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lunchTime42··on SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold
subtile source insertions- would you notice them?

There is not even a measurement tool for trust on commits right now. Nothing like- (Line / NrOfDiffrentComittersTouching)* ComitersTrustworthyness according to other Projects * NrOfSimilarUnreviewedLines

Where there is no metric, there is no trust, not even in open source.

lunchTime42··on Ten arrested in Netherlands over Bitcoin money-laundering allegations
Makes you wish there was a accountability on journalism side for what writers produce. Imagine a information overlay that filters out authors who wrote many propaganda pieces and fear mongerism.
lunchTime42··on Object-Oriented Programming: A Disaster Story
The newbie programer effect is part of the lacking Integration of Zoning in a Codebase. Thus its a IDE problem.

You cant go and declare some basic tool classes only editable by a expert/architect or a newb under "SignOff" Supervision. There is also no real metric on expertise, and a way to prevent non-experts to go banana on something beyond the scope of there fields. You do not want a assembler coder going first time OO and in reverse. What actually would help is a sort of guild - where one has to accomplish certain feats first, before beeing allowed to level up..

lunchTime42··on A 3-D printer capable of incorporating hydraulics
its fascinating though how few coments this topic recives. HW_ComentDensity= Personal.usefullnessOfTopic(topic) / RangeOfSkillsNeededForDuplication* DepthOfArticle
lunchTime42··on 0AD Pathfinder Design [pdf]
Well you use a Quadtree for path-finding. That gives you some advantages- regarding a) Resolution, (Long stretches of open terrain can be handled in one entry) b) Memory needed (Quadtrees are always just resolved as deep as needed and can be placed cache friendly in mem) c) Ask kloot. https://www.youtube.com/user/Kleaut

Regards

lunchTime42··on 0AD Pathfinder Design [pdf]
Really nice docu. Regarding A* sorry, but QTFPS is superior.

https://github.com/spring/spring/tree/9bec15418279f1ecd87a55...

Always fascinating is the actual Edge-Case Handling (UnitsStuck). Setting Collission off and sending Units back shortest path can yield unexpected results there.

lunchTime42··on Germany May Offer Model for Reining in Fossil Fuel Use
Assembled in Germany Metall forged in china

Real problem with energywende is that you have a point to point infrastructure (powerplant to city) and have to convert it to a n-to n infrastructure.

Every consumer can now be producer. This results in partially absurd rewards for powering off your mini-plant to stabilize the network.

Also the lack of storage, at the moment. Currently some companys consider, forging giant conrete containers, sink them out in the ocean, and pump them dry when there is a energy surplus. When there is higher demand, the undersea storage seas, can be flooded and energy released on a controlled basis.

lunchTime42··on Random Acts of Optimization
Could the order of condition-statements-machine-code (as in the case handling code)e.g. in the particle code be made rearranging according to in-game-heat-counting?
lunchTime42··on Random Acts of Optimization
Dont you cave in blindly believing into the infoscience gods of old having done good. Demand profile logs, demand numbers, demand evidence. Compilers do the most utterly unexpected nonsense, forget the most trivial optimisations. Take your code to https://gcc.godbolt.org/ and read what your "Compiler-knows-best" does with your code.

yes, it doesent matter often in the end, cause even bad code must wait for worser memory, but still..

lunchTime42··on China to begin two-child policy
seems,that other forms of distractions and knowledge are the best presarvatives. But what about cultures that are resistant to education and therefore change?

Exit programs for the kids of the local religious nuts starting from pre-school?

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