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New comment by bitkrieg in "Sora is here"

bitkrieg — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 03:04:04 +0000

can't wait to see what Dura Ace has to offer

New comment by bitkrieg in "Is the attack helicopter dead?"

bitkrieg — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:58:58 +0000

What the US public opinion is and what the US government does are two different things. Americans are hilariously self-delusional in that regard. Just compare the civilian death tolls between the first two years of the invasion of Iraq and the first two years of the invasion of Ukraine.

For the last twenty years in the Middle East alone, the number of civilian deaths in which the US is either directly or indirectly involved is easily in the millions

New comment by bitkrieg in "Hashing is not encryption"

bitkrieg — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 14:02:49 +0000

Your example made me wonder, is there a known instance from a common hash algorithm where the input results in exactly the same string representation of the output hash? Eg. "AE485D" hashes to "AE485D". Is this even mathematically possible?

New comment by bitkrieg in "50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)"

bitkrieg — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 21:18:43 +0000

Polyunsaturated fats have many unstable double carbon bonds, so especially under heat a wide range of new fat compounds form which were never present in the human diet.

New comment by bitkrieg in "How to Close a Gender Gap: Let Employees Control Their Schedules"

bitkrieg — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:20:28 +0000

Huh? The article also states that women don't care much about looks. Much less than men.

New comment by bitkrieg in "Trump Fires Acting Attorney General"

bitkrieg — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 15:11:26 +0000

The term "fake news" is totally misleading because it conceals political agenda behind it. Yet it is all over the place. Did everybody forgot what propaganda is?

New comment by bitkrieg in "There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)"

bitkrieg — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:49:00 +0000

If anyone is interested in the mechanics of the higgs field / basic quantum mechanics in general, I found this lecture to be an excellent explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqNg819PiZY

New comment by bitkrieg in "Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds"

bitkrieg — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:03:59 +0000

Physical constants look alot Like magic knobs defined in some header file.

New comment by bitkrieg in "Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but..."

bitkrieg — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:20:37 +0000

Out of curiosity, can you elaborate why the open book interview policy failed?

New comment by bitkrieg in "The Story of Microsoft's Minecraft Buyout"

bitkrieg — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 20:54:52 +0000

For anyone interested in Dwarf Fortress, here are the chronicles of Boatmurdered, a legendary Something Awful thread:

http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/Introductio...

Highly entertaining read and somewhat of an internet classic.

New comment by bitkrieg in "Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn"

bitkrieg — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 17:27:37 +0000

Because it's not the genes but the social environment which shapes the individual's progress in a society.

New comment by bitkrieg in "Which Cities Sleep in, and Which Get to Work Early"

bitkrieg — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:43:11 +0000

Yes, Germans are crazy regarding working hours, at my last job at an engineering shop many co-workers started at 6 am, some even at 5(!), making "Feierabend" at around 2 pm. Nothing unusual.

New comment by bitkrieg in "Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z"

bitkrieg — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:35:58 +0000

Prestige. Both for Nvida and buyers, having the fastest graphics card on the market.

New comment by bitkrieg in "Venice votes 89% to secede from Italy"

bitkrieg — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 03:43:14 +0000

Nations / Nationalism didn't really exist back then.

New comment by bitkrieg in "The Brutal Ageism of Tech"

bitkrieg — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 03:07:30 +0000

Ah, ok. Using something like loose-loose as hash function is indeed a terrible idea.

New comment by bitkrieg in "The Brutal Ageism of Tech"

bitkrieg — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:27:04 +0000

> We built hash tables by converting strings to integers and then using modulus

What's wrong with that?

New comment by bitkrieg in "It’s impossible to work your way through college nowadays"

bitkrieg — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:25:38 +0000

Sadly, income-generation is what education is about these days.

New comment by bitkrieg in "It Is Time For Basic Income"

bitkrieg — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 02:06:21 +0000

As a side note, businesses, in general, could significantly reduce their labor costs if a BI was in place.

New comment by bitkrieg in "Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (1924)"

bitkrieg — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:20:46 +0000

So a sales and marketing genius then?

New comment by bitkrieg in "Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)?"

bitkrieg — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:35:46 +0000

Acts of violence without the "publicity" are not terrorism.