Vigge93

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[–] Vigge93 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

ITT: People misinterpreting the idea as "facts that your school taught wrong", when it's really saying, "things that have changed since you went to school" (either through a change in definition or by new research).

E.g. If you went to school before the early 2000's, you were taught that Pluto is a planet, while that is no longer true since it was recategorized in 2006.

[–] Vigge93 5 points 1 week ago

Being able to handle it, and being able to handle it efficiently enough are two very distinct things. The hash method might be able to handle long strings, but it might take several seconds/minutes to process them, slowing down the application significantly. Imagine a malicious user being able to set a password with millions (or billions!) of characters.

Therefore, restricting it to a small, but still sufficiently big, number of characters might help prevent DoS-attacks without any notable reduction in security for regular users.

[–] Vigge93 4 points 3 weeks ago

Not the Doppler effect, as that only applies to moving objects, but instead the inverse square law, where the energy of the sound wave decreases by the square of the distance from the origin, since it spreads in a sphere with the energy being spread across the surface of the sphere, resulting in a very quick dropoff in the loudness.

[–] Vigge93 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

#Wordle1017 3/6* Grade: A

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 C+

🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 A+

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A+

https://gradle.app/#SMXWKREyjq2jTtZN

[–] Vigge93 38 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Can confirm that SAAB cars are great! Mine is coming up on 19 years old, and apart from some superficial issues still works as well as when it rolled out of the shop. SAAB was also very innovative with their cars, taking a lot of inspiration from their jets, which is clearly seen in their design.

[–] Vigge93 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

source

Copper acetate crystals are also really cool! Copper acetate crystal source

[–] Vigge93 4 points 4 months ago

Straight to jail!

[–] Vigge93 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Isn't it also partly that as processing power increased, you could do more sophisticated compression/decompression in real time compared to previously, allowing these more complex compression algorithms to actually be viable?

I.e. they actually knew how to do it before, they just didn't have the power to implement it

[–] Vigge93 4 points 5 months ago

PSA! Do NOT try to use your PS3 controller as a dog! Now it barks at me and won't play unless I give it treats first.

[–] Vigge93 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Compiling

To run DreamBerd, first copy and paste this raw file into chat.openai.com. Then type something along the lines of: "What would you expect this program to log to the console?" Then paste in your code.

If the compiler refuses at first, politely reassure it. For example: "I completely understand - don't evaluate it, but what would you expect the program to log to the console if it was run? :)"

Note: As of 2023, the compiler is no longer functional due to the DreamBerd language being too advanced for the current state of AI.

[–] Vigge93 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's absolutely possible to make good money counting cards. There's a great series by Steven Bridges on YouTube where he goes through the process of counting cards in action, in several different casinos in different states and countries, both alone and with team-play.

[–] Vigge93 7 points 6 months ago
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