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by dozzie 8y ago
> Why people preferring two-spaces are worse at reading one-space after period? And: are people from countries where typographic conventions say "one space" worse or better at reading?
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by dozzie 8y ago
> I don't really understand the "line in my terminal for everything else" reasoning, as I don't mind alt-tabbing. What exactly don't you understand about it? For me it's the single most frequently used envir
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by dozzie 8y ago
The Survival Guide is really good. It nicely uses an american guidebook form to define which zombie variant is present in this world (unlike too common and inelegant "now, Computer, tell me all about The Century War", replied with
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by dozzie 8y ago
...all that for a site that displays images with static description, like an on-line shop or a news site.
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by dozzie 8y ago
My smartcard can do about one, maybe two SSH authentications per second. I don't think it would be much faster with TLS, even with caching the sessions.
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by dozzie 8y ago
> Nobody [...] writes fundamental algorithms, you use libraries and classes from the language you're working in. Most people don't work in compiled languages anymore, and if they do, they don't write their own compilers. T
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by dozzie 8y ago
Like "coding ninja" or "rockstar" buzzwords? Those don't need to be replaced either?
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by dozzie 8y ago
It's not irrelevant. Ada provided safe, production ready language for systems programming long before Rust, so this part of explaination is simply false.
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by dozzie 8y ago
Tech people often cannot also tell the difference between megabytes and millibits, MB and mb, so it's not that surprising.
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by dozzie 8y ago
This is the first time I've ever heard of Ada being garbage collected. Neither ARM, Barnes' nor Ben-Ari's books, nor GNAT manual say that there is supposed to be a garbage collector (quite the contrary, the books say that GC
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by dozzie 8y ago
We must think about quite different things behind "systems programming" if you need libraries for it. For me system implements and provides interface, not uses it. Like in operating system. And then, Ada had a selection of l
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by dozzie 8y ago
> The thing that Ada and its peers lack that Rust has already tackled is finding a strong foothold in OSS. Which is irrelevant to the claim that no previous language provided safe environment for systems programming.
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by dozzie 8y ago
Indeed Ada has different memory management model, though equally safe.
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by dozzie 8y ago
> it makes safe "systems programming" possible, which no production ready language previously provided. I think you have just made Ada and several other languages disappear from the history.
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by dozzie 8y ago
> [...] what makes you implicitly know how the 'IN' behaves in python, and that it won't convert to the keys() method of the dict to get a list with the same behaviour as in a list? Because it would be the dumb way to do i
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by dozzie 8y ago
This is exactly why you need to take some algorithms and data structures lecture. Who in their right mind would think that checking if a key is present in a hash map takes O(n) time by generating a list of all keys and linear search when ex
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by dozzie 8y ago
> I'm sorry, but I cannot even work out what your post is about. The point boils down to this: you throw the "consensus" term left and right. The term has a concrete meaning in computer science, and you use it incorrectly,
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by dozzie 8y ago
> What exactly do you think a distributed ledger is other than a normal ledger and a trustless consensus protocol? There is no such thing among cryptographic protocols as "distributed ledger". The ledger is implemented on top o
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by dozzie 8y ago
> Consensus in [proof of work blockchain] design is: > 1. Perhaps the single most expensive consensus algorithm ever designed. It's like arguing that bubblesort is one of the most expensive graph traversal algorithms. It's n
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by dozzie 9y ago
Using services in general is de facto mandatory in our society. It's like saying that you don't need a bank account. In theory it could fly, but you'd be excluded from so many things that it's practically impossible. I
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by dozzie 9y ago
> If GDPR compliance was optional, how much would you pay for it? Another way to think about it: if non-toxic food was optional, how much would you pay for it? And how much would you pay for an access to a judical system? It's not s
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by dozzie 9y ago
> [...] my deterministic random consensus [...] Dude, learn some terminology first. Random is very much the opposite of deterministic. Otherwise you're just spouting garbage.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Signatures ensure the integrity of the data, but more consensus is needed to ensure that the data is not deleted and is well maintained on the network. DHT (with data duplication, obviously), I said already. Or gossip protocol. You don
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Hey, I think you don't understand what blockchain is. This is the reason why you mentioned distributed hash table. :( Oh, I understand blockchain quite well. Well enough to see when it's forced into the role of DHT or some ot
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by dozzie 9y ago
No. You couldn't justify using expensive document timestamping system, so with the hype around blockchain I can assume that you don't know what you need it for and thus put it into use completely unnecessarily, just because it&#x2
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Every player has every activity information using blockchain. It helps Nekoyume decentralized. It helps how exactly ? Why nothing else, like distributed hash table or gossip protocol, would work?
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by dozzie 9y ago
Blockchain is a bad fit for voting. Cryptographers have thought about electronic voting for a long time already, and the requirements look nothing like what blockchain provides.
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by dozzie 9y ago
How blockchain helps in decentralization here? Or is it just hype train riding?
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by dozzie 9y ago
The same as mandated by labour laws.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> I'm really tired of this attitude. [...] What you need to know about [the OS] depends on what you're doing with it. You want your system deployed, so you should know how to deploy . If you don't know how most of the thi

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