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by greiskul 7y ago
Wait, how does this work with local variables? Wouldn't the scope be destroyed when you returned, how can it restore the stack if it doesn't save information in the local continuation?
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by greiskul 7y ago
True. And one extremely sad thing for conservation, is that Twitch does NOT save all streams forever, it only keeps vods around that have been marked (I think by the creator?) as interesting. In one of those speedrun history videos, there w
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by greiskul 7y ago
Yup, the pigeonhole principle really defines a hard limit on compression, in that it is impossible to compress (make smaller) ALL files. The way compression algorithms get around that, is by abusing the fact that we rarely want to send ar
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by greiskul 8y ago
Some services like "indexing the world's knowledge" are too important to have a government (UN?) enforced monopoly on. Doing this would be one of the best way of killing any innovation in the area.
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by greiskul 8y ago
Never heard of this question, how do you do that? Do you mean getting a random sample from an incoming stream, using only O(1) space?
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by greiskul 8y ago
Does Fortnite implement any of these dark patterns? I think the only paid purchases in it are cosmetic in nature, no? And the game itself is mostly skill based. It doesn't even have the MMORPG hook where if you don't play, your ch
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by greiskul 8y ago
You are 100% right in that it is the social aspects of games is where people spend most of their time. When I decided to slow down the amount of time playing games, by restricting myself to either single player games (that once you are fini
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by greiskul 8y ago
And why can't you observe a psychic? And write down what they say/predict? And make tests based on that? If we can interact with something, even indirectly, we can perform experiments on it.
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by greiskul 8y ago
Really? Cause I think most of this we have some pretty definitive answers. What happens after we die? You stop being. The conscious experience of it is the same as before you were born, i.e. nothing. Does my pain have meaning? Not to the un
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by greiskul 8y ago
You are correct, but thankfully relativity tells us that in this case both events are independent, so neither can be the cause of the other, so it's not that bad of a disagreement. It's even useful as a consistency model for some
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by greiskul 8y ago
But for the other versions the key word is overlap. Since a part of the UUID is some location based number (like the MAC), there would be no overlap, even if the distribution is completely non uniform.
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by greiskul 8y ago
And even if you are generating v4 UUIDs, they are not necessarily cryptographically secure. So it might be possible, if lets say, a user gets a bunch of UUIDs that your system generated, it might be possible for they to figure out other UUI
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by greiskul 8y ago
You are mistaken about WhatsApp. It does end to end encryption by default. What needs to be explicitly enabled is that theoretically WhatsApp/some bad guy could steal an WhatsApp account, and it would create a new public key, and if yo
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by greiskul 8y ago
You know that in Android, if you as a developer use in app purchases, you have to pay a cut to the play store, right? But the thing is, you can also do payments on your own (although users are much less likely to trust you), in which case t
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by greiskul 8y ago
Well, are you aware of how death by rabies happens? Way better for you and your family if you die in a coma, then to have to watch you going through it consciously. If I had rabies in a stage where death is certain, the options I would be l
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by greiskul 8y ago
Voting by mail is an abomination that goes entirely against the idea of a secret ballot, allowing voter coercion, and sometimes even voting fraud. There is a reason most democracies don't do it.
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by greiskul 8y ago
How many users actually use it over SMS though?
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by greiskul 8y ago
You can prove it, you have the signed transaction from him that can't be included in the blockchain because their inputs were spent. If you know who you were dealing with that did the double spend, you likely would have a very good cas
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by greiskul 8y ago
Wouldn't this increase the upload bandwidth needed by 31? There might be a way for it to be end-to-end encrypted, but it's not a simple problem.
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by greiskul 8y ago
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. A java programmer complaining about another language being verbose is hilarious.
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by greiskul 8y ago
Agreed, the swift way is the correct way. For cases where you do want the Objective C behavior, you can just use the ?. operator. This way you get compile times guarantees by the type system, and where you actually want to use the "vir
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by greiskul 9y ago
One big difference is that in MySpace a user could modify how other users viewed their page. With skins a user can modify how they view other users page, but would not modify those other users experience.
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by greiskul 9y ago
Yes, throughput vs latency is a very important distinction. An airplane is always faster then a train, but if what you are measuring is throughput, a train can be more performant. It depends on the context, but that's fine. There is no
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by greiskul 9y ago
Kotlin does that with it's smart cast feature: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/typecasts.html It's really great actually, and the IDE also helps by marking foo slightly different inside the block,
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by greiskul 9y ago
Not anymore then proof of work has I think. Want to join bitcoin mining? You need to invest in mining hardware, and have access to cheap electricity.
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by greiskul 9y ago
Yup, and you would probably not be able to do Object Oriented Programming either (or have to limit it horrendously), cause an object is similar to a closure, and you therefore can use it for unbounded recursion.
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by greiskul 9y ago
They even offer it as just a daemon for linux if you want to install it in a server. And for me, even on windows, the Dropbox client just seems so much more stable than Drive. It's very common for me to see Drive with a little "de
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by greiskul 9y ago
Google and amazon certainly think the average user cares about latency, even if they don't know what it is: https://blog.gigaspaces.com/amazon-found-every-100ms-of-late...
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by greiskul 9y ago
Some people really don't get the distinction between moral vs legal. I have actually seen a law student say that they were against legalizing pot, because smoking it is immoral because it's illegal. And he couldn't see how th
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by greiskul 9y ago
If you want to use google.com without being redirected for some reason, you can use www.google.com/ncr (No country redirect).

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