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by chm 10y ago
They advertise a "fair" distribution. Note that 98% of all bytes and blackbytes will be distributed to current Bitcoin holders who bother to prove their Bitcoin balances during at least one of distribution rounds
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by chm 10y ago
Alright, I was feeling quite whiny yesterday. My opinion of Windows is not that bad - I bought a license, which is enough said :) I don't prefer OS X over OpenBSD or Debian. What I like is that I can mostly just hop from one to the o
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by chm 10y ago
No. ~1200 PCs and laptops. I understand that it seems like I'm exaggerating. I'm not. Either I have been incredibly unlucky (or stupid in my choices), or Mac hardware is of better quality. But you're right that it's anec
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by chm 10y ago
I understand your point about having to give an honest shot at Windows - I bought a Win10 license some months ago. It's fine. Until I wanted Emacs. Until I wanted to uninstall software. Until I wanted to setup a VM in VirtualBox (set u
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by chm 10y ago
My experience with hardware that comes pre-loaded with Windows is that it is utter crap. Or so it seems - it works fine once you remove Windows and install Linux for example. I have kept none of my previous Windows machines. None. They al
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by chm 10y ago
Some important parts: The examples we're finding are so bad, I cancelled some weekend plans to go into the office on Sunday to help build some tools to cleanup. I've informed cloudflare what I'm working on.
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by chm 10y ago
I really like my FX-8320E but it's definitely not a speed demon. It struggles in single-threaded performance, in such tasks as web browsing... Even running vanilla Debian 8, browsing Reddit in Firefox is a bad experience. Images load v
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by chm 10y ago
non-Touchbar I've configured some of the new MBPs with touchbar and I really dislike the bar. No ESC for me is a complete no-go. Otherwise I haven't used the huge trackpad enough to know if I like it or not. And the ke
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by chm 10y ago
I read "mozza", then I "got" the web reference, and immediately disliked it. I don't really understand how moz://a is better than Mozilla, but I don't categorically oppose it either. New branding is f
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by chm 10y ago
What I remember of L'étranger (other than the story) is its short sentences and rhythm that drags you into the story right from its opening words: "Aujourd'hui, maman est morte." I found that the short sentences combined
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by chm 10y ago
I agree that historical context should be taught in classes. I wrote a Master's adding plenty of historical notes about "why" this and that approximation was thought of, and proposed. Sometimes it doesn't take much - jus
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by chm 10y ago
No, the "o" in "coke" is not how the one in "coq" would be pronounced. Another poster mentioned that it sounds like more like the "u" in "cuck".
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by chm 10y ago
FWIW you would pronounce "Coq" much more like "kuhk" than "cock", if that makes sense. But that depends on the accent :)
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by chm 10y ago
It depends on the processors the machines use and the actual sharing of these processors. I agree it looks more expensive but it might not be upon further analysis.
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by chm 10y ago
To me this is what's important. I mainly use VPSs because I'm lazy! I have a bunch of 5$ droplets that I use for development, and even sometimes just to move things around the net more easily... For my particular use case, I don&#
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by chm 10y ago
Yes, and having worked with Fortran code for years, we used the routines to calculate... and Python to analyze the data. A colleague even scrapped old Fortran routines in favor of Python + Numpy, as he could be more productive without a not
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by chm 10y ago
I really like your project. I do question its usefulness however. If you get any performance hit from using these, you beat the point of using Fortran (over say Python) in the first place :) Don't you think?
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by chm 10y ago
There are many questions yet to be answered wrt PoS, but one that I have yet to hear a good explanation for is the initial coin distribution. A blockchain would be mined for a set period of time, and then PoS turned on. A great advantage of
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by chm 10y ago
Colonizing Mars and "saving" Earth are not two opposed goals. You don't have to choose one or the other. You can do both. The problem I have with the argument proposed by McKay (and a lot of others) is that it's way too
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by chm 10y ago
Unacceptable. Proper formatting is a prerequisite. It's not about being elitist - it's about readability and efficient communication. The equations in these "theses" are so badly formatted I would have taken off marks if
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by chm 10y ago
The illusion could probably be easily tested with a VR headset. The section entitled "Anisotropy of visual space" is very interesting.
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by chm 10y ago
This link is in first position, was submitted 20 minutes ago and has 14 points, yet the host is unreachable. I'm interested in knowing if people actually read the article or upvoted the title?
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by chm 10y ago
I'm a Mathematica customer for life. I have been using it for the last 6 years, and I've built only one "big" project in it. I don't like it for "software development", but any time I want to hack somethin
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by chm 10y ago
Hi OP! These were the best spent 4 minutes of my day :) At first I was confused but you really presented it well.
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by chm 10y ago
I'm working on a project in Dart. It just works, and it feels simple, and the type system means I can think more cleanly about my code. I like it, and this news is great!
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by chm 10y ago
I suggest you try using multiple small extraction volumes instead of a single big one. The long extraction time could be shortened, and you will get less heavy molecules out (which in tea, for example, tend to make the brew taste a bit bad)
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by chm 10y ago
There was a massive (relatively speaking) emigration of Canadians (apparently mostly Canadiens français) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries[1]. The estimates for the period are of about 160K to 800K (including descendants) Canadians
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by chm 10y ago
According to this, Canada was in the top 3 from 1910 to 1969 (being #1 from 1920 to 1949). Mexico has been #1 since 1960 up to present. It would be interesting to see the number of immigrants per country (at least in the top 3) as well as t
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by chm 10y ago
During undergrad, me and some peers (all chemists) talked about having such a network of air sensors. Having good resolution on air quality measurements could drastically improve the quality of life of people living in big cities. We never
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by chm 10y ago
They were Concerta (extended release) 36mg. We also had 54mg capsules once or twice. We all weighed around 140 pounds at the time.

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