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by hughw 8y ago
Oh, they remove stuff. See "Deprecating Vestigial Library Parts in C++17" [1]. [1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p017...
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by hughw 8y ago
In awe.
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by hughw 8y ago
It takes two is what I've found. I build software on a System76 laptop running 18.04. That's pretty much a perfect dev environment with the advantage of physical function keys -- kind of essential if you spend lots of time remotin
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by hughw 8y ago
I think "bahn" translates to "path". Autobahn doesn't connote "car train". (Disclaimer: 1 year of college German)
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by hughw 9y ago
Is Feedly slick? I like it
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by hughw 9y ago
Toradol (NSAID) is the most effective pain killer I've experienced. I broke a rib and could barely move. ER injected me with Toradol, and for a brief few hours I could move normally. I call that the best high I've ever had -- not
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by hughw 9y ago
Actually, developers can change the limited issuance. Some group of developers, and their interested backers, will probably hard fork in 2024 and change the protocol to permit more to be mined. There will be inevitable "that's n
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by hughw 9y ago
Ruffians! Heavens!
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by hughw 9y ago
Paul Sztorc argues that PoS will burn as much electricity as PoW [1]. Buterin answers here [2]. [1] http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/ [2] https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki&
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by hughw 9y ago
But I didn't express loathing. I criticized the article, for an audience of peers who understand the criticism. I'm not trying to "shape public perception". There's a time and venue for shaping public perception. Bu
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by hughw 9y ago
Probably there are a lot of heuristics in page ranking now, but it began life as an eigenvalue problem [1]. [1] http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf
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by hughw 9y ago
Baffled how you get "willfully unaware" out of my comment, and how I earned "naive and stupid" epithets from you. At least I know how to find an eigenvalue. Can't be all that stupid.
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by hughw 9y ago
The author mischaracterizes algorithms and ridiculously attributes their importance in computer science to a desire by programmers to polish their own images. He reveals ignorance of one of the biggest motivations for the earliest computers
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by hughw 9y ago
W3C is not the web. Check out the history and motivation behind WHATWG. They led on HTML5, then W3C followed.
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by hughw 9y ago
I think he's just wistfully hoping for a return to simpler times, when it was easy to construct your own HTTP server, just using sockets APIs.
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by hughw 9y ago
Free "rein".
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by hughw 9y ago
But welcome pedantry (to me).
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by hughw 9y ago
My admiration is unbound. I have one reservation -- I wish it would handle history correctly. I wish each click e.g. github produced a new URL I could email to a friend so they could view the same scene. And then I wish I could hit "ba
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by hughw 9y ago
The "leadership" of the city abdicated sometime after the Morrison days. New Orleans used to have the port and manufacturing, and truly competed to be the first city of the South. Now tourism provides jobs for chambermaids and bus
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by hughw 9y ago
Does this take the pressure off the planned hard fork for Segwit2x? Big blockers now have what they wanted. Seems like BTC could now be the small-block paradise Core wants.
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by hughw 9y ago
It's a little different in the case of BCH, as it is with ETC. They aren't mere altcoins. They're forks, and if you owned coins on the chain before the splits, you now own those coins on both forks. Coinbase offers the illusi
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by hughw 9y ago
Yeah, that seems like false advertising. I believe that much true HBM/GDDR5 would have to cost tens of thousands of dollars. So I was skeptical. That said: if I could get a card with that much real GDDR5 on it, I'd consider paying
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by hughw 9y ago
Dayum. Now if they would just port Thrust to OpenCL I'd be in business.
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by hughw 9y ago
Who's going to maintain the software? Open source projects abandoned by founding companies don't have a stellar track record.
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by hughw 9y ago
Yeah, it has to fall below 1.0 child per person for the population to decline. And it's commonly reported that is happening in developed countries.
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by hughw 9y ago
I said children per family, not per person.
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by hughw 9y ago
Yes but I can't say for sure the cause is economic development. It seems likely, but it's a correlation, not a proven cause.
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by hughw 9y ago
If it is true that industrialization reduces bithrate below 2 per family, the issue would go away as other nations industrialize. If the whole world industrialized and reduced birthrate below 2, we'd reduce population and hence consu
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by hughw 9y ago
Wealthy nations already seem to have topped out on population growth, and now grow only through immigration. It could be that when societies reach a certain level of development they naturally produce fewer than two children per family.
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by hughw 9y ago
Reducing the number of humans could be one approach. The idea causes rancorous response from religious people who believe God told us to be fruitful and multiply. To reduce births might require coercion, it's true, but it would not req

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