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by ants_a 8y ago
Maybe if IRC people would have been able to evolve the system to add persistent history we wouldn't be where we are now. And no, sshing to a server to run irssi in screen is not, and never was, an acceptable answer.
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by ants_a 8y ago
I live in the same latitude as Stockholm, and the extra hour of daylight in the afternoon is still nice in the summer, while having the sun rise one hour earlier would be more an annoyance than a benefit. We tried that, it was definitely no
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by ants_a 8y ago
15 years for 1B/tx/s, 35 years for 1M/tx/s. Or more generally: t_years = doubling_time*(txid_bits - log( initial_tx_rate_per_year * doubling_time / log(2)) / log(2))
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by ants_a 8y ago
You can use timber for high-rise buildings. [1] [1] https://archinect.com/news/article/150025665/the-world-s-tal...
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by ants_a 8y ago
Toggl is not US, it's from EU. But even as an European I feel uneasy when dealing with US companies, because the political landscape there seems to be quite unhinged.
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by ants_a 8y ago
Could, in theory, with additional hardware and integration and agreements needed.
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by ants_a 8y ago
ThinkPad touchscreens are semi-matte.
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by ants_a 8y ago
This is one part of it. A good user experience doesn't require the user to solve a word puzzle to avoid getting spammed. Good user experience is having good defaults.
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by ants_a 8y ago
Huh? A modern infrastructure setup should have PKI in place to issue certificates to nodes. You are making it sound like SSL has no place in the modern world.
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by ants_a 8y ago
That presumes the existence of a Sufficiently Smart Compiler.
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by ants_a 8y ago
There is not much room to improve sensor technology. Photon shot noise is already the dominant factor. There is a bit of improvement available by modifying the bayer filter to filter less. But other than that, you just need more photons, wh
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by ants_a 8y ago
My experience with older ThinkPads was that they were about as likely to damage whatever they landed on. The most damage I have done to one is to drop it onto pavement from 4ft because I forgot to properly zip up my backup. Only cosmetic da
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by ants_a 8y ago
You're welcome. Wanted to see how hard it is to port a query over. Postgres generally tries its best to not break users code. However sometimes it is necessary for making forward progress. In this case the undocumented behavior of set
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by ants_a 13y ago
You can do it right now, you just need to write your own updating function. With PL/Python or PL/V8 it would be quite simple.
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by ants_a 13y ago
I should have been more clear. What I meant was that in-place partial updates are not going to happen any time soon. This is mostly a performance issue, updating a value inside a JSON document will never be lightning fast because you need t
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by ants_a 13y ago
And will not be supported for the foreseeable future due to the fact that PostgreSQL does row level multi version concurrency control.