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New comment by ThinBold in "Valve's latest Steam Deck trailer briefly plugs a Nintendo Switch emulator"

ThinBold — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 01:25:57 +0000

VALVe themselves have game IPs they want to protect. Within the boundary of "it's legal, wygd" there are always ways to make pirating VALVe games easier and VALVe will stand no ground to ban those.

New comment by ThinBold in "The Full Chess Cheating Report of Hans Neiman"

ThinBold — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:45:37 +0000

If the situation is that bad and cheating is that easy, soon there will be researchers cheating all the way to Elo 2000, just like there are researchers submitting garbage papers to prove that some journals are jokes. That will be interesting too so I am not against your vision.

New comment by ThinBold in "The Full Chess Cheating Report of Hans Neiman"

ThinBold — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:27:23 +0000

Search for "admitted" and it is on page 2.

New comment by ThinBold in "NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions"

ThinBold — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:33:30 +0000

It probably inherits the name from other languages that get it wrong.

New comment by ThinBold in "NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions"

ThinBold — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:29:37 +0000

For the hyperbolic version area is the correct counterpart of arc-length. See the wikipedia for a picture. So only "ar-" and "a-" make sense. Blindly using "arc-" is like saying non-invertible matrices are "vertible" because "in-" negates the meaning of a word.

New comment by ThinBold in "Citibank may lock bank accounts for 45 days if breach suspected"

ThinBold — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 06:33:18 +0000

I (and I assume many do) buy flight tickets with a credit card so at least one bank knows you are traveling. Never have I had any problem when traveling. But there is one time I wanted to wire myself from Bank1 to Bank2, got blocked, called to unblock, and got blocked again immediately after I attempt the same transaction. Have to goto a Bank1 branch and brainstorm what to do and they ended up giving me a "bank check" (what's that???) only for me to walk to a Bank2 branch to deposit.

New comment by ThinBold in "NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions"

ThinBold — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 08:50:04 +0000

Despite all the good contents, calling the inverse function of hyperbolic tangent "arctanh" just makes no sense.

New comment by ThinBold in "The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar"

ThinBold — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 17:22:55 +0000

> rely on imported components

This doesn't matter. You buy wheat at $100 and sell breads at $250. You net $150 and convert that to, say, €150.

New comment by ThinBold in "Render mathematical expressions in Markdown On GitHub"

ThinBold — Fri, 20 May 2022 09:04:10 +0000

Maths don't scale up. Moore's Law will catch up and eventually rendering math will be like rendering jpg. For now the priority is to get things to work so we don't waste extra time determining if we just avoid math or we use stupid PNG.

New comment by ThinBold in "Space Math"

ThinBold — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 10:40:43 +0000

The sagemath[1] suggests

> Whitespace before and after assignment and binary operator of the lowest priority in the expression:

The AMS style guide[2, p. 117] suggests

> Align multiline equations on operators: verbs are aligned with each other and conjunctions are aligned with each other

I find these improves readability of my TeX files.

[1]: https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/coding_basics.htm... [2]: https://www.ams.org/publications/authors/AMS-StyleGuide-onli...

New comment by ThinBold in "The human genome is, at long last, complete"

ThinBold — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 00:34:38 +0000

After ten years of "we are getting to the last mile" and "we are finally completing", it just feels like bio people cannot give up this good reason when justifying their funding so we have to re-complete human genome every other year.

New comment by ThinBold in "Buttons as Finite Automata"

ThinBold — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:52:04 +0000

You are designing a "prefix code". It is a collection of strings of button presses such as {A, BA, BBAA, BBABA, BBB, ...}. Each string maps to an action.

Ideally no string is a prefix of another string. Even more ideally any infinite sequence of As and Bs can be decoded into a sequence of actions.

New comment by ThinBold in "Folding bicycle small enough to fit in hand luggage"

ThinBold — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 22:04:42 +0000

Scooter has an even smaller wheel and is more unstable during high speed. Also bike is more muscle-efficient.

New comment by ThinBold in "Crypto is an unproductive bubble"

ThinBold — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 04:11:54 +0000

You get to choose between out-sourcing the liability or naked-running. You can even linearly-interpolate between the two extremes. In case of banking, you already payed the hidden fee (banks get bailout using government money, aka your money)

New comment by ThinBold in "Doctors who use Google Translate to talk to patients want a better option"

ThinBold — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 01:50:47 +0000

I guess I know why the parent is downvoted but in the end the responsibility is on both sides. If you don't speak fluent English you ask for interpreters in Spanish, Chinese, you name it. You can't insists on speaking an unpopular dialect/accents, can't even specify what best describe your dialect/accents, and expect anything from the hospitals.

New comment by ThinBold in "Typography is impossible (2016)"

ThinBold — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 22:19:26 +0000

I check the document and the it looks great. Even if it fails to work at least you are always brought back to an integer value of x-coordinate.

New comment by ThinBold in "Typography is impossible (2016)"

ThinBold — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 21:53:42 +0000

In vscode, tab (the key above capslock) is implemented by counting how many characters are on the current line and adding 4floor(x/4+1)-x spaces to the current line.

This obviously doesn't work if there are non-ascii characters that (have to) use a different font and hence having different widths. Or if you prefer variable-width font, then a purely ascii document will break tab.

The developers reply on github that this (characters having different widths) is a frontend thing and they don't have enough API that can fix this. But of course since vscode is an open source project you can always fork it and fix it yourself.

I don't know any other editor that cannot handle tab.

New comment by ThinBold in "Why does Google still have the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button?"

ThinBold — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 04:06:32 +0000

There were days where seeing a unique doodle makes your day. And then one day you realized that there is an official page for all doodles and you spend a good time on it. Now it is just PR department yelling: we didn't forget it's international trans-women day etc.

New comment by ThinBold in "I wrote the least-C C program I could"

ThinBold — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 08:09:10 +0000

I mean we do have a lot of (perhaps too many) markdown dialects today. Wikipedia, wordpress, github, stackexchange, you name it. Last time I was using a Q&A forum for calculus course, it uses $$ to start and close a MathJax div.

New comment by ThinBold in "I wrote the least-C C program I could"

ThinBold — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 08:03:52 +0000

U+FF1B Fullwidth semicolon. The semicolon in CJKV ideographs.