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by argvargc 6y ago
That, and end users need to control - preferably democratically - all of it.
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by argvargc 6y ago
John Robbins (would-be heir to the Baskin & Robbins empire) wrote a book examining the social, exercise and diet cultures of four of the known longest-living cohesive groups of people in the world. These were/are isolated or otherw
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by argvargc 6y ago
If I absolutely had to cause the suffering and death of an animal in order to keep myself alive, I would. But I don't, so I won't.
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by argvargc 6y ago
It's possible for sure, but with Bitcoin and the overall crypto space steadily growing in value into the trillions over the course of over a decade, it seems unlikely.
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by argvargc 6y ago
Ok! Thanks for the detailed answer, that makes sense. Maybe could the comparison page do with another point in Home's favour to this effect?
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by argvargc 6y ago
Except for nearly all blockchain-based p2p networks. Eg: https://cryptograffiti.info
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by argvargc 6y ago
This isn't true of most blockchain p2p networks, eg, Bitcoin. Anything uploaded to these lasts as long as the entire network does. The reason this works is it costs some amount to initially print the data to the network, limiting that
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by argvargc 6y ago
So... not Javascript then?
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by argvargc 6y ago
On Gab daily. Never seen a single Nazi. Seen some unorthodox/thought-provoking views for sure, but that's part of why I visit and one of the same reasons I visit HN.
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by argvargc 6y ago
This genuinely makes no sense on Element's part. The exact same features are listed for the same price, on the feature comparison page - https://element.io/pricing - except Nickel has one extra. Why would anyone choose
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by argvargc 6y ago
Exactly. It was, and is illogical to have a dual meaning. Sticking with the first, widely-proliferated meaning we already had, which existed because of its usefulness, along with its direct honouring of the structure of what it was describi
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by argvargc 6y ago
In computer memory, why is 1 Kilobyte equal to 1,024 bytes and not 1,000 bytes? In the standard metric system, Kilo / K = 1,000 units of something, Mega / M = 1,000,000 units of something (and down in scale also by dividing by 1,0
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by argvargc 6y ago
Have you tried Elixir? I've not learned its Erlang base, so I can't tell my Erlang from my Elixir, but... in Elixir you can Enum.at(list,n), which with: at = &(Enum.at(list,&1) Could simplify into: at.(n) If that doesn&#x
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by argvargc 6y ago
That would be completely inconsistent with what I've stated about why standards are desirable. So, we evidently agree on that. It is not logical to apply the same standard uniformly to everything regardless of its inherent characterist
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by argvargc 6y ago
Yourself and others interested in detail, may appreciate Daniel Estévez's recent post on his use of GNU Radio and the Allen Telescope Array to detect Voyager 1 transmissions: https://destevez.net/2021/02/voyag
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by argvargc 6y ago
Delete "light" and it's the answer.
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by argvargc 6y ago
Nothing against standardisation. But like many things on this earth, sometimes the less logical and more confusing is what ends up being the accepted norm. Why metric and imperial? Makes no sense, is confusing. Why left side right side driv
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by argvargc 6y ago
Powers of 2 remain fundamental to bits regardless of how many bits are grouped together. I've only made the correct claim that the logical continuance the employment of powers of 2 into units of scale was sufficiently widespread as to
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by argvargc 6y ago
Except that all of these things are "memory", and an interim technology called Floppy Disks used base2, or in some cases at least were base2ish (some were 1000 x 1024). I remember quite clearly at the time HDD's first started
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by argvargc 6y ago
Disks are memory, and many floppy disk manufacturers for example seemed perfectly capable of following the long-established convention for memory without (much) issue.
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by argvargc 6y ago
This wikipedia article quoting a standard formalised in the late 90's, and only beginning to gain adoption from that point on, largely supports my statement.
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by argvargc 6y ago
Exactly. If we may now agree that the original, widespread understanding of a KB was of 1024 bytes, and a MB of 1024 KB, and that only later did a widespread impression start to be spread that actually a KB|MB could be 1000 instead, we stri
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by argvargc 6y ago
This makes sense when dealing with intrinsic units that also follow the base10 pattern. Bytes do not . Bytes are made up of 8 bits, and bits are powers of 2. Neither of these facts have any relation to base10. There is inevitable shoe-horn
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by argvargc 6y ago
The "highest selling single computer model" of all time was not called the Commodore 65.536, it was called the Commodore 64. As was the common convention, all advertising materials, all reviews, all documentation and all common
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by argvargc 6y ago
> There was never one commonly accepted meaning for a MB. If that was correct, this HN post wouldn't exist. For the 50 years preceding Apple's intervention, any example that can be produced of MB equalling 1,000,000 bytes, like
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by argvargc 6y ago
Files may not, but file-systems do. All else being equal, I see it as better to under-promise and over-deliver than the reverse: In a world where there was one commonly-accepted meaning for MB (ie, the world where computers were invented, p
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by argvargc 6y ago
Every setting on maximum and it becomes a kind of slow-moving horror movie. Every setting on minimum, except mesh set to 128 - and it's a kind of poor-mans MS Paint. After preparing a nice image, set gravity to max and watch the splen
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by argvargc 6y ago
Care to explain? I can't think of a single example where encrypting a private message passed over a public network would be unhealthy.
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by argvargc 6y ago
Isn't the fact neither XMPP nor IRC are e2e-encrypted a factor in them catching on? Nobody wants to use a messenger that's public, or that with a single centralised compromise/hack could make all their messages become so. To
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by argvargc 6y ago
As per article comments, Wabbit is playable online here: http://playoldgames.org/wabbit-a26

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