phire

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721.
by phire 3y ago
Because most decentralised exchanges are "fake". Realistically, a decentralised exchange can only operate within a single blockchain, only trading tokens on that blockchain. Works fine for trading between (for example) eth and its
722.
by phire 3y ago
I know nothing about homotopy type theory, but your description does line up with my experiments. When playing with gpt 3.5, I gave it a conversation and asked it to "translate" one side of a conversation from "sarcastic mock
723.
by phire 3y ago
To us, it's obvious that "is" in these examples is symmetrical. But LLMs don't have common sense, they have to rely on the training dataset we feed them. It's entirely possible there is nothing wrong with the logica
724.
by phire 3y ago
It probably happens, but not really on purpose. If the package.lock file gets deleted or someone runs a global npm-update then npm will update any packages while respecting semantic versioning. It's possible an organisation forgot to i
725.
by phire 3y ago
There are two separate questions: "Should libraries still be polyfilling to support ancient runtimes?" and "How should that polyfilling be implemented?" Even if a library wants to maintain backwards compatibility, we can
726.
by phire 3y ago
It's hard to tell. The author of both packages has since moved the github repos to an organisation named "i-voted-for-trump" and labelled the packages with the "troll-bait" tag. But the author also claims those pack
727.
by phire 3y ago
> I still vividly remember being at nodecamp in 2012 or something listening to someone tell me how great it would be if the entire OS was written in javascript. That reminds me of Gary Bernhardt's "The Birth & Death of Ja
728.
by phire 3y ago
A new API would only work in fully updated versions of windows that include the API. Programmers would hesitate to use it, because they can't be sure the user of the uninstaller will be on a fully updated windows install. The JScript w
729.
by phire 3y ago
I've experienced it once myself, and I'm not 100% sure. There was a large power substation about 5km away in roughly that direction, and that was my original assumption. But I don't think it tripped (at least not completely),
730.
by phire 3y ago
You don't need to build carbon capture plants near people, you can build them anywhere in the world. So you can put them in places where you have the potential for large amounts of cheap renewable energy that would otherwise be unused.
731.
by phire 3y ago
I'm guessing the string was part of a larger struct, and they wanted to clear the entire struct with a single memset. It's a somewhat common pattern in C, but requires care.
732.
by phire 3y ago
Superficially, it's the same. But the semantics change because it's an auction based system. ERCOT have no idea how much load shedding capacity they have ahead of time. They have to start bidding on the wholesale market and see wh
733.
by phire 3y ago
> but none of them make a case that the current subsidy level is necessary. I wasn't actually arguing that, yes there are a bunch of unknowns. I'm only making the argument that there is a clear formula connecting mining rewar
734.
by phire 3y ago
Sure, difficulty can adjust down. But can the security of bitcoin afford the loss of that hashrate? It really depends on how much value Bitcoin is securing at the time. Because the amount paid out for mining rewards is also the rough cost f
735.
by phire 3y ago
Such deals are usually structured the other way around, and have existed long before bitcoin. The energy consumer gets a cheaper electricity prices year round, on the condition that they are contractually obligated to cut power in emergenci
736.
by phire 3y ago
First, Bitcoin transaction fees aren't even paying for the most of the infrastructure and energy costs It's massively subsidised from block rewards. Coins created out of thin air. Checking this chart [1], historically, block-rewar
737.
by phire 3y ago
Yes, it's a really simple idea that doesn't require much code. Really shouldn't be hard to clean it up and publish. I was actually playing with similar ideas a while back. I didn't have any code at all, I was just experi
738.
by phire 3y ago
Yeah, the clock multiplier will also make a large difference. Which might actually be a fair comparison, The DX2 and SX were launched at the same time, so there is a decent chance the "fast 486 DX" someone is talking about is actu
739.
by phire 3y ago
One of the biggest contributor to performance differences was the implementation of the L2 cache on the motherboard. More expensive chipsets tended to have better cache implementations... Assuming the system even had cache installed, those
740.
by phire 3y ago
Bitcoin is getting a pass mostly because nobody has any control over Bitcoin. There might be a loose community project, but Bitcoin is basically frozen in its current state, with no innovation. It's really hard to argue there is a comm
741.
by phire 3y ago
> If you do not want to use one 4-bit ALU or adder, but you want to use only one single-bit adder for serial additions, that does not reduce the number of TTL circuits, but it increases them. The linked project implements an "1-bi
742.
by phire 3y ago
The AMD 2900 family is not intended for low IC count designs. They didn't come out until 1975, the Intel 8080 and Motorola 6800 were well established on the market by then, the MOS 6502 had just landed and the Zilog z80 was just around
743.
by phire 3y ago
It's very true that serial computers don't get enough attention today, but I'm starting to wonder if they were underappreciated in the 70s. Serial designs were somewhat common in the '50s but it seems they had fallen out
744.
by phire 3y ago
I do wonder where the line between "just a state machine" and CPU should be drawn. Is it enough to be a programmable state machine, or does it really need an ALU? Or should the definition require a certain type of programmability,
745.
by phire 3y ago
It's really not a cross compiler. IMO, the problem that our modern definition of "emulator" is overly opinionated. The strict definition requires that the emulator take the CPU's machine code at runtime and either interp
746.
by phire 3y ago
It didn't really match the modern definition of emulator. AKA, something that takes raw machine code and implements all the IO capabilities of the target device. Instead, Paul Allen's emulator worked at the code source level, and
747.
by phire 3y ago
To add to this, the amount of speculation modern CPUs do is insane. In the "theLoop" example, say the first load misses L1 and L2 cache and takes needs 40 cycles to load. AMD's Zen 4 has enough resources to issue about 64 ite
748.
by phire 3y ago
I suspect there is very little justification for a manned platform anymore. It requires are crew of five (not including the up-to 11 scientists). Much of the science would probably be better off without noise introduced by crew and the gene
749.
by phire 3y ago
The software workaround for the FDIV bug required the actual userspace software to be modified and recompiled. There was a decade of pre-existing software out there that would be hard to fix, especially in the days before most people had th
750.
by phire 3y ago
It might be possible to use the remaining electrical heaters as some kind of crude thermal battery (assuming they have any heaters still running, they already shut down the heaters for most of the scientific experiments). Simply turn the he

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