ringm

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by ringm 13y ago
I remember a guy sitting at the next desk to me spending a whole week trying to figure out why his Direct3D code crashes. He was blaming buggy ATI drivers. He figured it out when eventually a bit flip ended up in his _source code_.
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by ringm 14y ago
This is not a unique feature of Japanese. You can do exactly the same in Russian using a dash (which translates to a short pause in speech): "я — гамбургер" (I — hamburger). In general "X — Y" means "X is Y" or another relationship between
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by ringm 14y ago
Это удивительно.
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by ringm 14y ago
1920x1200 does not equal high dpi. Think 1920x1200 on a 10" display. If your app runs on a high DPI screen, and the OS and your app has no support for this, all fonts and UI elements become tiny, which is unacceptable. Windows XP had abysma
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by ringm 14y ago
They could give you a sufficiently long random salt and ask you to calculate the hash of the salt and block contents. This scheme seems to be secure.
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by ringm 14y ago
I found this rather amusing comment on a Russian dental forum a while ago. Sorry for possible mistranslation, I am neither a dentist nor a native English speaker. ---- I spent some time contemplating the future where this tech would be wide
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by ringm 16y ago
If you don't want to pay upfront for your TV or laptop, you just use a credit card. And what is even more important here, if you can pay upfront for your TV or laptop, you don't have to pay any interest. There's no reason whatsoever your ne
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by ringm 16y ago
And in a few months they will all be replaced with goatse...
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by ringm 16y ago
I have bound 'pushd -1' to PgUp. function directory_up { pushd -1 zle reset-prompt } zle -N directory-up directory_up bindkey "\e[5~" directory-up Ditto for "pushd +0" and PgDn.
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by ringm 16y ago
It will be worse. This stuff can't be contained with simple tools like Flashblock. Unless you want to block all Javascript by default, which will probably break 99% websites in the near future.
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by ringm 16y ago
One of the most important factors in popularity of a foreign work in Russia is a good translation which does not try to be too literal. Muraviev and Kistyakovsky did a great job with LOTR. Another reason is that this translation was publish
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by ringm 16y ago
It is not only about feeling personally cheated, it is about observing such a glaring inefficiency of the economy. Sennheiser expended a lot of effort to create a perfectly good product, and then our economy stimulates them to waste a part
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by ringm 16y ago
2000/XP was always extremely aggressive about allocating memory for cache. It would very often swap stuff out to increase available cache, which made the apps you did not use for just a few seconds completely unresponsive.
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by ringm 16y ago
Their Firefox plugin has already been blocked: https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/blocklist/
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by ringm 16y ago
"Those North Koreans who have never crossed the border have no way to make sense of their tribulations" Just today someone on some Russian blog wrote about typical North Korean perceptions of life abroad... It was along the lines of "Yes, w
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by ringm 16y ago
I would not agree with you, and I think you can't compare programming and math in this regard. The "beliefs" they are talking about are rather trivial: strictly formal abstract logical statements which look very hard from intuitive point of
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by ringm 16y ago
Sure, this is quite obvious though I did not understand how they could balance out the increase, so I did not even mention this option. The point about prostitutes was just a thought experiment, and it looks rather far from reality. The sec
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by ringm 16y ago
They're arguing for "increased sexual activity by conservatives" which obviously means they're arguing for increase in total number of sexual encounters over the entire population.
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by ringm 16y ago
Yandex has been #1 in Russian speaking segment of the internet for the last 10 years or so. I use it almost every day. It looks like this expansion into English speaking market is just an experiment, and I'm not sure what they are trying to
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by ringm 16y ago
A reddit/HN-like voting system is inherently unstable, as some users just skim over top stories and upvote them, creating a positive feedback loop. If you have few submissions, this effect is weak. As the number of submissions, users and vo
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by ringm 16y ago
I never said it is useless as an indicator of future income. I said it might be useless as an indicator of one's knowledge and skills, and knowledge and skills are what education is supposed to be about. If you measure success by one's inco
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by ringm 16y ago
So-called "academic success" is based on a series of formal tests and rituals, just like IQ is. These tests could be useless as a metric of your knowledge, skills or abilities, just like you're arguing IQ is. Unfortunately, when the name of