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ArbitraryValue

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  • A bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2"

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  • I used to work at a company making a physics engine for scientific applications, and our rule was bitwise replicability. The software running with the same inputs on the same hardware had to produce exactly the same output each time unless we did something that we knew would change the output. (Obviously that's not possible in a game that has player inputs.) So, for example, someone (and by that I mean me) filtered out some zero terms that were being summed up and didn't bother to run all the tests because they're zeroes... But (A + 0) + (B + C) != (A + B) + C.

    (In my defense, that didn't take me long to fix once the nightly build integration tests failed. I would usually know better but I must have been having an off day.)

  • Texas Republicans now at risk of losing seats in midterms, not gaining them

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  • My favorite part of this is that the redistricting would have had no problems in court if the Republicans had simply not talked about their race-related motives in public.

    With that said, I don't have high hopes for the Supreme Court here.

  • xkcd #3170: Service Outage

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  • The curve for people who depend on the service seems wrong. I would expect a sharp drop as soon as the service goes out and then gradually a partial recovery as they find other things to do.

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  • Maybe they're like starfish, which mature from bilaterally symmetrical larvae into many-limbed adults?

    Note how the adult starfish body starts out like an organ in the larva and then grows as the rest of the larva is absorbed.

    Fun fact: vertebrates are descended from echinoderms - our ancestors were larvae that acquired the ability to reproduce without developing into adults. So if you're feeling like something is missing from your life but you don't know exactly what it is, consider the possibility that you subconsciously long to transform into your true adult form, which would look something like this:

    Oh to be a sessile filter feeder!

  • Sad days

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  • But the money is actually pretty good.

  • Why Trump's 50 Year Mortgage Scheme Is an Even Worse Idea Than You Imagined

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  • I'm not sure why this is a better argument against a 50 year mortgage than against 15 or 30 year mortgages. The author does say that 50 years gives more opportunities to refinance, but many people who buy homes don't intend to live there 50, 30, or even 15 years. For these people, the only thing that matters is the monthly payment and the choice of a lower payment but with more of that payment going towards interest can be a rational one.

  • NaN Posting

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  • That's what I'm saying.

  • NaN Posting

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  • Things that are numbers:

    • a memory address
    • the letter B
    • an error encountered when trying to open a file
    • the concept of being false, as opposed to being true

    Things that are not numbers:

    • this particular floating-point number

  • Democrat who caved on shutdown says Chuck Schumer knew all along

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  • he has no control over his party

    He can't actually order them to do anything. One might argue that if he was a better leader, he could have persuaded them to stick with the plan longer, but maybe he had already done that weeks ago and this is the longest that anyone could have persuaded them to hold out. It is the longest shutdown ever, after all...

  • The vet had him shaved because he has scratchies on his neck

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  • It was me.

  • I literally describe breathtakingly good pizza as "cartoon pizza"

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  • Do people actually like pizza with the crust so flaccid and the cheese so melty that it drips off? A good slice doesn't come apart before you can eat it.

    (Any innuendo is deliberate.)

  • Man who threw sandwich at US federal agent found not guilty of assault

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  • The random sample survey of 604 D.C. residents was taken between August 14 and 17 shortly after Trump signed the executive order. It indicates some 65 percent of residents do not believe the presence of FBI agents and uniformed National Guard troops from an increasing number of states makes the city safer.

    Eight of 10 residents surveyed oppose Trump’s executive order to federalize law enforcement in the city. Seven in 10 oppose it “strongly.”

    Source.

    I'm not sure why they thought a DC jury would ever convict, given that even a DC grand jury (which hears only the prosecutor's side) didn't indict.

  • Is there a right way to tell a woman she intimidates you sexually?

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  • I think most people will interpret that as confessing a crush.

  • Californians approve Democrats’ anti-Trump redistricting push

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  • Things intended to be temporary often end up permanent, especially when it is in the interest of the party in power to make them permanent (and gerrymandering is always in the interest of the party in power, because that's the party that does the gerrymandering).

    With that said, the intent to revert this gerrymandering is the intent to rebuild the town, but even if the town will be rebuilt someday, it's still being destroyed now. California Republicans have a right to representation, and the Democrats are deliberately depriving them of that right because of something that totally different people in Texas are doing.

    I'll extend the war metaphor: sometimes military necessity dictates a course of action that will cause civilian casualties, but even then we should still acknowledge that there are civilian casualties and that that's bad.

  • Californians approve Democrats’ anti-Trump redistricting push

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  • I think you're probably right, in the sense that not doing this would probably be even worse, but we're destroying the town to save it, as the saying goes. Win or lose, there won't be much left of a very important norm.

  • Californians approve Democrats’ anti-Trump redistricting push

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  • Because disenfranchising people is the solution to disenfranchising people. But who knows - this may be the least bad option.

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  • I understand that once a person has started a career, switching to a totally different career comes at a high price, so I suppose that instead I should ask "Why do you think that a person would choose to become a teacher, if he didn't expect the satisfaction of teaching to make up for the relatively low pay?" The pay isn't a secret and teaching generally requires a college education, which implies the opportunity to pick a different major and then start a different career.

    I knew a woman from a poor background who was the first person in her family to go to college. She chose a major in English and a minor in Women's Studies. I'm not saying that English majors can never get well-paying jobs, but I come from a "you can pick any career you want - doctor or lawyer" background so I was very surprised by her decision. Why would a person who didn't have any money pick to study something that isn't great for earning money? But she wasn't stupid - she really liked English literature... Maybe she ended up working as a teacher.

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  • But then why stay put, if the pay and the satisfaction together are not sufficient compensation?

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  • Like teachers and artists produce way more value than they’re paid for.

    They also receive more non-monetary satisfaction from their work. It balances out.