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benchmars game is great, but sadly not well maintained anymore. Rust has it's flaws, but it's not runtime speed (much more compilation speed, IDE support, distributed compilation s…

The Rust - C++ speed comparison is sadly quite bad. On a modern machine, some of the benchmarks from the benchmarks game ran faster in Rust than in C++. It usually depends on the e…

The Ray Tracing part is really interesting. John Carmack describes the NVIDIA RTX architecture there.

I see, thanks! I didn't get any explanation for which rule I was banned. Inside Google it's well known that she had a relationship with Larry, although for us it was not allowed to…

Lightning network for Bitcoin has multiple privacy features, though it's still only in beta and will probably take a few years to have some adoption.

Sounds interesting, thanks! I had a few informative but controversial comments in the past... that may be the reason.

It looks impressive, I just don't understand why computer games don't use these techniques to feature realistic human bodies/faces.

It's not nicotine but polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons of tobacco that induce the CYP1A2 enzyme (which is the most important enzyme for caffeine metabilization).

Wow..Why is it that I have heared the word resources used for engineers a lot of times in my life but never overhead for managers?

If I was looking for a job, no open-office policy and ,,private spaces for teams of 3-6'' would be a great benefit. Hopefully at some point companies will use this benefit in their…

If you look at the linked newsletter itself, it's much more than just a prediction. Tim has a long explanation that I think is interesting: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/…

Actually the compiler could use types as hints for the optimization, so it doesn't sound that bad idea.

If by PBKDF2 you mean PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256, it should die as it's so much less secure than using Argon2 as a password hash function.

It's sad how hypocritical the business world has become. Netflix is focusing on showing sexual scenes instead of great storytelling and expecting people to be sexless at the same t…

In the research paper they use trusted computing hardware... just the opposite of trustless

The fact that so many young smart people from non-wealthy families become millionaires just disproves that it's getting harder to be billionaire. The biggest difference may be that…

Two-way data binding and composability don't have to be exclusive. I wrote a web framework that provides the two together, though it's right now in early state. Feel free to try it…

My favourite setting is to ring only for repeated calls. This way I'm relaxed and I know I don't miss something very important in a very rare occasion.

It would make sense if only those (+bcash) would have changed, but no, this is just normal volatility in cryptocurrency markets.

It's true that transfers to hot areas are hard (other transfers are very easy). At the same time OP was just accepted, and HR probably lied about how easy it is to transfer to thos…

I can't imagine House of Cards without Kevin Spacey, I didn't even dare to try to watch it.

Bitcoin devs are just what you described. They could have easily made millions of dollars by creating alt coins / ICOs before, with their technological knowledge they could have pu…

Adding other tents are probably easy, the hard part is slashing the cost of manufacturing to be profitable with $35000/car

Bitcoin has less than 0.1% adoption rate, I can imagine that people who bought telephones at 0.1% adoption rate had a common interest.