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by zik 10y ago
There's been a bit of an unusual spike of about 30% in the last couple of weeks due to a sudden influx of Chinese investors. Now it's returning to something closer to its normal value.
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by zik 10y ago
I commute to work 15km each way on an e-bike and I do almost all of it on bike paths away from cars. It's a very pleasant way to commute. I don't need to use any special "bike roads" - the existing bike path infrastructu
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by zik 10y ago
I've ridden a few converted bikes and a few purpose built e-bikes. In my opinion the purpose built ones are far better than any conversion I've ridden. In fact I now own a Gazelle.
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by zik 10y ago
Neither copy on write nor size checking are specced as part of the calloc() definition. Here's the specification of calloc from the ISO standard: 7.22.3.2 The calloc function Synopsis #include <stdlib.h> void *cal
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by zik 10y ago
There are no decent houses anywhere near the major cities of Australia to be had for anywhere near $215k. The median house price in Australia is $659k. The apartment median is $518k.
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by zik 10y ago
Here's an example of a good tram system: http://dyob.com.au/sites/default/files/u9/96%20North%20Carlt... It's separated from the traffic so it's fast, doesn't have associated tyre and
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by zik 10y ago
In big cities these days most parking is off street anyway. A trend to remove on street parking in favor of better pedestrian safety and improved traffic flow can only be a positive.
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by zik 10y ago
Not sure how it could be seen as a Ponzi scheme. By definition a Ponzi scheme has to return money from its later investors to earlier investors and I don't see anything like that here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by zik 10y ago
> Go doesn't have a nice REPL like IPython, and it never will. https://github.com/motemen/gore There are a few others too.
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by zik 10y ago
Another example of bureaucratically named concepts is one used heavily in FPGAs - what programmers would call a library or a package in FPGA-land is called an "IP core". I don't know where the naming comes from but it really
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by zik 10y ago
That was interesting right up until the end - and then it was infuriating. Having established that she was indeed '16" broad' and theorised that this was just because people were smaller then the author completely fails to tr
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by zik 10y ago
I guess you haven't lived anywhere else in the world other than the US then... Because tipping is completely optional everywhere except the US (and Canada). Even the US has only done it this way for about 100 years. http://w
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by zik 10y ago
Because it worked so well for Etherium...
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by zik 10y ago
I think JavaScript is used extensively in web development but almost not at all anywhere else. TIOBE places it at 7th place: http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index RedMonk with its more web-centric focus places it at #1: http:&#
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by zik 10y ago
It reflects the biases of github and stackoverflow which tend to reflect the interests of enthusiasts and web developers. I don't think it very accurately reflects what's used in real life, either for the innumerable hours of bori
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by zik 10y ago
UNIX was designed to run background processes and do offline computing. I log into multiple remote systems every day and connect to my ongoing tmux sessions in other countries. This isn't exactly an unusual use case. Banning this is a
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by zik 10y ago
I suspect it's more for fun than anything. It should make a very fast web server for static content if he ever finishes it though. I note that he's finished implementing ARP but not ICMP yet. That means he has TCP still to impleme
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by zik 10y ago
In places like Australia where it's legal and regulated disease and abuse are not issues. Prostitutes have a lower rate of STDs than the general population and brothels are monitored for compliance with workplace practices.
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by zik 10y ago
Sex work is legal where I live, and prostitutes have less diseases that the general population due to regulation of the industry enforcing safe sex practices.
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by zik 11y ago
This article is deliberately misleading. It's wearing its biases on its sleeve by admitting to only the direct deaths of Chernobyl (43) and saying that the WHO's projected tally of 4000 deaths merely "might suffer some ill ef
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by zik 11y ago
There are multiple open source implementations of it available, written in hardware description languages. You can program those on to an FPGA or even make an ASIC if your budget extends to that. The http://www.lowrisc.org/
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by zik 11y ago
C was quite a few years before Modula-2. C was developed in 1972 and was heavily used in UNIX by 1973. Development of Modula-2 wasn't started until 1977 and it wasn't widely available until the 1980s.
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by zik 11y ago
No it doesn't. It translates the verilog source into C which it compiles to a native executable for simulation.
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by zik 11y ago
Surely this is illegal? If a Nest tech turned up at your door and when let in to do "service" he took a hammer to the device destroying it, people would be suing left and right for property damage. Surely this is just the same?
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by zik 11y ago
> Everyone can be a leader. This seems like a naive point of view. In any real organisation people naturally form hierarchies, even if they're implicit and unstated. It's just human nature. Then if someone lower in the hierarch
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by zik 11y ago
Go's popularity in hobby projects is probably due to it being a pleasure to work with. After programming in C++ at work it's a language I turn to at home when coding for my own enjoyment.
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by zik 11y ago
I know what you mean. Every time I say "the visual quality is really much worse than you'd expect" people downvote me to hell. But those pixels remain very very chunky.
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by zik 11y ago
So an American government agency destroyed an American business merely as collateral damage of trying to persecute an unrelated guy who'd revealed their wrongdoing. And they won't face any consequences for doing this. Something is
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by zik 11y ago
Or even better a single signing key for each phone so they don't get carte blanche access from a single request.
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by zik 11y ago
It's great to see how RISC-V has stimulated a lot of activity in open source CPU design. There are a few implementations now: * Rocket https://github.com/ucb-bar/rocket-chip * lowRISC ASIC http://www.lo

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