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by msgilligan 5y ago
Actually Project Valhalla is going to fix (well at least improve) this: https://openjdk.java.net/projects/valhalla/
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by msgilligan 5y ago
If I remember correctly, it might have had something to do with Carl Sagan's catchphrase "billons and billions". The machine had "billions and billions" of something (bytes, MIPs?)
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by msgilligan 5y ago
This was back in the days when very few people knew or cared about Apple code names.
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by msgilligan 5y ago
I'll keep that in mind, but not ready to fund it at this point.
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by msgilligan 5y ago
Any chance you might add ECDSA?
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by msgilligan 5y ago
When I was a high school senior in the 1980s I worked for a company making a VT100 clone (it also emulated several other popular terminals) The processor was a 6502. I can't remember how much RAM it had, but it had an 8k ROM. When I st
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by msgilligan 5y ago
> "decentralized architecture is slower to iterate on, therefore centralized tools will outpace decentralized ones, therefore the market will trend towards use of centralized services" This is a good point and something I find
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by msgilligan 5y ago
He's focused on Ethereum and NFTs, which is certainly the most popular/obvious place to research. I think his analysis is excellent and the article is worth reading. But he does say: > I have only dipped my toe in the waters of
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by msgilligan 5y ago
This also reminds me of the old joke: > Q: How do your parents know exactly how to push your buttons? > A: They installed them. But the truth is evolution installed the buttons in parents as well as installed instincts in the children
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by msgilligan 5y ago
You need to make a Use Case Diagram and further analyze the system. If you do this and properly understand the system, you will realize that you are the product and your UX is perfectly designed for the child who is the actual user in t
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by msgilligan 5y ago
Well, Raspberry Pi, with the Compute Module 4 has done this on the low-end and an ecosystem appears to be developing rapidly with a wide variety of carrier boards and a handful of 3rd-party compute module cards (e.g. Pine64 SOQuartz and the
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by msgilligan 5y ago
GPUs are used to mine cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin.
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by msgilligan 5y ago
> misclassified by 55.5% That's a weird (and confusing) way to phrase it. Better phrasing (I checked the linked source article in the Lancet) would be: "researchers found that 55·5% of deaths from police violence between 1980 a
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by msgilligan 5y ago
Yes, what you describe is entirely believable. And one of the legitimate reasons why enterprise software is slow to upgrade.
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by msgilligan 5y ago
Ugh. Sounds horrible.
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by msgilligan 5y ago
The answer to this question is almost certainly "no". It is ironic that what was originally the most hyped feature of Java has now been removed. But nobody is going to miss it.
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by msgilligan 5y ago
It's common to require a certain old Java version or newer . In general Java is extremely backward compatible. There have been a few minor breaking changes from JDK 8 to JDK 17, but the worst ones have had command-line options to disa
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by msgilligan 5y ago
This is reminds me of Ken Shirriff's 2014 "Bitcoins the Hard Way" blog post that also used Python to build a Bitcoin transaction from scratch: http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoins-hard-way-using-ra
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by msgilligan 5y ago
It's not really a serious proposal, but as I see it there are four groups involved. 1) Ransom-ware criminals -- they are already breaking the law and are subject to criminal enforcement 2) Irresponsible businesses who fail to secure th
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by msgilligan 5y ago
Looks like some very expensive chips got stuck in the machine.
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by msgilligan 5y ago
Smart contracts is a horrible name. The better analogy (which has been around for years) is that they are the digital equivalent of (snack and beverage) vending machines. As with vending machines, they have their use cases, but they aren&#x
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by msgilligan 5y ago
People who want to ban cryptocurrency will be using this as an excuse and scare tactic to get what they want. Maybe we should ban _paying_ the ransoms instead?
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by msgilligan 5y ago
My mother subscribed in the late 80's because she was dating a science professor (who she eventually married) and wanted to be more conversant in science. I remember visiting her and picking up the latest issue from her coffee table. T
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by msgilligan 5y ago
Scientific American is becoming the new version of Bob Guccione's Omni magazine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_(magazine)
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by msgilligan 5y ago
Current monetary policy is the equivalent of unemployment payments for the wealthy. It distorts markets and discourages productive investment.
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by msgilligan 5y ago
The PDF is the 2nd edition. There is a 3rd edition on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Freedom-Guide-Radical-Capit... I haven't read it, but I think I'll read the 3rd Edition.
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by msgilligan 5y ago
“ It is possible to configure your node to to run in pruned mode in order to reduce storage requirements. This can reduce the disk usage from over 350GB to around 7GB.” From [1] in the parent.
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by msgilligan 5y ago
There's also the Poopinator: https://www.cloudbrigade.com/correcting-bad-behavior-with-ai...
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by msgilligan 5y ago
Article looks like it is from December 2019. Shouldn't (2019) be in the title?
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by msgilligan 6y ago
There's nobody here (besides maybe me) old enough to have anything to say.

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