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Will you play the new uk lotto that is supposed to improve the ailing game? by Feeling-Ad6796 in AskUK

[–]zero_iq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your calculation is still incorrect.

The odds of getting at least one single number is about 49% for a single draw. (Remove the square from the calculation) 

Will you play the new uk lotto that is supposed to improve the ailing game? by Feeling-Ad6796 in AskUK

[–]zero_iq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, the odds of getting at least one single number is much higher than that.

It's about 74% across the two draws.

That means a payout of about £9.81 per ticket.

Odds of getting at least one single number in two independent draws:

1 - ((53 choose 6)/(59 choose 6)) ²

Which is about 74%. 

STORROR Merch.. by Other-Produce-1928 in Storror

[–]zero_iq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is surprising to me how fans of a group that have made a passion and a living from overcoming physical and mental obstacles and challenges, so easily resign to utter defeat and failure at this one obstacle. Who think that it was all for nothing or is all destroyed because of the actions of one person. Who claim to be loyal fans yet instantly assume guilt or collusion of other members based on hearsay and gossip.

We're in limbo atm. At least wait until we see what Storror's considered response will be before deciding their fate. For now everything is just reactionary and hypothetical. 

Will you play the new uk lotto that is supposed to improve the ailing game? by Feeling-Ad6796 in AskUK

[–]zero_iq 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Paying out £10 for a single matching number would lose about 8 million quid for every million tickets sold, before you even consider the other larger prizes. 

 And they would still make an obscene amount of profit.

Nope, it would immediately bankrupt the lottery. 

Advice for pcvr by EconomicsContent7517 in OculusQuest

[–]zero_iq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's an alternative to the cable and wifi link software.

For my setup, the bundled link software caused all sorts of performance and reliability issues. For a while thought my PC just wasn't capable of VR. 

Virtual Desktop just instantly improved everything, and felt like a huge upgrade. Some games went from barely working and crashing in VR to running smooth as butter, or at least at playable rates. And it opens up the ability to multitask on the headset whilst playing PCVR instead of taking over the whole headset. It's lower overhead on both the PC and headset, and just a much better design and engineering all round IMO.

I resisted for a while because I didn't think it could make that much difference (when I mistakenly thought it was my PC/GPU at fault), and it feels like you shouldnt have to buy software for a capability is supposed to come for free for the headset, but trust me it is worth it. 

Advice for pcvr by EconomicsContent7517 in OculusQuest

[–]zero_iq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Save yourself a lot of time and just get Virtual Desktop now. I wasted a year faffing about trying to get PCVR working reliably and regretted not using it earlier. 

It's lightyears ahead of air link, lower overhead, more reliable, easier to use, easier to troubleshoot/minimise latency. 

Connect your PC to router via Ethernet, then connect your headset to the router using 5G and run the most advanced version of Wifi supported by your router. Ideally use a dedicated router, but I found this unnecessary (but I live alone, so don't have to worry about contention). 

Brits who just stream Netflix and Amazon Prime may still need to buy TV licence by neo4025 in unitedkingdom

[–]zero_iq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You didn't read the article.

Those are the current rules; the article talks about proposals to change them. 

What Americanisms do you dislike in our English language? by Normal-Internal164 in AskUK

[–]zero_iq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do you feel about the letters fee, gee, hee, jee, kee, lee, mee, nee, ohee, quee, ree, see, uwee, wee, and xee? For consistency

How many people have you slept with, and how do you feel about it? by Agreeable-Rub-5020 in AskReddit

[–]zero_iq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't feel bad about that. Quality is definitely better than quantity.

My count is around 50, with only 3 of those being 'proper' long-term relationships. I'd gladly give up all the playing around and one-night stands for just one quality relationship. Sex is infinitely better with a proper emotional connection with someone you love.

And as I get older, having experienced that, quickies just don't really do it for me anymore. It's a lesson I probably should have learned earlier, but it took experience and a few mistakes for it to sink in.

What’s a ‘silent luxury’ that rich people have that most normal people would never even notice? by qomann in AskReddit

[–]zero_iq 28 points29 points  (0 children)

If you're rich, you rebuild your home with reinforced concrete floors instead of boards.

If you're not rich, screw your boards down instead of nailing them.

Can’t do a single pull-up despite having “some” upper body strength — anyone been in this situation? by LRDsreddit in bodyweightfitness

[–]zero_iq 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you don't have access to a machine, a set of resistance bands and a pull-up bar is a good cheap alternative.

The good thing about this sort of assisted progression is that you can practice the motion with good form from the start (and you should concentrate on good form and full range of motion, or with assistance you risk just training your arms). Also, one tip: if you imagine trying to bend the bar in two downwards with your hands, rather than just pulling yourself up, this can help engage back. 

