jlokier

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by jlokier 4y ago
After 5 days of trying to get my bank account at Revolut unblocked so I could pay my rent with the cash locked up in it, having chatted with maybe 5 representatives, waited for hours each time (their only official contact channel was in-app
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by jlokier 4y ago
> At some point transactional workload volume will grow to what we call "big data" today, and we'll be forced to use more storage-efficient columnar data representations for OLTP. I wonder. I built some proof of concept st
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by jlokier 4y ago
> The best performance is achieved with the combined method, named 'pread_threadpool'. I found the same when testing my own database engine. `pread` in a suitably well-designed threadpool outperformend every other option for N
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by jlokier 4y ago
> I've shown you a small library which allows me not to parse anything at all. I looked at your repo. It doesn't implement JSON-RPC or parse JSON-RPC requests, so I guess you are talking about alternatives to JSON-RPC. An RPC
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by jlokier 4y ago
It's really different from the cryptography you're describing, although they do have the theory of NP in common. Mathematical cryptography depends on the assumed hardness of just a very few problems, notably factorisation of numb
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by jlokier 4y ago
It's not that parsing JSON to a JSON-like data structure is hard. That's easy. It's the overhead of having to parse it to a generic JSON-like data structure at all, before knowing what the keys and values mean, so you can th
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by jlokier 4y ago
Several key M1 designers left to start a new processor design company called Nuvia, which was exciting for a while. In some respects it didn't work out well as an independent, as it was later acquired by (absorbed into) Qualcomm, which
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by jlokier 4y ago
That's changing. The high replication to verify untrusted peers is decreasing and there's a realistic prospect of it going away due to gradual adoption and development of new zk-proof techniques. In zk proofs-of-computation-result
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by jlokier 4y ago
In the UK here. I haven't seen a grocery bagger in over 30 years, and usually don't use a grocery cashier either. The work is done by the customer but I never found it burdensome. I shop for groceries almost every day currently bu
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by jlokier 4y ago
Thanks for the product tip! I bought a couple of multi-connector cables similar to the ones you have, but from a different manufacturer and no real specs on the packaging a couple of years ago. They both charge whatever is connected extreme
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by jlokier 4y ago
Not yet. With a couple of exceptions, the RISC-V CPUs described in the article are all closed source. RISC-V is an open instruction set, so anyone can implement their own design using it, often with their own proprietary extensions. Because
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by jlokier 4y ago
> My net worth decreases by $20, and yours stays constant. The above is not correct. When I forgive your $20 loan, my net worth decreases by $20, and yours increases by $20. That's accounting 101. The $20 debt is your liability an
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by jlokier 4y ago
Note that your GPG key is discarded , and GitHub signs your commit itself with GitHub.com's own GPG key when anyone uses the GitHub UI to merge your PR. All those "verified" buttons you see on a typical repo history tend t
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by jlokier 4y ago
Just a bit of friendly feedback. On my Android phone, the game didn't work in Firefox or Firefox Focus for me (the browsers I use normally). Music sounded good and initial screen looked good, but touching the screen had no effect. On
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by jlokier 4y ago
For these particular improvements, good implementations of HTTP/1.1 (and HTTP/2) already have these optimisations because HTTP versions before 3 use TCP. With TCP, they are mostly done in the kernel and network hardware. TCP sysc
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by jlokier 4y ago
A photo is captioned "A Rackspace employee alleges her then-19-month-old son fractured his left tibia after his foot got caught on the inside of the slide while riding it on March 1, 2013." Even a slide that looks twisty, fast and
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by jlokier 4y ago
I'll add a fourth guess for why. You know that "Redactle Unlimited is a big improvement on original-Redactle" shows support for the author of this article, whose game is Redactle Unlimited. But to someone not paying close en
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by jlokier 4y ago
Wow, I've been doing this for nearly 10 years with multiple banks and auto-mergjng the output into my accounts, as well as to update memberships of an organisation using membership fee transactions from those files. It never occurred t
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by jlokier 4y ago
> As long as the concept of a corporation is based on a legal obligation to maximize profit.. That's not actually true, and never has been. Corporate law is more nuanced and flexible than that. If we're talking about how to im
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by jlokier 4y ago
- The header to the right of the vote buttons shows "unvote" or 'undown" after voting. So you can at least see if you fat-fingered someone down in error and fix the mistake. - On mobile, Android, I use Materialistic to
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by jlokier 4y ago
How do you feel about `def` instead of `define` ?
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by jlokier 4y ago
Revolut's in-app chat was like that. You may have to wait over 4 hours, so obviously you're not looking at the screen when a person picks it up. Then when you take a look you find they've replied and then left, and you have t
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by jlokier 4y ago
It's 2022 and I've never yet seen an IPv6- capable internet connection at any home I've lived in, office I've worked at, coffee shop or library whose network I've used. And I've lived in a lot of places Phones
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by jlokier 4y ago
My Fujitsu-Siemens laptop from 2005 was great in the sun. The backlight obviously couldn't compete with sunlight, but the LCD behaved transflectively under enough light, so my Emacs session out in a meadow on a bright, sunny day was pe
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by jlokier 4y ago
ChatGPT knows better! > ChatGPT isn't being clever at all here, just repeating a common superstition Source: #include <stdint.h> int64_t midpoint_ChatGPT(int64_t a, int64_t b) { __int128 sum = (__int128) a + (__
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by jlokier 4y ago
Other comments point out that can overflow for some values. However if you're doing mid-point in something like binary search where you already know y >= x AND x >= 0, then x + (y - x) / 2 is indeed a fine choice. It's
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by jlokier 4y ago
Thanks for the reply. Don't worry, I won't be abusing the policy. What I suggested is a feature that might win you some more customers. I'd find it useful so I imagine some other customers would as well. As a data point, my
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by jlokier 4y ago
My understanding is the settlement to another currency is deferred, but the legal right to that settlement is established atomically, or not, according to whether the multi-party transaction is accepted by the network. And as it is said p
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by jlokier 4y ago
Aside from the apt Yogi Berra reference, a lot of kids are made by "accident" by people who didn't "want" to but accept their fate when it's "happened". Oopsie!
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by jlokier 4y ago
Most people play sport to enjoy the game, not to become champions at it. What about having offspring gives life purpose? Do you just beget children to... help them grow up to beget more children so they can... help their children to beget m

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