A long is only at least 32-bits. It might be 64 bits, but it might not be. Whatever it is will be decided at compile time, so I still don't think the OS will make any difference.
I don't know, are you likely to end up with 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 records? As a number, that's probably not too far (relatively speaking) from the number of grains of sand on the Earth.
You could write one record a second for 200 billion years and still not run into a problem.
Apple's decision to go all in on 64bit-capable devices, OS and apps has caused some trouble for Chess.com, a popular online website where people go to play chess.
Apple's "64-bit only" decision has nothing to do with this.
Recompressing will unavoidably worsen image quality, and of course the quoted bit doesn't go into any detail. I could take a DVD, MPEG2, and "transcode" it to another MPEG2 and make it 80% smaller! It'll look crap, mind you...
Why must there? Why can't it be vaguely based on it?
There are good films that have nothing to do with books. There are good films that are quite a lot like a book. Why can't there be a good film which is only a bit like a book?
Good films can be made that are vaguely based on bad books, bad films can be made that are vaguely based on good books, and so on.
Or horrible remakes of classic sci fi (The Day The Earth Stood Still).
They didn't set out to make a horrible remake. You could just say "bad movie" intead.
Moves based on books that have no resemblance to the book the movie is supposedly based on.
That doesn't automatically make a movie bad, either. A slavishly accurate adaptation of a book to film is probably going to be worse than any adaptation.
Despite the successes there's been limited investment, because audiences and producers are uncomfortable with it.
No it's not. Not all that many people care who composes the music. But for anything big enough to have credits in the first place, the current state of the art AI is not going to be good enough. It's fine for a YouTube video of your cat, but AI can't yet score a dramatic moment or a sad death or a chase scene. Jukedeck is just an automated muzak generator.
The article claims it can be used as contraception "after conception," which is an oxymoron for a start. There's detail in there about how it stops sperm swimming, but nothing about the mechanism behind it stopping fertilized eggs from implanting, which is (obliquely) claimed.
Blue and green are very close to peak (there's very little red/green response to peak blue, and peak green is about the best you can get without stimulating red too much, or blue at all), but red is over towards infrared from the peak, which avoids stimulating green cones too much.
Actually the blue and green frequencies used are quite close to peak - there's too much overlap between red, green and blue on the green cone to choose anything better for the green cone (before red drops off enough, blue comes in and ruins it).
The red frequency used is quite far over towards infra-red from the peak, though.
I just don't like only being on Chrome. And that's what Chrome wants. It wants you to only use Chrome.
Uh huh... and how is it doing that, exactly? Does it stop websites working in other browsers? Does it fail to tell people that other browsers are available? Because I think the others fail to do that too.
This part I never understood, to be perfectly honest. Every time there is a news-report about pilots avoiding a "near miss" with a drone, I wonder — why do they bother "avoiding" it?
Because it's always vastly preferable not to hit anything when you're flying a plane. It's not like they have a lot of time to estimate the weight and size of it, then to calculate the percentage probability that it'll mess up their engines, etc. And even if you can be 99% sure it's not going to mess up your plane, and it doesn't, the plane's still going to get grounded at the end of the flight for checks.
Anyway, in the majority of cases, there probably is no avoidance, because there's no time to act. Then it's just a near-miss.
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more garden-variety planets
Err, surely it's the Earth-like ones that are more likely to be of garden variety...
It should be "has not even started." The tense is wrong. It's a pretty bad sentence aside from that, too.
A long is only at least 32-bits. It might be 64 bits, but it might not be. Whatever it is will be decided at compile time, so I still don't think the OS will make any difference.
Indeed if anything using a newer Apple device negates the problem as they use 64-bit processors.
That won't help when the program itself was compiled to use a 32-bit integer.
I don't know, are you likely to end up with 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 records? As a number, that's probably not too far (relatively speaking) from the number of grains of sand on the Earth.
You could write one record a second for 200 billion years and still not run into a problem.
Apple's decision to go all in on 64bit-capable devices, OS and apps has caused some trouble for Chess.com, a popular online website where people go to play chess.
Apple's "64-bit only" decision has nothing to do with this.
Can anyone justify drones being legal? The answer is no. Nobody here can even provide a valid answer as to why they need a drone.
