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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?
Fun counterpoint: with some algorithms, the answer is YES!
Then the code could be simplified to omit the input.
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@topspin Holy crap! You're a witch! Burn them!
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@topspin Holy crap! You're a witch! Burn them!
I'm a live witch.
https://witches.live/@tsaukpaetra
Mostly because @ben_lubar told me to.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?
Fun counterpoint: with some algorithms, the answer is YES!
Then the code could be simplified to omit the input.
Sort-of. The algorithm I was actually thinking of was Newton-Raphson root finding, where the initial guess is almost entirely immaterial as the underlying equation system converges extremely strongly. But you still need to say what value you are looking to find the root of.
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Geeze, that's not proper euthanasia. Death by drowning after being ensnared (probably violently) ? That's pretty fucked up.
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If your current car is not running Linux, your next one will
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@Tsaukpaetra Hey, your spell worked or something, you have 666 disciples. I don't suppose you were sacrificing a rooster on Walpurgisnacht?
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
The algorithm I was actually thinking of was Newton-Raphson root finding, where the initial guess is almost entirely immaterial as the underlying equation system converges extremely strongly
That's quite certainly wrong, unless you relax "any initial guess" to "any guess inside the convergence interval".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Yeah, I would be pretty upset myself if someone was sleeping with my bitches...
Florida man thread is
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
you have 666 disciples
I'm pretty sure that was hardcoded in. I actually have only four followers (if memory serves).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Mostly because @ben_lubar told me to.
Why would you do that? :P
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
If your current car is not running Linux, your next one will
Reply in the Lounge, because a bit doxxy: https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1464100
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Mostly because @ben_lubar told me to.
Why would you do that? :P
Same reason I created a rant on devRant, I suppose...
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Reply in the Lounge,
I have a suspicion accessing the Lounge in the post era involves trying to join Trust_level_3, right?
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@kazitor My belief is that your suspicion is likely correct.
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Reply in the Lounge,
I have a suspicion accessing the Lounge in the post era involves
trying to joingamifying so the system awards you with Trust_level_3, right?FTFY.
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@Tsaukpaetra No, no, I said post .
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra No, no, I said post .
Oh.... OH!!!! You meant the other "post"! My bad...
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@kazitor you have to ask a mod.
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@pie_flavor But , so good luck.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
That's quite certainly wrong, unless you relax "any initial guess" to "any guess inside the convergence interval".
For square root finding, all positive numbers are inside the convergence interval.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
For square root finding, all positive numbers are inside the convergence interval.
@dkf said in In other news today...:
Newton-Raphson root finding
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Harsh.
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His 85-year-old mother, Brenda, has Alzheimer’s and when he visits her once or twice a week, she’ll invariably ask, ‘How are the boys?’ Fighting back tears, he said: ‘All these years, she thinks they were her grandchildren. So when she asks, I might say “fine” and change the subject, but I can’t lie to her and invariably I’ll have to tell her I don’t see them any more.
And his current wife has breast cancer.
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Cable companies, faced with more people cutting cable, found a solution
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Locked room, five teenagers, and a country where no one cares about safety procedures. What could possibly go wrong?
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Next version of Windows 10 will make sure big updates can be applied
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@TimeBandit So we're up from under 20GB used for a clean install of Windows 10, to 27GB? I feel really bad for people on those low-end 32GB devices...
EDIT:
Reserved storage won't be unused though. It'll be a dumping ground for temporary files that users would have to remove anyway if they've got insufficient space at the time of an update. Temporary files are automatically placed in reserved storage.
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Microsoft is quick on failed update this year
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@LB_ said in In other news today...:
EDIT:
Reserved storage won't be unused though. It'll be a dumping ground for temporary files that users would have to remove anyway if they've got insufficient space at the time of an update. Temporary files are automatically placed in reserved storage.
Why ? Seems like a good idea. If they are going to reserve it anyway, at least put it to good use.
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The man told police he spent Dec. 17 at a Motel 6, high on meth. The man told police he couldn’t have committed the burglary because he typically reserves his criminal behavior for when he’s high on heroin, according to court documents.
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If you want to give christmas gift, here is interesting device.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
safety procedures
In theory the room is supposed to be monitored. Without reading the fucking article, I assume this one was both locked and unmonitored.
What sadism.
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@TimeBandit ....Office 2010? Aren't we up to 2019? I thought music Microsoft eliminated the support cycles for all their products...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I thought music Microsoft eliminated the support cycles for all their products...
Are you talking about Zune?
Also, they didn't eliminate support for ALL their products... yet
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I thought music Microsoft eliminated the support cycles for all their products...
Are you talking about Zune?
Also, they didn't eliminate support for ALL their products... yet
My phone has a memory leak, which (among other things) can cause weird glitches in autocorrect. For instance, it chose to replace "that" with "music".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
safety procedures
In theory the room is supposed to be monitored. Without reading the fucking article, I assume this one was both locked and unmonitored.
It was monitored. But the fire separated the operator from the emergency button. He actually suffered heavy burns while trying to rescue the players, unfortunately without success.
Of course the real issue is that in case of fire, the doors should open immediately without waiting for the employee, and besides that, there should still be emergency exit route that the players are free to use at any moment. Not to mention the whole building probably violated a whole lot of safety laws, as it was regular residential house that was adapted for escape room business, likely skipping all the paperwork required after such adaptations, including fire department's inspection.
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@Gąska I've only done one Escape Room. The entrance into it was always open and unlocked, both as an emergency exit and to provide access to restrooms.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
provide access to restrooms
That kinda kills the whole idea.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
That kinda kills the whole idea.
Better than kill the participants
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
provide access to restrooms
That kinda kills the whole idea.
You have to find the digits for the combination to get the key that lets you out of the bathroom
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
That kinda kills the whole idea.
Better than kill the participants
I think people who would die if they couldn't pee for two hours shouldn't be taken to escape room.
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@Gąska If only one of the participants in the one that caught fire had to pee, then they could have all been saved
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
I think people who would die if they couldn't pee for two hours shouldn't be taken to escape room.
I would be OK, I would just pee in a corner of the room
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
That kinda kills the whole idea.
Better than kill the participants
I think people who would die if they couldn't pee for two hours shouldn't be taken to escape room.
One of the guys in our group had part of his colon surgically removed, and I take over-the-counter magnesium (which happens to be a laxative) to help manage a cardiac arrhythmia. So the need to poop is pretty unpredictable for us. Neither of us would have died without bathroom access, but I'm sure the escape room operators wouldn't have appreciated it. It was Egyptian-themed, so there were lots of pots and one big sarcophagus we could have pooped in.
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@djls45 Yes. We had the great freedom struggle.