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by zakk 9y ago
You cannot mine Bitcoin with a quantum computer, as there is no quantum algorithm to calculate SHA hashes.
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by zakk 9y ago
I think that’s a lost cause, sadly. The manufacturer can and will make the device more and more difficult to tear apart, and less modular. This can partly be a design choice, but also affects the possibility of repairing... Still, I am not
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by zakk 9y ago
In the city I live in I can hail a standard taxi with the app of the local taxi company, of course I can share a ride, and I can pay with bank card/credit card. I never had to report bad behaviors, but I could just look at the taxi num
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by zakk 9y ago
> those systems are superior to traditional Taxis. For some definition of superior. For instance, Uber is for sure superior in stripping the taxi drivers of their rights. https://stallman.org/uber.html#abuse
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by zakk 9y ago
Just about 50k people live in the islands... The density is quite low, and much more people lived there in the past, now for locals it's more profitable to just rent their flat to tourists, while living in the mainland.
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by zakk 9y ago
They beat the US in sending the first man to space. Saying that “they never achieved much” is a gigantic understatement!!
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by zakk 9y ago
3.20180108.0+really20170707ubuntu17.10.1 that's quite a horrible versioning scheme.
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by zakk 9y ago
Few people would cash it, anyway.
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by zakk 9y ago
> So, Navier-Stokes assumes infinite divisibility in the fluid it models, right? You are right. > It seems obvious to me that Navier-Stokes can't be a perfectly accurate description of reality, so it should come as no surprise if
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by zakk 9y ago
Click here to discover that crazy instruction! C++ programmers HATE IT!! (I am just ironizing about the title, the content is actually great!)
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by zakk 9y ago
The best explanation of Meltdown I’ve read.
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by zakk 9y ago
> It can mostly be fixed by making sure aborted speculative execution has no side effects. Not an expert, but if speculative execution has no side effects, not even on timing, then you might as well disable it. Speculative execution is m
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by zakk 9y ago
> And more obscure consoles are doomed to be forgotten. That’s why projects like MAME are very important.
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by zakk 9y ago
I don't think this is the full story. They claim the add-on was disabled by default, and needed to be manually activated. Note that the description of the Looking Glass addon was "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS." Not
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by zakk 9y ago
SHA is already quantum resistant. The problem is with public key encryption, i.e. bitcoin addresses.
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by zakk 9y ago
The MacPorts system is flexible enough that you can use it to install any kind of software. Honestly I don't know if that's popular, when using Homebrew and MacPorts I was always installing open source stuff...
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by zakk 9y ago
MacPorts user here. Uses case are the same, but: - MacPorts does not track you by default with Google analytics. - MacPorts lives by default in a self-contained directory tree. - MacPorts tends to be more stable than Homebrew, but that’s ju
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by zakk 9y ago
I am sorry but I don't understand... The standard specifies what is UB, and the implementations must behave accordingly to be standard-compliant. If your code avoids UB behavior as specified by the standard it will run in the same way
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by zakk 9y ago
I agree with most of your points, but... > Even if the generated code is clean today regarding UB, you cannot ensure that a new C compiler version won't be introducing such issues. This is not correct. Undefined behaviour is specifi
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by zakk 9y ago
> It's not like you have a right to appear in Google's search results... Yes you have. If Google is not representing competitors fairly in search results, that's abuse of dominant position.
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by zakk 9y ago
> Definitions of words are ultimately arbitrary > If you want to use terms differently than I do, that's fine, just explain what you mean and we should be able to communicate. That is the lamest excuse for losing an argument I ha
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by zakk 9y ago
> I've been told that this is one of the main changes that resulted from Vatican II: there is only one God and it's shared by the whole world population. On the other side, the Catholics pretend to have the "right" wa
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by zakk 9y ago
> Could you please define what you mean by "metaphysical entity"? This confirms my impression that you have no idea of the philosophical terms we are using. > I, as most people who would label themselves atheists, don't
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by zakk 9y ago
> When I say "Harry Potter is a work of fiction", would you object that that relies on a metaphysical belief and unless I can demonstrate with absolute certainty that Harry Potter does not exist, then that is to be treated the
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by zakk 9y ago
> The former is a pretty accurate summary, the latter a sign of delusion. No, both sentences rely on a metaphysical belief. Unless you can demonstrate with absolute certainty that there is no God, then the first and the second sentence a
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by zakk 9y ago
> That's the view of Jesus' later followers You are absolutely right. But the Catholic faith is not about a literal interpretation of the Bible, is about the so-called depositum fidei, i.e. how the Catholic Church holds and tra
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by zakk 9y ago
You completely missed the point. When talking about religion, you can do it in two different ways: - Childish talk. For an atheist it will be "Haha! You believe in fairy tales and fiction books", for a Christian it will be "Y
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by zakk 9y ago
I was just showing -- because someone asked -- why many statements by the Pope don't fit well in the Catholic system of beliefs. I cited the Athanasian Creed to expose a contradiction with what the Pope says. Contrary to you, I didn&#x
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by zakk 9y ago
> I haven't asked him for details, because we have to work together in a music group and if we fall out the chances are the whole thing stops happening If you ask respectfully, I see now reason why you won't get a polite reply.
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by zakk 9y ago
This is incredibly offensive and ignorant. I am happy with my present, however I am surrounded by Venetian culture, everywhere around me, from my native Venetian language, to monuments in my city, from food and traditions to street names in

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