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by efficax 4y ago
if this were true wouldn’t we see different levels of infection in southern latitudes bvs northern latitudes during winter? that’s what i’ve never understood about vitamin d and infection. covid or the flu hit florida just as bad as minneso
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by efficax 4y ago
well i'd prefer if it had never gotten to where it is, because every crash in the crypto markets wipes out the savings of some sucker who didn't know better. that sucks.
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by efficax 4y ago
imagine you have a smart contract that says A promises to pay B X when they complete task Y. If task Y is not representable on-chain, how do you execute the contract? How do you certify that the thing Y was done exactly as expected? There a
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by efficax 4y ago
> This may or may not be the end of "crypto," but Bitcoin continues to operate just as before - without the need for exchanges, regulators, entrepreneurs, financiers, or visionaries. Bitcoin absolutely needs exchanges. Sure, it
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by efficax 4y ago
This graph is missing a key aspect: the "it utterly fails and we never speak of it again" section.
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by efficax 4y ago
wow, zoom hider! just yesterday i was in a zoom saying i wish i had something that could keep the damn floating controls hidden when i hit escape, and there it is. fantastic
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by efficax 4y ago
did this product have any appeal? the price was insane for something i get for free, if you could afford it and needed it you could afford a decent computer that could
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by efficax 4y ago
the real financial world really does work differently. even bizarre instruments like credit default swaps are rooted in an asset of real value (homes). stocks, bonds, real estate, these are all connected to things that have value or produce
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by efficax 4y ago
if you have a buyer (tether itself) that will always buy usdt at $1, then the price can fluctuate slightly in other exchanges but should always return to $1 since any fall in price becomes an arbitrage opportunity. you buy the 0.98 tether a
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by efficax 4y ago
why a floor of $13k? The floor is clearly $0
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by efficax 4y ago
tens of thousands if not millions of small, single proprietor or only slightly larger businesses are run entirely through facebook. it's the only way to learn about them, their hours, or contact them, and often the only way to buy thin
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by efficax 4y ago
containers are cgroups and namespaces and are much more than just chroots, plus a set of tools for making those work
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by efficax 4y ago
We're literally saying the same thing. Java compiled into a native code library for each target with intrinsics that give access to things like CPU registers is just another way of implementing intrinsics in native code
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by efficax 4y ago
i was being rhetorical, the intrinsics are implemented in native code
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by efficax 4y ago
and how, pray tell, are intrinsics implemented?
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by efficax 4y ago
I'm not familiar with the way GraalVM is implemented but I do know that at some point it has to have access to raw memory and registers in order to do JIT. There's no getting around that (and you can't do that with just java)
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by efficax 4y ago
even a bytecode vm has to emit bytecode and then move an instruction pointer around. You can do it without using C pointer manipulation but it will always be less than ideal. This is a nice little blog post about it: https://plin
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by efficax 4y ago
and in fact the VM pretty much has to be written in C (or C++, or you could get away with unsafe rust) since efficient function dispatch (not to mention JIT) are difficult without wildeyed pointer manipulation (you want to emit instructions
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by efficax 4y ago
yes, it’s deliberate. it’s a deliberate way of using taxpayer dollars to enrich private citizens without providing taxpayer benefits.
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by efficax 4y ago
why on earth is sudo so complicated. All I want it to do is: ensure authorization, raise privileges, call exec.
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by efficax 4y ago
i am a 100% self taught software engineer with a degree in philosophy and no formal training. it’s called getting a computer as a kid and being a fucking nerd. i did luck out in that my dad brought home a copy of visual basic from work for
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by efficax 4y ago
> I guess the company is $1B/year in the hole you mean: the company now owes $1 billion a year in interest on the debt used to finance the leveraged buyout. musk paid too much and now has to loot the company to afford it
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by efficax 4y ago
i’d really be struggling to sleep tonight if i worked at twitter
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by efficax 4y ago
Although the pound has recently crashed, the general rule for comparing UK salaries to US ones is to 1.5x it to dollars. A £150k salary in London is equiv to a ~$200-250k salary in the US. Not bad, I'd say.
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by efficax 4y ago
and yet rust is very complicated and plenty of people read the rust book to learn it. my first paid software gig was writing perl and i still use it for text processing quick jobs and such but the truth is it’s just a weird language full of
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by efficax 4y ago
why don’t they just let me install linux on my ps4. what’s the danger here take to their business?
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by efficax 4y ago
gc makes it easier to conceive of and program algorithms that use cyclical graphs, a pretty broad problem. try and implement these structures in rust and you quickly run into headaches. solveable headaches but headaches all the same. they’r
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by efficax 4y ago
they use git, but elon is not in fact a smart man
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by efficax 4y ago
here's an idea: make Witcher 4 instead
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by efficax 4y ago
static analysis does a lot, but yes, dynamically typed languages mean runtime bugs that a compiler would catch. this is true of php, but also javascript, ruby, python, most lisps, just oodles of languages that people build huge systems with

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