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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Over Ethereum there are completely automated exchanges (think Nasdaq), lending, escrow, stablecoins, zero-knowledge proof verifiers, games, payments... All of those "oh my god complex things" on Ethereum are a variation of &q
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Thank you! This is probably the first reply I've seen that doesn't shy away from saying "yes, we're inefficient", and looking at the solutions with a critical eye.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> You are not making an effort to appreciate the opposite point if view. I stopped making an effort five-seven years ago for many obvious reasons. > How complex? -> Turing complete. Ah yes. Unlike every other system in the world th
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Ethereum runs the EVM, which is a Turing complete execution environment. It can run things of arbitrary complexity. There's a gulf between "can run" and "actually runs". So what exactly is so complex that Ether
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> that people are not checking that the contracts are solid Ah yes. It's the people's fault that they don't check code in esoteric programming languages running on esoteric VMs using made up words for everything.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> If Ethereum just transferred ETH, it could do 700 tx/sec So... Still an order of magnitude less than Visa. > A lot of Ethereum transactions are more complex and use more gas. How complex are they, are they a significant number,
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by dmitriid 4y ago
This is because people are tired of figuring out seventeen (hundred) different package managers that may or may not work and that may or may not accept your package into their repo?
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Just remembered that Rust realised that manual handling of errors everywhere doesn't work, and introduced `try!` macro, and then the `?` operator. These are more practical (and good thing Rust isn't rigid at the expense of pragmat
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Exceptions are starting to feel like a legacy programming paradigm to me. Rust & Go have, at least in a practical programming context, shown that errors-as-values has far less footguns They don't really. Because they force you
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by dmitriid 4y ago
For everything listed in the "Working with source code" menu: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/working-with-source-c... (and others like https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm&
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> I don't know if there is anything as good for SVG/HTML. There's not because the DOM isn't suited for complex animations. People manage to animate SVGs (see Greensock etc.), but it's a pain in the nether regions
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The problem is these "designers" bring those touch-optimised UIs to desktop. And so you end up with hamburger menus on 4k-screens, tall narrow alert dialogs on MacOS etc.
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You're forgetting the actual heavy lifting that proper IDEs do, and that VS Code leaves to language implementors. Unless you know how to do proper code analysis, you won't be able to make it "just the way you like". Even
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by dmitriid 4y ago
I read somewhere that Apple replaced their own language model for autocomplete with a crowdsourced one (that is, taken from usage from many phones), and the quality immediately went downhill.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> It's never been my experience that a full IDE is better for dynamic interpreted languages. IntelliJ IDEs are very good at figuring out dynamic languages, but on top of that they also know a lot of tooling and frameworks. So even i
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by dmitriid 4y ago
What I can't understand is why we still have controls overlaying the video. It does make sense in fullscreen (there's no other place to put them). But in any other context? Have them below the video, damnit. You don't even ne
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by dmitriid 4y ago
There are several issues: - what's "public domain" changes, sometimes retroactively - orphan works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works_in_the_United_Sta...
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Google Books tried to catalogue books. And then had to spend 10 years in courts because copyright https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/court-ruling-legal...
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Melancholy Elephants, a Hugo-winning short story, answers that: http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> For example, under copyright, you can't take Mickey Mouse, throw sunglasses on him, then re-release all of the existing work You mean, exactly what Disney did? Create movies based on existing works (Brothers Grimm etc.) while igno
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Yeah, same in Russian but I was too lazy to type it out on a mobile :D
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The main criminal thing they did IMO is offering no upgrade path, at all until very late. IIRC you couldn't even import FCP7 projects for two years or so after FCPX release.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
It amazes me how Apple completely screwed over Final Cut Pro. They went from ostensibly 60% market share in video editing to low double digits, maybe?
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'Frequently, over time, euphemisms themselves become taboo words, through the linguistic process of semantic change known as pejoration, which University of Oregon linguist Sharon Henderson Taylor dubbed the "euphemism cycle"
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In Russian this is called "women's summer"
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Funny how it's a problem only in the "richest country in the world". It also pales in comparison to the burden and costs of existing system in the US.
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> Only recently did something as basic as lyrics return. Unfortunately, something as basic as lyrics is rife with legal challenges, and you can't just slap it onto an app.
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There are many, many, many issues raised on their support forum with regards to their new version. All of them are ignored. The most glaring one: search. Which is verifiably worse UX now.
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Paul Graham bans people left and right. He's not nearly notable enough for it to become a phenomenon. He banned me, and I think I've never had an interaction with him. I've seen people I follow mentioning these bans, but most
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Those employees have to eat and pay rent. None of that is in BNB. Given their "grossly inaccurate filings" I wouldn't trust random tweets https://www.ft.com/content/3fb2f6cf-e132-43f4-9d6a-34fd13eb8...

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