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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @01:03PM (#26092613)
It's worth noting that current bitcoin capitalization ($600B) is also more than Argentina GDP ($445B), so it can be said that bitcoin users constitute a rather significant (bit)nation on this planet.
Re:I Still Use RSS on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:52AM (#26035333)
I want to point out excellent koreader[1] program for e-readers, that features RSS client. So you connect, fetch your articles and start reading without distractions.

For such use cases RSS is god-send and I am glad that substack and many blogs do support that.

[1] https://github.com/koreader/koreader

Re:Why Julia on Saturday February 23, 2019 @12:34PM (#19234372)
I wish Julia would be more strict wrt type coercion of integer to float values.

I've once spent a day debugging the issue caused by the following line of code, where t1, t2 are floats and v is an array:

d = (t2 - t1) * length(v)

It should've been LinearAlgebra.norm():Float instead of length():Int. Had julia been stricter the code would have failed to run, saving me much time.

Re:Lispers on Sunday August 20, 2017 @05:07AM (#15057606)
AFAIK Haskell doesn't support metaprogramming. Perhaps you mean "Template Haskell"?
Re:TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:53PM (#12662554)
Could someone please write a summary on what has changed in Tox project over last year?
Re:TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:51PM (#12662541)
Not so much on mobile phones.
Re:TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:50PM (#12662534)
That's from wire terms of usage: http://dump.bitcheese.net/images/nexikud/wire.jpg
Re:TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:49PM (#12662515)
I did this once and ended up with corrupted profile.
Re:Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml on Sunday September 04, 2016 @08:08PM (#12427353)
Re: last part

Idris programming language has "Uniqueness types" [1], that are inspired by Clean and Rust.

There is also an interesting talk [2] where Idris author discusses state/side-effects management.

[1] http://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/reference/uniqueness-ty...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpPyolN65s0