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by rspeer 10y ago
> I like Julia because it's extremely fast ...compared to Python, under some circumstances, disregarding startup time. Don't oversell it. Don't confuse what Julia aspires to be with what it is , or you'll just turn
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by rspeer 10y ago
In the first part of your reply, you indicate that you're bad at orders of magnitude, at least when defending Bitcoin. In the second part of your reply, you do the same thing. Let's be clear. (500 x 10^6) W x 4000 ~= 2 x 10^12 W.
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by rspeer 10y ago
> It never was 7 tps. 7 is the theoretical maximum Wow, you mean Bitcoin fans were prone to exaggeration and unrealistic claims two years ago? I wonder if they still are. Speaking of which, this graph you're showing me definitely ha
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by rspeer 10y ago
Section 5 says "thanks to the transaction rate increasing faster than the network's energy consumption". Is the transaction rate increasing? Two years ago people said it was 7 transactions per second. Now it's 3 per se
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by rspeer 10y ago
Let's hope it doesn't! Here's a Fermi problem to show how horrifying the prospect of Bitcoin succeeding is: By this blog post's estimate, Bitcoin currently consumes about 500 MW of power. As others have estimated, Bitcoi
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by rspeer 10y ago
Can you give an example of text in the wild that uses interlinear ruby annotation codepoints? Because I searched the Common Crawl for them, and every occurrence of U+FFF9 through U+FFFB seems to have been an accident that has nothing to d
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by rspeer 10y ago
I tried to look up what U+2FA1D, the highest-numbered printable character, means in context. It is a Traditional Chinese character. It's a variant of U+2F600, 𪘀, which is pronounced "pián". It apparently is used in zero words
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by rspeer 10y ago
I'm curious. Are interlinear ruby annotation codepoints actually used for their intended purpose anywhere? And what are you supposed to do when you encounter one? I know that they appear on Unicode's shitlist in [UTR#20], a propos
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by rspeer 10y ago
Yes, and they can also hypothetically send nude pictures of you to all your friends and family, but that wasn't the headline for some reason. You can do lots of things when you've owned someone's phone. The big news is that t
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by rspeer 10y ago
The reporting you're talking about has been widely denounced by actual security experts, with 70 of them signing a letter asking the Guardian to retract its inaccurate story. Your position is about as responsible as saying "I don&
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by rspeer 10y ago
They published the papers with a heavy dose of spin. Remember how the headline contained FUD about Signal and WhatsApp? The released documents have nothing about sidestepping Signal and WhatsApp. That was pure conjecture and editorializing.
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by rspeer 10y ago
You're extrapolating from Wikileaks hyping itself in a tweet and calling the result "most likely". Find a better justification for your beliefs.
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by rspeer 10y ago
There was one time that I tried to submit a correction to Google Maps anyway, not out of generosity but just to fix a navigation glitch, and the team that handles that data was quite rude about it. I was trying to point out that if you&#x27
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by rspeer 10y ago
The problem with the prototypical Old Poor Widow (she lives in a million-dollar home in an excellent neighborhood, how sad) is that she votes in every local election. The people who benefit from density -- the young, the renters -- don&#x27
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by rspeer 10y ago
Oddly enough, I got that when I followed your link, then searched again and got results. The results, however, seem to be for the most popular Python pages of last decade, including mod_python, PIL, and several results about Plone.
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by rspeer 10y ago
Sure, but when you take out all the parts they don't want, what they want to commercialize is "a database".
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by rspeer 10y ago
I'm pretty sure these horrible snippets come from the Google Knowledge Graph.
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by rspeer 10y ago
The part that made me certain this is more a marketing effort than a technical effort is when they described it as a followup to "Watson" and "blockchain". "Watson" is currently a brand name for a bunch of misc
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by rspeer 10y ago
Sounds like exactly the same situation as PayPal, and there's no way for me as a customer to check who's actually getting the donation, right?
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by rspeer 10y ago
What makes you think that "advanced NLP algorithms" can distinguish true statements from false ones? They're not even close. You'd have to dramatically simplify the scope of the problem to make it not require artificial
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by rspeer 10y ago
The Hangul characters are the instructions, not string literals; in fact, the language has no string literals. The code is building up the Unicode codepoints for "Hello, world!" as numbers in memory, and running instructions to pr
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by rspeer 10y ago
Wait. Why would you want web-based proof-of-work mining? Does this have a legitimate purpose, or is it all about forcing unsuspecting visitors to mine Bitcoin for you?
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by rspeer 10y ago
I thought Facebook already did stick a "Satire" label automatically on The Onion. The problem of Facebook users taking The Onion seriously is something they had to confront years ago.
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by rspeer 10y ago
Well, when you're writing a console program, you can assume your font is monospaced and you can assume you have a function like wcwidth() that will tell you how many monospaced cells a string will take up. I know that eev.ee points out
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by rspeer 10y ago
There's a big difference between just showing a bucketed Fourier transform of the whole audible spectrum, and showing a high-resolution, log-scale, musically-informed visualization of the part that can be heard as musical notes.
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by rspeer 10y ago
Your idea for a foundation of practical computing sounds a lot like MIT's 6.004 Computation Structures [1], which is available on OpenCourseWare and edX. In 6.004, you start by learning about the digital abstraction and MOSFETs, then g
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by rspeer 10y ago
Dammit. I've been using Amazon Smile to donate to a small non-profit. It's obscure enough that I was surprised to find it listed as an option, but given that it was there, I just assumed that they would get the money set aside for
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by rspeer 10y ago
Okay, once again I try to find an example from my code, and once again it turns out that Rust makes it simple in the simple case, but the more complex cases are still confusing. If I change the test value Some("zh".to_string()) in
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by rspeer 10y ago
I seem to run into functions that require String instead of &str all the time, most recently the "assert_eq!" macro which -- maybe I'm not understanding it correctly -- refuses to compare a &str to a String. Can you t
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by rspeer 10y ago
> String has a Deref instance for &str, so taking a reference to a String automatically works as a &str. You can also call .as_str(). > > Going in the other direction, you can call .to_string() to make a copy of a &str

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