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by foxhill 8y ago
not only is this not a proof, but also implicitly sweeps many issues with the implementation of the current system under-the-rug, which is the more insidious part of this argument. > Proof that Proof-of-Work is the only solution to Byzan
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by foxhill 9y ago
using a bit more arcane (but not crazy) method for determining sorted-ness - https://godbolt.org/g/MKN9HP - clang, and icc seem to have no problem vectorising the inner loop. gcc manages it too, but emits a huge amount
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by foxhill 9y ago
because you need food to live. no amount of tightness on spending can delay the necessity of food. it always boggles me why people scoff at deflationary economics with this line of reasoning - i see little evidence that the average person i
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by foxhill 9y ago
i think you’re missing my point - i am not the west, i don’t like the way things are unfolding in “the west”. i’m not trying to say the west is better, or right. all i am saying is this - china is wrong.
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by foxhill 9y ago
please, that’s not what this is about. this is an issue of individual liberty, and the freedom from oppression/being forced to live under someone else’s rules. these are desirable qualities for any self aware individual. no human, chin
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by foxhill 9y ago
perhaps you could rename the repo to something else/move it somewhere else, then ln -s the grandchild, if that’s important?
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by foxhill 9y ago
to further your analogy to programming to refute that, humans have had significant advances in the inner workings of the brain (re some of the topics you’ve mentioned) from its dissassembly.. albeit with little, if any, improvement in our u
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by foxhill 9y ago
i'm sure the spec for async in php is well designed and implemented. (is "/s" still a thing?)
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by foxhill 9y ago
actually it is defined, i believe you mean sequence point - in which case multiple updates are indeed undefined. however, unless i'm mistaken, a && b && c is 3 distinct sequence points, in which case, the behav
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by foxhill 9y ago
2007-jan-21 hash: ec06b3461cf0eaf3d3e4d7a2e429bddb but then $ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rocallahan/blog-archive/master/hashed-blog1.txt | md5 9ba0c5cba20cff553500f034f58d5bb7
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by foxhill 9y ago
absolutely. that's why llvm exists - you write the front end (the comparitvely easy part), emit non-optimised llvm-ir - llvm does the hard optimisations.
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by foxhill 9y ago
remember, this is the same country whose current government wants to ban unbreakable end-to-end encryption for its citizens. the same government that has had so many data breaches that it has its own wikipedia article. https://e
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by foxhill 9y ago
http isn't particularly my thing, so if i'm wrong, please correct me! however, i was of the impression that a keep-alive session wouldn't return to the accept stage - the socket is still open, surely?
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by foxhill 9y ago
with regard to the epoll-and-accept method - why is the LIFO queue bad? sure, you're seeing more load on one core, but it must be finishing requests by the time it starts working on the next one - i.e not causing requests to stall as a
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by foxhill 9y ago
> But what about quantum computers? It would seem to me like their inherent nondeterministic behaviour would be an ideal fit for simulating other nondeterministic quantum systems. true, but in this case now you either need a computer the
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by foxhill 9y ago
from the other side, as a plugin developer, it frustrates me no end that Live doesn't support VST3. i wish they would fix this.
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by foxhill 9y ago
beauty is in the eye of the beholder - i personally prefer the JSON.
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by foxhill 9y ago
i'm saying this now; POSIX will never be a first class citizen on windows - we might get shims in /proc and /dev, but windows will never run from POSIX. as long as Win32 exists (and lets face it, that's not going away
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by foxhill 9y ago
come on, there's no need to be disingenuous here - having the linux userspace run atop the windows kernel is much closer to docker than virtualization.
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by foxhill 9y ago
> This project has never been about EEE. It's not about controlling the user. It's the complete opposite. It's all about choice. well, those are the first two 'E's of the picture, if this is the case. with the
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by foxhill 10y ago
actually the opening comment hit home pretty concisely, i implore you to read the code in question, the examples rasied, and to come back and tell me that you would be happy to work with this code base. the author themselve states that they
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by foxhill 10y ago
in defence of the parent's snarkiness, this code is disgusting. imagine being presented with this and tasked with maintaining this. or adding a language feature. i'm certain the author could do it without much effort, but this cod
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by foxhill 10y ago
yeah, you could split the input into chunks, but then you're left with the problem of recombining the outputs from each portion into one string - that operation must be serial and would likely outweigh the benefits of the initial paral
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by foxhill 10y ago
this is in no way embarrassingly parallel at all! in fact, it's entirely non trivial to parallelise, writing the output is an inhertintly a serial operation.
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by foxhill 10y ago
ethernet has as much to do with TCP/IP and DNS as does radio waves with FM radio. ethernet is a wire protocol upon which a TCP/IP stack runs on top of. if USB looked a lot more like ethernet, it would be far easier to write driver
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by foxhill 10y ago
well, i'm hardly surprised, give drug addicts money and i assume they'll use it to get more drugs. however, the article is about people near or below the poverty line, not addicts.
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by foxhill 10y ago
it is as much to do with language style, usage, and (it's subjective view of) good C programming conventions, as it is to do with modern language features.
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by foxhill 10y ago
this is not reddit, please comment as such.
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by foxhill 10y ago
i very infrequently wish i could down vote posts, but i'd make an exception here. this contains so much ad hominem and vitriol as to make me feel awkward for even reading that.
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by foxhill 10y ago
please, don't mistake this genuine question as an attack on your opinion - why have you made this decision? do you feel as though this benefits you some way? if so, how? again, i'm not trying to debase you/your beliefs/o

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