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stepik777

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    Comment #18157231

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

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    Comment #18089064

    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 imp…

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    Comment #18074919

    > they probably just need some clear decisions around how to handle endian issues They are handling endian issues by simply requiring little-endian.

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    Comment #18048273

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

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    Comment #18048261

    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.

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    Comment #18013696

    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,…

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    Comment #17919254

    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.

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    Comment #17784135

    > 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…

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    Comment #17686300

    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 ma…

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    Comment #17625756

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

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    Comment #17625722

    > choosing the standard Latin-alphabet language And of course choosing the standard Cyrillic-alphabet language

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    Comment #17612300

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

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    Comment #17328846

    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…

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    Comment #17279005

    > 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

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    Comment #17146670

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

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    Comment #16797211

    > 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

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    Comment #16554315

    Natural art?

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    Comment #16269389

    What do you mean? How would it look like?

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    Comment #16028946

    Ok, but why use a broken hash algorithm?

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    Comment #16028912

    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 …

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    Comment #15973753

    Maybe it is just not a good technology. Just compare it to others: C++ - memory unsafe, no GC. Java - memory safe (by default), has GC. Rust - memory safe (by default), no GC. D - …

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    Comment #15917571

    The RGB model that is currently used (sRGB) is just an emulation of CRT-displays, it is not how human vision works. There is not actually much conceptual difference between red and…

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    Comment #15917507

    Yellow is about 575nm, while cyan is 490nm if this diagram is correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PlanckianLocus.png

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    Comment #15913303

    And what does this have to do with colors being spectral? If you look at the cie chromaticity diagram you can see that yellow and cyan have wavelength corresponding to them while p…

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    Comment #15845199

    > large advantage How is this a large advantage? When was the last time someone actually did this?