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Tesla introduces configurable 8-bit floating point format [pdf](tesla-cdn.thron.com)
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I suspect that the part of the stdlib that deals with the OS and runtime will be fairly messy and un-idiomatic in any language. They are inherently hairy problems.
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An interesting connection: "This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance." - PKD (1978) "The ultimate weapon has always exi
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I don't know how helpful this will be, but the strategy that has worked best for me is: attach yourself to "connectors." Connectors are extraverts who have a large social circle and enjoy facilitating connections within it. I
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>See also: cooking Ah yes, the classic "bake 20-22 minutes, or until done." It's like a conditional with "|| true"!
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Arguably the biggest "hack" in Bitcoin history was the exploit of an overflow bug, allowing for the creation of 184 billion BTC: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident It is also arguable, however
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The point is that your keys never reside on a general-purpose, internet-connected computer. It greatly reduces the attack surface. As for SPoF -- hardware wallets are initialized with a seed phrase. You can make as many copies of the seed p
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The Sia Foundation | REMOTE | https://sia.tech Sia is a distributed cloud storage platform. It's an open marketplace that allows anyone to rent out their storage capacity, enforced by smart contracts. Storing data on Sia is
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> It's almost confidence-inspiring. Like how evil-overlord can this be if they can't even get this basic stuff right? In the same vein, consider that ad agencies have spent millions of man-hours and many billions of dollars ess
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I used it as a journal. Starting in 2007, I wrote myself one email for each day of 2020. I didn't write very frequently, so it took the entire 13 years to finish. It made for a nice present to my future self. :)
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You might also enjoy FutureMe: https://www.futureme.org You can send emails 10 years into the future! :)
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It is super weird to me that no big compile-to-Go languages have emerged. It doesn't seem like anyone is even trying! Why not?
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I confess that I've found it both enraging and depressing to see that the "bootstrapped-by-hype" model works even in programming language development , which I had (naively, I guess) assumed would be more immune to that sort
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For me it was folklore.org
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Sorry, pet peeve of mine -- "obtuse" means "slow or dim-witted;" you want "abstruse," which means "difficult to comprehend." Granted, using "obtuse" in this way is apparently becoming more
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Signatures aren't just uniformly-distributed entropy, like hashes are; they encode real information, e.g. elliptic curve coordinates. Hashing and truncating the signature would destroy that information, meaning the signature could no l
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I agree (well, maybe not the worst, but certainly one of the worst), but in retrospect it's hard to say whether Go would have taken off the way it did, had it not pushed the concurrency angle so hard. I think Go's focus on sof
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Go does not support using some types as map keys, including slices, channels, functions, and other maps. Slices are the most annoying, and I have seen plenty of code that uses fmt.Sprint(s) as a workaround. Fortunately the compiler now reco
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What form did you take your supplements in? If the goal is to spread out the dose, sounds like powdered would be better than pills?
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> the fury of a thousand suns off topic, but I recently learn that this phrase dates back to the Bhagavad Gita! If the radiance of a thousand suns Were to burst at once into the sky That would be like the splendour of the M
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Tom Green making polite Japanese people reciprocate his bow 20+ times in a row never fails to make me laugh
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And here I was hoping that this sharpener created a fractal point :(
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True, but you don't actually print out your private key on a paper wallet -- you print out a seed phrase , from which the key material is derived. So you might even be able to keep using the same seed phrase! (Don't quote me on t
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Regardless of your feelings about Bitcoin, it was really exciting to see the president of El Salvador himself pop into a Twitter Space last night, as the bill was being voted on , to chat with bitcoiners about the implications of the new l
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It's bizarre and amazing to me that The Caretaker found success as "meme music." I think the author is correct to lump him in with artists like Vektroid and OPN; I've seen more than one commenter describe The Caretaker a
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go-fuzz requires an instrumented binary. It's essentially a forked Go compiler. So I think it's fair to call this a limitation of the language. But I don't see that as a negative. :)
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600mg of modafinil will make you... really wired, right? Did you notice that you were super productive that month?
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I've always been curious how far we could push "mechanical computation." Seems like even an operation as simple as multiplication requires tons of metal. If I wanted to compute, say, a SHA2 hash or an Ed25519 signature with z
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I would love to see this succeed, if only so that their static analyzer can go around detecting vulnerabilities ("loopholes") in all sorts of common laws. Legal 0-days!
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The mascot looks like something Renée French would draw. :)

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