SmooL

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by SmooL 5y ago
So, if I keep my word document open on my computer and start doing other things, I still get billed? Not sure end users will like this or think it's easier.
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by SmooL 5y ago
The "cost to rollback blocks" is a cost in computational power (to run a 51% attack), _not_ the cost of the block rewards
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by SmooL 5y ago
See https://www.gwern.net/CO2-Coin
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by SmooL 5y ago
I can second this; I run it as a screen saver and it can really be mesmerizing
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by SmooL 5y ago
We already transmit data optically, that's what fiber optics is.
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by SmooL 5y ago
The safe advice, and what I do, is to just sell immediately and diversify. Why keep all your eggs in one basket?
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by SmooL 5y ago
A lot of encoders try to exploit patterns in the data, and so instead of saving the "raw" data, they save the "pattern", with the idea being that the pattern will be smaller. Different encoding formats use different patt
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by SmooL 5y ago
I've heard this "no more than 3 levels of indentation" thing before, but isn't that somewhat language specific? If in coding in python, I have 1 level for being inside a class, 1 level for being inside a function, and th
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by SmooL 5y ago
I've used discord for a number of years, and use it almost daily with my friends. Arguments over UX will always be opinionated, but one thing where discord absolutely shines is voice chat. There's just no competition to any other
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by SmooL 5y ago
My 2 cents: 1) I really like the content - systems thinking is definitely a good tool to have, as I find it to more accurately help me understand the world around me. The post goes on to tie it into various emergent layers and such. 2) Not
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by SmooL 5y ago
Yeah, you probably want to use some sort of decimal package for a configurable amount of precision, and then use strings when serializing/storing the values
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by SmooL 5y ago
Wow, yet another GUI for https://github.com/ccxt/ccxt . What do you guys do that's any different?
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by SmooL 5y ago
Wow, that was excellent, thank you for linking this
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by SmooL 6y ago
Actually yes - it implies that if the read/write executes, then the read/write was successful. In practice, in cases where a nil read/write could happen, a default "fall through" option on a select statement is used
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by SmooL 6y ago
Part of the reason for opting towards dynamodb was it's essentially unlimited horizontal scaling. I know at least 1 team had scale that was just too large for traditional relational DBs, so dynamodb it was. The other part was a large a
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by SmooL 6y ago
Fairly certain they're alluding to Amazon's company wide effort to get off of oracle databases, with most teams opting to use dynamodb instead. AFAIK it took about ~4 years. Source: interned / worked at amazon for a bit a fe
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by SmooL 6y ago
Isn't that what the occam's razor argument was for? Sure, both an RNG and the "40 digits of pie" program can produce that output, but the "40 digits of pie" program is shorter, therefore having less kolmogorov
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Why I Love Interfaces(lucassimpson.com)
2 points by SmooL 6y ago|0 comments
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by SmooL 6y ago
Sure, and the point of this video is that while that may be _mathematically and theoretically_ sound, there's no way you can realistically make any measurements or any observations to confirm or deny your particular idea. What we have
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by SmooL 6y ago
I've also been pronouncing it like this and so far I've never been called out, maybe I just have nice friends?
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by SmooL 6y ago
I find the similarities & diffferences interesting between this and CRDTs. This seems to be saying that any algorithm with a monotonic output with respect to input information "has a consistent, coordination-free distributed implem
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by SmooL 6y ago
This is a ridiculous comparison - of course pure cash depreciates, but we're talking about the literal opposite of that - an asset. Take a building, any building. Sit on the building for 50 years. How much is building worth? Probably w
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by SmooL 6y ago
Honestly the docs themselves are excellent https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html
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by SmooL 6y ago
Good point; I guess that's really crux of the issue: we use it as a sum Type, but the compiler sees it only as a product Type
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by SmooL 6y ago
Thank you, I'll check it out
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by SmooL 6y ago
Oh cool, thank you!
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by SmooL 6y ago
Is there any sort of 'single node' version of these frameworks? I'm very interested in building event-driven solutions, but I don't need the scale offered by kakfa/pulsar, and I really don't want all the comple
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by SmooL 6y ago
That's fair from one use, but the other, way more common in Go, is the whole "I'm going to return either an object OR an error". There's no common interface between the two, it's a distinct two options. Because
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by SmooL 6y ago
Might be great for sending your message through space, but how to capture and read it back again?
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by SmooL 6y ago
In theory, yes. In practice, TCP has "ossified". That is to say; all the routers and networking equipment, around the world, would have to be upgraded to support changes to TCP, which in practice will never happen. Look at IPv6 ad

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