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by arinlen 4y ago
> I think you nailed it. It’s a victory for USERS - owning your own assets in a way that does not require you to trust the platform. What does "owning your own assets" really mean, with regards to services such as Reddit, and
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by arinlen 4y ago
> In many ways, that's the lense through which I look at web3. It might be too late to switch to a pay as you go system. In that regard, web3 is a solution looking for a problem. Companies like Medium, Udemy, Spotify, Netflix, Lin
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I find it particularly amusing that they're reintroducing the 512MB of memory tier, but at $4 instead of the $2.50 it was before the removal. For perspective, Hetzner Cloud's CX11 nodes pack 2GB RAM and go for €4.15/mo
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by arinlen 4y ago
> How about poniz schemes ran by governments ? You are ok with that kind of exploitation ? I don't understand what kind of argument you were aiming at. Even if your "government ponzi scheme" non-sequitur is taken at face
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Mozilla does the same thing with C++. To be fair, C++ is the epitome of a language you only adopt after consciously picking a very specific subset of features, or explicitly marking features as verboten. Template metaprogramming and
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by arinlen 4y ago
> It’s pretty hard to see what benefit these TLDs have to these Australian external territories and if ICANN should even allow them to exist. Why should ICANN have a say? Isn't it enough that a country wishes to put in the work to
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by arinlen 4y ago
I'm not sure you read the article, as all that journalism points out hackernews as the source.
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by arinlen 4y ago
> For example when UK left the EU then all UK registrants of .eu domains were made to relinquish them. No grandfathering. This kind of nonsense doesn't occur on .com Do you happen to have a source that supports that claim? I'
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by arinlen 4y ago
> So you ask for pthread_mutex and now it's ten times bigger and you're regretting your life choices. It's 36 bytes bigger. Unless you're for some reason doing embedded development with a resource constrained system
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by arinlen 4y ago
> It's worth making it explicit that many home computing tasks are highly parrallelizable because the work is actually completely separate programs. That's a great point. At any point in time there are already dozens of proce
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Liblfds, a portable, license-free, lock-free data structure library written in C(liblfds.org)
18 points by arinlen 4y ago|1 comments
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by arinlen 4y ago
> but with it you must always take care to choose bufsize as a power of two, otherwise the overhead of having to do integer divisions Keep in mind that one of the reasons behind the arbitrary "power of two" requirement is tha
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by arinlen 4y ago
> "What was the hottest day in the past <variable time period>" will require you to start decompressing at $now-$period. Your example relies on a query to retrieve all data points between timestamp A (X days from now) a
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Why is the _Atomic qualifier on the actual data array here required? Also, my C skills are lacking but I recall that C's support for atomic data structures is a higher-level abstraction that could very well use locks under the h
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I don't buy it. In fact, I think almost the opposite is true: given a fresh start and Zuckerberg is as likely to become a billionaire as O'Neil is to become a top NBA player. I'd add that NBA players are renowned for b
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by arinlen 4y ago
> (...) how do you handle random access in these cases? Given we're discussing time series, random access is something that's not required at all. There is no use case where you're looking for a single, specific data point
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by arinlen 4y ago
> There’s a potential argument about whether or not this is a fair comparison to an actual FFI, but, regardless, it’s still interesting to measure (...) If there's interest in measuring dynamic linking then wouldn't there be an
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Never fear! You can still use vim keybindings (probably) :) . IntelliJ has a good plugin for vim key bindings. Vs code has one, but it's sufferable at best. It's my experience that these IDE plugins are more insufferable the
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Many companies that depend on Curl would spend $12K on a new rug for the office. The message states that the project has USD100k at the moment, thanks to "a fair amount of sponsors". Here's a link to curl's sponso
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by arinlen 4y ago
> The criticism (whether I agree with it or not) is that Europeans largely live under the umbrella of US protection. That was Trump's inflammatory and subjective accusation, but the only objective criticism was that most counties in
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Taxes are there to raise armies, not money. Perhaps that baseless assertion rings true in the US, where the dominant anti-state and anti-social policy political views create a vicious cycle of sabotaging public services followed by a
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Linux Daemon Writing How to (2004)(netzmafia.de)
1 points by arinlen 4y ago|0 comments
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by arinlen 4y ago
> You're perfectly describing the sunk cost fallacy. Sounds like a classical pump-and-dump scheme.
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Yeah, this is the dark side of all this "diamond hands", "to the moon" bullshit. Also known as "please continue holding the bag".
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Bitcoin and crypto are a threat to the IMF system. They aren’t going to like it when you do that. To survive without the IMF, you would have to go all in at a generational bottom. That did not happen. I see this conspiracy theory thr
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by arinlen 4y ago
> A 2% speculative investment in an emerging technology is a drop in the bucket compared to what El Salvador has been through in the past 30 years, with multiple past presidents arrested or fleeing the country following corruption charg
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by arinlen 4y ago
> It's unfortunate that most comments are predictable anti-blockchain comments again. Can't we just enjoy this guy's creative exploration? If the game's whole shtick is blockchain, is it really unreasonable to comment
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by arinlen 4y ago
Other than pretty printing the output, what does this offer that curl doesn't already do?
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by arinlen 4y ago
> The issue here is more of how vague the rules were and what interpretation the moderator team/algorithm used. This is not true at all. Twitter's rules were clear cut, and if anything Trump enjoyed the privilege of not having
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by arinlen 4y ago
> But those two issues are orthogonal. Assuming a non-DDOS scenario, do you really want to keep users or specific browsers out just because of their choice of browser? Yes, yes I want to prevent whole classes of user agents from download

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