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by nas 9y ago
Given that Oracle seems to have the midas shit touch (RIP John Dunsworth), does anyone have suggestions on Virtualbox alternatives? VMWare is the obvious one I guess. It's great that they have released 5.2 and that they are adding new
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by nas 9y ago
Its a dealbreaker for me. Otherwise, I would have considered the phone. I use my headphone jack nearly every day. I have a nice pair of Shure earphones that I use. I have no desire to get some wireless earphones. The headphone jack is
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by nas 9y ago
Correct. This is the same reason why Proof-of-Stake (PoS) cannot work as people hope. Due to fundamental economics, people will always spend according to the value of the new currency issued by mining. Switching to PoS just means they wi
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by nas 9y ago
We went through sort of a similar exercise. The features that pandas provided was compelling. For example, our main research guy uses R and so something like data frames were wanted. My conclusion was that pandas was too heavy to add as
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by nas 9y ago
I think the TLDR summary is that MacOS doesn't work very well in the datacenter. The hardware is not designed for rack mounting. The OS licensing is not friendly to running VMs. I wonder if this is going to bite Apple in the long ru
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by nas 9y ago
This was easily foreseeable when he started on Node.js. The Twisted framework for Python had existed for years (decades?) before Node.js was created. Anyone familiar with programming in that style knew of the issues with "callback he
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by nas 9y ago
Blockstream has raised something like $76m. If you look at their business model and which developers they support, it doesn't take a genius to connect the dots. They really want side-chains to become both possible and economically
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by nas 9y ago
Well, the Bitcoin supporters are composed of a wide range of people. Some of them are too optimistic about the technology. Unlike some people thought, transactions are not cheap (although there are scaling plans to bring the current high c
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by nas 9y ago
Here's some free advice. When your back bothers you, try some jogging. If you can't jog, walk. Taking it "easy" by laying around is not the cure. I'm pretty sure the vast number of back problems are caused by to
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by nas 9y ago
> Nodes define consensus in bitcoin, not miners. Again with the kool-aid. Why does the Bitcoin protocol have a POW function and miners? Consensus is defined by the chain with the most work. If you fork and change the POW, you will not
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by nas 9y ago
I think you are drinking the UASF kool-aid. A fork that is not supported by the mining power is going to get easily attacked. I guess the "economic majority" could fork and change the proof-of-work so that existing ASIC hardware
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by nas 9y ago
The limit on transactions per second is a function of the block size, currently 1 MB. Based on what the miners say, they would be interested in increasing the block size. Understand that the miners like high fees but they like high bitcoi
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by nas 9y ago
I think their real target market is no longer pros. The pros are vastly outnumbered by people with a lot a money that will buy the latest shiny thing Apple puts out. As a company strategy to make the most money, its smart. If you are a p
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by nas 9y ago
More miners will not make the fees go down. The limited resource is space in each block, currently 1 MB. Having more miners does not increase the block size. It would be nice to have a proper economic feedback mechanism on this, e.g. mine
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by nas 9y ago
If you use something like this, future maintainers are going to hate you.
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by nas 9y ago
I don't think it is nonsensical. There was a tool 3to2 that took Python 3 code and produced Python 2 code. You had to write in a subset of Python 3 but the idea was sound, I think. Python 3 is more strict in ways than 2 and so downg
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by nas 9y ago
The implicit coercion between bytes and unicode was one of the biggest hurtles I ran into when porting a relatively large (30k+ lines) code base from Python 2 to 3. Also challenging was the change in comparisons (None no longer smaller tha
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by nas 9y ago
Interesting but I wonder when you would need a tool like that. I have something related, a fork of Python 3.6 that adds a bunch of backwards compatible behaviour so 2.7 code runs more easily, https://github.com/nascheme&#x2
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by nas 10y ago
I think documentation is the right way to handle this. Require enough documentation that 3rd party repair shops can fix the machines. Even if they can't do much with the embedded controllers, at least document the sensors and the wir
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by nas 10y ago
I watched a lot of pro broodwar back in the day. Their mechanic ability is insane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbpCLqryN-Q
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by nas 10y ago
I bought this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006OQJO4C/ref=oh_aui_sear... I'm not sure it is a fake or not. I looks a little "off" to me. Maybe real but intended for a foreign market
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by nas 10y ago
It's a minefield for buyers as well. I have ordered products from Amazon's web site for many years, probably more than 15. Recently, I am getting reluctant to buy because there are so many counterfeit products. As an example, I
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by nas 10y ago
It's pretty clear to me that they started upgrading the "Control Panel" menus and never finished the job. At a surface level, you get new-style flat, simplified dialog boxes. To change more advanced settings, you jump into
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by nas 10y ago
Really not impressed with my XPS 13. The screen automatically changes brightness depending what is shown on it (dynamic brightness). The touchpad works really poorly, detects palm touches as clicks all the time. Nearly impossible for me
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by nas 10y ago
I don't buy this theory 100% but I think Mark is on the right track: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/18/mark_blyth... The top 1% have been extremely successful in funneling wealth to
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by nas 10y ago
Didn't the majority of the people deciding to fork stand to profit? I.e. they would restore their DAO funds? That's my understanding and makes me not want to touch Ethereum with a 10ft pole. Seems very much like mob rule vs a s
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by nas 10y ago
> You had this tiny sweet spot right where the director intended you to look and everything else was a sea of blur. That was my experience as well. I find it head-ache inducing. It really doesn't emulate true 3-D vision very much
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by nas 10y ago
I had Netflix around 1999 and I lived close to one of their shipping centers. The turn around time was about two days and I could request three DVDs at a time. It was glorious. Huge selection of awesome DVD movies. All sorts of stuff yo
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by nas 10y ago
Apple acquired FingerWorks[1] in 2005. They were pioneers in multi-touch pads. I believe their technology is one of the reasons the original iPhone was successful. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks
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Show HN: Python 3 with backwards compatibility features
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