Hacker News: stepik777

New comment by stepik777 in "Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports"

stepik777 — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 20:58:24 +0000

In this particular case files are outright removed, not moved anywhere

New comment by stepik777 in "Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail"

stepik777 — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 21:46:11 +0000

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 everyone who broadcasts them. And after segwit2x fiasco I don't think miners will even try.

New comment by stepik777 in "Wasmjit: Kernel Mode WebAssembly Runtime for Linux"

stepik777 — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:50:25 +0000

> they probably just need some clear decisions around how to handle endian issues

They are handling endian issues by simply requiring little-endian.

New comment by stepik777 in "Minih264 – Minimalistic, single-header library for encoding H264/SVC"

stepik777 — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 22:09:55 +0000

Isn't ffmpeg's libavcodec a good decoding library?

New comment by stepik777 in "Minih264 – Minimalistic, single-header library for encoding H264/SVC"

stepik777 — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 22:06:55 +0000

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.

New comment by stepik777 in "Dear Moon"

stepik777 — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 09:16:11 +0000

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 I'm subscribed to has just posted.

New comment by stepik777 in "Firefox 62.0 Released"

stepik777 — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:10:08 +0000

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.

New comment by stepik777 in "Napoleon Was the Best General Ever"

stepik777 — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:49:56 +0000

> 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?

New comment by stepik777 in "Filament: Physically-based rendering engine"

stepik777 — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 10:46:50 +0000

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.peterkrautzberger.org/0186/

New comment by stepik777 in "It’s hard to have an unusual name in China"

stepik777 — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:23:44 +0000

There are dozens of languages using Cyrillic and many of them have their own unique letters. That would be very hard.

New comment by stepik777 in "It’s hard to have an unusual name in China"

stepik777 — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:19:12 +0000

> choosing the standard Latin-alphabet language

And of course choosing the standard Cyrillic-alphabet language

New comment by stepik777 in "Modern C++ for C Programmers: part 5"

stepik777 — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 20:02:04 +0000

I.e. all the things you would get from a proper package manager if there was one for C++.

New comment by stepik777 in "How ARKit 2 works, and why Apple is so focused on AR"

stepik777 — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 19:18:25 +0000

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.

New comment by stepik777 in "Researchers suggest that R.E.M. sleep serves to warm the brain"

stepik777 — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 17:09:57 +0000

> 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

New comment by stepik777 in "Show HN: Anon – A Unix Command to Anonymise Data"

stepik777 — Thu, 24 May 2018 18:08:06 +0000

Why is it a UNIX tool? What makes it UNIX? Would it not work on e.g. Windows?

New comment by stepik777 in "AV1: A new general-purpose video codec"

stepik777 — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 21:35:56 +0000

> 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

New comment by stepik777 in "Lab-grown diamonds threaten viability of the real gems"

stepik777 — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:40:50 +0000

Natural art?

New comment by stepik777 in "Audio Adversarial Examples"

stepik777 — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 21:49:33 +0000

What do you mean? How would it look like?

New comment by stepik777 in "Exmo Bitcoin exchange chief executive kidnapped in Kiev"

stepik777 — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 11:31:56 +0000

Ok, but why use a broken hash algorithm?

New comment by stepik777 in "Exmo Bitcoin exchange chief executive kidnapped in Kiev"

stepik777 — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 11:23:55 +0000

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 hardfork to a different address.