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Re:Golem – A Decentralized Supercomputer on Saturday April 22, 2017 @04:18AM (#14171631)
I don't know what to think of a website that scrolls with 2 fps on mobile, lagging my whole browser and loading in about 10 seconds while having "GOLEM IS THE NEW WAY THE INTERNET WILL WORK " as it's introducing heading..

I mean the idea sounds great, I am very much in favour of decentralization, Ethereum, etc. but this website doesn't really show competence

Re:Introducing Token on Friday April 21, 2017 @07:07PM (#14170148)
> for a complicated reason I can explain if anyone's interested

PoS?

Re:OpenBSD 6.1 is not a CD release on Sunday April 16, 2017 @10:38AM (#14125949)
It could just count the number of logins and do a transaction at the end of the day|week|month
There is also bc [1] which isn't stack based and pretty standard. See [2] for a discussion on dc vs bc.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bc_(programming_language)

[2]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/124518/how-is-bc-di...

Re:Apple Releases MacOS 10.12.4 with Night Shift on Monday March 27, 2017 @03:17PM (#13970777)
It could be that they just don't want to deal and test with older versions. By only specifying a certain number of supported displays they essentially guarantee it works for those, that doesn't mean however it can't work on others, you just don't get the assurance of it.
Re:Mathify – Simple Text Equation to LaTeX on Sunday March 26, 2017 @02:50PM (#13962387)
That's literally the second thing the website mentions: To use curly brackets for invisible brackets:

    sqrt{1+2x^2/3}
    x^2/{3x}
> Perhaps a more apt title would be "Python for the GPU"

Why Python? Futhark is a purely functional language and looks a lot like Haskell, so I think "Haskell for the GPU" would be a better title

Re:LastPass: Security done wrong on Thursday March 23, 2017 @05:01PM (#13944234)
Re:"All Operating Systems Suck" on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:45PM (#13926556)
> All Apple OS's really suck.

I know I should take this with a grain of salt, but I can't help to feel a slight hate for Apple.

> Sort algorithm broken in Swift

I really want to believe you, but I can't find any information on this, what are you referring to?

Re:Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions on Saturday February 25, 2017 @10:10AM (#13731852)
For anyone needing to decide what hash function to use, I recommend to have a look at multihash: https://github.com/multiformats/multihash
Re:Txt.fyi on Thursday February 23, 2017 @04:37PM (#13718045)
That's really the point, to be as minimalistic as possible. The less features something has the less points of failure are possible. If you need a certain feature, use something else.
Re:Txt.fyi on Thursday February 23, 2017 @02:37PM (#13716987)
Re:Dafny – A programming language with a program verifier on Thursday January 19, 2017 @08:48PM (#13441159)
Check out Idris maybe