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by rictic 8y ago
> severely discouraged in the economic model Do you mean the fact that there's a fixed continuous rate of new coin production? Because as they point out in the Grin for Bitcoiners page that's still a continuously decreasing inf
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Why would it download the 400mb every time you run the game? There are caching and storage APIs in the browser. It's possible that there are some more controls needed for both the user and the site author over this storage space, but t
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If predictors state their confidence and make falsifiable predictions then they can be fairly graded and compared. This is especially true when many other people are also making predictions about the same event. Cringely is the stereotype o
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Isn't that only an issue for a chain that's starting from PoS from the beginning? Ethereum already has a PoW chain that they plan to turn into PoS. If the ethereum protocol agreement is to switch to PoS at block N, then I don&#x27
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I haven't looked into this in quite some time, but as I recall, a new user can look at the available chains and determine which has the majority of stake behind it. Is there a subtlety that makes that unworkable?
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It matters. Projects that don't support IE ≤11 could ship ES Modules to the browser today. However, you can't ship most code that's written as "es modules" because this code is typically written for a transpiler rat
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> 2. Chrome shipped and continues to support a Chrome-only "standard", which is never going to be a Web standard, for some reason; It's going to be unshipped around April. Chrome shipped the v0 spec in order to prove out t
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> YouTube (and perhaps GMail) is extra slow on non-Chrome browsers because they use a dropped-and-never-standardised feature that is available only on Chrome, and force a slow polyfill on Firefox (and perhaps Edge): https://tw
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That means that for every incrementer you create, you've also got to allocate two additional functions: value and increment. They have to be distinct objects, because `incrementer().value === incrementer().value` must yield false. Debu
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fuchsia is not posix, so they can (and I suspect have) change the semantics of chdir to be more restrictive.
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The last time I looked into it, user agents may support the '>>>' combinator for cases like user styling, where the user should trump the page content.
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One relatively small correction: CPUs aren't getting faster clock speeds, but not because we stopped being able to put more transistors per square inch. GPUs and ASICs are still seeing exponential growth in their key performance metric
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This. A .jar file could be anything. Is it a library or an executable? When I run it, do I need to make sure its dependencies are on my classpath? What're the java command line flags I need? Do I have the right version of java on this
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My first reaction was "why is this news, isn't elliptic curve crypto widely deployed and quantum resistant?" It looks like the story is more complicated (and most ECC algorithms are not quantum resistant): https://
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It's trickier than it seems. To take just one example, suppose you have an extension that modifies pages to insert a related link (e.g. an extension that tries to infer a hacker news user's reddit account and link to it from their
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How much of that is the eternal September of going from something where a tiny niche of the population using a thing to the vast majority? I don't think there's much structural about Yahoo Answers being what it is. I think it&#x27
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For CLIs I end up doing something like: async function main() { } main().catch(e => { console.error(e); process.exit(1); }); Async/await is what I want, more than blocking, because frequently to make a CLI fast I need to do thin
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This is true. There are tslint checks that will disallow truthiness in conditionals, and disallow many types of type coercion.
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Chrome devtools now has CPU performance throttling. Go to the performance panel and click the red gear in the top right. There's both network and CPU throttling options.
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You're confusing JS with wasm and undefined behavior with confusing behavior. JS and wasm are strongly defined and the specifications consider undefined behavior a bug.
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I'm on the Polymer team at Google. We've been helping the YouTube team, who's been doing a ton of work to update to the final v1 version of the webcomponent specs. So far it's a bit neck and neck between Firefox launchin
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Huh, I'm the opposite. I'd gladly take a confusing combination of consistent spec'd behavior over time travel, arbitrary code execution, and nasal demons.
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Chrome is actively working on this: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/05/dpwa (disclosure: I work on Chrome, but not on this)
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Every kind of matter that we know about makes up less than 5% of the believed matter in the universe. What's the rest? "Dark matter" and "dark energy" which are effectively empty placeholders. We know almost nothing
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The phrase "Post-PC" seems overloaded. Is convertible tablet/laptop a PC? Is a chromebook a PC? I'd say about 3/4 of my working days right now I use my laptop just for SSH and a web browser. The big distinctions for
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Time spent with a type system buys you compiler-checked proofs of some properties . The important question is whether the time is worth the benefit. One of many things that I love about the TypeScript type system is that it gives so much po
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One use case I can think of: someone claims to be the author of a well known library. With their github account proven, that's pretty easy to establish.
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TypeScript seems to do structural typing for classes too: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/#src=class%20Foo%20%7B%0...
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As I understand it, the reason Tesla isn't in those stats is because they come from a California mandate for certain kinds of self driving car tests, and Tesla isn't doing those kinds of tests. (disclosure: I work at Google, but n
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There are a number of HTML attributes and properties that can result in redirects, HTTP requests, and evaluation of arbitrary code. If the developer uses databinding with untrusted input into any of these attributes or properties, their sit

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