bitkrieg

can't wait to see what Dura Ace has to offer

What the US public opinion is and what the US government does are two different things. Americans are hilariously self-delusional in that regard. Just compare the civilian death tolls between the first two years of the invasion of Iraq and the first two years of the invasion of Ukraine.

For the last twenty years in the Middle East alone, the number of civilian deaths in which the US is either directly or indirectly involved is easily in the millions

Your example made me wonder, is there a known instance from a common hash algorithm where the input results in exactly the same string representation of the output hash? Eg. "AE485D" hashes to "AE485D". Is this even mathematically possible?

Polyunsaturated fats have many unstable double carbon bonds, so especially under heat a wide range of new fat compounds form which were never present in the human diet.

Huh? The article also states that women don't care much about looks. Much less than men.

The term "fake news" is totally misleading because it conceals political agenda behind it. Yet it is all over the place. Did everybody forgot what propaganda is?

If anyone is interested in the mechanics of the higgs field / basic quantum mechanics in general, I found this lecture to be an excellent explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqNg819PiZY

Physical constants look alot Like magic knobs defined in some header file.

Out of curiosity, can you elaborate why the open book interview policy failed?

For anyone interested in Dwarf Fortress, here are the chronicles of Boatmurdered, a legendary Something Awful thread:

http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/Introductio...

Highly entertaining read and somewhat of an internet classic.

Because it's not the genes but the social environment which shapes the individual's progress in a society.

Yes, Germans are crazy regarding working hours, at my last job at an engineering shop many co-workers started at 6 am, some even at 5(!), making "Feierabend" at around 2 pm. Nothing unusual.

Prestige. Both for Nvida and buyers, having the fastest graphics card on the market.

Nations / Nationalism didn't really exist back then.

Ah, ok. Using something like loose-loose as hash function is indeed a terrible idea.

> We built hash tables by converting strings to integers and then using modulus

What's wrong with that?

Sadly, income-generation is what education is about these days.

As a side note, businesses, in general, could significantly reduce their labor costs if a BI was in place.

So a sales and marketing genius then?

Acts of violence without the "publicity" are not terrorism.

X86 chips (especially Intel's) are leagues ahead in terms of performance per watt.

In fact not only regarding performance per watt, but also performance per dollar. It's just that ARM designs for lowest power consumption while Intel/AMD design for maximum perfomance.

Plus this actually would be a step backwards since gcc's code generation is still significantly ahead performance wise.

Modern "x86-based" CPUs are actually mostly RISC architectures under the Hood. Instruction sets are a mere front-end nowadays and don't tell much about the inner workings. Think of bytecode.

Well, today's hardware is still all Von Neumann, just like in the 70s.

I always hear about how use of mutexes is costly but i never actually encountered a significant performance hit from using synchronization. Unless, of course, you have like 10 threads frequently accessing the same memory, which is more a design issue.