eslifka

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Serious New Java Flaw Affects All Current Versions of Windows(threatpost.com)
9 points by eslifka 16y ago|2 comments
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by eslifka 17y ago
The tone in that post by Feldman makes my skin crawl. I hadn't heard of him before but I don't think I could ever read anything he's written now. Is he always like that? ICK.
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by eslifka 17y ago
Yes, but what's important is the rate. Power is the measure of calories per hour (or joules per second). Fat (and food in general) is extremely energy dense, but that energy can only be released relatively slowly. This is the same reason wh
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by eslifka 17y ago
You only get that result in python by importing the decimal library. The standard behavior in python is (.1 + .2 == .3) == False However, your code example makes the excellent point that python has such a library available, whereas Javascri
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by eslifka 17y ago
This reminds me distinctly of this onion article: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694 It's great that he doesn't watch television (except that he does, he just gets it through an alternate channel and is more selective of what he w
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by eslifka 17y ago
I agree. I doubt I'll be able to invest the time to truly compete. But I definitely plan on creating something on the simpler end for fun. And if I can get a bot going that doesn't crash, why not submit it? And given a year until the de
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by eslifka 17y ago
The standard starcraft AI was always pretty pathetic, even after Blizzard's attempts to make it more challenging. My guess is that in the subset competitions (1 - 3) the sc AI would get whipped, if it could even be coerced into competing.
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by eslifka 17y ago
I think this is a great idea. I haven't read more than the description page yet, so i don't know if it's possible either, but I think that if it is possible then that would be a great way to iteratively test production. I also wonder if i
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by eslifka 17y ago
Your comments ring very true to me. My father decided he'd rather stay in a relatively low chemical engineering job rather than push up the corporate latter into a black tie management position. As a result my friends all had much nicer to
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by eslifka 17y ago
I don't have any references for you, but my middle school and highschool required graphing calculators. And they very strongly pushed the ti-83+, claiming that students would be horribly lost if they couldn't follow along with the teacher'
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by eslifka 17y ago
From the Freehacker article I surmise that it's Plura Processing ( http://www.pluraprocessing.com/ ) "[...] in fact was announced on the Digsby blog as an official way they are going to make some money, with Plura Processing as a partner."