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by ivoras 9y ago
Whoa, there - doesn't the fact that a low ranking employee, to use the phrase, can cause a global scale shitstorm, mean that just maybe, there are actually problems which were swept under the rug for too long?
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by ivoras 9y ago
Its human nature to create similar behaviours in similar conditions. Early Bitcoin anarchists who thought that they will be able to avoid "banks and governments manipulating with the money" must be really bitter to find out that m
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by ivoras 9y ago
So I've repeated the experimental model. Yes, if at each step everyone gives $1 to a random person, the same thing happens as in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0vcn_-vX4 . If, instead, at each step, eve
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Show HN: Daisy: A private blockchain where blocks are SQLite databases, in Go(github.com)
10 points by ivoras 9y ago|1 comments
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by ivoras 10y ago
It makes me a bit sad that such index funds are not available in my part of the world - even though this is one of the shittiest countries in the EU, services like these are needed precisely because all the other services are so bad.
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by ivoras 10y ago
Depending on what exactly happens. If the composition of the atmosphere changes enough, only the simplest life forms will survive.
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by ivoras 10y ago
Durable in the ACID sense, or specifically that write operations go through the WAL (write-ahead log, i.e. a journal), with all the consequences this brings (both durability and replication). Before this work was done, hash indexes could li
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So my Skype account was hacked today(ivoras.net)
2 points by ivoras 10y ago|0 comments
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by ivoras 10y ago
Just saw the performance of this "consumer" device and remembered this thread: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11104/the-patriot-hellfire-m2-... . This SSD can write over a GB/s and read nearly 3 GB&#
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Russia: Life After Trust(nymag.com)
2 points by ivoras 10y ago|0 comments
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by ivoras 10y ago
Just as idle inquiry about the "CS" term, do you think the name "Computer science" would still apply (and did it always apply) to things such as CPU and OS architectures, the toolchain, etc - basically the subject of you
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by ivoras 10y ago
Hmmm, the tutorial seems to suggest its strings are linked lists of characters. Is that true?
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by ivoras 10y ago
There was a new Hurd version announcement a few days ago and somehow Rust reminds me of Hurd, but from a different direction: it seems to me that Rust simply changes way too much to be currently widely accepted at any scale, and has a high
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by ivoras 10y ago
I feel like C++ is moving towards being as useful as a brick. You get a brick and you ask yourself "what can I do with it", and the answer is "everything! absolutely anything!" Then you ask yourself "how?" and
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by ivoras 10y ago
Just tried it on a RPI2 + Ubuntu 16.04.1, a headless environment with X11 forwarding over SSH. There are missing package deps for GUI-like things (libasound2 and some OpenGL libs), and even with those deps manually installed, it crashes wit
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by ivoras 10y ago
Shame it fails for the trap of natural language ambiguity. So on the front page I see "England -> capital -> London" and at a glance I thought the capital (as in money) flows from England and is accumulated in London.
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First Solar Roadway UNVEILED [YouTube](youtube.com)
1 points by ivoras 10y ago|0 comments
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by ivoras 10y ago
And it still doesn't support non-US keyboards on Windows? :( Can anyone use it to type characters including the AltGr modifier?
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by ivoras 10y ago
But... don't the process by which this is observed (I mean literally, the machinery used to measure it) introduce energy into (or draw it out) this system?
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by ivoras 10y ago
Ok, "guilds"? Is the principle behind this so much different than everything done before that it requires repurposing a completely new word? On par with That's "crates". Gives the impression some people just want to
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by ivoras 10y ago
It's not an ARM - it's still a pretty weird Xtensa CPU. Apparently the toolchain for the CPU is nowhere near as good as those for the ARM.
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by ivoras 10y ago
I don't disagree with you. I will just notice it somehow isn't a problem in the EU, where taxes differ wildly. Hence, culture.
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by ivoras 10y ago
From my experience, this is one case where both sides are entrenched and refuse to accept the logic of the other side. Same as the "prices should be stated with taxes included or not" debate. Good luck with that in the US. And wit
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by ivoras 10y ago
I somehow think that Pebble is underutilized because of a bad price-performance point, which they are attempting to make up for by positioning it as a high-end watch, not a modern smartwatch. Related to this, are there any other low-end (in
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Show HN: Pipeman: a tiny simulator of networked broadcast domains in Go(github.com)
1 points by ivoras 10y ago|0 comments
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by ivoras 10y ago
It's called the Osborne effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
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by ivoras 10y ago
I find this fascinating: "Patreon Campaign Going Strong The Vue.js patreon campign now has over $8,000 monthly pledge from the community and sponsors." It's only a bit tongue in cheek to say this is a shining example of socia
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by ivoras 10y ago
> Despite the fact that I'm known for sometimes not being very polite to some of the desktop UI people, because I want to get my work done. Pretty is not my primary thing. I actually am very happy with the Linux desktop, and I star
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by ivoras 10y ago
I feel that things like this are very important to create and have, even if they may not be easily made commercial. It's like pure science within IT. Very cool!
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by ivoras 10y ago
A wholly underappreciated book.

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