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Is Conway's Game of Life technolo/g/y?

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Please answer the following

>do you work/do it as a hobby as a programmer/computer engineer
>have you read and remembered at least to some extent ISA and instruction cycle length and can use that information while programming
>age
>language you use to program

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>this "advanced mathematics" triggers the computer "scientist"

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For simple stuff like online gaming and video streaming, does the WiFi adapter make a difference between a $10-30+ adapter?

I use an ethernet cable at my house but I just got back from house-sitting at a friends and I had to use their WiFi with my little TP-Link adapter and I noticed that I got rubberbanding issues in BF1 and random ping spikes from 16ping all the way to 800ping randomly even though usually it stayed at 16-45ping. With an ethernet cable I don't have this at all, it's very fast and consistent, so could these lag spikes just be because I have a crappy WiFi adapter? Their internet is fine on their main PC when using ethernet cable.

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>Headphone purchase advice
http://pastebin.com/fYZLW7Ub

Please put some effort into your requests and questions.
If you dislike a suggestion, explain why and try giving a better suggestion to whomever asked.

>/g/ wiki headphone FAQ:
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php?title=Headphones

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Hello /g/. I would like to begin the thread by saying I have, for the most part, little experience with TrueCrypt, so if I make some minor mistake, cut me some slack.

I was told that TrueCrypt version 7.1A was the last "safe" version, that all versions released after that may have some sort of deliberate security weakness or flaw.
Is that true? Sticking with a specific version is fine with me, I am just checking if this is valid.
If a different version or different program is a better choice, please feel free to provide that information.

The main point of my thread is I've been around for a long fucking time, I know many of us have, & I am sure some of you remember remember the method by which you can use a device like a regular usb flash drive, or a micro sd card plugged into a usb adapter which holds an encrypted, bootable copy of the OS with support for persistent changes (changes are saved rather than with so called "live" versions in which changes do not save after a reboot.)

Now one last feature of this set up was that, depending on the password you entered to decrypt the OS file, it would either notify you that the password was invalid, or load a "dummy" mostly clean copy of the OS with few changes & few files or installed programs, or of course yet another password would load the OS that you have used heavily, the copy of the OS which has changes & new files & installed programs.

My main problem is I cannot understand how to get the whole "one password loads a mostly clean copy of the OS while another loads a heavily used copy".
I also cannot understand what program was used to actually decrypt the file. So that when you select the device from your boot menu, it would actually boot some sort of program which asks for the password. You understand what I mean? The removable storage device just has the encrypted file & nothing else, nothing which will automatically be able to boot up & prompt for a password to decrypt the file & load the encrypted OS file.

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Any other Nokia n900 owners here?

It's sad that we lost the world's most perfect phone.

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Does anyone really use Linux on a professional level? I mean, beyond hobby use or computer core services for research.

Or do most computer scientists do their work on Mac or Windows environments?

Just new to CS, currently in university, wondering if learning the ins and outs of any particular linux OS's would be helpful for my career.

Usually people focus on what language to learn instead of any particular OS.

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tell me why i should cancel /g/

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Why does autocomplete give such gibberish results? Is Google's neural network not as strong as /g/ likes to claim?

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Old thread: >>57618070

if you aren't on nostream you're curry edition

>New to /ptg/? Have an inquiry? Consult the wiki or the PDF before asking redundant questions
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Private_trackers
http://a.pomf.cat/ameuju.pdf

>"How do you get in X now that WCD is closed?"
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uflqB2YGAQjvfSue25j9ryGuxm1UylHEsOKaEqIi0KQ

>Various tracker IRCs and sites open for signup: [Gist] 00-description.md (embed)

Use >>>/g/ptg as a link to find the /ptg/ thread.

Know the following:
>staff occasionally read these generals and have posted here before, though most claims of being staff are false
>staff may pretend to be normal users asking for invites and when you invite them, they ban you for inviting strangers
>sneaky bastards will try to convince you that cheating can be evaded. It can't and you will be banned and everyone will laugh at you
>people claim to report emails and other personal info posted here to staff to get you banned.
>most of the invite offers here are people trolling you with false hope - begging for invites is a waste of time

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>start a new browser profile
>that clean feeling

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What is the best instant messaging application?

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everything i've read it seems like nvidia fail flat on their face with dx12 / vulkan.

but i REALLY need an upgrade. i'm still running a msi twin frozr 570. the card is well past its prime. it barely plays anything new at low - medium settings and nvidia has long forgotten about fermi. which really pisses me off.

so i decided to wait for polaris / vega. but amd went small die strategy with polaris and decided to hold off for higher end units until vega.... the 480 would indeed be a nice upgrade over my 570 but i want, and have the money for, something more powerful.

but its hard to continue to wait. i can't enjoy anything new. i can barely enjoy anything from 2014 onward.

so /g, how bad is pascal in dx12 and vulkan? will the 1070 suffice for two+ years from the moment of purchase? is it worth continuing to wait for vega?

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