ElectroPrime

10 karma · joined June 13, 2012

ElectroPrimeon Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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ElectroPrimeon Gödel Without (Too Many) Tears

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.

ElectroPrimeon Achron, time shifting RTS

It's available on Linux (and on Steam, but not Steam for Linux): http://www.achrongame.com/site/buy-and-download.php

ElectroPrimeon Achron, time shifting RTS

Actually, it has been much improved in more recent versions. Try it again.

ElectroPrimeon Critical PRNG Bug in NetBSD Kernel

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.

ElectroPrimeon If Higgs Boson Calculations Are Right, A 'Bubble' Could End Universe

Actually, no, the bubble is supposed to expand at the speed of light.

ElectroPrimeon CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade temperatures ever

Kelvin and Celsius use the same scale, except the Kelvin scale's zero point is absolute zero.