BinarySplit

DB has caused me to miss another flight to go on holiday, cancelling all trains to the airport on the day of the flight. It was from Paris airport 5 hours away, so I couldn't just taxi.

I checked with my travel insurance company and they don't cover this. Checking a few other companies I couldn't find any that do. If I understand DB's terms correctly, they'll only cover costs of the replacement for the train journey, which is miniscule in comparison to the rest of the trip.

My options are to pay a lot to rebook the flight the next day, or abandon the holiday, and given the price of rebooking and nobody covering it I'm siding towards abandoning it.

If I want to travel in the future and no

I have memories from childhood of seeing a specific type of Windows 3.11 crash to MS-DOS where the Windows graphics would freeze and a DOS prompt would print over the top of it, erasing the parts of the image of Windows underneath each character. Usually MS-DOS would be completely usable, but in a really awkward resolution (IIRC the text was ~2x bigger than normal) and often in a messed up color palette. Occasionally the mouse cursor would still be able to be moved around, but would do nothing when you click.

My Google-Fu is failing me and I'm unable to find any visual evidence of this nightmare from my memories. Does anyone have any photos? If not, does anyone else even remember this happe

Andrew Kelly recently had a stream where he demonstrated an implementation of Struct-of-Arrays memory layout through metaprogramming. Implementation, Usage.

Additionally, the more I've worked with data in Python's Pandas, C#'s LINQ, SQL and ElasticSearch, the more I've found that a relational model of programming works better than looping over lists of structs for a large class of problems. Pandas-style DataFrames and SQL-style tables provide an e

I've been intently following the research into Long Covid, as the symptom profile is so similar to MCAS that it may give some insight into the underlying diseases. Dr Afrin has even written about the degree of overlap between the two conditions' observable symptoms.

NAD+ deficiency is an emerging hypothesis for the underlying cause for Long Covid symptoms. The theory is that when there isn't enough NAD+ available for ATP production, the body scavenges tryptophan, leaving less available for serotonin

I transcribe a lot of text as part of my learning routine, and I fall back to the the stroke mode in pinyin input whenever I don't recognize a character.

Most of the time this works well, and I can quickly find the character I want, but sometimes when I'm half-way through entering the strokes, it will just automatically select one of the candidate characters. Almost always the wrong one.

As an example, if I want to type 艳, I'd switch to the "Pinyin - Simplified" input method, then I'd start by pressing u to enter Stroke mode, then start typing the strokes: hhhspzzshz but in this case, after hitting the first z it just auto-selects 耕 even though there are still lots of candid

Interacting with any content inside an <iframe> to another domain, e.g. clicking links and buttons, trying to highlight text, attempting to give it keyboard focus by tabbing to it, etc., has completely stopped working. This happens consistently and extends to all input to the page, including selecting text, clicking links, etc.

Examples:

• The YouTube video on this page
• The embedded Weather website here (but the rest of the content in the iframe-based "Preview" panel still works - it's on a subdomain, which may explain it)

Versions I've tried:

• v1.14.1077.60 and earlier on OSX - Works
• v1.15.11

PND3D: http://advsys.net/ken/voxlap/pnd3d.htm

r/VoxelGameDev discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/VoxelGameDev/comments/2988uf/ken_silverman_releases_successor_to_voxlap_pnd3d/

Visiting http://pikigeek\.com (the gaming review site) currently redirects you to a malware site that pretends to be Adobe and tries to start downloading something.

If you're a regular there, I suggest avoiding it for the next couple days. If you know the people who run the site, please tell them to fix their site and upgrade WordPress. I've emailed them, but who knows how often they check their public-facing inboxes.

I have no idea what the malware does, but uh, don't go visiting them just to see what the malware looks like unless you're confident you've got your browser set up securely (i.e. ALL plugins disabled - Flash, Java, Silverlight and Unity especially).

I love what I've seen in the video footage. How long do you expect an average game to last if played by a player with a medium level of curiosity?

Does The Last Disbeliever tell you when you've found/achieved everything (e.g. any game with achievements or a Progress% statistic), or is it one of those games (like The Stanley Parable) where you could miss something and never realize it?

As I understand the Wave Surfing algorithm (i.e. this, one wave per on-screen column is traced, keeping track of the minimum and maximum vectors that are unobscured by the already drawn voxels.

My issue is this: When you encounter a point where the wave "splits", e.g. in a room-over-room situation, or when looking through a grate, how do you efficiently proceed? Do you trace the two new waves independently, or do you build a more complex wave structure with multiple min/max vectors?

For that [grate](http://ww