Mankaninen

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by Mankaninen 2mo ago
Agree, and the display is called a PPI ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_position_indicator ). Before computers, they were easy to connect to a scanning (rotating) radar since the "memory" was the phosphor i
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by Mankaninen 3mo ago
extrano84 already found some errors but also 0 will fail and if x is int (instead of unsigned int) all negative numbers will also fail (but so will the original s-macke obfuscation as well).
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by Mankaninen 2y ago
Of course you should do the right thing, but if you want to break the private of C++ it is much easier to "#define private public" before including the header file.
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by Mankaninen 2y ago
More info (but a little vague on myth vs fact): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect
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by Mankaninen 3y ago
I'm on Linux Mint (21.2) and get the same error. Probably macOS only. A quick reading in readthedocs confirms it is macOS only, no Linux, no Windows.
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by Mankaninen 4y ago
The article is not correct on salaries being public: What is public are your tax reports and those are done a year later. To my knowledge you cannot see all details either, only totals that the tax is based on. Thus I think your statement i
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by Mankaninen 4y ago
A modern car has >100 ECUs, blink is distributed to a few ECUs, think: front body, rear body, left door, right door plus instrument cluster and maybe a trailer control ECU. It does not look premium if they do not blink in phase so you se
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by Mankaninen 7y ago
ECU is abbreviation for Electronic Control Unit in automotive. (And a modern car may actually have multiple ECUs controlling the engine(s), especially if it is a hybrid=HEV, plugin HEV=PHEV or battery electric vehicle=BEV.)
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by Mankaninen 7y ago
There is one more problem with encrypted elections not yet listed here; the vote is secret for now but 5, 10 or 20 years later it will be easy to break. This might mostly be a problem for those then powerful, if someone find out that they v
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by Mankaninen 7y ago
While f/64 sounds like a small aperture, it can be worth remembering that it was on large format cameras. A small sensor like on iPhone 6 is wide open corresponding to depth matching f/113! (iPhone6 is f/2.2, crop is 7.21, 8&
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by Mankaninen 8y ago
I agree with this thinking. It is also possible that competitors to multi-billion contract being awarded to AWS by DoD wants an argument to distributing the contract among many cloud suppliers to reduce risk. Bloomberg has worked with this
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by Mankaninen 8y ago
I don't know the percentage B2B vs consumer-focused startups in EU or US so giving a few examples makes no real sense but Spotify, iZettle, Skype and Pirate bay are all of swedish origin. And business taxes in Sweden are among the low
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by Mankaninen 8y ago
I think more CPU performance is attractive if you edit photos or movies - something that is typical for a home computer. The reason AMD provides CPU performance through a high core count is because it is power efficient, otherwise a single-
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by Mankaninen 8y ago
With respect to the bmp example: 1. Removing the bmp_get implies that the application needs to implement a shadow image if it needs to check the color o a certain pixel. Or even worse, take a direct peek in its void memory area. 2. void poi