melolife

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by melolife 6y ago
ETH cannot be described as a hybrid. The 2.0 chain is currently independent of the existing chain. The plan is to dock the existing chain as a shard of the new one, at which point it immediately becomes 100% proof of stake.
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by melolife 6y ago
Voting on block proposals as part of a randomly assigned committee.
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by melolife 6y ago
> If you are so shocked then please explain why Bitcoin miners refused to increase the transactions per block to a level that is suitable for Bitcoin? I'm no Bitcoin maximalist, but this problem cannot be solved by increasing storag
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by melolife 6y ago
I have to disagree with #1, if anything political entities gravitate towards the unquantifiable so that they can be seen to be acting without any real consequences attached to the outcomes.
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by melolife 6y ago
If you want something in a wonderfully engaging narrative style, there is also Conquistador by Buddy Levy.
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by melolife 6y ago
It's proportional. The excess mortality increases by ~10% across the board but the base mortality rate for younger demographics is much lower.
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by melolife 6y ago
That's because it's designed to be impossible to implement. Note that: > "no compromised entity has yet been found to be in compliance with PCI DSS at the time of a breach." https://www.computerworld.com&#x
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by melolife 6y ago
Apparently if you dump glass into the ocean, within 10 years it looks like those decorative pebbles so it's actually a pretty good way of dealing with it.
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by melolife 6y ago
The new with-expressions are a concession to the existence of initializers, which are themselves literally "stuff that should have been in the constructor" and are incompatible with immutability (hence the new init property hack).
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by melolife 6y ago
Quite the opposite. My language of choice is Scala, which probably explains my frustration at Microsoft's consistent inability to do the right thing.
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by melolife 6y ago
Records are good, although in typical Microsoft style they've elected to call the new constructor syntax "positional" instead of "primary", and then subsequently failed to generalize the feature to normal classes. W
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by melolife 6y ago
The new async Razor engine in .NET Core is ridiculous. They threw out view helper functions and support for functional/monadic control flow for what, so you can asynchronously render a string? Insane. I suspect the actual motivation is
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by melolife 6y ago
The most important result of this design is that the syntax unambiguously determines whether you are referencing the type or value axis, and enables you to split them accordingly. Having worked with Scala and been forced to return to a C-st
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by melolife 7y ago
In Scala everything is an expression so you just use an if statement: val foo = if(x) y else z
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by melolife 8y ago
My experience has been that the most important consideration in a project management tool is simplicity and ease of use, which is why I find Github's issue tracking with threads + tags + milestones to be the gold standard. If you need
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by melolife 9y ago
Individuals in roles with $1000 of purchasing authority, thereby avoiding procurement processes for larger purchases.
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by melolife 10y ago
I found out yesterday that `Select-String`, PowerShell's "grep equivalent" expands tab characters to spaces.
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by melolife 10y ago
Correct. The parents that care put their children into French immersion because other like-minded parents do so and their children are high-achieving. Any teacher will tell you that parenting is the biggest determining factor in academic ac