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[Urwumpe]

But there's no guarantee that that one valid lookup table can be found by any method but brute force.

Not sure - graph theory might say something else. But how many people are into this?

 

[kuddel]

But there's no guarantee that that one valid lookup table can be found by any method but brute force.

"pure luck" is the other one, as demonstrated :lol:

 

[RisingFury]

No one hurt, bit unusual.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-53076806

I don't think this is how plane babies are made, but it may not be far off...

 

[Urwumpe]

I don't think this is how plane babies are made, but it may not be far off...

But we can be sure that plane babys are made, because they are observed in the wild, like this caring mother carrying her new-born baby spy plane to a calm watering hole....

 

[Fabri91]

I'm pretty strict with myself when it comes to "don't drink and code", but apparently the state occasionally leads to strokes of genious that mere sober mortals are incapable of comprehending. Including the person who wrote it, once sobered up:
https://www.techspot.com/news/85622-nobody-sure-what-makes-atari-2600-game-entombed.html
:lol:

Ah, so you're unaware of the Ballmer Peak?

 

[Linguofreak]

Before radios, German pilots signaled an affirmative response to a question with a rudder turn.

Because the three primary flight axes are pitch, roll, and ja.

:leaving:

 

[jedidia]

New in the category "random game ideas that I'll never have the time to do anything with": A kind of hybrid dirigible/submarine sim, but set in a cloud layer of a gas giant...

Ha, the wife is just sending the kid on an errand to get something at a nearby store. It's his first "shopping trip" on his own. He's all like "Forward unto ADVENTUUUUURE!"

:lol:

 

[Linguofreak]

Outer Wilds is a very interesting game. It takes one look at KSP's toy solar system and says "hold my beer and watch this", and next thing you know, you've challenged yourself to make a round trip to the moon and back... with a jetpack. Given actual Newtonian mechanics and gravity, and the lack of decent instrumentation of ones orbital elements, doing this without pancaking into the ground (or a cliff face) is tricky.

And that's just when you're goofing off instead of working on the plot.

 

[Notebook]

Is there a Spanish Mr. Bean?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53141755

 

[n72.75]

I'm pretty strict with myself when it comes to "don't drink and code", but apparently the state occasionally leads to strokes of genious that mere sober mortals are incapable of comprehending. Including the person who wrote it, once sobered up:
https://www.techspot.com/news/85622-nobody-sure-what-makes-atari-2600-game-entombed.html
:lol:

For me that just resulted in a minor error, whereby I mixed up VECTOR3 mul(), and VECTOR3 tmul().


Took me 3 days to find...:facepalm:

 

[Urwumpe]

For me that just resulted in a minor error, whereby I mixed up VECTOR3 mul(), and VECTOR3 tmul().


Took me 3 days to find...:facepalm:

I mistyped a single "i" with a "j" in a matrix multiplication implementation, took me a while to find...

 

[jedidia]

Fixed an issue with one of our nightly builds that was caused by a test that only failed if run at a moment in time where UTC and CET were not the same day.

Nullability is often called the "billion-dollar-mistake" of software, in terms of time spent to fix issues arising from it. Rotating, it turns out, is the billion-dollar-mistake of the earth! :lol:

 

[jedidia]

So this hit me out of nowhere:

I'm a bit worried by the generic blandness of the trailer... let's hope they don't do a starship troopers kind of adaptation (although maybe not the best example. That was a hell of a movie in its own right...)

I am definitely excited about modern "TV" starting to pick up the classics. Hopefully this won't be a rocky start...

 

[Urwumpe]

although maybe not the best example. That was a hell of a movie in its own right...

Considering how well it characterizes modern Internet and Social Media despite predating even the early WWW....Yeah. It might have been smarter to not call it Starship Troopers though.

 

[JonnyBGoode]

Is there a Spanish Mr. Bean?

¡Yo soy Señor Frijole! :tiphat::lol:

 

[tl8]

After many, many years, the correspondence between Governor General Kerr and the Queen has now been released.

https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/kerr-palace-letters

May interest UK users.

In 1975, there was a constitutional crisis where the GG sacked the PM and held an election. It was unclear what if any, role the Queen had in the matter, but it is clear that none is the answer.

 

[Artlav]

Looks like Russia is going to skip the sweet 5G mind control rays and leapfrog over to 6G, like we did with 3G - all the relevant frequencies are hoarded up by the military again.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Looks like Russia is going to skip the sweet 5G mind control rays and leapfrog over to 6G, like we did with 3G - all the relevant frequencies are hoarded up by the military again.

6G in the same way that all the past generations have been simply marketing terms?
Or they're seriously looking at moving to even higher frequencies so your calls get dropped in light fog?
(Okay, data rather than calls, but whatever :lol

 

[Artlav]

Apparently only the 26 GHz band is usable, so kinda yeah.

The last time military frequency debate lasted for a better part of a decade, so 3G only launched in 2013 or so, while 4G was available as early as 2007 and mainstream by 2012.
Same debate had been going on for two years now regarding lower band 5G frequencies.

 

[Urwumpe]

Apparently only the 26 GHz band is usable, so kinda yeah.

The last time military frequency debate lasted for a better part of a decade, so 3G only launched in 2013 or so, while 4G was available as early as 2007 and mainstream by 2012.
Same debate had been going on for two years now regarding lower band 5G frequencies.

Well, considering how Soviet/Russian military technology solved engineering problems, I can really understand why they feel a bit reserved about letting new consumer technology wreck havoc with their 1980s gear....