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by zik 8y ago
It's not a ban on loans, it's a ban on commercial banks creating money from nothing when they make loans.
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by zik 8y ago
The standard way of dereferencing std::optional is with .value() and that does provide a check and an exception. Using * and -> is equivalent to invoking "unsafe" in other languages. You get the semantics you ask for. If you do
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by zik 8y ago
I think what happened to Skype is a case in point. It doesn't matter who's running Microsoft, after that disaster I don't think anyone's going to be trusting them.
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by zik 8y ago
RAII was created as a solution to the problem of C++ code not releasing its resources when an exception happened. By putting the resource release in a destructor this is fixed through piggybacking on C++'s semantic of calling destructo
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by zik 8y ago
Apple sued the heck out every other tablet company to help cement their lead. It worked. What's annoying is that history will remember Apple as having "invented" the tablet. Prior to apple they were a sufficiently big thing t
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by zik 8y ago
You could make calls on the Palm Treo. It was released in 2004, three years before the iPhone. It had a touch screen (resistive) and a web browser. It was a pretty great phone for its time.
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by zik 8y ago
No, I was comparing ninja to make -j8. If you have large recursive makefiles they end up waiting for each sub-target to be made before the next directory is entered and made. This has a significant effect when compiling our ~100k line code
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by zik 8y ago
Yes, and the current GC has sub millisecond pauses so it's not necessary in any case.
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by zik 8y ago
I just converted a large project's build system from Makefiles to meson+ninja. The ninja part is significantly faster than make was because it's keeping all the processor cores busy all the time which make doesn't do.
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by zik 8y ago
They patented "a grid of icons" when it's literally the first way you'd think of doing the UI - basically the definition of an "obvious patent". Not to mention that it'd already been done that way many tim
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by zik 8y ago
Most flagship phones have them.
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by zik 8y ago
Exactly. Blockchain is genuinely radical - but its primary benefit is trustless decentralisation. When a single entity controls all the nodes then you don't have decentralisation any more and you might as well just use a conventional d
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by zik 8y ago
They're in the process of fixing dependency management with "vgo".
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by zik 8y ago
They're not using it in the same manner as pumped storage. They're using it for millisecond level FCAS response. Turbines can't do that very well.
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by zik 8y ago
While sperm is produced by the testes, most of the semen is produced by the prostate gland which is inside the body - not in the testes.
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by zik 8y ago
Wow. Tesla's really bad to their employees.
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by zik 9y ago
I feel like this article was an extended ad for Huggies. Particularly with the happy ending being "Tonight, she was bringing home Huggies".
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by zik 9y ago
Paxos and RAFT aren't generally considered to be PoS systems. I can see that there are some similarities but saying "PoS is how Paxos and RAFT work" isn't correct by the usual meaning of PoS.
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by zik 9y ago
Lightning Network seems very confusing. It's unclear to a casual user what "capacity" is and what it means to them. Or what any of this means, really.
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by zik 9y ago
It seems pretty unequivocal: > Samsung Electronics is to slash production at its OLED panel plant in response to customer Apple's decision to reduce output of the iPhone X following weak demand https://asia.nikkei.com&#x2
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by zik 9y ago
They're having problems with slow sales and are cutting production as a result. http://bgr.com/2018/01/29/iphone-x-sales-high-price-supply-c...
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by zik 9y ago
> For some reason nobody talks about the extreme nuisance of those bikes. In Melbourne where we have oBike no-one talks about anything else.
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by zik 9y ago
That still doesn't help with "I put my dog on his lead", "Usain Bolt is in the lead" or other cases where it's pronounced that way.
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by zik 9y ago
From memory yes, it's a lot faster. Compile/link of programs with a few thousand lines of code typically takes on the order of a fraction of a second to a second.
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by zik 9y ago
Go compilation prioritises compile speed over executable speed by default. It's very fast.
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The cost of forsaking C(blog.bradfieldcs.com)
185 points by zik 9y ago|136 comments
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by zik 9y ago
It's a dev board. It's not intended for end users, it's intended for people prototyping new systems based around the SiFive.
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by zik 9y ago
Actually I've yet to find anyone who has successfully done it. I suspect that they pretend to do it but don't actually do it in practice.
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by zik 9y ago
Don't ever keep coins on an exchange. Use a hardware wallet. If you don't have them in your possession they're not really your coins and you can get "Goxed" - ie. the world's largest exchange at the time, Mt Go
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by zik 9y ago
The "Gigablock Initiative" has tested it to 7000 tx/s with larger blocks - about the same transaction throughput as VISA.

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