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tridentboy

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    oh wow, you're really lucky. around my friend groups who use tiktok, the main complaint is how bad the search is. unfortunately for us, getting a specific video is almost impossibl…

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    Comment #44271130

    First set gamma as being 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2), with "c" being the speed of light. The factor for time dilation and distance contraction in special relativity is gamma and 1/gamma resp…

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    Comment #34626403

    The thing is that this is the first time they got this kind of money. And it was unexpected, since Dwarf Fortress sold their 8 month objective by the second week. So they weren't i…

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    Comment #29890449

    You've missed the fact that there are two attributes, rank and regiment. So it's something like this for a 3x3: 1A - 2B - 3C 2C - 3A - 1B 3B - 1C - 2A

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    Comment #29639707

    A great FAQ on ECS is available here: https://github.com/SanderMertens/ecs-faq#what-is-ecs

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    Comment #24070794

    Well, it seems that his point still stands. Overhand shuffle is terrible for actually shuffling a deck of cards.

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    Comment #23168353

    I'm sorry, could you please elaborate? I was always under the assumption that hash functions have to be deterministic, and thus, that "every input has a unique output" was a correc…

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    Comment #22869599

    Know it's not exactly related to what you do. But do you have some recommendations of books/online classes to learn C?

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    Comment #21051391

    There is a big difference in the intervention made by US in east asian countries, and the interventions made by superpowers in other countries. I'm not saying that South Korea and …

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    Comment #20083545

    I don't think "these days" really apply to this situation. People have always tried to take advantage of flaws in any system.

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    Comment #18992626

    Statistically speaking 4000 is a good enough number. I mean, election polls in the US usually use less than that for a population of 300 million and they're usually close to the re…