samatman

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1. 2971.▲
   by samatman 5y ago

   How does asymmetric cryptography solve the Byzantine General's problem again? I'm all ears. "More efficient" doesn't form a complete sentence, you've elided "more efficient at ".
2. 2972.▲
   by samatman 5y ago

   Yes, this is correct insofar as this is in fact how maximalists think of it. No genuine maximalist is pressed about yet another dip in the BTC value, and the term 'shitcoin' is broadly applied to LUNAesque creations, the feeling i
3. 2973.▲
   by samatman 5y ago

   This brings back fond memories, grex was my first shell and a large influence on everything which followed http://www.cyberspace.org/grex.xhtml Thirty years old this year, my goodness. Wild that an online space I was using
4. 2974.▲
   by samatman 5y ago

   I'm inclined to agree with you, just chiming in to say that historically, Chuck Moore was a student of John McCarthy, so Forth was one of many 'next steps' after Lisp. Which is a very old language.
5. 2975.▲
   by samatman 5y ago

   What's the purpose behind asking why unrelated animals do unrelated things? What would be a good answer, they're different?
6. 2976.▲
   by samatman 5y ago

   Chewing bubblegum isn't a taxable event so I don't tell the IRS when I do it. Or giving my friend a drone for his birthday, if you prefer something closer to the topic. If selling ETH after holding it for a year isn't a taxab
7. 2977.▲
   by samatman 5y ago

   It depends on how you do your accounting. The electric bike is more efficient than the pushbike, just as the pushbike + human is more efficient than the pushbike alone. The carbon cost of a joule of food is higher than a joule of electricit
8. 2978.▲
   by samatman 5y ago

   It's certainly opinionated, I don't view 50-100 stops in ~30 miles as at all unreasonable. Something which is rarely done but easily could be for a bike is regenerating first into a couple supercapacitors, which are 99% efficient
9. 2979.▲
   by samatman 5y ago

   This might be really cool! The idea is solid. I must conclude that Tokay is too immature to use however. If it wasn't it would clearly display, within one click of the home page, the similarities and differences between awk and tokay,
10. 2980.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    Good point, and the place of hella in the dialect is hella distinctive, because it's a superlative modifier : hella sick, hella insane, "I just bought hella strawberries at the market", and so on. So you have a politeness co
11. 2981.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    > As for Command, yes, it should be for actions _to_ my terminal. But for GUI apps they go to that app, I don't see a way to split the difference between ⌘N for a new terminal window and ⌘N for a new application window. It has to
12. 2982.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    I wish I had only bought three of those tiny things... finally ended up sugruing one of them to the lav mic.
13. 2983.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    CSI-u mode solves all of those problems and is supported by iTerm. It doesn't pass command through, which I don't personally consider a problem since I want the command key to do things to my terminal (like opening new tabs) but
14. 2984.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    The lightning system is limited compared to USB-C and I won't miss it when it's finally gone. But it's a perfectly cromulent connector, which Micro never was.
15. 2985.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    This quirk of dialect should be called the California Superlative. Everything is awesome, amazing, radical, insane, great, gnarly, not to mention sick, ill, righteous, dope. Californians just love superlatives, use them constantly, wear th
16. 2986.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    Here's the full quote: > You have definitely not had 67 different governments since 1946 in the sense that I think was meant.
17. 2987.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    USB-C is simply a form factor for a port, one which has only advantages compared to MicroUSB. Your observation is valid in that USB-C frequently comes with a high power draw for charging batteries. When one isn't using a small solar pa
18. 2988.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    The commenter with the advice clearly mean "sales" as the department or role. To a founder or CEO the word "revenue" is used where you're using "sales", it isn't wrong except in context but the intent
19. 2989.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    Looks like it's sold out, which is a pity, I enjoy the design. You have a typo on the front page, 'eletronig' for 'electronic'.
20. 2990.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    That would be wonderful for betting markets on the outcome of elections. Would it produce good governance do you think? I think, perhaps, the opposite.
21. 2991.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    I think you're wrong. An algorithm which will produce the same results every time you feed a set of numbers into it is objective. I don't respect your attempt to make objective mean something it doesn't.
22. 2992.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    Correct, as I said, it isn't fair, merely objective. It isn't possible to get fair by drawing lines around people which are smaller than the actual sovereign boundary under discussion. You can hand that power to the government, a
23. 2993.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    See, the Russell conjugation is that it demands gerrymandering, to keep Democrat strongholds blue. I'm really only speaking to the 10% of you who can think about this stuff without feeling those delicious squirts of tribal belonging
24. 2994.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    The problem posed by gerrymandering is a social problem, not a math problem. There are all kinds of geographical and legal boundaries in a country, with varying levels of affinity to them. Defining gerrymandering precisely isn't possi
25. 2995.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    Is the etymology actually obscure? I seem to recall it gaining currency in the warblog era (late but not lamented) and it's a way of saying someone has their head up their ass. They're wearing their ass as a hat. I remember this b
26. 2996.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    I accept that you learned a lot about the limits of combining RockDB with Kafka, especially in the exact way you combined them. This might have limited utility if the goal were to combine RocksDB with something else. And even less for SQLit
27. 2997.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    It's effectively worth what you can sell it for, so 0.91USD for Terra. This reflects a market consensus that there's about an 80% chance that it won't regain the peg, if you think about it.
28. 2998.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    I wouldn't design that way. SQLite has a default limit of 10 attached databases and a hard limit of 125. Having several areas of concern managed by distinct databases, with some occasions which warrant joins across the domains, this is
29. 2999.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    Just so we're all perfectly clear, this one poster got upset about this website and reported it for misleading information and this is now the top comment. The company sells an air scrubber: https://minearc.com/produc
30. 3000.▲
    by samatman 5y ago

    Using ATTACH. Works a treat. SQLite query planner knows about ATTACH.