tempguy9999

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by tempguy9999 7y ago
I'm sorry to hear it :( That may be what's happened here, an innocuous comment mis-taken by myself. But before I go finally, tell me please in your view what was a reasonable interpretation of https://news.ycombinator.
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
I'm a londoner and we have here a system of public transport which is controlled by cards ('oyster' cards, RFID credit card sized things - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_card ). Not exactly to addre
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
Utterly dumb question but why is tail recursion necessary in the JVM given that the compiler is better placed simply to turn recursion into a loop. TR removal should be done best at the highest level I'd think.
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
If you've done game AI then you're the expert, not me. I threw it in as it seemed relevant. I dunno. Granted evaluation is key but so is branching, surely, as that is what generates new positions, and their complexity in evaluatio
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
Thanks, will follow up.
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
Branching increases because a piece is not constrained by other pieces. A (say) 20% branch increase will increase exponentially through the tree. Branching is probably higher earlier in the game now because there are more otherwise blocking
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
> indemnified up the wazoo Really? Are you sure boeing is, given the cost-savings that not being insured would make (I mean the mgmt is clearly penny-pinchingly stupid enough). But even if boeing is insured, you can bet your butt the ins
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
Aside: I grew normal and F1 hybrid courgettes (american = zucchini) as a kid and can confirm the hybrids were proper little triffids compared to the pure-strain plants. Regarding the camels, can you dig up a link, am curious. Thanks.
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
There is a variant that allows you to take your own pieces https://www.chessvariants.com/difftaking.dir/selfeliminator.... This always attracted me as a concept and seems well received, per link above. It should increa
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
'garbage' because those claimed hoops were never listed, strangely enough. Even when I asked for them. > you stress that you have "a perfectly open mind" and yet when people disagree you seem to take it extremely pers
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
It certainly is not functional. It cannot fly in air. Like penguins, it can only 'fly' using a liquid medium. Hence the nickname. Coming soon to a river near you.
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
Interesting response. OK. > 1) by relating experiences and impressions, 2) and listening to those of others with an open mind 1) may not be correct (plus my own impression that SO isn't terrible doesn't count?) and 2) I&#x27
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
How do we "reasonably discuss any issues" unless someone presents examples of the "issues"? I suspect most of these "issues" don't exist. > reasonable people do not keep lists of examples like this Per
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
One of the irritating things about SO is people who don't read the question before answering it[0]. As you apparently haven't read mine. Are these your questions, as I asked? Of course you can find such problems, that's not w
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
You (claim to) delete useful answers, then complain about SO's behaviour? Wow.
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
Yes. You post a question of yours that's been unfairly shut down. If you have no such question you clearly don't have a problem with x.
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
I asked "if you say it's happened to you..." therefore you don't need a log. Just log in to SO and bingo all your Q's with their A's are available. It's not difficult.
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
True. If they can discern a newbie question from a idle do-my-homework for me question, people tend to be very good. I grant there are some exceptions, but few (though irritating).
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
I guess I'm the only one who doesn't seem to have any problems with wiki[1] or SO. Every time this comes up people will shout about how unfairly they've been treated, and sure I've seen questions closed when they shouldn
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
> But now I've just polluted my once-pristine grammar file What's bollixed up your grammar file are the users who absolutely insist on not writing syntactically perfect programs every time. Your 2nd example is still cleaner tha
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
Maxwell's demon, again?
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
Well maybe. There were a class of very birdlike creatures called enantiornithines which I suspect are a completely different line and quite possibly not dinosaurs, however I've dug around before and am unable to find any precise statem
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
The problem is to me that you're imprecise in your claims, which is OK (edit: changed my mind, it's not ok because it's too close to ex falso (sequitur) quodlibet ), and won't admit you're wrong when you are, which
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
Appreciated. Knew ∀ was in there somewhere... Will check out SLD
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
With respect, at least some of that's badly wrong. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog "Prolog has its roots in first-order logic" I'm pretty sure quantification exists implicitly, but I'
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
"The thing to keep in mind about Prolog is that it's not really a logic language [...]" WWWut? Eh??? Come again? Plz esspalin.
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
What do you actually suggest we use instead of lists? Which from my ancient memory of prolog, are just the equivalent of cons cells, so come naturally to prolog. Edit: from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog_syntax_an
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
I think that's different. I'd guess the cat was unknowningly getting near the bird's nest + kids so mother was panicking.
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow_Nation I realise now that I very badly misunderstood the article :)
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by tempguy9999 7y ago
Rabbits are prey animals. I don't think(?) crows are. Prey animals are wary and startle easily to reduce their chance of becoming lunch.

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