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Re:Keyboard Bacterial Culture
on Sunday November 22, 2015 @10:24AM (#10610301)
My argument was that you cannot clean that specific hardware like you clean your table and cutlery. It is simply not convenient.
I don't see how you can wash a laptop under any circumstance, apart from a complete disassembly.
Re:Keyboard Bacterial Culture
on Sunday November 22, 2015 @08:27AM (#10609987)
Mouses, keyboards, laptops, mobile phones, pads, all belong on a table. As we used to read in paper format, during a meal, we now use them. Rather than removing them, instead make them easier to clean. Not that food is the only source of dirt and bacteria, they get extra dirty because we spend the most time in contact with them. I would love to wash my keyboard, mouse, and pad, in a sink.
Re:Math.random in V8 is broken
on Saturday November 21, 2015 @02:49PM (#10607802)
I found an approximation (x^2/2m) and got the result that is on the same magnitude as 1 in a billion.
Re:Math.random in V8 is broken
on Saturday November 21, 2015 @12:26PM (#10607350)
I was just researching PCG, and I didn't find anything relevant apart from the the author's paper and website. I was trying to find out if it has been peer reviewed since its release last year. I'm really curious, how did you check if this paper was peer reviewed?
Re:Math.random in V8 is broken
on Saturday November 21, 2015 @12:16PM (#10607308)
The only information on PCG I can find is the author's own paper which also fails some TestU01 tests. I am much more inclined to trust an established generator than an unproved one.
Re:Math.random in V8 is broken
on Saturday November 21, 2015 @11:45AM (#10607203)
The entire TestU01? Wow, I did not know that.
Re:Math.random in V8 is broken
on Saturday November 21, 2015 @11:06AM (#10607082)
Can you name those rudimentary statistical tests that Mersenne Twister fails. I would like to test them out, since I regularly use MT. Thank you.
Re:Math.random in V8 is broken
on Saturday November 21, 2015 @05:02AM (#10606362)
Can someone explain how the following calculation was done?
With 2¹³² possible values, if identifiers were randomly generated at the rate of one million per second for the next 300 years the chance of a collision would be roughly 1 in six billion.
I tries using the formula for the Birthday problem, but the values are too large.
Re:NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space Station
on Friday November 20, 2015 @06:08PM (#10604489)
You are making the appeal to common practice fallacy. Even if human death (or sacrifice) is a common occurrence, it does not make it acceptable.
Re:A Step Toward Protecting Fair Use on YouTube
on Thursday November 19, 2015 @08:34PM (#10599020)
So I visit the website, click on the link some of the best examples of fair use on YouTube, and land on this: https://i.imgur.com/ygLwM6S.jpg
Priceless.
Re:Oh, Go Ahead, Overthink FizzBuzz (2008)
on Thursday November 19, 2015 @03:40PM (#10597471)
Believe it or not its a weird palindrome for me: 65059
Re:Oh, Go Ahead, Overthink FizzBuzz (2008)
on Thursday November 19, 2015 @03:29PM (#10597388)
So at what input value does it overflow the stack on your machine?
Re:Oh, Go Ahead, Overthink FizzBuzz (2008)
on Thursday November 19, 2015 @02:42PM (#10597029)
Second expression in the for loop and ||, both behave as conditionals, i.e. are equivalent to an if statement and the generated instruction will be a branch.
At least it would in C. Of course I'm ignoring the fact that JS is interpreted as will cause a lot of additional bloat, but were not counting that.
Re:Oh, Go Ahead, Overthink FizzBuzz (2008)
on Thursday November 19, 2015 @02:32PM (#10596971)
|| is a conditional.
Is first expression true? If it isn't evaluate the second expression.
Re:Oh, Go Ahead, Overthink FizzBuzz (2008)
on Thursday November 19, 2015 @02:22PM (#10596912)
There are two conditionals in that code.