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by jlokier 3y ago
Ah, I'm using Materialistic too having tried others and found them less good. I had no idea it was gone from the Play Store or not updated in a long time - or maybe I forgot soon after installing. I'm using the version installed
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by jlokier 3y ago
I do, using a 3rd party app which has an excellent user-friendly UI. Due in part to the excellent UI and user-friendly reading experience, both on that mobile app and in a browser on my laptop, HN is the site I visit most often every day fo
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by jlokier 3y ago
> You are proposing a system based on financial rewards for hosting. No, I'm not. You are incorrectly assuming that blockchains are necessarily financial or that cryptoeconomic incentive structure involves net pay to someone. &g
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by jlokier 3y ago
About the same number of people as use Firefox according to this site: https://gs.statcounter.com/ Which is the source used by caniuse.com: https://caniuse.com/usage-table
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by jlokier 3y ago
It would be nice not to shoot the messenger. The problem described by maksumur is a real problem people encounter often - torrents for less popular large files that people only occasionally want, but do want or need, have a habit of disapp
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by jlokier 3y ago
This is what "proof of storage" or "proof of data availability" blockchain networks are for. They use economic incentives to continuously pay nodes a small amount to store some data and keep it available, and the crypto
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by jlokier 3y ago
> Generating JSON data using string interpolation or templating is clearly wildly insane, right? You don’t do it. I'm sorry to report that I've seen a lot of JSON generated by string concatenation and templating, in different
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by jlokier 3y ago
Which is also a seedy look, and risky with Google tending to close accounts without recourse. But although I used hundreds of apps, I don't think any of them authenticate with my Google or Facebook accounts anyway - except for work app
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by jlokier 3y ago
If Consume is discouraged, what should you use instead for the read side of RCU style algorithms? Acquire is too heavy, and Relaxed is too relaxed, even if it often works on non-Alpha CPUs in practice, it assumes the compiler doesn't
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by jlokier 3y ago
The VM runs in the host's ring 3, but the VM has virtual rings of its own. Removal of 32-bit ring 0 support including in VM guest mode could make it infeasible to run 32-bit OSes in VMs with reasonable performance on the new chips. T
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by jlokier 3y ago
I've read there's actually some excellent ASIC open source design flows now, thanks to some open PDKs (notably Skywater) as well as recent funded research. I haven't tried the toolchains myself but they are readily available
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by jlokier 3y ago
Can confirm. I used Xilinx Vivado to compile for their FPGAs in Amazon F1 servers a few years ago. There came a point when each time I edited a single small Verilog file in my small project, the GUI took 40 minutes of 100% CPU just to updat
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Dragonfly – Performant in-memory data store(dragonflydb.io)
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by jlokier 3y ago
I've read that this does indeed happen with some HTTP proxies. In some environments that includes HTTPS because some environments intercept HTTPS traffic too. It's enough for me to consider SSE too unreliable to use if my applic
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by jlokier 3y ago
At first, REP MOVS and REP STOS were obviously better. Shorter code, that couldn't possibly be beaten by unrolled loops of anything because of instruction decoding overhead on each instruction cycle. Then for a range of x86 generation
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by jlokier 3y ago
As far as I can tell, retirement for many gen X who didn't manage to get a property and won't inherit means poverty and homelessness unless they can miraculously keep high-paying work to cover the cost of rent until they die. Thei
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by jlokier 3y ago
I did a UK VAT registration in 2020 and it took about a month. I did one back in 2005 or so and it took a similar time. Years is exceptionally slow. The "additional fee" process is only intended to cover a few months at most. It
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by jlokier 3y ago
Igalia comes to mind. They do quite a lot of work on all the big three browser engines, Blink, WebKit and Gecko, among other things. https://www.igalia.com/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igalia
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by jlokier 3y ago
> Like, which manufacturer goes, like "tests show we cannot write more that 400kB without corrupting drive, let us ship this!" ? According to https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html there are such drives: 4
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by jlokier 3y ago
True. We call it 'Android' now, or 'ChromeOS'. Some argue we should acknowledge the important historical contribution made by the Linux project to the most widely used operating system in the world, but others argue tha
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by jlokier 3y ago
"Disagree with a point of view" and "don't want to be beaten up" (an example) are not in the same ballpark. People are undoubtedly victims if they get beaten up or have to live under daily threat of it. (Again, exa
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by jlokier 3y ago
The correct answer is: - No, even if you include all the decimals which can be individually described in any notation whatsoever . You can disregard all the arguments in the other comments about whether "decimals" includes fracti
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by jlokier 3y ago
Yes. Simple multiplication and even division and fractions are part of the national curriculum at ages 5 to 6 in the UK. Which is about the age when I remember learning them decades ago too. I think we learned how to add and multiply frac
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by jlokier 3y ago
Fwiw, Safari doesn't auto-update beyond a certain point if you are not running the latest OS version from Apple, which may be for several good reasons, but your hardware being unable to run it is surely the top reason. And neither Fire
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by jlokier 4y ago
RapidGPT for FPGAs maybe. https://rapidsilicon.com/rapidgpt/
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by jlokier 4y ago
I don't think it is equally valid. If GPT-4 was asked to enumerate all possible logical or literal interpretations of the sentence, or to analyse the most literal meaning, perhaps it would have included the second interpretation. But
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by jlokier 4y ago
At the highest resolution of the GP comment, 800×600, and a 240MHz CPU/MCU and 8MB RAM, 60fps smooth updates for things like scrolling, scaling, and drawing new buttons and icons should normally be possible with the CPU alone. Fading a
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by jlokier 4y ago
> such that the distance between two points that are linearly the same distance apart in a sentence would result in two very different positional encodings relative to one another, just arbitrarily dependent on where they were in the cu
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by jlokier 4y ago
It's not that obscure. It's common to be given a /64 to a home, or even to small business premises. Some even get a /128. So it's reasonable to wonder how people deal with that problem when needing multiple subnet
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by jlokier 4y ago
A single durable update is the worst case for a classic B-tree with no WAL, though, and where the classic LSM-tree has the advantage. You can't use it to show a consistent write advantage to LSM-trees, except in applications that onl

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