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by tfha 8y ago
They don't show ads yet. Once operating systems started integrating ads, I became increasingly cynical. Ads are the current end game for anything with access to user eyeballs. Just give it a few years, until whatever devision needs som
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by tfha 8y ago
I think that's what the grandparent commenter meant. Early startups with large growth opportunity used to be abundant on the stock market. But now the burden is too great, so only larger companies can IPO. I even hear phases like &quot
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by tfha 8y ago
I'm glad he made a followup instead of editing the original. The two together make up a fantastic whole.
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by tfha 8y ago
Isn't it the case that RISC-V is only open for non-commercial use, and that for commercial products it still has licensing requirements attached to it?
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by tfha 8y ago
Mine come in a small aluminum tube. It's awesome, and it's got a spare in a second compartment. https://www.earpeace.com/
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by tfha 8y ago
Have some high fidelity ear plugs myself. The hi-fi goes a long way! I wear them in the car, in the bus, on the train, at a loud restaurant (can still hear friends), at concerts, in the datacenter. I never expected them to be so comfortable
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by tfha 8y ago
There's already practical cryptography to do what you just described called Confidential Transactions. It's not true homomorphic encryption, but it does securely hide the amount transferred on the blockchain while still guaranteei
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by tfha 8y ago
If we had proper homorphic encryption, we could use regular home user machines for a cloud, airbnb style. You can't do that today because the security risks are completely unmanageable. But that all changes with homomorphic encryption.
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by tfha 8y ago
There are no download statistics for that though
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by tfha 8y ago
Merge request page load times. Sometimes it can take like 5s for a merge request page to load (and then another 5s for the comments), and that's noticeably more frustrating than github's snappy UI. 5s isn't world ending but i
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by tfha 8y ago
If you want to compete with GitHub for open source projects you are going to need a 'releases' page that's similar (at least in function) to github's. I would like to see that prioritized more, I think it's more imp
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by tfha 8y ago
I couldn't easily pull up any screenshots, but I've been a video encoder for some years and I can tell you that psy-rd (the x264 option to add film grain) does wonders in terms of grain fidelity. The problem with matching the grai
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by tfha 8y ago
Some artists will intentionally put scratching or crackling into their music for atmosphere. Imagine an audio codec that eliminated all scratching and crackling from music. Some people may not mind but many artists would hate it. Film is th
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by tfha 8y ago
The most computationally efficient encoding algorithms can do hundreds of frames per second at 720p even on mobile. The price you pay is quality and filesize - it'll be large and look awful.
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by tfha 8y ago
Depends how good you are with an encoder. It's not compression, the grain does change, but since it's just random anyway, the human eye can't notice so long as it's the same type of grain. Encoders generally have a few o
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by tfha 8y ago
You can tell the ordering of transactions in the absence of a trusted third party. There's an entire body of research dedicated to ordering transactions called Byzantine fault tolerance, but all of them require trusted parties to maint
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by tfha 8y ago
I would definitely argue that blockchain is closer to the arpanet days than it is to the world wide web days. This stuff is so early. A lot of the really enabling infrastructure doesn't exist, and won't exist for years. Most build
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by tfha 8y ago
The torrenting app will just consume all the extra space, leaving just as little for gaming as there was before.
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by tfha 8y ago
Link? Do the skills get more advanced with each generation?
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by tfha 8y ago
But none of them have the ability to pass learned knowledge through many generations the way that we can. For most species, what a mom can teach a kid is very limited, and special skills tend to be static between generations as opposed to c
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by tfha 8y ago
You can't, but that doesn't mean you can't do the same for fully digital services like cloud storage.
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by tfha 8y ago
The service we provide is not a physical one that gets shipped, it's a digital one where we can use the blockchain to escrow payments until there is a cryptographic proof that the digital service has been provided according to the cont
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by tfha 8y ago
No. If it costs less to produce, you'd just increase production until one passed the other. The demand surge might delay the inevitable for a year or two, but fabs would catch up and then the HDD would retire. dshr misses the mark a lo
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by tfha 8y ago
You can ask those same questions about any attractive person or any person with powerful family members. Does that mean we can't employ those people either? Of course not. If a manager runs a tight ship and treats their team fairly, t
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by tfha 8y ago
Any relationship could be coercive. But just because it's possible for a relationship to be coercive doesn't mean that it is going to be. I don't see what's wrong with a supervisor dating a suboridinate if both parties a
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by tfha 8y ago
Yeah I never understood this either. Does that mean a bachelor US president can't date a US citizen? Yes, power can be abused. But anyone with a knife at home can abuse that knife by stabbing someone. That doesn't make it wrong to
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by tfha 8y ago
That's incredible... Is this real?
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by tfha 8y ago
I mean, a big problem to me is that Github wasn't open source. It was a closed source, SaaS product that a lot of people depended on. An open source, open identity, self-hostable platform would be a lot better. And, we're running
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by tfha 8y ago
Don't need 2^2048 to crack RSA 2048. There's a saying "every time a grad student looks at rsa the recommended key length increases."
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by tfha 8y ago
12nm is not a substantial gain over 14nm.

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