Hacker News: netrikare

New comment by netrikare in "Google Bard waitlist"

netrikare — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:15:19 +0000

Hey Google, you can't do waitlists/not available in your country if you are chasing your competitors and your product is inferior.

New comment by netrikare in "Did I just lose half a million dollars?"

netrikare — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 12:18:42 +0000

This can all be abstracted away, so end user doesn't even know he is interacting with blockchain tech.

New comment by netrikare in "BTC Hashrate dropped another 27% down ~62% form peak now at 2019 levels"

netrikare — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 12:05:36 +0000

This is temporary until miners move their hardware elsewhere.

New comment by netrikare in "Why this expert says to fight ransomware, we need to ban cryptocurrency"

netrikare — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 07:37:28 +0000

Banning it would make malware encrypt your data for "fun" and not profits of malware groups. Just like viruses in the '90s were written for fun.

New comment by netrikare in "Bitcoin is a disaster"

netrikare — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:47:35 +0000

In reality bonds are rolled over so not really.

New comment by netrikare in "Optimising for Concurrency: Comparing the BEAM and JVM virtual machines"

netrikare — Wed, 13 May 2020 20:25:35 +0000

>When is concurrency in Java ever hard+?

Take a look at dated, but still relevant book by Brian Goetz - Java Concurrency in Practice - many problems are illustrated with a code section.

New comment by netrikare in "I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower"

netrikare — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 01:37:50 +0000

Thank you for your answer! Any idea why would loops not use LSD when programmed using loopXX instructions but would use when cmp/jnX is used?

New comment by netrikare in "I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower"

netrikare — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 22:14:41 +0000

loopXX instructions do not use CPU LSD (Loop Stream Detector) while cmp/jnz construct takes advantage of it. This speeds up some small loops. Also, there are some rules in intel manuals for instructions within cmp/jnz loop like no mismatched push/pop, etc.

now, does anyone know why?

New comment by netrikare in "PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub"

netrikare — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 01:56:09 +0000

There are free, base functionality accounts in every bank in Poland. Debit card use is also free provided you make few transactions per month.

New comment by netrikare in "Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track"

netrikare — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:29:10 +0000

ark.intel.com indicates that transactional extensions are not present in 10th gen processors. Did Intel decide to abandon tsx-ni?

New comment by netrikare in "AMD Zen 2 Microarchitecture Analysis: Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome"

netrikare — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 11:04:53 +0000

Does anyone know if AMD is working on supporting transactional memory in their cpus?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Synchronization_Facil...

New comment by netrikare in "Facebook plans cryptocurrency debut"

netrikare — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 11:47:45 +0000

This will probably be great for people who trade a lot of cryptocurrencies. In some countries crypto-crypto trading is free from taxation. When cyclic crypto bubble bursts and multi-year downtrend starts, you have to sell those cryptocurrencies for USD and pray exchange does not go bankrupt/hacked/exit scam or withdraw and pay taxes. Right now there are some forms of stable coins issued by private companies with no guarantee of buying back issued tokens. Very unstable market. FBCoin may change this. I believe first customers will be cryptcurrency exchanges.

New comment by netrikare in "500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a language app"

netrikare — Sat, 04 May 2019 23:01:44 +0000

A lot of people have impressive streaks - https://duome.eu/

New comment by netrikare in "Fuchsia OS Introduction"

netrikare — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:07:32 +0000

not true - you can have a program that is free of data races but still contains race conditions. Rust prevents data races.

New comment by netrikare in "Linux on the Mac – state of the union"

netrikare — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 08:42:51 +0000

Apparently you can now install Linux on yogas: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-Yoga-Series-Notebooks/Yo...

New comment by netrikare in "Apple Pay"

netrikare — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:05:50 +0000

Well, the point of those payment systems is to make money out of fees and basically control the whole system. You cannot do that with decentralized payment methods.

New comment by netrikare in "How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math"

netrikare — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 22:09:12 +0000

This. Whenever someone tells me programming is some kind of magic I tell them to write me a note with steps of making pancakes. That's the most basic form of programming I can think of. That opens their eyes.

New comment by netrikare in "Bitcoin heading towards $200, new bubble forming"

netrikare — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:32:42 +0000

Well, price has risen not because of businesses across the world adopting the currency but because of only Baidu saying they will accept Bitcoin. That does not justify 50% rise at all.