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by vegabook 10y ago
The efficiency gain vs time invested is not exponential. It's linear at best and plateaus after about 5k hours. It is this plateauing of the curve that is the biggest reason power Excel users move to R or Python. That was certainly my
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by vegabook 10y ago
It's much more about simulating a server in a VM, than running 4 VMs. And servers need lots and lots of RAM as the kind of database stuff usually run in them (even for prototyping) is usually memory bound not processor bound.
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by vegabook 10y ago
I'm wondering, doesn't the blockchain expend vast amounts of electrical energy to do artificial work just to keep the system credible? And as the capitalization grows, energy consumption grows with it? Isn't this a problem fo
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by vegabook 10y ago
oh please. Not everything in life has an rsquared and a p-value. It's perfectly obvious, when perusing the HN comments and the rest of the internet, that the Macbook Pro has been generally poorly received by high end users, for credibl
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by vegabook 10y ago
I don't get it. What's off putting to you about this?
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by vegabook 10y ago
How are 1800 comments in one HN thread post-Macbook-pro launch, an "insignficant sample"? Stats 101. And should we ignore the qualitative evidence that this issue has been picked up by multiple independent sources, including the u
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by vegabook 10y ago
> As an IOS developer..... k so you're at the center of Apple's attention. You're lucky. You perhaps don't need 32 Gig. Many of us do though, and 16 gig limit is just as nonsensical as it gets on a "Pro" c
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by vegabook 10y ago
okay try and use any networking library such as zmq, and see what a pain in the butt it is, most definitely refuting the idea that "you can write python 2.7 code if you want". You're going to be polluting your code with .enco
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by vegabook 10y ago
no you can't. Unicode by default is a complete pain in the butt when working with libraries that want bytes. It's just a complete mess.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Firstly I did not say half a trillion. I estimated that the kind of investor who will buy into zcash has to believe in crypto upside, and I assumed 10% crypto share of global money supply over time. IE 5 trillion. Second I said, along the s
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by vegabook 10y ago
You need to recalibrate your sense of scale when moving from equity micro to global macro. We're not in the domain of some tech startup. We're talking a venture that takes on the global money supply, 1% of which is 500 billion dol
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by vegabook 10y ago
fraction?? The money supply of the world is about between 30 and 80 trillion dollars. Let's call it 50 trillion. Let's say crypto gets 10% share over time, and these guys get 10% of crypto. That's 1% of the money supply. So..
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by vegabook 10y ago
yeah as if this is the beginning of some new Era. pathetic.
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by vegabook 10y ago
》power to uplift millions of people Haha. 10% premine to uplift the founders with millions, more like.
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by vegabook 10y ago
No the 16gig thing is real. It's a travesty that 32GB is not an option.
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by vegabook 10y ago
It's basically an insult.
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by vegabook 10y ago
I just don't understand. The chips have been available for 12 months. It's almost like they're doing it on purpose.
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by vegabook 10y ago
No 32gb? Is this true? Someone please tell me that's not true. I was (against all odds), hoping for 64! If this is true, consider me disgusted. I had 16GB in my (long lost, loved) 17-inch Macbook Pro, in 2009 ! I really cannot fathom
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by vegabook 10y ago
you are the entirely predictable, and, sorry, but very irritating, "who needs more RAM than I have ever needed" stereotype of every comment board ever. 16GB is peanuts for anybody doing anything serious in graphics, video, machine
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by vegabook 10y ago
99.99% This will be touted as the #1 reason to spend a few dollars to "upgrade" your apps.
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by vegabook 10y ago
As you are zealously talking your zcash book, maybe you would be willing to let me short this worthless charlatanry and transparent crytopportunism to you for actual dollars? Via a personal CFD?
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by vegabook 10y ago
it is the Internet Protocol File System . The clue is in the name. The analogy is entirely relevant. This thing is not just a replacement for http.
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by vegabook 10y ago
I assume you would also like ext4 to automatically delete your seldom used files, without asking?
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by vegabook 10y ago
IPFS appears here every 6 months, every 6 months the same questions get asked, the same problems get raised, the same collective sigh of bewilderment/disappointment appears to emanate from the comments, and it goes away again for anoth
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by vegabook 10y ago
does a bigger pile of stuff reject the hypothesis that the top of the pile can be more creative?
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by vegabook 10y ago
The nuance though is the direction in which the market moved. On the day, the market went from 20% for Brexit in the morning to 10% by the evening for Brexit. And this trend had been in place for about 10 days (ie Brexit losing ground). So
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by vegabook 10y ago
More horsepower can hurt because it's more expensive to produce content for (textures/polygons/realism expectations), and more money on the line for the studio means less creative risk taking permitted.
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by vegabook 10y ago
fair enough (and yes I now remember that it did have an Ati sticker on the front - you're right), but the point is that awesome gameplay is not a positively sloped function of hardware power. The correlation, once certain thresholds ar
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by vegabook 10y ago
yet to be fair, the very modest gamecube had some of the best franchises around (Metroid Prime a total classic), and even the PS2 did wonders on Shadow of the Colossus. It's almost as if, when the hardware is not supreme, creativity be
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by vegabook 10y ago
let's unpack the unpack. > Wireless infrastructure is immature and [the government can't spend]. The exact same thing could be said for the computer industry in the 40s and 50s, which was almost entirely funded by the governmen

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