twitter thread is built on a layer of conjectures with nothing tangible.

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    Comment #32185386

    That was a painful read. An "investigation" made by an anonymous twitter user based on cherry-picked tweets, hearsays and full of speculations. Many factual errors as well he didn'…

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    Comment #32184711

    Charlie Lee made all his fortune from selling his Bitcoin and Ethereum the rest is marginal. His track record regarding the launch, support and development of Litecoin is impeccabl…

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    Comment #29789687

    Fauci himself shared these concerns during International Consultative Workshop on H5N1 Gain of Function Research (2013): https://youtu.be/4fsVN34LRb8?t=7229

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    Comment #29636224

    This one has a more condensed ui: https://keys.lol/bitcoin/random