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> Well yeah - but they still won't be decentralized. But people don't care too much about that. If so many crypto users, who we can assume are more informed and care more about decentralization than the average person, massive
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That's nice, but it's unrelated to the issue I'm talking about. If we care about crypto widespread usage, we have to look at what most people will do, and most people will choose convenience and won't have enough knowled
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And at the point that the ETH network provides its alternatives, centralized services will have better products, more users, and more features simply because building centralized services is far, far easier and less time consuming than buil
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Precisely the failure of crypto is thinking that people will follow "fundamental crypto values" and underestimating the power of convenience and ignorance. "Traditional financial institutions" are inevitable in crypto.
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There are several things here in your views that I disagree a lot with. First, you don't need to be a "kid prodigy" to be a great programmer. But even then, you don't need to be a great programmer at all as long as you&#
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> there are more FP languages that are not as pure as Haskell I mean, that's precisely the point I'm making, that IO doesn't fit into the FP paradigm and that languages that make IO easier necessarily deviate from it. And
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> One of the big reasons why FP languages have so little penetration is because the advocacy usually feels like someone trying to talk you into a religion. (The other major impediment is gatekeeping) I think one of the major reasons is b
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> If I remember correctly, it effectively states that variable declarations amount to reserving memory resources and nothing else; memory is not zeroed, for instance. Not really. The idea is that any resource lifecycle management should
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I'm not saying that arena allocators are a bad tool. It seems like a very good fit for your case, where the lifetime of a request is pretty well constrained, and issues like fragmentation and overallocation won't matter too much.
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I mean, in an article about terminology I would expect to see how is that terminology evolving, and it is undeniable that a lot of entities are moving away from it. Doesn't matter whether you and I agree on the move or not, but it&#x27
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> In other words, you may treat the operating system as “the ultimate garbage collector”—freeing memory when it is unnecessary will simply waste both your and the user’s time, and lead to code complexity and bugs that would otherwise not
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> We should have a way to forward every single layer of the stack across each hop, and return back each layer of the stack, so that we can programmatically determine the exact causes of network issues, automatically diagnose them, and in
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Of course, the timing depends on the usage pattern. In our case we write a lot to the disks, which means they fail faster. Time to failure also depends on manufacturer, batch, server conditions... But in general I wouldn't trust too mu
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I think there's a difference between the wear and tear in a personal backup server and in a Netflix cache server. We manage several storage servers which see intensive usage, and usually at around 5 years we start to see disk failures
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Maybe I am misunderstanding the post, but for me the beauty of Unix time is precisely that all the weirdness with dates is abstracted away to the "conversion code" so that you only deal with "seconds". Timezones, leap se
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In my experience, subreddits end up being, at best, a "look at what I did" without any actual way I can learn, and usually it's just a photo or something. At worst they are a mess of memes, repeated beginner questions and unm
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The "defaults" on TikTok are fairly terrible. However, after spending maybe one hour at most scrolling and liking/disliking things to tune the algorithm, and search tags, it works fairly well. I have - Learned several cooking
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Modern medicine already incorporates wide ranges of data. Doctors use flowcharts, scales, point systems, etc, to diagnose certain conditions because those tools have been developed by studying and considering a lot of cases. However, there&
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> no i'm saying there should be a basic level of fluency in the material beyond regurgitation. saying every course should have people able to write a paper on some assigned part of it, or to prepare a presentation, or to take an ora
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Teachers have to prepare their classes because, despite knowing the subject well, actually talking about something requires preparation. It’s unreasonable to ask students to not only study and understand the material, but also prepare all t
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An oral defense of a project you’ve made is a very different matter from an oral examination of a course, where the expectation is to have far more breadth than depth of knowledge. I’ve had no problem with oral defenses of projects and the
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Well, it was in an Swiss university and I'm Spanish so I'm not sure if American oratorion had anything to do with it. But, in general, oral communication is harder than written. Written form allows you to take time to form sentenc
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> On the other hand, oral exams can be less stressful as long as the examiner is friendly as there can be opportunity to correct mistakes where you do know the subject matter but just had a brainfart. You also get a chance to spend more
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School should be testing you for knowledge and ability in a certain subject, as objectively as possible. Unless you're in a public speaking course, your public speaking skills should have as little bearing on your grades as possible.
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I honestly hate oral exams. I had three for my master degree, in english (not my native language), in math-related courses. I underperformed them because of several reasons - Pressure to actually talk and perform. In a written exam I can st
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I've used UML to communicate certain things about code. Class or sequence diagrams are great tools to explain code structure or workflow. Of course it's not very frequent that I need to use them, but they're still useful.
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But that person was randomly selected among subscribers. And it’s not “need” in the sense that it doesn’t look like he’d suffer serious consequences from rejecting the challenge. It’s not like “if I reject this job I’ll be homeless”. The is
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No, because you're specifically targeting people who are in need, and fights carry a very high risk of damage. Unless you want to consider 99% of paid work as unethical, monetary need cannot be the only factor in considering whether so
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Following that line of argument, every interaction with money involved is coercive. There must be something else that defines whether there is coercion or not.
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> People who have financial need aren’t able to clearly decline and have agency over their decision. Asking someone who supports a family if they will degrade themselves for $500k if not really a fair question and people will say yes. Ex

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