Anon_troll

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by Anon_troll 6d ago
An alternative wording for the same idea: If you are at picture 1, you have 100% chance of selecting it as the current winner. If you are at picture 2, you have 1/2 chance of selecting it as the current winner, or 1/2 chance of ke
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by Anon_troll 6d ago
The len(pics) can be O(n), especially if iterators are used like here. Also, an O(1) lookup would require a previous O(n) pass over the data anyway. The picture selection algorithm's kind of single-pass iterator usage might have been m
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by Anon_troll 10mo ago
It's a shame the campaign of RA3 was boring. They got the theme and cutscenes right, but the campaign missions were rather slow, generic and forgettable. It's the opposite of C&C3, which had a good campaign but the theme was a
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by Anon_troll 1y ago
The hash-based algorithm is only O(n) because the entry size has a limit. In a more general case, it would be something more like O(m(n * e)). Here n is the number of entries, e is the maximum entry size and m is a function describing how c
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by Anon_troll 1y ago
I encountered similar trouble with both Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu. Based on a quick Firefox performance report on the minified source code, most of the time seems to be spent in functionality looking like frame handling. There are some s
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by Anon_troll 1y ago
Extracting text from DOCX is easy. Anything related to layout is non-trivial and extremely brittle. To get the layout correct, you need to reverse engineer details down to Word's numerical accuracy so that content appears at the correc
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by Anon_troll 2y ago
The comb walls are basically like chewing gum. It does not have much taste.
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by Anon_troll 2y ago
This sounds like https://bash-org-archive.com/?5273 (original website no longer exists).
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by Anon_troll 4y ago
One major problem here is the mixup of UX and technical implementation details. From UX point of view, the link example goes nowhere, it just opens a dialog. From that point of view it the fact it uses anchors to do so is not really relevan
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by Anon_troll 4y ago
> A more reasonable question would be, how many partially completed sudoku grids are there which have a unique solution. We don't know the answer to that. If you interpret "unique" to mean that two puzzles that lead to the
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by Anon_troll 5y ago
I don't think Firefox and Chrome run extensions/plugins in private windows without you first allowing them to run. That might be the case here.
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by Anon_troll 5y ago
The whitespace and formatting are not significant to the compiler, but they can provide a lot of information to the reader of the code. You can often see where the writer put the most effort and thought by just seeing how they wrote it. Thi
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by Anon_troll 5y ago
> Minecraft does doors right in comparably simple way, and I think few if any players have a problem with it See https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-149060 "Villagers "spam" doors by opening and closing
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by Anon_troll 8y ago
# Linux hard mode set -e The tab completion integration is especially nice.