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by zik 9y ago
Pumped hydro storage is also inefficient - about 20% losses.
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by zik 9y ago
That's literally how the original TCP/IP implementations were tested: by running them against each other in "bake-offs": https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1025 I think there's a lot to be said for
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by zik 9y ago
Here's an example of a fake electrolytic capacitor bought on the gray market: http://www.discovercircuits.com/dc-mag/Issue_4/Photos/FakeCa...
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by zik 9y ago
> It really isn't distributed computing because there is a shared agreed and singular "truth". The last three of the seven scaling options are fully distributed and don't have a single shared truth. > However, as o
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by zik 9y ago
It probably means that it used to favour activating one waiter over others, but now is less likely to do so.
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by zik 9y ago
In Australia most over the counter payments are done with NFC cards. Some banks allow this to be done with a wave of your phone so you don't need to carry credit cards at all.
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Why I Put const on the Right(plange.tech)
2 points by zik 9y ago|0 comments
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by zik 9y ago
The design philosophy of Go is all about practicality - it's about helping programmers write programs quickly and easily with the least friction from the language. In my opinion it excels at that. For my money it's the easiest lan
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by zik 9y ago
I think you're thinking of llgo, not go-llvm.
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by zik 9y ago
Given the several month long lead times on hardware fabrication they must have known a long time ago that they couldn't deliver any time soon.
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by zik 9y ago
Yes, Australian "457 visas" are the equivalent of US H1-B visas.
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by zik 10y ago
I once wrote a C interpreter for scripting (picoc) which had memory safety. To my surprise I received a lot of complaints from people who wanted the more conventional memory unsafe semantics. I changed it to being memory unsafe and I'v
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by zik 10y ago
That was the exact point of the ASICBOOST FUD we've seen in the last week - to cast uncertainty and doubt. Taking a step back though it all seems like just the latest attempt to distract from real issues. ASICBOOST is just another opti
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by zik 10y ago
No, after the hard fork has settled Unlimited will simply "be" bitcoin. There's no need to change wallets. On the other hand if the current "Core" development team prevails with their much more complex "Segwit&
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by zik 10y ago
I don't claim or believe that the core team is owned by Blockstream. However top contributors like Greg Maxwell, Luke Dashjr and Peter Wuille are Blockstream employees and there's no doubting that they have considerable influence
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by zik 10y ago
I respect your work on bitcoin, and don't get me wrong - I don't think most core developers are complicit in what's going on. I think all you guys are doing great work and will be welcome on whichever team prevails in this me
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by zik 10y ago
Gavin Andresen was left as lead developer by Satoshi Nakomoto. He was forced out.
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by zik 10y ago
There's a lot of back story behind this. The story as I see it is this - a bank which opposes bitcoin in its current form funded a company called Blockstream to kick the lead developer off the Bitcoin development team and take control
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by zik 10y ago
Like I said, no realistic mechanism. The effect is so small as to be insignificant, and even more so now than in the Bitcoin XT days.
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by zik 10y ago
> What can happen in this scenario is that the big players can make a loss temporarily while the smaller players lose money. Eventually the smaller players (miners) close shop which would make bitcoin more centralized. As far as I can te
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by zik 10y ago
The utility of bitcoin is damaged by the limited maximum transaction rate. It's no help to miners if bitcoin is replaced by another cryptocurrency, which is looking more plausible now than it ever has. In the end they could be collecti
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by zik 10y ago
Not that there's anything terrible about Segwit, it's just that we already have better solutions for everything it claims to do. For instance we have a solution for the transaction malleability issue - Flexible Transactions - whic
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by zik 10y ago
Also Segwit will only give us the block size increase when people transfer their existing bitcoin funds to new Segwit wallets. This is expected to be a slow process so any block size gains probably will be too gradual to be helpful.
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by zik 10y ago
Not just unethical. Illegal. Indefinite detention without charge is against the law.
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by zik 10y ago
Personally I write compilers in C++ on the weekend.
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by zik 10y ago
> Go, however, is like a Toyota Corolla or a Honda Civic. The only problem with this argument is that everywhere - even in this thread - there are people saying that Go is a joy to program in. It's not lacking magic, it's magic
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by zik 10y ago
> What problem is this code trying to solve? I think you missed the point of this hack - the problem he's trying to solve is described in the article: > The common issue associated with switch statement is typically maintenance;
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by zik 10y ago
Misunderstanding or not I think that as a kid I would have thought it was a pretty awesome experience!
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by zik 10y ago
It's legal for them to disable the software but not for them to prevent the user from using the hardware. It depends on how literal the "bricking" really is but if they made it impossible to load up (say) cyanogenmod then the
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by zik 10y ago
250W is all that's legal in my country so that limit is fine by me. I can still go as fast as really makes sense on the bike paths I commute on.

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