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I really enjoyed Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom and found it valuable for the development of a DSL I'm working on. From https://craftinginterpreters.com/ : > Crafting Inte…

While somewhat lengthy, I found this post to be a great resource for learning about async and epoll: https://ibraheem.ca/posts/too-many-web-servers/ It starts with a simple single-…

Wait what? Propaganda? I really don't get why this is invoking such strong reactions...

Why is it insulting to point out that GPT can produce good results for this particular use-case? Being able to define your argument types and generate parsing code for them using a…

GPT is pretty good at figuring out argument parsing code based on example CLI usage. Like this: > Write bash code to parse the following arguments: > > $ ./export.sh --out-file dum…

It might be harder to detect if you open it as a separate window instead of docking it to the bottom/side of the window.

TL;DR: just pretend some code repo exists, interact with it, and GPT will happily fill in the blanks. Example: # Start with the "act as a terminal" preface (https://github.com/f/aw…

They could've created a federated SGX-based model on top of any of the existing cryptocurrencies. The only reason for them to invent a new one is making $$$.

100% of it is premined.

lol, what? This is not how things work in Ethereum. The foundation has the authority to do anything it wants, despite the community's wishes. The DAO bailout hard fork showed that …

> The overjustification effect occurs when an expected external incentive such as money or prizes decreases a person's intrinsic motivation to perform a task. Overjustification is …

Source?

From #bitcoin-core-dev on Freenode (shesek is me, sipa is Pieter Wuille [0], one of the most veteran bitcoin core devs) does bitcoin core ever verify merkle inclusion proofs? (I as…

Are you sure you mean merkle trees specifically and not just a tree structure in general? A merkle tree is a very specific type of hash tree, which Bitcoin only uses for transactio…

Blocks are not organized into merkle trees in Bitcoin. Full nodes pick the longest (PoW wise) valid chain and discards any other competing chains and their blocks. There are some a…

They are used in Bitcoin since day one in the full node implementation, but full nodes don't benefit from the merkle tree structure in any way. The first client that did benefit fr…

I wouldn't consider merkle trees to be a core component of Bitcoin. Full nodes don't benefit from them, they're only relevant for light SPV clients, which didn't even exists for a …

The source code (in Rust with LALRPOP) is available on GitHub: https://github.com/shesek/minsc The website has some example scripts and a compiler that you can experiment with. Hap…

This is the article in question, co-authored by Gwern and published on Wired in August 2015: "Bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto is probably this unknown Australian genius" https:/…

> see anyone neutral arguing it wasn't. Well, FWIW, I've never heard _anyone_, neutral or not, claiming the DAO hack was a bug in the Ethereum protocol before now... And that's bec…