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by bhaak 6y ago
What fascinated me about Bitcoin in the first place was the idea of having money as a first class citizen on the net. Well, we know this didn’t really became reality. Today, we still can’t easily and frictionless send money to a website. Ju
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by bhaak 6y ago
What do you mean "failed"? Segwit was activated. After lots of infighting and after a hard fork for a new chain occurred but it activated on the chain that has the bigger hashrate as of today. If the Bitcoin developers would push
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by bhaak 6y ago
I disagree that it would be (technologically) hard for Bitcoin to transition to a PoS (disregarding that we don't have yet conclusive proof if any PoS model actually works long time). Ethereum is built to a spec. That's why the di
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by bhaak 6y ago
Depending on language that's easily reachable with sane code. One level of indentation for the module/class level and another one for a method. Already at two levels. Within a method, two levels of indentation are by far not extre
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80 columns would be enough most of the time. But how often do you really have 80 columns? With indentation you chip away on the left side and with a few indentation levels you have not as much space left.
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You have to differentiate between consensus rules and how the blockchain is secured. Verifying if the consensus rules hold is equally simple in both POS and POW. But with Bitcoin's POW, the hashrate is part of the consensus rules by re
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by bhaak 6y ago
I wouldn't call Bitcoin's POW as "trust in algorithm runtime on modern hardware". Just think about it. The algorithm can be changed by anybody. What does prevent the miners from changing the source code to allow them dou
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by bhaak 6y ago
Git has a really simple view of changes. That is, none. It just saves blobs. It doesn't really know what you commit. For example it doesn't know if commits are independent of each other. Darcs was also from the 2000s but unfortuna
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by bhaak 6y ago
If your question is about getting the contents of a Lego set, it is easier than it used to be. First, every building instruction manual these days has the full inventory of pieces on the last pages. Second, you can download a PDF of the ins
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Standard questions: how does the backend look like and what frameworks did you use for frontent and backend? More specific questions: Where do you get the sets content from? Did you ever have copyright issues?
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Not everybody will seek out correct information but nowadays, you can expect to get this information much easier and much sooner than in the past. I don't exactly remember when I first read criticism about the science tree in Civilizat
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by bhaak 6y ago
I'm not sure about if the historical part being incorrect is really damaging. Personally, games like Pirates, Civilization and Colonization sparked an interest in history in me that continues until this day. And especially Colonizatio
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by bhaak 6y ago
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is already rated PEGI 18. The ESRB rating is "Mature". There are hardly any games besides pornographic games that get "Adults Only". Even the Witcher 3 is only "Mature".
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by bhaak 6y ago
Do you think many 10 year olds play AC? I would have thought their target group is much older. I'm also not quite sure what you're insinuating by bringing up kids and computer game violence?
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by bhaak 6y ago
> And no, I don't consider stackoverflow/stackexchange a replacement. It does a poor job of handling long threads where people refine their hypothesis based on new data and questions the OP answers. And half of the answers (eve
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by bhaak 6y ago
Good defaults are important. It is more difficult to find an agreement over changing a default than configuring a missing configuration option. Last time I raised a formatting change with our team, I got replies like "the default setti
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by bhaak 6y ago
What do you use then if you don't use the standard library? What is the standard library for the C which ends all the other standards libs?
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by bhaak 6y ago
I remember horror stories on HN that the newer touchpads are completely unusuable under Linux. For both hardware and software reasons. Apple hardware is not generic hardware you can buy off the shelves. Expecting driver problems is not odd
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by bhaak 6y ago
Simple. Vim is not an IDE. If you take a step back and look at software development as a whole then IDEs like VSCode and PyCharm take the top down approach. Whereas Vim is one of the solutions which do it bottom up. With both approaches you
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by bhaak 6y ago
Or you remove that line and let your test build run. If it's being used, it should be tested, and then your test will complain.
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by bhaak 6y ago
Word processors are notorious for creating convoluted structures. I wouldn't be surprised if the lists in the headings are due to the internal structure of LO not being easily mapped to the structure of a DOCX. Feels like a workaround
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by bhaak 6y ago
Try transferring your magical internet money when there's no infrastructure left. There is a narrow gap where Bitcoin or Gold could potentially be useful if some kind of breakdown happens. But if it's global, you can forget that a
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by bhaak 6y ago
Unless you made a mistake when copying, "<ol><li></ol>" is not valid XHTML. The li tag is not closed. It would be valid HTML though. "<ol><li></li></ol>" or "
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by bhaak 6y ago
> The developer of Calibre considers epubcheck broken, which it is, and wrong about the ePub specification, which it is. Citation needed? epubcheck has existed for more than a decade and is in somewhat in active development. This would b
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by bhaak 6y ago
> Finally, as we hinted at before, even if Netflix is legally allowed to remove the Cuties trailers and clips from Twitter, that doesn’t make it right. It seems that the people who were targeted have a clear fair use defense. What is it
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by bhaak 6y ago
How is it pronounced given that this is a non existing kanji? That's a similar problem as Prince's name during the time he had a symbol as name for which the workaround was just to call it "symbol".
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> 3. Sure, arbitrage exists. But again, who is going to be more likely to discover opportunities for arbitrage? An institutional investor or a stay-at-home mom? Not every possible arbitrage is suitable for every market participant. But I
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by bhaak 6y ago
That's quite a broad statement. Can you explain how you come to that conclusion?
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> Go's design is at the very least controversial and considered poor by a vocal subset of the hackernews and programming community. I'm in the camp of the rationales of Go's design being controversial. But the actual desig
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The author addresses that further down on the page: "The diagram only shows influences in the original language design, not influences absorbed through the evolution of the language." If you only are interested in "programmin

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