tomtomtom777

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by tomtomtom777 5y ago
Really? This one aligns pretty well with what I've learned. It seems that the entire stack of people in software development is tasked with identifying problems and subdividing them in to smaller problems. This goes for coders structur
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by tomtomtom777 5y ago
> The parts which are single lane allow only transit in one direction at a time currently, so twining it will not solve the current problem. If there are two directional channels you have the option to use the other for both directions w
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
Consider a small commit with spelling error. If I turn this into a patch and apply it to another branch it will be a different commit even it will be the same patch. As such, the concept of a "commit" in Git refers to a complete
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
> I would agree "slave" seems a weird choice of a word Can you clarify this? If one machine/repo/system acts only on the orders of another, wouldn't "master" and "slave" be clear, descriptive
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
> Bitcoin's big invention is that miners are economically incentivized to work in the best interest of the network. That sure is a powerful invention, but this does not mean decentralized networks cannot exist without it. Most are r
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
> Though now I wonder why there isn't a VSCode-equivalent (emphasis on "works out of the box" and "easy to use") for the terminal. The terminal is effective because you can combine all kinds of tools together. Or
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
I am simply pointing out that the usage of Bitcoin or something else is better assessed as comparison to global consumption. Trying to map energy usage per product/category to energy usage per country is not insightful and misleading,
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
> Countries have millions of people in them, which are doing many things with that energy. It illustrates the waste. But Bitcoin is something that people are doing with energy in countries. It is 1/2000th of the average person&#x2
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
It seems really weird to compare the energy consumption to that of a country. "The total energy usage for the production of cars/yachts/fitness machines/musical instruments/toilets equals that of country X" Wha
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
You are correct but using programmers terminology here is confusing. The opcodes 31 C0 mean "Set EAX register to zero" The opcodes 31 D8 mean "Set EAX to EAX xor EBX" The trick part is in the mnemonics used by assemblers
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
In the Fediverse, it would make sense to use government servers whose moderation rules are overseen by the legislative branch.
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
There is an additional cost to such a dependency that isn't expressed in bytes. Javascript/CSS/HTML forms the common basis of web development. You may assume every reader of your code is familiar with it. If you use a specifi
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
I like the white-space: pre-line trick and very much like the omission of unnecessary <html> and <head> tags as the parsing of such valid source is neatly prescibed. But abusing <code>, <h4> and <h5> like that
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
I still don't quite understand how they can manipulate the price. The price of a USDT is 1 dollar. They give out new USDT for $1 a piece. Sure, they may be spending these dollars elsewhere, thus holding a fractional reserve. Sure this
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
Even in harem species, on average , each male gets exactly the same number of offspring as a female. If say 75% of the specimen would be female, being a male would yield on average thrice as much children compared to a female, so it woul
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
You seem to be using a rather specific meaning of the word "research". If, for example, I pause coding and spent a few hours comparing and reading about various libraries to aid in a certain task, wouldn't this task be best d
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
True. On that point, let us celebrate that this episode is over.
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
I am personally more aligned with ideas more progressive then Biden, so I certainly don't think people rejecting control of the virus and addressing climate change is "cool". But when people are effectively given a binary cho
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
Many of the people that voted for him, "support" him only by means of rejection of the other side. If you are against one party, you will vote for the other. The feeling of being against something is generally much stronger than t
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
> Pretty sure. Nature, being unconcerned with fairness, has little regard for per capita statistics. But nature also has little regard for per country statistics. Splitting China into two countries, isn't going to lower their poluti
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
Maybe if we start the habit of signing one's own appearances, this at some day will make unsigned video considered unreliable. But I guess this is wishful thinking given that we don't even generally sign written comments yet.
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
> All the data may be on the disk, but (last I checked) POSIX didn't require that filesystems not get completely corrupted in the event of a system crash. It does. It specifies how the filesystem should behave in a particular (non c
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
Interesting. It's not the first time I hear about problems with Public Domain, but I wonder what this means in practice. Are there any issues in Germany with professional usage of common Public Domain software like Sqlite?
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
Sure, you are still dependent on constraints to durability and atomicity of the filesystem write of the new data. But this is handled properly in most modern filesystems (ext3,ext4,zfs) by default (as data=ordered ensures data writes preced
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
How can a rename not be atomic over a crash? What does a partially renamed state even mean? Surely, if I do "write foo~", "rename foo~ foo", regardless of any crash, foo is either pointing to the old data or the new da
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
This doesn't work because the link() syscall fails if the target exists. You use a hardlink only for atomic creation of the initial data: write 'foo~' hardlink 'foo~' onto 'foo' To atomically
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
The set of features a language provides is part of an unwritten contract: We write our code such that it minimizes the amount of effort to read it, under the assumption the reader knows the language . This way, it makes sense not to use a
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
I don't think it is possible or planned to use StarLink directly from a mobile phone. You will need a ground station to communicate that isn't going to fit in a pocket.
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
> in general even in principle mathematicians can only deal with a countable subset of the reals. So (metamathematically) if almost every single real can't actually be used in mathematics, it's hard to say the concept has much
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by tomtomtom777 6y ago
This is an odd jump you are making. Most energy isn't used just for food, shelter and some transportation, and certainly not for "bitcoin and simulations". By far most energy is used to produce things (including the transport

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