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by vvillena 9y ago
> Whatever the speed limit, you should never go 90 km/h in a blind turn if it is too fast to avoid a cyclist. I suppose it depends on the country, but usually roads mandate minimum speeds (tipically half the max speed) in order to a
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by vvillena 9y ago
Good thing you wouldn't ever need to do such a thing.
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by vvillena 9y ago
When the CryptoKitties craze was at its highest, the Ethereum network was still faster and cheaper than Bitcoin. It kept processing transactions (faster than ever, even). You just needed to pay more than usual. You make some good points, li
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by vvillena 9y ago
All of those lost against better tech, because they were but gimmicks. Cheap and efficient flight is better than supersonic, exclusive flight. High resolution, high contrast, high colorspace TV is better than 3D TV (IMHO VR is also better t
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by vvillena 9y ago
What? 2GB of RAM and 15GB of decently fast storage (preferably SSD) are the only hard requirements. That's not state of the art by any means.
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by vvillena 9y ago
The guy manages to really make that a side note. He is a really talented coder and engineer.
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by vvillena 9y ago
SBT ended up winning due to build plugins and cross compilation between multiple Scala versions.
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by vvillena 9y ago
Some quick explanation: := is the standard SBT assignment operator. You see it everywhere, so its use is clear. / is used for directory traversal. This is not SBT-specific, it comes from the File class in the Scala standard library. Th
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by vvillena 9y ago
GSync is expensive because it needs a special chip in the screen. Freesync is cheap and has been made into a standard.
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by vvillena 9y ago
Thats how booleans are encoded in the Ethereum ABI. 0x0 is false, 0x1 is true.
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by vvillena 9y ago
You can take a look at graphics cards companies. ATI/AMD went from Radeon to Radeon HD to Radeon R5/R7/R9/RX. Nvidia went from Geforce to Geforce GT. In all cases, the name change happened after the 900/9000 series
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by vvillena 9y ago
The problem with Scala is that it is so expressive and powerful that it is really easy to write unreadable code, especially when delving into the heavy functional side. Scala is the C++ of the JVM. There will be programmers that want to use
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by vvillena 9y ago
This is simply not true. The protocol spec that the DAO was in is still alive and well. It's called ETC. Could it be that you just resent the fact that people give a lot more value to a forked chain called ETH? This is understandable,
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by vvillena 9y ago
What? There are lots of european cars without driver displays. This is an example from 2003: http://imgur.com/a/AXMNn
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by vvillena 9y ago
I have a pair of 505 that is 20+ years and still looks like new. The tint faded a bit but the cloth and craft are perfect. That's why they don't make them anymore, I suppose.
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by vvillena 9y ago
>What value does the Ethereum protocol provide when a disagreement splits the network in two, without any recourse for either of the parties involved? Don't give splits such importance. The nature of blockchains means that the netwo
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by vvillena 9y ago
The DAO contract was not invalidated. It is still there, on the blocks where it was deployed. The fact that the people running the nodes stopped seeing that fork of the chain as the interesting one is distributed consensus at work. Anyone t
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by vvillena 10y ago
The second benefit of well-made roundabouts is that they impede head-on and T-bone collisions. All accidents become side-by-side accidents.
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by vvillena 10y ago
2) CHIP-8 is a tiny computer with a case, a keyboard, a screen, and PICO-8 preloaded.
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by vvillena 10y ago
Let's do one thing, then let's do the opposite. This shows Erdogan's (lack of) principles.
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by vvillena 10y ago
This is a tradeoff not everyone can afford to make. A clean Spacemacs installation right now brings in a broken org-mode that cannot do exports. Spacemacs needs version pinning and stable package channels.
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by vvillena 10y ago
You can use Racket, they recently introduced a new language pragma (#lang sicp) that includes all necessary functions.
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by vvillena 10y ago
Bloody Baron is a main quest, though. Anyways, side quests are indeed very well written. The werewolf quest in Velen comes to mind. The one where where you help Cerys an Craite on her own quest is also amazing (the one with the oven).
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by vvillena 10y ago
There is, though. General red with a specific green (the arrow pointing to the right) means you can stop, but once a car behind you wants to turn right, you need to turn right too in order to keep traffic flowing.
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by vvillena 10y ago
Exactly. Code is indeed law, but we should take into account both the code living on the blockchain and the code the nodes are running.
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by vvillena 10y ago
Crash Bandicoot for PS1 was so revolutionary that most studios were never able to catch on. Naughty Dog improved even more with Crash Bandicoot 2 and Crash Bandicoot 3, but the first game was already at the top of what the PS1 could do.
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by vvillena 10y ago
The first one is pretty approachable. The hardware constraints of its time made the game very focused in comparison to other 4X games.
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by vvillena 10y ago
Drive for two hours, rest for 30 minutes while the car charges enough to drive two more hours. While not exactly the same usage pattern as a fossil fuel car, it should be enough. We need more quick charge points.
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by vvillena 10y ago
Tail recursion is fully supported in Scala. The problem lies in more general recursion, i.e. two functions that call each other recursively will grow and eventually blow the stack. BTW, there is a Scala compiler annotation that helps you ch
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by vvillena 10y ago
The Force Touch trackpads are awesome. They are big, and clicking is done by pushing on the trackpad (and there is noticeable feedback). Right click is done via a two-finger push. Thus, no need for buttons. The best feature is that the clic

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