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by ivoras 8y ago
So nostalgia, much wow! But to be useful at least for me, it'll need to both accept streaming inputs (i.e. be a client for Google Play or Spotify) and to stream its output to Chromecast. It's a different world now.
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by ivoras 8y ago
Here's hoping for the Model Y :)
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by ivoras 8y ago
While it's practically certain that hacking attempts do happen from both state- and non-state actors, this particular instance is so "alleged" that it's practically theoretical. Where's the actual hardware? Why didn
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by ivoras 8y ago
Estonia had excellent digital governance before the blockchain fad so they'll handle it pretty much just fine.
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by ivoras 8y ago
Where are the electrical power and internet connection coming from?
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Hurricane Florence live oceanic cam(explore.org)
1 points by ivoras 8y ago|1 comments
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by ivoras 8y ago
Judging by how many people in this comment thread identify with the traits described in the article, it probably just shows that those traits are pretty ordinary, just a facet of the normal diversity of humanity, and have probably been with
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Show HN: Creating a custom private SQL blockchain with Daisy(steemit.com)
1 points by ivoras 8y ago|0 comments
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Private blockchains vs. other databases part 2: The business perspective(steemit.com)
1 points by ivoras 8y ago|0 comments
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by ivoras 8y ago
> The greatest leap as a species we can take is if we can make it a social imperative to act against those urges As likely most geeks and office warriors can vouch for, fighting your endocrine system leads to depression, anxiety and &quo
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Small Fry Blues(steemit.com)
1 points by ivoras 8y ago|0 comments
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by ivoras 8y ago
For example, what do you think of Go? It's case-sensitive and whitespace-insensitive, but almost everyone formats their code with gofmt, which next to eliminates "creativity" with whitespace, letter case and braces (but makes
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by ivoras 8y ago
Even Windows was split into desktop and server variants. IIRC, OS X was briefly offered as a server product before being discontinued, in large part because it was awful on server-like loads. Android's UI smoothness is still lagging be
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Show HN: Daisy, a blockchain whose blocks are SQL databases(steemit.com)
7 points by ivoras 9y ago|1 comments
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by ivoras 9y ago
After watching things like this (Louis Rossmann), https://youtu.be/FeUBdMU2qA0 , if I ever buy an Apple product I'll basically treat it as unrepairable.
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by ivoras 9y ago
It surprised me how go's interfaces have non-trivial limitations. What lately bit me is illustrated in the following snippet: the call to doSomething() is just not possible in Go: package main import "fmt" type S st
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The blockchain as a serialisation format(steemit.com)
2 points by ivoras 9y ago|0 comments
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by ivoras 9y ago
Though I agree that they may have the same effect on the general population, there are still large differences between claiming that "on average, on a very large sample size, population X has more Y than Z," saying "populatio
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How YouTube got me addicted to Brutal Doom(steemit.com)
2 points by ivoras 9y ago|0 comments
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by ivoras 9y ago
When regular cars first appeared, were they not tested "live" immediately? And yes, there was FUD even back then, and in parts of the world a backslash which resulted in sometimes silly safety rules. The largest real difference se
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What is money?(steemit.com)
1 points by ivoras 9y ago|0 comments
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by ivoras 9y ago
Uhmh, can anyone elaborate on exactly why someone driving perishable food should be exempt from overtime pay ? Isn't it a bit ass-backwards: exactly those who need to work overtime so the food doesn't spoil are the ones who canno
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by ivoras 9y ago
It's humbling to thing that today, doing the same thing (if for some reason we'd like to use punched cards) we'd do the same thing with a $10 camera, a $35 Raspberry Pi and some trivial OCR-like software. Heck, even an ESP826
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by ivoras 9y ago
Why? Communities die, people die, and more importantly, they change. While it used to be that if you wrote something stupid on a wall or carved it into a tree, with a natural expectation that it will get erased or destroyed over time, now e
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Espple – Apple 1 Emulator with PAL RF Output(github.com)
46 points by ivoras 9y ago|2 comments
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by ivoras 9y ago
Self-promotion: here's a booklet I wrote to describe Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain to barely technical people who kept asking me to describe it all over again: http://scepticsguide.ivoras.net/ . It cover
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by ivoras 9y ago
You mean, just like banks are federated and communicate only occasionally? :) I mean, it's conceptually the same solution for the same sort of problem: slow propagation of data and the need to maintain (the illusion of a) single global
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by ivoras 9y ago
So, what are the implication on General relativity if it's shown that gravity changes move in waves, with a finite speed?
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by ivoras 9y ago
More generally speaking, it seems that the faster society in general changes, the shorter its institutions last - it's like too much baggage and cruft accumulate up to the point of breaking. The new generations demand a different way o
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by ivoras 9y ago
Cool article! I guess that's why Go does its error handling without exceptions.

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