tl;dr for others

A: “I have an Pink Unicorn inside the trunk of my car. It vanishes the moment you try to open the trunk or look at it.”

B: “What? That’s absurd”

A: “I know it exists. It’s up to you to disprove it”

B: “But there is no way one can capture/observe/understand it with any sort of scientific instrument”

A: “Don’t care. Skill issue”

Amidala kind of ruins the experience a bit

Thanks for this. Got a burst of nostalgia

but I’ve accepted defeat in trying to understand it

I may have shared the link but even I don’t know how it how it works.

It’s like admiring the Eiffel Tower; you can understand that it’s a marvel of engineering without understanding the underlying engineering concepts. Such experiences are rare but they truly humble you.

Regarding the square root, understand the following concepts

1. Bit shifting simply shift the bits to a certain side (Left or right) => 0010 << 1 → 0100
2. Mathematically, it multiplies or divides the input number with a factor of 2, depending upon the type of shift
3. If you shift the number n with a nice shift amount x (I have greatly greatly over-simplified this), then you can calculate the inverse sq. root since inverse square root is 2^(-1/2)
4. Calculating the inverse square root manually will take lots of clock cycles, which was not feasible for a FPS game with the limited h/w
5. Bit shifting is a lot faster since we are not computing, but instead shifting

The resultant shifting gives us an answer which is close enough to the answer, and that is good enough for FPS games for calculation of reflections.

Source for bitshifting

PS: Someone who is more experienced in this domain can correct me if I’m wrong.

I am still in awe of the fast inverse square root method used in QuakeIII. Good times.

There was/is a movement regarding butthole and ball tanning. I am suspicious that it also started like this.

grandpa loved his bacon, pork

Had he reached 60-70, he would have suffered from gout

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I have bypassed this issue by exclusively using open-source terminal software. If my softwares aren’t launching in 2-3 seconds, i usually try to find alternatives.

I was just reading the first paper on TCP Vegas (TCP congestion avoidance protocol) and the tests were done with bandwidths of “over 100 Kbps” over the internet. Feels almost unreal.

Ooooh! Glowing stones. I have to take them.

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It’s a custom ROM (crDroid 11). It might be using Substratum but it’s done in such a seamless manner that I don’t even know.

I tried it long back during Android 9-10 and it was buggy.

Mother-as-a-Service

Custom ROM - crDroid 11

I’m not a Physicist but since they have the same momentum, the marble will have a higher velocity. Let us assume the bowling ball weighs 6000 gm and the marble weighs 20 gm (average weight), the velocity ratio of the marble to bowling ball is 300:1 (300 times faster).

If we assume that both of them are made of the same material, and you throw the bowling ball at 1 m/s, then the marble is launched at nearly Mach 1. I’m pretty sure it will create a neat hole in the bowling ball.

I could be very wrong as well.

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70% is just rookie numbers

You’ll die of 3st

but them all collaborating on a common base project from which they each can still produce their own spin

This is viable because this has already happened in gaming.

https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher

Lutris, Heroic, Bottles use this in their backend.