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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 10y ago
please read the article first. this criticism is addressed.
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 10y ago
All or most of the ssds used in this study are used as a cache in front of hdds, so take results with a grain of salt.
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 10y ago
They're in the wrong time zone to compete...
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 10y ago
Some of us are on mobile...
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 10y ago
I bet $500 USD it doesn't become bigger than the bay area in the next 10 years.
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 10y ago
Just use signed ints. Signed integer underflow is undefined behavior so it can't happen /s
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 10y ago
You mean like this? https://www.instapainting.com/ai-painter
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 10y ago
As someone who works in the application layer, the recommendation to have a fast failover to tcp from udp seems silly. Shouldn't the recommendation be to keep packet sizes below 1280?
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 10y ago
He's one of the few people in the world with a more nuanced understanding of blockchains than either "it will male bankers obsolete" or "it's useless nerd money", and that writes about it publicly.
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 10y ago
If he was satoshi he would just sign a message with the genesis block's private key saying so. He wouldn't announce that he's going to move an early coin on the bbc. It's simultaneously the most convincing proof and the
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 10y ago
Now if only there were a way to mathematically prove it was a Stradivarius...
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 10y ago
Haha I can't even imagine the hubris necessary to claim that one would rather be homeless to do another interview at a technology company. This post helps me sympathize with the angry SF-ians angry at all the techies.
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 10y ago
It's a 16-bit version of Salsa20, which is far less secure. Proof: this project. I have no clue what possessed the author to do this. Stop hand-rolling crypto, people! Ransomware needs security too. :(
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 11y ago
AVX2 usage reduces clock frequency for a millisecond. It's suspicious (?) that performance numbers were given in terms of clock cycles and not wall clock time. It might have even worse system performance impact for small messages, wher
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 11y ago
Maybe universities should consider paying more to compete with the tech companies. It's a free market and whatnot. If the price goes up, you gotta pay more. Complaining about the price going up isn't exactly productive.
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 11y ago
Since when was demanding a cut when people use your platform to run their business worthy of scorn?
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 11y ago
To whom will they walk?
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by RUBwkVjwLsDKgPw 11y ago
This is entirely correct. The article doesn't fix the original reason why the "CSS turing machine" wasn't actually a turing machine. It doesn't "crank its own tape", so to speak. Layout in a web browser, w