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by drcode 6y ago
There's a random number generator in the root chain (i.e. the beacon chain) and validators are assigned shortly before validation and may require validation of any random shard. The validator can validate blocks in a "stateless&qu
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by drcode 6y ago
TLDR; The transition from Eth1->Eth2 requires the following steps: 1. Network operators (stakers) deposit at least 524,288 ETH in a special contract 2. The early Eth2 blockchain (the "beacon chain") launches Dec 1st 3. The Eth1
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by drcode 6y ago
I'm skeptical that an X230 user is somehow signaling any less than a user of this device.
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by drcode 6y ago
I think it's kind of annoying that 90% of the comments here are about ergonomics. Undoubtedly this is a relevant issue, but also seems like the least interesting aspect of this creative gadget to comment on.
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by drcode 6y ago
Agreed, I bet one of the first things modders will do is figure out how to add a hinge, both for better portability, as well as to help tilt the screen. (assuming it ever ships...)
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by drcode 6y ago
I'm an old fogie & will just be setting a huge terminal font size.
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by drcode 6y ago
LOL I'm just assuming my preorder is a donation towards a fun R&D project... if it ever ships I'll be pleasantly surprised.
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by drcode 6y ago
When you know you have to spend the next couple of hours thinking hard about something, so you go somewhere contemplative to work it out. In that case, you just need a compact, reliable device to take a couple of notes or code up a simple a
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by drcode 6y ago
I think anyone buying a device like this is likely a heavy keyboard user already and will only use the trackball on occasion.
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by drcode 6y ago
Clearly we need something like OSHA to enforce minimal workplace safety, but is OSHA meaningful as an authority on general health issues like computer use? A couple of years ago I might have said yes, but after recent events I find it reall
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by drcode 6y ago
It seems like a person would have to look down if they are making a flint tool from a rock, or when they are butchering a kill, or when they are gathering berries.
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by drcode 6y ago
afaik the "knobs" are decorative fasteners that snap together the front and back plates of the device. They are not functional knobs.
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by drcode 6y ago
afaik the "knobs" are decorative fasteners that snap together the front and back plates of the device. They have no active function.
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by drcode 6y ago
I think there's lots of creative use cases for it, I could imagine printing out chunks of my source code as I'm programming, to reference as I work on other parts.
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by drcode 6y ago
I find it hard to buy into this popular notion that the head isn't designed to look downwards: People have been reading books like this for thousands of years. This version of ergonomics that implies "your neck is going to snap of
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by drcode 6y ago
Pick up a pocket chip for $40 on eBay- you have to click a single button after boot and then can start coding a game with pico-8 in lua.
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by drcode 6y ago
You can see there's a cutout in the back for the chair, there's enough room for the chair in the air pocket when the office is collapsed.
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by drcode 6y ago
I have a custom todo app written in clojure, and I ran it on one of those "linux on android" apps on my new phone the other day... it ran WAAAY faster on my smartphone than on my laptop, to my shock (admittedly my laptop has a Cel
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by drcode 6y ago
I like piling on the republicans as much as anyone else, but some of your points are borderline conspiracy stuff. Though I agree that we'll be in for four years of republicans yelling "muh government debt" at every opportunit
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by drcode 6y ago
What evidence do I have that I'm more than a fancy autocomplete, myself? The use of squishy protestations, in lieu of objective metrics, make LeCun's argument rather unconvincing.
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by drcode 6y ago
I think part of it is that there is clearly a much larger theoretical space of possibilities in hardware & OS software than what we currently see with the Linux/Microsoft/Apple triopoly. There really were some compelling ideas
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by drcode 6y ago
Similarly, I'm really enjoying my subscription to Freeze64: https://freeze64.com/
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by drcode 6y ago
Sure, the rust language is "simple" if you abstain from using 80% of the features of rust, but then it would be impossible to write non-trivial programs. Zig, on the other hand, gets rid of this 80% as well, AND still lets you wri
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by drcode 6y ago
The only place where the lack of closures in zig has been clunky for me so far is for when your firing off new threads and need to hand-package all the data for the new thread. Since this is something that one only does infrequently, it&#x2
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by drcode 6y ago
Any new language project in 2020, for good or ill, is going to be highly opinionated and self-select for people who share similar views on language design. When someone comes along on their discord and says "you need to have this secur
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by drcode 6y ago
The technical term for what you're referring to is demurrage, i.e. when money that is sitting unused automatically, in any account, has fees applied to it. It's similar to "inflation", but instead of making new money, yo
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by drcode 6y ago
I'm still amazed everyone isn't outraged that the best we can do in this pandemic is wear cloth masks created by our local quilting clubs.
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by drcode 6y ago
It's fine for Zen to fork the Zig code. It's not fine for Zen to claim authorship of code that was written by someone else (such as the async/await code)
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by drcode 6y ago
Agreed, I have a donation to them in the works already.
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by drcode 6y ago
As somebody that just got into Zig and loves the language, it makes me super sad that the developers on this project have to spend their valuable time stressing about BS like this. Also, the ideas the Zen people list on their website for fo

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