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by oskarkk 2y ago
He not only claimed to be the inventor of bitcoin, he also started registering copyright to the bitcoin whitepaper and code.
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by oskarkk 2y ago
> Instead it is better to optimize for the space already available (Segwit is an example). Segwit doesn't optimize already available space, it bypasses the original 1 MB block size limit by moving the transaction signatures outside
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by oskarkk 2y ago
> To me, unemployed means that you are not working but you want to be. In economics, exactly that is the definition of unemployment: > Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is pe
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by oskarkk 2y ago
One commenter who worked on Firefox made a nice blog post in response, about what it takes to make a web browser: https://robert.ocallahan.org/2024/06/browser-engine.html
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by oskarkk 2y ago
Well, that's a crazy theory (but fun to think about). I don't think he ever believed that terraforming Mars would be achieved in his lifetime. It's not necessary for a colony, and he always talked about "window" in
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by oskarkk 2y ago
> For example, at 20nm, a DRAM capacitor might hold something like 50 electrons, and that number will get smaller for next generation DRAM and things continue to shrink. Nice. That got me curious, how many electrons are in today's D
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by oskarkk 2y ago
For GPUs it could work as you say (except that the incentive for development of expensive and risky technologies would be gone), but I think that wouldn't help that much with things like websites. Most of the value of Facebook is in th
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by oskarkk 2y ago
I've just checked and surprise, right now Nvidia is worth two times more than Meta.
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by oskarkk 2y ago
It wasn't, but we're comparing to the yearly budget of Manhattan/Apollo (as a fraction of GDP). NASA budget was between 0.3-0.9% of GDP in 1963-1970[0], that was per year. In 1965 GDP was $743B (nominal), so 0.5% of that is ~
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by oskarkk 3y ago
> It's entirely open source Not very reassuring in the context of the xz backdoor and sketchiness of this particular author. I think it's better to avoid it, regardless of whether the author is actually malicious. Giving the vi
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by oskarkk 3y ago
Yeah, like the $25 Chinese earphones mentioned there. Not convinced that they use cutting edge tech "which enables the F3 to faithfully reproduce music with a clean, rich, yet transparent high-fidelity sound".
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by oskarkk 3y ago
And here's another, extremely good explanation of how a bicycle works: https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/
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by oskarkk 3y ago
I can imagine that discoverability may be a factor. I've only ever used Google Play Store, and looking for good apps there can be extremely discouraging. The best apps are sometimes buried, you have no sorting options in search results
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by oskarkk 3y ago
In my experience, being high enhances my musical (and I think generally creative) abilities. Music appreciation and analysis is especially better (maybe because it's the lowest effort thing). Many times when I was high I was listening
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by oskarkk 3y ago
For me when I ask "what is the fastest way to copy memory in C#?" it responds starting with: > I'm unable to share information that could be used to compromise the security of systems or violate legal guidelines. Unfortuna
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by oskarkk 3y ago
You can rent infrastructure from a provider from a country you don't reside in.
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by oskarkk 3y ago
Starlink works in Iran and is crucial to the Ukrainian army, but as other commenter pointed out, Musk has business in China, so China would be off the table.
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by oskarkk 3y ago
Musk being reliant on his business in China is one thing, but I also think that the US government may not want to upset China by having an American company serving people in China without approval of the Chinese government? Starlink works (
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by oskarkk 3y ago
Phone can run out of battery and it can be easily destroyed or lost.
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by oskarkk 3y ago
Sadly, in the end they lost money on it. They came to a point where producing the plane was profitable, but they never recouped the development cost: https://simpleflying.com/was-the-a380-programme-profitable/
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by oskarkk 3y ago
Is a 0.5% layoff important?
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by oskarkk 3y ago
Well, for Python the language reference in the docs[0] is the specification, and many things there are described as CPython implementation details. Like: "CPython implementation detail: For CPython, id(x) is the memory address where x
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by oskarkk 3y ago
> "Has Satoshi come back from the dead?" I think Satoshi coming back from the dead would totally tank the price, as he owns something like 5% of all BTC ever mined (~$43b).
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by oskarkk 3y ago
If that standard library would be written in JS, a new browser (or rather a new JS engine being a part of the browser) could just use some existing implementation (a reference implementation maybe?), no need to reinvent the wheel in every p
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by oskarkk 3y ago
"Useful" is very relative. I work with python daily and I try typing everything I can, but it can be such a pain in the ass compared to TypeScript that I want to throw my computer at the wall sometimes. And I can't imagine us
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by oskarkk 3y ago
In the stats from Wikipedia traffic[0], Linux's share is more stable - ~2.1% for 2023, ~2.1% for 2020-2022, ~1.6% for 2016-2019 (I put the dates in the pie chart filter, and looked at the "Linux" and "Ubuntu" labels
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by oskarkk 3y ago
SpaceX's Falcon 9 had two (full) failures (in 2015 and 2016), but the crazy high cadence since then made it the safest vehicle in the history of spaceflight. The next vehicle with comparable safety was the Soyuz rocket (which had vario
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by oskarkk 3y ago
Not exactly - in the Belarus case the plane was in the Belarusian airspace and had to land in Belarus (and then two passengers were arrested). If Belarus had revoked permission before the plane entered its airspace, and it had to land in Uk
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by oskarkk 3y ago
Quoting Wikipedia article on shuttle, "there were about 24,300 unique tiles individually fitted on the vehicle". Starship is just a cylinder with pointy end, and tiles on most of the vehicle will be the same, so that will help.
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by oskarkk 3y ago
They haven't really purged it, they just haven't copied older data to the new chat system (dumb decision). They still have that data, and you can get it by submitting a data export request: https://www.reddit.com/r

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