WayneS

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by WayneS 11y ago
That makes is pretty clear to me. They are not generating actual Bitcoins. Read the article again. "we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested in bitcoin as a protocol"
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by WayneS 11y ago
Reading this I really didn't get the impression the chips would be generating actual bitcoins. Just currency-like tokens for doing resource management and proving that something occurred.
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by WayneS 11y ago
Ok, continuing the argument from the article and not discussing practical methods of waste disposal... Instead of using chemical rockets for the entire dV how about using a rocket to get into orbit and then using an ion engine driven by sol
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by WayneS 12y ago
To be convincing they need a fake room where the camera can pull backwards and you can see there is no way the sun is real.
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by WayneS 12y ago
Old now '95. That is the an early pre-production version Pentium Pro running at 100 Mhz. The 256k L2 cache was really fast relative to memory because it was in that second die in the same chip.
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by WayneS 12y ago
I like to combine the graphs together into one picture and then another processor structure appears the picture: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4893/mem_lat3.jpg This graph show the memory latency for a linke
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by WayneS 12y ago
> A sticky overflow flag would be great... "if properly scheduled" That is the rub right there. Think about what this means. Every ALU operation needs to read whatever register contains this state and write a new value. So ever
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by WayneS 12y ago
Anyone else read that as "wessel" with a fake Russian accent?
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by WayneS 12y ago
And a little bit north you can see that big crane on a barge in the water. Very cool.
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by WayneS 12y ago
Yes is it all closed. Look at bittorrent-sync. Totally cool, but closed and controlled. I don't see that working here, other than being used for porn and piracy.
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by WayneS 12y ago
Agreed, the new perl looks like Ruby. And I am willing to bet Ruby is more self consistent and easier to learn. (Says the perl 5 expert)
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Introducing the KNFB Reader iOS – for people who are blind or visually impaired(knfbreader.com)
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by WayneS 12y ago
You understand it is making $90k/day revenue?
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by WayneS 12y ago
bad things. This is much more practical for torpedoes. In fact you would almost call those missiles at that point. Yup, it appears that is already a thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supercavitating_torpedo...
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by WayneS 12y ago
"But what is up with the Visual Basic community? They are neither angry nor happy. They just ... are? :)" This is answered by the mentions relative to TIOBE graph. They use VB, but they are careful not to talk about it.
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by WayneS 12y ago
No information on the website and it doesn't answer the key question. Why is this better than doing the same thing in Evernote? Evernode's free level is plenty for storing receipts.
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by WayneS 12y ago
You seem to be assuming someone is using Ubuntu One.
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by WayneS 13y ago
Same here: Centurylink DSL in Indiana
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by WayneS 13y ago
Green? Because it runs off batteries? Is that all it takes. OK, but didn't we just have a discussion on hacker news showing that helicopters with one large blade are more efficient than ones with many smaller blades?
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by WayneS 13y ago
Here is a part that I don't get. Do they actually change the magnetic strip on the 'coin'? Or does it have a fixed VISA number that is tied to your ID and owned by the 'coin' company. Then they just use the coin
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by WayneS 13y ago
The easiest for the US is coinbase.com. Unless you want to buy a lot. But they are not an exchange so you can't setup buy/sell orders.
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by WayneS 13y ago
I agree the log chart is the desired way to view the data because then a straight line is showing steady growth. But look at the chart you posted. I see a sharp uptick on a nice linear trend since July. Now go look at the rest of the chart
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by WayneS 13y ago
Nice answer. However in practice current Intel processors do CRC32 in hardware. This blows away the rest and has really nice results. So I use portable code that using Intel's slicing-by-8 CRC32 code for generic machines and then au
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by WayneS 13y ago
Ahh that is kinda how "exponential growth" works. But clearly the exponential part is recent because if you project backwards at doubling every 4 weeks you find the hash rate started at one hash every 28 days. ;-)
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by WayneS 13y ago
Use the keyboard
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by WayneS 13y ago
I really wanted to like this but it was missing a couple key features for me. I described by problems in the github issues page and wondered back the theoldreader. When theoldreader got slow and was down for over a day I came back and fou
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by WayneS 13y ago
The thing about China and possibly several other countries on your list is that while college is cheap (or free), the number of students accepted are very low. So for example only the top 10% (or 1%) of high school students even get the op
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by WayneS 13y ago
Don't apologize too much. I was having fun demonstrating how to track this stuff down. That said I would have been really upset if I had donated a significant amount of money to the EFF and then they decided to give all of it away. BTW it
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by WayneS 13y ago
I am going to have to call bull on that. Here is the original EFF donation page: http://web.archive.org/web/20110514012705/https://www.eff.or... It contains the bitcoin address. Here is the history for that address: https://blockchain.in
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by WayneS 13y ago
So they profit from idiots? That is a pretty good strategy, they will never run out.

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