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New comment by insertnickname in "Learn Go by writing tests – Hello, world (2018)"

insertnickname — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:25:26 +0000

I_don't_know_why_we_even_have_spaces._Somebody_tell_me!

New comment by insertnickname in "Bitcoin may consume as much energy as all data centers globally"

insertnickname — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 21:57:35 +0000

And Argentina.

New comment by insertnickname in "The Fed Is Down"

insertnickname — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:04:54 +0000

Yes, but not really.

New comment by insertnickname in "Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half"

insertnickname — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:16:35 +0000

Satoshi compared Bitcoin to Visa in 2009.

>The existing Visa credit card network processes about 15 million Internet purchases per day worldwide. Bitcoin can already scale much larger than that with existing hardware for a fraction of the cost. It never really hits a scale ceiling. If you're interested, I can go over the ways it would cope with extreme size.

New comment by insertnickname in "Bitcoin Could Smash Socialism in Venezuela"

insertnickname — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:34:06 +0000

There are other cryptocurrencies than BTC, like Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Dash, which work well for any transaction, big or small, with low fees and fast confirmations.

New comment by insertnickname in "Bitcoin Could Smash Socialism in Venezuela"

insertnickname — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:31:04 +0000

BTC is an intentionally crippled fork of Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash works as Bitcoin was always meant to, with low fees and fast confirmations.

See https://whybitcoincash.com/

New comment by insertnickname in "Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future"

insertnickname — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:56:31 +0000

I'm Scandinavian too. I don't assume that.

New comment by insertnickname in "Dogecoin trading volume hits $5B, surpassing Bitcoin's for the first time ever"

insertnickname — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 14:52:22 +0000

>Today almost no one accepts it as payment. Exactly because it is unstable.

Or because transactions became too expensive.

New comment by insertnickname in "Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi's whitepaper from website after threats from CSW"

insertnickname — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:13:16 +0000

Who's running a full node on their phone?

New comment by insertnickname in "The Ultimate MacBook+PC Monitor Showdown"

insertnickname — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:45:16 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a shot.

New comment by insertnickname in "The Ultimate MacBook+PC Monitor Showdown"

insertnickname — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:40:37 +0000

That's one of the things I already tried.

New comment by insertnickname in "The Ultimate MacBook+PC Monitor Showdown"

insertnickname — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:08:33 +0000

I have an old Dell U2713HM, but text looks terrible on it when connected to my MBP. It looks fine with other computers running Windows or Linux, but not with the MBP for whatever reason. I already tried all the configuration changes suggested in various places around the Internet, but it doesn't make any difference. Is it possible it could be because I'm using a DisplayPort to USB-C adapter?

I'm looking at buying a new monitor to get past the problems with my old one. The ViewSonic VP2771, but I can't find it in stock anywhere close to me. Does anyone have a suggestion a similar product? 1440p, 27", USB-C, specifically for use with a MBP.

New comment by insertnickname in "In CPython, types implemented in C are part of the type tree"

insertnickname — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 10:37:01 +0000

>A language with a good type system (ex. Haskell, OCaml, Rust etc.) makes it hard to write bad code,

Maybe they wouldn't be writing any code if they had to write it in a languages like that.

New comment by insertnickname in "I've been merging microservices back into the monolith"

insertnickname — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 09:01:42 +0000

Jimmy Bogard's talk "Six Little Lines of Fail"[0] is an interesting case study of all the ways things get so much more complicated when you can't just roll back a transaction if something goes wrong.

[0]: https://youtu.be/VvUdvte1V3s

New comment by insertnickname in "Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help"

insertnickname — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:02:48 +0000

Android Studio is a Google product built on top of IntelliJ.

New comment by insertnickname in "Death of an open-source business model"

insertnickname — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 21:31:34 +0000

You can write such a license if you want (or hire a lawyer to write it), but it's not FOSS and it never will be. Why is it important to you that such a license is recognized as FOSS?

Pilot Trial of High-dose vitamin C in critically ill Covid-19 patients

insertnickname — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 06:09:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-52778/v2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24773635

Points: 1

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New comment by insertnickname in "A Picture of Java in 2020"

insertnickname — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 07:48:51 +0000

At least for JavaScript, it seems like it still doesn't support Inline Variable. I can Extract Variable, but not Inline. Of course, that's a different matter than whether it's supported for Java. Last time I tried using the Java extensions for a non-trivial Spring Boot project, it was intolerably slow. I managed to convince a coworker to switch to IntelliJ after he saw the difference between my setup with IntelliJ and his with VS Code.

New comment by insertnickname in "A Picture of Java in 2020"

insertnickname — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 08:07:32 +0000

>I think the author doesn't know what VSCode can deliver.

Can it Inline Variables yet?

New comment by insertnickname in "Debian project has plenty of money but not enough developers"

insertnickname — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 06:50:50 +0000

This 2019 blog post from a Debian developer describes some of the problems they are facing from a developer perspective: "Winding down my Debian involvement" https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-windin...