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Re:Stockfish 14 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @08:54PM (#27733836)
Did Alpha Zero play games against Stockfish on regular PC hardware or big specialized hardware.
Re:What mRNA is good for, and what it maybe isn’t on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @09:01PM (#27683740)
That carfentanil looks like about a milligram, but impossible to say without knowing its density.
Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible on Monday June 28, 2021 @01:20PM (#27664644)
Reddit repost bots execute with full (though unintended) support of moderators and legitimate users.
Re:Goodbye C++, Hello C on Saturday June 26, 2021 @12:56AM (#27639243)
You forgot to add /s to the end of your comment.
"memory issue" seems overly broad or vague.
Doesn't that apply only to older phones?
I once had auto reset enabled on my phone after 10 attempts, and then somehow while it was in my gym bag it proceeded to accidentally get buttons pressed and reset itself. Better to set that number to 1000 instead of 10.
Doesn't that require the device to have been unlocked in the first place?
Re:The Rise of the $10M Disc Golf Celebrity on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @10:08AM (#27604726)
For advanced players do the 9+ discs perform better?
Re:Architecture of the Playstation on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @09:59AM (#27604639)
The first gen of PS3 included a PS2 on board.
Re:My favourite C++ footgun on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:16PM (#27599564)
OK, I must have mistaken what the original was, because I thought it was like this:

processWidget(new Widget, priority());

I think I saw the above code elsewhere.

Re:My favourite C++ footgun on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @06:02PM (#27597783)
> Is now impossible

I don't see how that is so. C++ 17 allows new Widget to complete and then the priority() call to execute and throw before both are passed to shared_ptr(), thus creating a leak. Your cited example [1] doesn't leak because both arguments are shared_ptr. Seems to me that C++ 17 does indeed solve this latter case but not the former.

Re:Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess on Saturday June 19, 2021 @09:37AM (#27560361)
I'm not arguing this change as good or bad, but the pattern of one or two key people deciding something and others getting on board to implement it is common.
Re:Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess on Saturday June 19, 2021 @09:32AM (#27560318)
> Am I the only person who likes this change?

yes

I'm not convinced.
Re:80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again on Friday June 18, 2021 @05:26PM (#27555219)
maybe, but most ransomware attacks aren't via zero-days but via simpler means. Also ransomware infects a whole network and so part of the cause is systems that allow that.
Re:80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again on Friday June 18, 2021 @05:21PM (#27555175)
Lack of MFA, lack of hardware whitelisting, servers exposed directly to the Internet, lack of user privilege restrictions, allowing passwords that are known-compromised, ...
Re:AMD vs. Intel CPU Market Share on Friday June 18, 2021 @04:56PM (#27554955)
Where I last worked they said it would be hard to switch to AMD quickly because Intel CPUs had a feature set they were dependent on and would take some time/effort to switch.
I don't know why you are being downvoted. The best solution here is for the author to admit using log was a bad idea and rewrite an entirely different version.
There are tons of branches in those log and pow calls. Programmers are lost in branch free religion.
Neither is production ready because they have no code comments. And if ever there was code requiring comments, this is it.
Re:Fsspec: Filesystem Interfaces for Python on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @10:19AM (#27528762)
How would you do that without potentially creating colliding names?
> especially when considering the damage their bodies absorb

Not all sports are football. Most professional sports don't damage bodies significantly.

Why would a hijacker abandon weapons? If their goal was hijacking and they found they were to be searched then why even board the plane? Just go back home with your weapon.
I wouldn't be surprised if the MLB secretly notified the teams that they have x days to stop it because enforcement will commence thereafter. That way the MLB still looks clean but they get rid of the problem. MLB is very concerned about their image.
My guess is MLB did that because it would be a stain on their history. People still talk about the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
And it's probably all automated.
He blatantly traded those 11 times during blackout periods. Companies make it very clear what these blackout periods are, so this was very stupid, as he was bound to get caught.
Re:Software is eating the car on Friday June 11, 2021 @01:22AM (#27469596)
A lot of that is third party libraries, same as with PC and phone software. And the OS itself.
Re:Software is eating the car on Friday June 11, 2021 @01:20AM (#27469583)
I feel like this really is the biggest gap between Tesla and others. Other car companies treat software as an afterthought and may never recover.

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