stepik777

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by stepik777 8y ago
In this particular case files are outright removed, not moved anywhere
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by stepik777 8y ago
And how would miners convince most exchanges and services accepting bitcoin to use their own Bitcoin implementation instead of Bitcoin Core? Because Bitcoin Core and compatible implementations would just discard invalid blocks and ban every
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by stepik777 8y ago
> they probably just need some clear decisions around how to handle endian issues They are handling endian issues by simply requiring little-endian.
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by stepik777 8y ago
Isn't ffmpeg's libavcodec a good decoding library?
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by stepik777 8y ago
Unless you cannot use GPL, I suggest to use x264 for encoding. It is simply the best there is. There is nothing similar to it.
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by stepik777 8y ago
Time has changed. There is just too many information now - news, memes, TV shows, music, etc. And this is just another news in an ocean of other news. People are going to the Moon, cool, now lets check out what that Instagram celebrity that
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by stepik777 8y ago
I'm also using Windows 10, 4K monitor, Firefox and GTX 1060 and have no issues. So your issue might not actually be related to resolution.
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by stepik777 8y ago
> For instance, French Emperor Napoleon gained .49 WAR for his victory at the Battle of Borodino. Yes he won that battle and probably all other battles in that war. But he has lost the war. Does it make him a good general?
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by stepik777 8y ago
No it doesn't, it renders it as a bunch of spans. MathML is basically a dead standard for the web - browsers either don't support it or support is incomplete and with bugs which makes it useless. https://www.peterkrautz
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by stepik777 8y ago
There are dozens of languages using Cyrillic and many of them have their own unique letters. That would be very hard.
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by stepik777 8y ago
> choosing the standard Latin-alphabet language And of course choosing the standard Cyrillic-alphabet language
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by stepik777 8y ago
I.e. all the things you would get from a proper package manager if there was one for C++.
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by stepik777 8y ago
It would be ok if it is voluntary - you can upload your face and choose what information about you is shown, not if someone scans the entire internet to collect as mush information as possible and make an app of that.
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by stepik777 8y ago
> it seems so inefficient to bring the entire computer online just to maintain its temperature In what sense is it inefficient? In terms of energy 100% is converted to heat anyway
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by stepik777 8y ago
Why is it a UNIX tool? What makes it UNIX? Would it not work on e.g. Windows?
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by stepik777 8y ago
> Surely AV1 would be infringing on at least some of HEVC's expansive patent pool Yes, it probably would, but if these patents are owned by members of AOM it is not an issue
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by stepik777 9y ago
Natural art?
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by stepik777 9y ago
What do you mean? How would it look like?
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by stepik777 9y ago
Ok, but why use a broken hash algorithm?
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by stepik777 9y ago
No, it wouldn't. First of all, it is obvious that there will be no consensus. And even if there was consensus it would be very challenging to do because deploying a hardfork takes time while criminal could transfer his money before the
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by stepik777 9y ago
Maybe it is just not a good technology. Just compare it to others: C++ - memory unsafe, no GC. Java - memory safe (by default), has GC. Rust - memory safe (by default), no GC. D - memory unsafe (by default), has GC. Authors of Java solved m
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by stepik777 9y ago
The RGB model that is currently used (sRGB) is just an emulation of CRT-displays, it is not how human vision works. There is not actually much conceptual difference between red and yellow.
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by stepik777 9y ago
Yellow is about 575nm, while cyan is 490nm if this diagram is correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PlanckianLocus.png
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by stepik777 9y ago
And what does this have to do with colors being spectral? If you look at the cie chromaticity diagram you can see that yellow and cyan have wavelength corresponding to them while purple does not.
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by stepik777 9y ago
> large advantage How is this a large advantage? When was the last time someone actually did this?
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by stepik777 9y ago
> printing free money How are they free? You need equipment and electricity. > I have some otherwise very smart friends who are mining coins with GPUs Do you want to say that mining is stupid? If you mine the right coins and hold them
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by stepik777 9y ago
So in 2017 he suddenly realized that visual recognition, speech recognition, etc are done with neural networks. How enlightening!
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by stepik777 9y ago
> the value of my original coins drops by the difference in value compared to the new coins (or around that). Prices of cryptocurrencies are very unstable even without any forks, so what you are describing doesn't make any sense.
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by stepik777 9y ago
> The "New York Agreement" was a blog post, it was never a legally binding and enforceable contract. More important is that those who signed simply have no power to change Bitcoin. > There's a strong argument that the &
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by stepik777 9y ago
Big blockers made an agreement among themselves, what did they hope for?

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