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Something like this? http://tom7.org/zelda/

I think that's a common misunderstanding about who owns what in a marriage. I'll quote Matt Levine on this: One thing that I find a little weird about the Bezos divorce is that the…

The incentive to do what exactly? Break up a good marriage to get half of the common assets (minus many many expenses)? How is that better in any way?

In Haifa (Israel) there was a staircase race a few years ago, from sea level to the top of the city going up more than 1000 stairs. One version of this was doing it over and over s…

All the other answers in the thread focus on maximizing head-to-head score. I'll try to answer the question for the goal of greedily maximizing your own score. Using the same defin…

The path with that label is blocked unless the condition is fulfilled. I don't think it relies on any prior knowledge (at least nothing specific I can think of)

On the contrary, it should be on by default for every build configuration! If you move to a newer compiler version and the compilation breaks, then you just saved yourself valuable…

That really depends on the local culture. Don't Assume all cultures are like yours.

GP had a typo, it's 109 houses.

> Musk signed a contract with an exit clause. There are some exit clauses (like Musk not getting financing from his banks) but they don't apply here. Specifically, there's no exit …

The music is top-notch, especially the timing of the drums with the presentation!

> Breastfed children tend to have less stomachaches. Maybe on average, but specific cases can vary wildly. Some foods that the breastfeeding mother consumes can cause issues. Milk,…

It's already in the article.

Follow-up question: what if other countries follow suit, especially ones that don't use a Latin-based alphabet? Egypt is formally called "جمهورية مصر العربية" in its native languag…

Turkey -> Türkiye

http://regex.inginf.units.it/extract/

Same here. In fact I lost my 1000+ day streak 2 months ago (a newborn will do that to you) and haven't done a single Duolingo lesson since then. However, I did replace it with anot…

> If you are OK with Texas leaving the union, then you are entitled to support Taiwan independence. That just doesn't make any sense.

Now I'm curious to know what's the state of the art for open addressing implementations in C++.

There's a link in the article to a paper (N2023) proving this is not constant time. The issue is that as you delete elements, and the hash table becomes sparse, finding the next no…

This can happen anywhere, not only on software. I once bought a set of 10 or so entries to a climbing wall. Some time later I wanted to use it and was told that it was no longer va…

+1 > skipping all the chimneys, vents and fans needed to remove the smoke from the kitchens. Every kitchen needs ventilation, even if it's fully electric. And if a restaurant is do…

> it has been trained to produce high-quality outputs, not to ensure the validity of mappings. Just nitpicking here a bit. It has been trained to ensure the validity of mappings, b…

I hate it, it has a terrible aftertaste for me.

This describes the issue with PRNGs based on a Linear Congruential Generator. The issues are resolved by using a Mersenne Twister instead, which is the standard PRNG used today bas…