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The current president of Romania, Nicușor Dan, is apparently an exceptional mathematician[0] and quite useless as a politician.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieta_jumping#History

Nice to see another article from Mr Arion Render, always a pleasure. And of course posted by ibobev, always worth watching his HN submissions.

Yes, I heard about that too! I really hope he does at least one more truly great Ultima, and he can name his price as long as it really is a proper spiritual Ultima 7 / Ultima Online successor.

I got married in Ultima 7.

Dirac would never make that less vs fewer mistake.

Brevity is the sole of wit.

The so-called "magic ring buffer": https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/the-magic-ring-buff...

Unfortunately "literal" has come to mean "metaphorical" and descriptivists bully everyone into accepting this (ironically its own form of prescriptivism).

VRAM isn't a type of memory, it's just RAM used for the GPU. So this LPDDR5 is VRAM, just like it can be with my Strix Halo machine.

Just neighbours, otherwise people might draw awkward comparisons to certain other warmongering nations.

It was smooth on a 90 MHz Pentium1 from 1996

The port to Rust was superfluous though, could've gone directly from C to wasm. But then you miss out being able to say Rust Rust Rust...

It's "bury the lede" BTW

I've seen this, it's basically gaussian splatting, well executed and compressed; what interests me more is... is it really you, Skaven of Future Crew?! :O

Free rein*

I use mathematical jargon all the time, but I gotta admit, getting major Turbo Encabulator[0] vibes here :D

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag

> They showed that light intensity in the fiber would drop only 99 percent over one kilometer.

Well, at least we know it's not LLM written.

Sadly, those won't come.

That's what I mean though- in the Core 2 Duo vs K8 / Athlon days, Intel was much slower for denormals and subnormals than AMD. I'm not sure why but I thought this was common knowledge.

This has been the case since a zillion years, since the Core 2 Duo days at minimum.

I grew up in South Africa, and there was this classic newspaper cartoon back in the day: a kid goes to his dad and says "Dad, I want to become a criminal!" and the dad asks, "Government or private sector?"

Most of them are extremely unstable, which is what the Morse number encodes - the number of directions you can roll down doing action minimisation. I don't think any N-body choreographies can exist in nature, because it requires point masses, exactly equal masses, Newtonian gravity etc.

BTW, I've wondered if it's possible to have N-body choreographies in general relativity; maybe some brave person can explore that :)

I have something similar at https://gravitoy.xyz

With it I have discovered up to 11-dimensional choreographies, see https://lycium.github.io/hyperchoreography/ and code at https://github.com/lycium/hyperchoreography/

Exposition video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sIfff10hYZA

Example rendered output from Gravitoy (not of a choreography though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3BwCoiwsGk

Looks like I need to update my catalogue to take into account the many different 2D choreographies from the references on this site!

Spelt, not spelled; tisk tisk ;)

I love everything about this!

Hear, hear! I should very much like to see the Linux kernel adopt Bespoke instead of that terribly uncouth Rust manner of speaking, like a mouth full of nails.

The difficult part is making those beautiful colour palettes.

You definitely don't want to rock the boat and undermine the diamond industry, that much is crystal clear.

Rocket Knight Adventures!!! Immediately I can hear the music in my head, and I haven't thought about this game in a long, looooong time! Thank you for mentioning it, I'm off to get a Mega Drive emulator :)

Is the zero instead of capital O in the title intentional?

At least spell his name correctly, my goodness...

Terence Tao.