Scattered remains of a huge alien spaceship?

( Sadly it is probably just ice. )

Yeah a huge alien ice spaceship.

Actually, a large part of a spaceship capable of traveling near c would be comprised of ice, as a shield from relativistic particles.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/craft.html

It slices! It dices! It's a shield! It's reaction mass! It's fuel! It's potable water!

Interested in how this design decelerates

I thought of that too. It sure would be exciting if it turned out to be something artificial.

However, I agree with you that it's far more likely that it's something perfectly natural like ice. Not quite as interesting.

I really want the New Horizons probe to whiz past Pluto and find a giant "WE WUZ HERE" scrawled across the surface.

Run, don't walk, and read Clifford Simak's _Construction Shack_.

There's a pretty crappy but readable copy here: http://lingualeo.com/pt/jungle/construction-shack-by-cliffor...

Is it supposed to end in the middle of a quoted sentence? (I mean, I can imagine it ending that way, but it does seem kind of abrupt.)

At 'the bunglers'? Yes, that's correct.

Or maybe, we will find some prothean ruins on Ceres and Pluto is a mass relay... ;)

Or our space junk.

our space junk is stuck orbiting the Earth.

Is it possible that the "cyber" laws are designed to be effective towards individuals.

But corporations are individuals! Could two wrongs make a right?

So put the corporation in jail; take its personal items and lock them away, don't allow any outside communications except through visits, no access to bank accounts, etc.

On a more serious note, what happens to the author[ing company] of the software used to inject ads? http://www.komodia.com/about

Or, direct 100% of net profits to the state, in order to pay the prisoner's fines. The articles of incorporation should be sufficient to imprison.

Think this insane? Look up in rem jurisdiction. You'll see cool lawsuits such as "UNITED STATES V. $50,000 IN CASH". I'd consider that precedent.

Why don't you instead just make 10 better?

... It goes to eleven.

For people that aren't getting the joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc

For one second I thought there was a RFC for jokes.

Sadly, no. Given the up-and-down nature of the points to my response, my own joke was that someone who needed a pointer for what "joke" meant, given simply as a URL, might also need a pointer for what a URL means. With of course the contradiction that I gave it as a URL.

GOOD HUMOR

Well possibly the point here is the double pronged attack on the fact that Mac OS stopped at X (ten) and there is a common expression 'turn it up to eleven' [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven

The flip side of the coin is that they didn't want to name themselves after a satirical skit that is emphasising the stupidity of the phrase utterer.

Wouldn't be the first, or worst, marketing whore-out to happen these days

looks like you wooshed a little bit

Is modern web really that bad, and are those the reasons that just visiting some of the popular websites overwhelms my brand new cpu?

Slightly exaggerated, but that sort of thing absolutely happens.

The 14,000 files is an actual measurement of the node_modules folder for the build of a static site I've seen. npm is inane.

Straw man. This is actually an EBKAC. Obviously, because I can do the same asinine thing in any language offering the ability to pull in dependencies.

You need only one table look-up, a couple quick operations and no conditionals or multiplying.

The table size required to beat the accuracy of fastlog2 is 512 elements.

edit: The speed ratio is actually about 0.6 in favor of look-up versus fastlog2. Enabling -O3 changes the ratio to 0,9. This is of course not measured in a real-world program where the cache is shared by other stuff.

edit2: I have removed the if statement from fastlog2 and compiled with -O3. The ratio was 1,2.

Indeed, you're right. I forgot about step-function solutions, and thought interpolation/corrections were needed.

512 elements for 7 bits of accuracy sounds reasonable. The article mentioned a 2x improvement for 11 bits, but didn't get to that point.

This is faster than a look-up table at the cost of some accuracy. Also no cache misses.

A housefly lives for a day and with exponential growth it could take just a couple of days, so it is plausible.

That wouldn't work because it would introduce a new key. Also every power-up takes effect immediately, this would break the consistency.

@developers

This is a bug on firefox, sometimes the dotted border from the remove wall power-up doesn't disappear giving the impression that the power-up is still active, thus killing players

Wow that was fun. I'm tempted to implement a similar version in C.

I saw someone trying to create a client for Curvytron in Qt/C++. At the beginning it was a bot :)

I don't think the repository is still active, but it can be interesting : https://github.com/b-viguier/CurvyBot

@developers

Players are choosing the color of the background, thus making them invisible. Please fix this.

It might be interesting if choosing a "background" color was legal, but caused random unexpected penalties.

Just keep the background black and prevent from choosing too dark colors.

It's as hard for the person with the dark colour as it is for everyone else. Most people are reasonable if you ask them to change their colour, too.

Otherwise you can kick them between rounds.

Randomising the background colour might work.

Working on it! Thanks for the feedback guys.