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frankenst1
3y ago
Oops, sorry. You can send it to frankenst1[at]freemailonline.us, much appreciated!
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frankenst1
3y ago
I also have been waiting for months now, if you still have one, I'll gladly take it :D
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3y ago
> No, this needs to have the plug pulled on it if we're to keep global warming to 2C. Bitcoin accounts for <0.1% of global CO2e and has one of the highest shares of renewables in any industry (since it competes globally for the c
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4y ago
The reported frequency is with respect to A1, which in this case appears to be the major allele C. According to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/?term=rs114142727 , the minor allele is G with MAF (ALFA) ~0.013, this wou
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4y ago
Can somebody who knows statistics explain something for me? They report ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01285-8/tables/1 , https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01285-8 ) e.g. the
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4y ago
Don't know about crypto, but for Bitcoin: ~11% of the Bitcoin supply is held by exchanges, and it decreases on average by 2,500 BTC per day or ~5% per year (over the last 3 years).
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4y ago
Just use Bitcoin. Don't trust anyone except yourself. You can store your coins in your phone, hardware wallet, paper wallet. You can encode it in steel and bury it in your backyard. You can "horcrux" them (e.g. via MultiSig o
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4y ago
Note that [3] https://holovolo.tv does not generate a mesh, but pipes the generated image trough a depth map estimator to create a parallax effect.
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4y ago
In JavaScript: let zip = (as,bs) => as.slice(0, Math.min(as.length,bs.length)).map((a,i) => [a,bs[i]]);
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4y ago
> Using regular cryptocurrencies is incredibly simple and elegant. It's only when people started to believe propaganda about disk space and cpu time (that never made sense with the most basic examination) that somehow something that
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4y ago
> lightning isn't on the bitcoin chain until it gets synchronized. That is literally the purpose of building second layers. We don't need to keep on-chain records of every microtransaction and coffee purchase in an immutable, e
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4y ago
Since LN's inception, liquidity and transaction count on the LN have roughly doubled with every year. In comparison, BCH has lost 80% of its transaction volume in the last year alone. Its blocksize is now 100KB on average and it now pr
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4y ago
Growth continued on second layers: Bitcoin's tx count on the Lightning Network has doubled over the last year. Forks of Bitcoin who attempted to scale by increasing the blocksize all failed and are practically dead (Bitcoin SV, Bitcoin
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4y ago
Selecting the text will show the source.
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4y ago
Ukraine is a current example Fiat: - People unable to withdraw the money in Ukraine. - Refugees being robbed of their live saving during their escape. - Refugees unable to deposit/exchange Ukrainian currency. vs Bitcoin: - Refugees bei
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4y ago
> wouldn't harnessing some more useful proveable activity tied to a lottery system be better Yes, but such a puzzle needs to be - easy to generate at a certain difficulty - difficult to solve - easy to verify and - the solution need
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4y ago
> I say "the price people were willing to pay" instead of "value" The price people are willing to pay is how you estimate the value of something. > For Bitcoin, the most popular one, on the order of 100.000.000.000
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> But even if all code was without mistakes, blockchains can’t do anything against threats like scams, fraud, hacking of devices with keys for the blochain or just plain old typos in a coin transfer. Nirvana fallacy. Bitcoin allows peopl
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5y ago
Misleading title. "Printer driver" suggests a piece of software which makes the printer accessible for other programs. The software in this article merely converts an image into a different format.
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5y ago
Interesting. >: "Whenever I hear a sound, I jump. A dog sits beside me. It barks. I " <: "jump" *** >: "Whenever I hear a sound, I jump. A dog sits beside me. It sleeps. I " <: "sneeze"
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> Last I checked the default keyboard samsung installs on their phones was collecting what you typed and sharing/selling that data with third parties. How did you check? Do you have a source/link?
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5y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/SM64PC/comments/q3nm9f/sm64_has_bee... for everyone without the Reddit app.
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5y ago
Try prefixing "old": https://old.reddit.com/r/SM64PC/comments/q3nm9f/sm64_has_bee...
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> I use a wired mouse with a 1000hz polling rate on an M1 Macbook Pro with vsync disabled system wide; it only actually disables vsync if you use an external monitor and close the lid of the MacBook Are you using a >120Hz Monitor or d
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5y ago
Do you have any experience if this actually improves things on Windows (not ChromeOS)? AFAIK DWM is the main culprit here (1-2 frames) and `desynchronized` does not circumvent it (but avoids at best 1 frame of canvas vs DOM synchronization)
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> Having one more "spare" slot on the belt (e.g. triple- instead of double-buffering) can help to smooth over unpredictable spikes caused by other systems, but it always costs one more frame of latency even if the spare slot is
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> But you could (hypothetically) render at 120 Hz refresh rate with a 30 second rendering latency. This is an important point. A 120Hz refresh rate causes _at least_ a worst-case latency of 8ms. People often drop the "at least"
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> Both Nvidia (and AMD?) have options to reduce latency to like 1 frame in their control panels. In case you are referring to pre-rendered frames, this only affects the amount of additional latency (not actual or total latency). > You
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Yes, there are also platform specific tradeoffs involved. For example on Windows >8, you can't disable VSYNC on an OS level. Only option to disable VSYNC is to circumvent DWM which must be supported by the individual application (e.
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5y ago
I agree. Seems like the idea is to not worry about additional frames of lag but instead increase display refresh rates so that for example at 144Hz, 2 frames of lag "only" amount to 14ms.
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