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"just a matter of adding more 9s" is a wild place to use a "just" ...

The article you linked indicates the reason for him not finishing is specifically that he didn't like his game design, which seems orthogonal to coding practices. He appears to hav…

They're just saying they won't encourage news/politics, not that they'll police them off: > "Politics and hard news are inevitably going to show up on Threads - they have on Instag…

Yes, I also saw it and a bunch of people are reporting the same problem on this chrome support thread: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/28641527?hl=en

The article does not advocate tuning out the results; it is advocating awareness of the results and careful consideration of how to proceed. See the detailing of options at the end…

This type being ... something like PCA? It's up to the user how much to actually reduce the dimensionality. The pixel analogy is bad, but to use it anyway -- you get to choose how …

This experiment just sounds like "what if fraud were not fraud"

Oh, okay ... but everyone having perfect information AND fraud being possible to get away with are fundamentally contradictory assumptions; fraud is based on exploiting some people…

Even if it's relatively easy to not get caught, you can't be sure exactly how easy it is, and the downside is catastrophic. So no, I don't think every entity in your thought experi…

Niantic's Ingress kind of demo'd an early approach to this idea of pedestrians doing map data collection -- http://simplify360.com/blog/ingress-how-google-is-gamifying-... Quote: >…

Yes, you're right -- Diablo did a lot for the ARPG genre, but if you enjoy digging through the history of games there is a ton of interesting ARPG stuff from at least the 1980s: ht…

Check the dictionary -- "login" is also used as a verb: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/login?s=t With a usage note that some people dislike it: > And yet, this gluing together of…

> (since you could learn most of it just by reading or watching videos) I think this misunderstands how most people learn -- people generally learn much more effectively by "active…

They added a note at the end clarifying that they have flush to zero mode enabled. quote from the article: "EDIT: This blogpost assumes that we enable flush to zero (FTZ) which tre…

How close are they to having fixed price, for you, after the recent price cuts?

People often talk about using MOSS for this: https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/

The article is about UK Universities. Stanford is not broke. http://facts.stanford.edu/administration/finances

They give an indirect nod to friends play-testing in the "Time" section: > "Friends around us were saying “it’s too difficult” right to our faces, but amidst our nonstop-no-days-or…

I made a similar thing but for 3D Voronoi diagrams http://jimmyland.github.io/voro/

This kind of thinking works out if you personally value your time at an hourly rate, and consider the whole commute time as lost and unpaid. For example, say you value your time at…

I had no idea what Gopher was and looked it up to understand; this article was helpful: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/11/the-web-may-have...