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Three mathematicians have resolved a fundamental question about straight paths on the 12-sided Platonic solid. It's really disappointing with its limited use in most RPG systems
Plus, tired of people thinking it's an isocahedron.
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In an ideal world, code should concern itself with solving the problem at hand and nothing else. Mission accomplished!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In an ideal world,... Pity is, our world is far from "ideal"
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Quote: Thus the advice from Thorsten. Write code that solves the problem and does little else. Don’t jump straight for the shortest solution. Take the one that your future self, having done no code for five or ten years, will be able to look back at and understand. That's a whole lot of else that follows that initial advice...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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According to new research, wormholes that are both large and stable enough for humans to traverse should be possible to create. You first
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Kent Sharkey wrote: should be possible to create. In an "ideal" world?
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First step: assume a spherical cow...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: should be possible Science tells us something is possible. Gee, thanks science.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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In this part I dig up every study relating to function length I could find, fill in some gaps with original research, and examine what we can learn. All those "Hello world" functions you've written over the years stink
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Quote: a small module with even a single fault will show a very high fault rate You'd think that once the author read that line, he'd realize that he doesn't understand statistics, but no; he keeps on digging and acting baffled.
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Well, “there’s many per capitas”
TTFN - Kent
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Joe Woodbury wrote: but no; he keeps on digging and acting baffled. A case of stubbornness? Or just plain moronism?
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I especially like the graphs plotting "average method length" vs. "average defect density": they also show a terrible defect density for a function length of 0.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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When I read the words "the science" in this sense, (especially if it says that I should "believe the science") I prepare to hear BS.
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This just in: when a numerator is held constant and the denominator shrinks, the resulting percentage increases! Stay tuned for our special report at 10: Air. It's there but you can't see it
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Code has a life beyond you, and thinking of the longevity of your code is key to its survival, and your success as a programmer. What moron wrote this code? Oh, right. Well, that was last week.
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Write code as if I got your home address.
And I do
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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:Evilgrinse:
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I think it is the duty of the programmer to write code no one else can understand, maintain, or modify, to ensure the code supports him/her for the rest of their lives ... as long as the customer keeps paying.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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A new Microsoft patent reveals details about a topic-based summarizer for meetings and presentations. Why does it just keep printing, "A waste of an hour?"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Why does it just keep printing, "A waste of an hour?"
An hour? Our meetings used to last fifty hours, in a paper bag...
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If it only was an hour...
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Neuralink has demonstrated a prototype of its brain-machine interface that currently works in pigs. Do not attempt to adjust your thinking. We are controlling transmission.
That sewing machine robot that freaks me out more than their chip.
Apologies to Bill for reposting, but ... yeah, I have not excuse.
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