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Re:Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles on Friday November 29, 2013 @03:46AM (#6818471)

  Why I Quit My Job to Start the Rest of My Life as an Apple Store Employee
  Facebook bans Adsense in all human history
  Show HN: We made an addictive way to fold a sheet of paper
  Rules of Storytelling According to the UK Gov
  Death to the ISS - Launch Webcast (starts at 12:00am PDT)
Re:Gödel Without (Too Many) Tears on Monday September 30, 2013 @09:45PM (#6473556)
Keep in mind that real world computers just have a very large (but not unbounded) amount of tape. Since they have constant space, they are really just DFAs.
Re:Achron, time shifting RTS on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @08:36AM (#5449001)
It's available on Linux (and on Steam, but not Steam for Linux): http://www.achrongame.com/site/buy-and-download.php
Re:Achron, time shifting RTS on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @08:35AM (#5448993)
Actually, it has been much improved in more recent versions. Try it again.
Re:Critical PRNG Bug in NetBSD Kernel on Friday March 22, 2013 @02:41AM (#5421686)
Well... sizeof of an expression is mostly useful for not repeating yourself in cases when you need the size of a type you already have some way of referencing, as in

  a = malloc(sizeof(*a));
It's also useful for various hacks (stuff like compile-time assert macros), since it doesn't evaluate the expression, only its type.
Actually, no, the bubble is supposed to expand at the speed of light.
Kelvin and Celsius use the same scale, except the Kelvin scale's zero point is absolute zero.