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by pmezard 7y ago
Given the natural tendency of cryptocurrency artists to try stealing other people cycles, haven't they tried already to rewrite their hashing problems into protein folding ones?
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by pmezard 7y ago
It is, python Threads are system threads.
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by pmezard 7y ago
Cannot wait for "Uber Rust Style Guide".
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by pmezard 7y ago
Was it watching Tibet as well?
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by pmezard 7y ago
Memory safety is not the alpha and omega of programming languages. People do not write million lines of code applications in bash, for a reason, trade-offs are to be made. That said I agree they should have picked Go instead /s.
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by pmezard 8y ago
Security updates are an optional feature ? Are security devices optional features for cars (and I am not talking about collection cars or similar niche items) ? They are not in first-world countries.
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by pmezard 9y ago
> Time was when leaders would actually lead their countries into battle. Caesar, Hannibal. They were men putting their bodies on the line. Even Hitler. Say, what you like about Adolf – and the man did have his faults – but at least he wa
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by pmezard 9y ago
Mapzen tried to be a less corporate version of Mapbox but the quality of their data/tools was just not there. I had to implemented a specialized geocoder/administrative boundaries referential last year. Mapzen was really compellin
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by pmezard 9y ago
Should it be reflected in our soul?
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by pmezard 9y ago
Crossing the Atlantic does not mean it cannot be fought. In communist France, they organized a couple of strike-like episodes this year [1]. And I really hope this recent "auto-entrepreneur" status which is mostly used to bypass t
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by pmezard 9y ago
People in Zimbabwe are not revolting over one kind of (obscure) currency vs another.
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by pmezard 9y ago
Or maybe having been working on rockets for decades they have good insights about what is valuable or not. And reusable stages still has to prove to be worth it and not just a gimmick. As you like to say, market will solve it all.
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by pmezard 9y ago
Including the destabilization of Middle East for at least the last 20 years, to secure/favor US interest? The US is a superpower that maintains its geopolitical order with the help of its military. Like any dominating nation before i
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by pmezard 9y ago
Is there an easy way to build an image locally and start it in minikube without an external registry or running a local one?
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by pmezard 9y ago
As a French, I read HN in part for this, to be reminded there are educated people out there with vastly different ideas about the world (I just hope they do the same...).
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by pmezard 9y ago
By curiosity, how do you see sponsorship affecting discussion outcomes? Are people paid by HN sponsors to influence them?
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by pmezard 10y ago
That's fairly nice now Firefox extensions stopped working in Firefox.
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by pmezard 10y ago
From Wikipedia Paracetamol article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol#Mechanism_of_actio... ): "To date, the mechanism of action of paracetamol is not completely understood." and: "It is the most
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by pmezard 10y ago
> git checkout takes several minutes X number of devs in the company > git pull takes several minutes X number of dev > people running get fetch as a cron job, screwing up and getting into weird state I feel like you are addressing
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by pmezard 10y ago
"As of the 2010 census the population of Dearborn was 98,153. The racial and ethnic composition was 89.1% Whites, 4.0% black or African-American, 0.2% Native American, 1.7% Asian, 0.2% Non-Hispanics of some other race, 4.0% reporting t
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by pmezard 10y ago
Let's wait a week to see if London is still in Europe.
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by pmezard 10y ago
Also heard about US/Mexico borders, green card quotas, h-b1, etc. You practice immigration quotas (which may be smart), we do not. I would be interested to see the outcome of a massive muslim immigration in the US.
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by pmezard 10y ago
I am not a specialist but the current situation looks complicated and not because of waste disposal but for financial reasons and long term planning issues. Areva, the main civil nuclear actor, made a couple of very bad (and shady) decision
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by pmezard 11y ago
Praising an agreement you know nothing about would be irresponsible. The default sane behaviour is not blind trust.
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by pmezard 11y ago
Also, The "Cour des Comptes" (Government level Court of Audit) recently pointed some lines were inefficient due to poor stations selection. Because everyone along a line want their share of it, the trains stop too much and cannot
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by pmezard 11y ago
I do not know much about networking but: > I don’t really get how, in the case of an HTTP conversation (or flow) which is connectionless, all the packets in the conversation get marked the same. What do you mean? HTTP is stateless, not c
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by pmezard 11y ago
It works both ways. Laws or litigations brought on European level may be good or bad depending on their content. It could be useful to work around national systems sometimes.