Can anyone justify skateboards being legal? The answer is no. Nobody here can even provide a vaid answer as to why they need a skateboard.
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that," she says. And then, just to nerdshame you even more, she adds: "I'm not HAL and we're not in space."
Alexa, open the pod bay doors.
I once mis-spoke a question and discovered the following bizarre answer, which I'd love to find out the reasoning behind:
"Alexa, what are [sic] the monkey [sic]?"
"Monkeys are monkey, Katie, and monkey."
Johnny Flynn as Young Albert Einstein
Pfft. As if anyone could replace Yahoo Serious in that role.
Recompressing will unavoidably worsen image quality, and of course the quoted bit doesn't go into any detail. I could take a DVD, MPEG2, and "transcode" it to another MPEG2 and make it 80% smaller! It'll look crap, mind you...
I didn't want the Echo. I didn't want the Home. I don't want this, either.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think anyone forced you to buy either of those, and the same applies to the Home.
In fact, I'm not exactly sure why anyone would want something like this.
People who aren't you.
You muffed up the link.
A NASA Spacecraft Will Head Straight For the Sun -- Farther Than Any Probe Before It
Err... what? Farther? Farther from what?
I think you meant closer to the Sun.
Why must there? Why can't it be vaguely based on it?
There are good films that have nothing to do with books. There are good films that are quite a lot like a book. Why can't there be a good film which is only a bit like a book?
Good films can be made that are vaguely based on bad books, bad films can be made that are vaguely based on good books, and so on.
Or horrible remakes of classic sci fi (The Day The Earth Stood Still).
They didn't set out to make a horrible remake. You could just say "bad movie" intead.
Moves based on books that have no resemblance to the book the movie is supposedly based on.
That doesn't automatically make a movie bad, either. A slavishly accurate adaptation of a book to film is probably going to be worse than any adaptation.
It comes to something when we'd rather have Mike Pence in charge, huh?
Despite the successes there's been limited investment, because audiences and producers are uncomfortable with it.
No it's not. Not all that many people care who composes the music. But for anything big enough to have credits in the first place, the current state of the art AI is not going to be good enough. It's fine for a YouTube video of your cat, but AI can't yet score a dramatic moment or a sad death or a chase scene. Jukedeck is just an automated muzak generator.
you tell them they are only allowed to buy food
That's precisely not how UBI works. You don't tell them what to do with the money; you don't check up on them. There are no tests.
You just give them the money, and you save a whole bunch already because you no longer need a staggeringly inefficient bureaucracy to manage it.
The article claims it can be used as contraception "after conception," which is an oxymoron for a start. There's detail in there about how it stops sperm swimming, but nothing about the mechanism behind it stopping fertilized eggs from implanting, which is (obliquely) claimed.
Blue and green are very close to peak (there's very little red/green response to peak blue, and peak green is about the best you can get without stimulating red too much, or blue at all), but red is over towards infrared from the peak, which avoids stimulating green cones too much.
https://jakubmarian.com/wp-con...
Actually the blue and green frequencies used are quite close to peak - there's too much overlap between red, green and blue on the green cone to choose anything better for the green cone (before red drops off enough, blue comes in and ruins it).
The red frequency used is quite far over towards infra-red from the peak, though.
https://jakubmarian.com/wp-con...
Here's me with modpoints, but they just don't have an option for "wrong."
I just don't like only being on Chrome. And that's what Chrome wants. It wants you to only use Chrome.
Uh huh... and how is it doing that, exactly? Does it stop websites working in other browsers? Does it fail to tell people that other browsers are available? Because I think the others fail to do that too.
This part I never understood, to be perfectly honest. Every time there is a news-report about pilots avoiding a "near miss" with a drone, I wonder — why do they bother "avoiding" it?
Because it's always vastly preferable not to hit anything when you're flying a plane. It's not like they have a lot of time to estimate the weight and size of it, then to calculate the percentage probability that it'll mess up their engines, etc. And even if you can be 99% sure it's not going to mess up your plane, and it doesn't, the plane's still going to get grounded at the end of the flight for checks.
Anyway, in the majority of cases, there probably is no avoidance, because there's no time to act. Then it's just a near-miss.