TakeBlaster16

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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
If I zoom your chart out, I could make all the same arguments about 2018. It looks like just another cyclical metric that follows the halvings. In the year after the 2018 peak, fees approached zero, but in the year after the 2021 peak, they
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
People do hold this viewpoint, and that's why I linked hard data. You can see the fees fluctuating from day to day. On Sep 3, many transactions had 10x the normal fees. On low volume days such as Sep 11, very few transactions had high
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
But what is the comparative reward you're talking about here? The world is filled with situations where something with lesser economic value secures something with higher value. That's a sign of efficiency. My house is worth $250K
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
Competition for limited block space. https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC,30d,weight Constant supply and fluctuating demand will lead to times where you must choose between paying low fees and waiting a long time for
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
Every bitcoin fork I've seen forked to make their own change that the main project refused to make. They forked because bitcoin changed too little. ETC forked because the main project made a change some people disagreed with. They fork
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
If you play a lot of SimCity on Windows 3.1, then you upgrade to Windows 95 and SimCity stops working, who are you going to blame?
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
I noticed that too. I wonder if the creator has ever seen a dime of Rockstar's GTA money. Looks like no[1], but at least there are a few other AAA developers there. [1]: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki&#
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
Yes. Unfortunate overloaded jargon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression It reduces variation in volume, so you can hear the quiet parts without having your ears blown out by explosions or gunfire
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
Whenever I'm watching a modern movie, sticking a compressor on the audio is a must. Open VLC settings, search for "compressor". It's programmer UI, but it does exactly what it says.
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
Fair enough, I'll defer to your experience. Although if you're power cycling that much, I take it back, maybe I won't buy your cards :)
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
How often does the average machine reboot? If it's less often than 24 hours you're still putting the card under less thermal stress than someone who games for a half hour every evening. I'd buy your used GPU over a gamer&#x27
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
Temperature changes outside don't translate to temperature changes on the die. If the cards are running 24/7 there will be no thermal shock to speak of since they are always generating heat.
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
Don't forget that we're comparing: 1. someone who broke site rules 2. someone who did not break site rules I advocate group #1 suffering the consequences for their actions. I do not advocate group #2 losing access due to factors o
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
The platform should ban the user, with an explanation written by a human being explaining what rule they broke. And no, "our shiny new machine learning algorithm flagged your account" doesn't cut it. Arbitration should be an
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
I agree -- instead of opening with the scornful "False.", he should have opened with "Here are some interesting details about how that transaction is represented in the underlying data structures"
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
I would claim the total amount you've spent on Nitro since you first made your account. That was an investment into your account and its history, and now it's gone. You sound like a sympathetic plaintiff. You have a shot. Best cas
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disinterm... Most couples now meet online. Good luck convincing them all the internet is not real life. And those stats are from 2017. Given a few years of lockdown th
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
Your comment made me expect it to be a lot higher than it was. I remember the BCH fork trading at 10-20% of BTC for months and peaking as high as 50%. 2% seems like a more appropriate ratio.
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
That distinction is overly pedantic. That's like saying, "No, the store didn't refund my payment. Instead, they made a second transaction that returned an equal amount of money to me."
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
Describing it as a government policy is trivializing things a bit. You could also describe Japanese internment camps or cash-for-kids as a "government policy". Governments absolutely turn against their people. Regularly. If they g
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
My favorite is still The Office. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOtuX0jL85Y
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
It already has turned against us. In the 1800s with the USPS, we had ultimate privacy - nobody could open physical mail without a warrant, under strict legal penalties. In modern times we have the third-party doctrine[1], where the moment
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
> I believe in privacy and free expression. What I don’t believe is that we can make these things out of computers; they come from norms and law, designed and negotiated by and between free people. When we put it in a computer, all we’re
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
I solve that by naming my greenfield projects "hotels_old" from the get-go. It makes things easier for the next guy who replaces it.
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
Many more cores yes, but 100% CPU usage should still be rare. If your game uses 100% of a 24C/32T processor, it will run poorly on a "mere" 8-core CPU, and most of your target audience won't be able to play it. You'
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
Just adding to what you said, a 24-core CPU won't get anywhere near peak power usage during gaming. Most games only use a handful of cores. The only way you'll approach it is with parallelizable productivity work like video encodi
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
Components of Servo were integrated just fine into Firefox. WebRender is the big one, and iirc many smaller ones too (the css parser maybe? memory hazy) There's also non-web-related software that uses WebRender, such as Azul. https:&#
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
Servo wasn't funded by donations, it was funded by Mozilla. That single point of failure was their downfall. I'll take 100 monthly donations over one corporate sponsor any day.
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
I'm not sure why you keep steering the conversation to Rust. It doesn't matter how doomed Rust's Read trait is. Zig is a totally different language. Zig is not bound by the same design tradeoffs. That is why it's possibl
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by TakeBlaster16 4y ago
If devirtualization does reliably occur then that's probably good enough. I find myself surprised that they would rely on compiler magic for that, it seems to go against the ethos of the language. But in the grand scheme of things, I g

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