Belgium has a dish like that, raw ground beef served with raw egg. Beef Americain or something like that (although nobody in America eats that shit)
there's also a well-known story of a fellow who got a massive intestinal worm from eating that and how he got rid of it (it's not safe for most minds.)
As a Protestant, I resent the notion that the son of God who was on Earth to offer the free gift of salvation, and doing so as one of the common people and wearing common clothes, is supposed to be represented by a man who claims infallibility and dons gold raiments while most of his followers don't know if they can feed their families the next day.
Huh, apparently Linux MD in kernel 3.1.0 can run RAID 5 checksumming at something ridiculously fast on my Clovertown machines, around 7 GB/s. That means the drives themselves are the bottlenecks during a resync.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
In computing, floating point describes a method of representing an approximation to real numbers in a way that can support a wide range of values. The numbers are, in general, represented approximately to a fixed number of significant digits (the mantissa) and scaled using an exponent. The base for the scaling is normally 2, 10 or 16. The typical number that can be represented exactly is of the form:
Significant digits × baseexponent
The idea of floating-point representation over intrinsically integer fixed-point numbers, which consist purely of significand, is that expanding it with the exponent component achieves greater range. For instance, to represent large values, e.g. distances between galaxies, there is no need to keep all 39 decimal places down to femtometre-resolution, employed in particle physics. Assuming that the best resolution is in light years, only 9 most significant decimal digits matter whereas 30 others bear pure noise and, thus, can be safely dropped. This is 100-bit saving in storage. Instead of these 100 bits, much fewer are used to represent the scale (the exponent), e.g. 8 bits or 2 decimal digits. Now, one number can encode the astronomic and subatomic distances with the same 9 digits of accuracy. But, because 9 digits are 100 times less accurate than 9+2 digits reserved for scale, this is considered as precision-for-range trade-off. The example also explains that using scaling to extend the dynamic range results in another contrast with usual fixed-point numbers: their values are not uniformly spaced. Small values, the ones close to zero, can be represented with much higher resolution (1 femtometre) than distant ones because greater scale (light years) must be selected for encoding significantly larger values.[1] That is, floating-point cannot represent point coordinates with atomic accuracy in the other galaxy, only close to the origin.
The term floating point refers to the fact that their radix point (decimal point, or, more commonly in computers, binary point) can "float"; that is, it can be placed anywhere relative to the significant digits of the number. This position is indicated as the exponent component in the internal representation, and floating-point can thus be thought of as a computer realization of scientific notation. Over the years, a variety of floating-point representations have been used in computers. However, since the 1990s, the most commonly encountered representation is that defined by the IEEE 754 Standard.
The speed of floating-point operations, commonly referred to in performance measurements as FLOPS, is an important machine characteristic, especially in software that performs large-scale mathematical calculations.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
March will soon be upon us.
That's significant, to me, because in recent years, I've found March to be the month that sets the tone for the rest of the year. That's not to say the events of the rest of the year are necessarily similar to what happens in March, but in a way March sorta defines the lens through which I view the evens of the rest of the year. I'm being vague, admittedly, but that's because I find it hard to describe this concept in concrete terms.
In a way, though, I feel like 2013 is only really just beginning. This is my chance to write off the failures of January and February as the remnants of 2012 and start fresh once and for all.
Incidentally, over the past couple years, March has also been the one month where I feel I've had the most fun. So here's to a great March, and let's hope I don't fuck it up! *raises toast*
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
For those wondering (i.e. nobody), my "toast" was some lemonade in a spaghetti sauce jar.
Not because I want to be wacky or anything, just because that happened to be the beverage on hand.
Home now, and lol. I actually kind of wish workstation-class cases weren't so bloody expensive, since they tend to have better cooling and less OMG XTREEM styling.
That's actually quite nice, though I doubt I'd be using the ridiculously huge CPU cooler from the customer images. The stock Intel coolers work pretty well if you're not overclocking.
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I would like to nominate this for best description of two rappers ever.
Belgium has a dish like that, raw ground beef served with raw egg. Beef Americain or something like that (although nobody in America eats that shit)
there's also a well-known story of a fellow who got a massive intestinal worm from eating that and how he got rid of it (it's not safe for most minds.)
Depends how deep it is. If it's deep enough to leave a scar, it's no longer a scratch
I hate Sigma notation
so much
because I can never remember how it's supposed to work
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Take that, Hitler!
(Addednum: School is not actually Hitler. It's just a figure of speech)
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I see Clock was here, that is great.
Oh yeah, that reminds me
my project proposal for my AI class received approval from the professor
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
That's significant, to me, because in recent years, I've found March to be the month that sets the tone for the rest of the year. That's not to say the events of the rest of the year are necessarily similar to what happens in March, but in a way March sorta defines the lens through which I view the evens of the rest of the year. I'm being vague, admittedly, but that's because I find it hard to describe this concept in concrete terms.
In a way, though, I feel like 2013 is only really just beginning. This is my chance to write off the failures of January and February as the remnants of 2012 and start fresh once and for all.
Incidentally, over the past couple years, March has also been the one month where I feel I've had the most fun. So here's to a great March, and let's hope I don't fuck it up! *raises toast*