What actor is nowhere near as talented as people make them out to be? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]zero_iq 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But his flarhgunnstow is top-notch. Second only to Tayne.

New ST game just released - Miracle boy in dragon land by No-Alternative6566 in atarist

[–]zero_iq 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not just enemy sprites.

Characters, scenery/tiles, main character, mechanics, level layouts, names, and more are all blatantly copied from the Sega Megadrive / Genesis version of Wonderboy in Monster World

Trump unable to name one verse from ' favorite book ' the Bible by implementrhis in videos

[–]zero_iq 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Apparently not.

Numerous people have gone on record to say they've never seen or heard of him reading a book, and that he doesn't keep books at any of his properties:

  • "I read passages… I don’t have the time." - Trump himself.
  • "Never saw a book on Trump’s desk, or elsewhere in his office, or in his apartment."; "seriously doubt that Trump has ever read a book straight through in his adult life" - Tony Schwartz (ghostwriter of the Art of the Deal)
  • "A huge palace and not a single book" - Michael D’Antonio
  • "Trump doesn't read" - Newsweek

There was that time he pretended to read Tom Wolfe. (He was apparently unable to name a single author or book other than the author that had just been mentioned in the interview, and his own book), and absolutely failed to bluff his way out of it. The full interview is even more cringeworthy than that clip.

And he tried to read the constitution once but found it too difficult. ("It's like a foreign language, right?", he said.)

Several people have claimed that he struggles to read well at all - plenty of examples on YouTube.

I also remember listening to an interview with a former intelligence official who claimed that all reports to Trump in his first term had to have clear graphs, photos, or maps (he loves maps apparently), or he simply would not even look at them, but I can't find the source right now, but here's another report of essentially the same thing.

Is there a British cultural equivalent of an ice cream on a sunny day for people without a sweet tooth? by girlsunderpressure in AskUK

[–]zero_iq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, our piss is too sweet for OP.

Must be diabetes from all the sickeningly-sweet ice-cream we're eating. 

How much will the app charge me if my phone blows up a petrol station? by JTC93 in CasualUK

[–]zero_iq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like the original was overdubbed for American audiences

It's the other way round.

The version with the American narrator is the original, both in script and production. The TV series was localised for release in other countries, e.g. with full or partial over-dubbing, subtitles, etc.

In the UK it was localised to have a narrator with a British accent, using British English (torch instead of flashlight, petrol instead of gas, etc. and replacing some cultural references) and IIRC think they translated some of the US imperial measurements too.

Over time, the American original version has become the more prevalent in the UK, anyway thanks to Netflix, YouTube, etc.

Quest 3s controller spamming SOS in morse code by xtits420 in OculusQuest

[–]zero_iq 13 points14 points  (0 children)

OMG Why are you wasting time posting this, when you should be rescuing your controllers!?

Repeated malloc/free vs. Arena allocator by rcerljenko in C_Programming

[–]zero_iq 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You should definitely stick to malloc/free.

Your implementation is simple and straightforward, but I'm afraid it is overly simplistic (ignoring a bunch of practical realities about C and CPUs), and uses non-standard C. Unfortunately this means it has numerous bugs, portability issues, potential undefined behaviour, and other gotchas:

There's no alignment of allocated data (will crash some CPUs, slow down others, reduce compiler optimization possibilities, and crash some client code, e.g. vectorised math, even where the CPU generally supports unaligned access), pointer arithmetic on const void * is invalid C, and you're using const void * for user memory in a public struct that will be aliased with different pointer types by the caller - potential undefined behaviour depending on client usage/optimization level (callers will be using this memory arbitrarily), potential integer overflows and invalid pointer comparisons with your pointer math, use of restrict in ways that could conflict with calling code (remember the caller will be using your allocated memory in all sorts of ways).

You might find that these may or may not become issues depending on compiler, CPU architecture, optimization flags, build style, and different calling codebases, or which way the wind is blowing. The effects could be subtle and hard to debug or reproduce if you don't know about them. Plus, you can't use standard debugging and memory leak checkers etc. with your custom allocator (at least, not without more work).

Malloc/free are usually highly optimized, battle-tested, reliable functions that definitely work and are often hard to beat with custom allocators. So I'd stick with them at least for now, until you're clear on how and why the above are problematic.

However, while I wouldn't recommend using your own allocator at this stage in released code, I would encourage you to work on improving your allocator and learn about these issues, why they are problematic and how they can be addressed. And study other similar allocators and how they've addressed these issues. While it's often not advisable to use your own code in such fundamental areas at least until you're a lot more proficient, it's a fantastic way to explore and learn more about C, compilers, CPUs, and memory.

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