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by dpc_pw 8y ago
Same. It's ridiculous. I remember when gmail was introduced (invite only) and it was blazingly fast and so appealing. Years ago, on browsers that haven't had their JS optimized even 1/10th as well as modern ones. Wirth's
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
GC is like Socialism. The theory is that it's going to be all wonderful, yet every time it is actually implemented it sucks, and you typically have to fight problems that don't exist in other systems.
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
https://i.redd.it/37y0w02vuxoz.png
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
People are in competition between each other, and the government uses that to force/lure them into debt, to benefit "capitalist elite" (note: I'm not a socialist, far from it). If you won't take a loan, someone will
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
Errors are not exceptional problems.
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
TL;DR: Using dtrace to analyze the performance of AVL Trees in C vs BTreeMaps&HashMaps in Rust. Spoilers: Rust wins every time, and you should rewrite your software in Rust anyway ;).
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
I have a phone ringtone set to silence and I am thinking about abandoning phone number altogether. Whoever needs to call me, can just use one of many IMs with VoIP or send me an email.
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
This isn't a critique of YAML itself (which , only of people using YAML for things, where they should have started with Lua/Python/Scheme. Someone already mentioned Ansible. I find it particularly terrible. And bunch of other
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
Note sure if I fully grasped your quesiton but here it goes. Light threads and stackfull coroutines require stack allocation. That is their cost and it is unbearable for system-level language priding itself in zero-cost abstractions. Eg. AF
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
Don't buy Bitcoin. It's going to crash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
What's the UB here?
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
C++ is not "letting the programmer fully control every knob". Quite the opposite. Buggy, insecure, broken software is usually not the intention. The developer wanted one thing, and got something else, because of arcane details of
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
"you first". It's a competitiveness and coordination problem.
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
>To make matters even worse, their "index" comprises of only 4 coins! Not to mention that coins are highly correlated, so buying some tiny amount of eg. BTC is enough diversification already.
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
> also got me over the Rust hype to some degree You can't just throw a detail like that and not tell us more. :D
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
For a small, one person project you can use absolutely any language and feel great about yourself and the language. It's like a stroll in a park - you can do it in any shoes, or even barefoot. Where language matters are thousands or mi
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
Hashcash. The idea is used in Bitcoin as Proof of Work.
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
So you don't have to store it and carry it around?
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by dpc_pw 8y ago
> What if there's no tax level that the small store can afford that prevents a mega-corp like B&N from buying out their property? Be bookstore owner. Set the value to be twice as much as comparable neighbor property. Get bought
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by dpc_pw 9y ago
This article is soo not worth reading. Nothing new or of any insight there. The argument about fixed supply is soo old, and argued with million times already. Don't worry. Noone is forcing anyone to use Bitcoin. Keep your fiat, enjoy y
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by dpc_pw 9y ago
I think what happened here, is the author wanted to do something with futures and the whole frustration is comming from not understanding that Rust Futures are just not ready yet. The whole language and ecosystem has plenty of stuff in the
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by dpc_pw 9y ago
> Oh come on: this is a well-known property of garbage collectors and should have been covered in an entry-level CS class. There's plenty of BS tought in academia. In CS that would include love for modeling tools (I had classes abou
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by dpc_pw 9y ago
> The end result is that good GC-based memory systems tend to perform better than malloc/free style APIs Citation needed. GCs promise wonders, and yet in practice they are going to eat your memory, trash caches, and slow everything
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by dpc_pw 9y ago
Just watch some YT videos. It has been explained many times in many videos.
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by dpc_pw 9y ago
> For LN to claim to be p2p seems rather disingenuous, as everything about it is going to favor wealthy centralized payment processor hubs. Except this isn't true.
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by dpc_pw 9y ago
> always been a community made up of shady folks That's not fair. Shady folks are just getting more publicity. Noone talks about people who created stuff that works and doesn't scam people. And there's a lot of such stuff
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by dpc_pw 9y ago
Except paranoid dorks are not the ones scamming. It's a completely different group of people who created the space, and completely different one that twisted it into a farce, created thousands of scam ICOs and altcoins that make no sen
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by dpc_pw 9y ago
Profits from serving ads should be heavily taxed, since they are non-productive anyway. All bussiness are in a bidding war for ads, and they have to try to outspend themselves. By taxing ads, we don't change the balance of power betwee
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by dpc_pw 9y ago
AFAIK it can be done anonymously, for a tiny price and a bit bigger bounty (if found). Since the state of the channel is private, watcher has no information about anything anyway. On top of it - it's only a secondary defense. Your wall
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by dpc_pw 9y ago
D deserves much more popularity. It's much better language than Go, with many similiar strenghts. If only it had Google's backing... Eh... I still prefer Rust for many reasons (no exceptions, no GC, memory safety), but in my heart

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