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by optimiz3 11y ago
Let's hope death by obsolescence. Being forced to learn a proprietary not-invented-here scripting language with little value-add over Bash is an anathema to any developer.
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by optimiz3 11y ago
Vulkan is roughly identical to DX12 in functionality; Microsoft will not sign UWP apps that link to Vulkan/OpenGL.
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by optimiz3 11y ago
This is pretty one-sided. UWP is nice for users because it sandboxes apps that are built for it. Some benefits: 1. I know the game won't dump save and log files in my Documents folder (that place is mine, GTFO). 2. I know there won&#x
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by optimiz3 11y ago
It's a bit of a game design problem too, since you may want to optimize for how "fun" the AI is to play against. There are patterns of behavior that can be equivalently challenging, but greatly varying in terms of how intere
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by optimiz3 11y ago
Which is why no one is going to use it.
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by optimiz3 11y ago
One of my best managers always said "the only thing you can judge are results". Everything else is talk.
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by optimiz3 11y ago
Probably because functional languages don't actually at excel scientific computing relative to Python, C#, Java, and JavaScript. :D Edit: I kid, but most of the languages I just mentioned have very fast native compilers, easy ways of i
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by optimiz3 11y ago
Zerocoin/Zerocash have no implementations, they are vaporware.
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by optimiz3 11y ago
There are many ways to win wars against guerillas, but just as guerilla attacks on civilians are incompatible with western values, most of the responses are similarly incompatible.
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by optimiz3 11y ago
Police and civil procedure only work in your own sovereign state where everyone plays by the same social contracts and has shared values (mostly). Force necessary to achieve threat elimination and future deterrence work on sovereign adversa
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by optimiz3 11y ago
Collisions are when two different inputs hash to the same value, which breaks the security of the hash function. If a hash function is cryptographically secure, it has the property where finding collisions is infeasable, which makes it suit
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by optimiz3 11y ago
Maybe...Elite: Dangerous, Star Citizen, or anything made by Blizzard? It's disingenuous to act like all you need is Steam.
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by optimiz3 11y ago
No true Scotsman... Monoliths have the advantage of being able to trivially take out a global lock. Removing global locks from a monolith to migrate to a micro-service deployment adds a ton of design and engineering cost.
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by optimiz3 11y ago
bool is_other_person_is_humble() { return do_they_make_less_money_than_me(); }
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by optimiz3 11y ago
This is also true for GPUs - in cryptocurrency mining every memory access equals more money spent on power. If you can make equivalent (in terms of throughput) compute/memory trade-offs, you always go compute.
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by optimiz3 11y ago
Sort of related, it's always felt odd that Hulu Plus (paid) forces ads on the user. Seeing as time is extremely valuable, why not provide an option to skip ads? F2P games figured this out long ago, you annoy users into paying to make t
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by optimiz3 11y ago
I'd say the biggest advantage if you take out memory access is not latency (since most of the time latency gets hidden via pipelining), but power consumption. When developing kernels the amount of times memory is accessed has huge impa
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by optimiz3 11y ago
How is Ethash compute intensive relative to Cuckoo Cycle? EDIT: Ethash does 1 SHA3 at the beginning, 1 SHA3 at the end, and 64 rounds of FNV1-32 x 32. Verification considers the intermediate digest, so really 1 SHA3 to verify. You do more S
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by optimiz3 11y ago
Not true - AMD GCN also has bitselect, which does dst = (A & B) | (~A & C). This is equivalent to the SHA-256 Ch "Choose" function. It also can be used to compose the SHA-256 Maj "Majority" function with an addit
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by optimiz3 11y ago
Machine separation for one (OS level exploits, escalation of privileges in one component compromising another). Network partitioning with strong protocol filters between security tiers can be invaluable.
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by optimiz3 11y ago
Surprised security wasn't mentioned as a reason to decouple services (IMO security is a top reason to split out a service). Otherwise I tend to agree with the author.
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by optimiz3 11y ago
What if you want to reference a string using only sizeof(void*) bytes?
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by optimiz3 11y ago
Worthless, unless you want to be beholden to 21's mining pool. The minimum block-chain transaction size is 546 Satoshis.
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by optimiz3 12y ago
Yes - the code is wrong. A correct implementation would adjust the probability of sampling based on how many items have been trialed. EDIT: I misread it as rand(n), rand(idx) is correct.
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by optimiz3 12y ago
It means willing to incur the significant opportunity costs (income and benefits) of not working for an established company. EDIT: Also the risk to reputation and social stigma that goes along with being poor...and enduring this for years..
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by optimiz3 12y ago
That's what I meant by the silently fail part.
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by optimiz3 12y ago
My /etc/hosts has 3000 lines... If it wasn't hard more people would be doing it; I think for users, this is hard.
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by optimiz3 12y ago
CyanogenMod's Privacy Guard gets this right. It defaults to a silently fail permission policy, and notifies you when an app is requesting access. You can then chose to deny, allow, deny always, or allow always. It's the antidot
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by optimiz3 12y ago
Often times you can judge the sophistication of an author by the aspects they do and do not take for granted. ...and sometimes you have to call critics the pedantic nitwits that they are.
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by optimiz3 12y ago
It was several years ago, I'm assuming the market has only strengthened.

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