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netrikare··on Google Bard waitlist
Hey Google, you can't do waitlists/not available in your country if you are chasing your competitors and your product is inferior.
netrikare··on Did I just lose half a million dollars?
This can all be abstracted away, so end user doesn't even know he is interacting with blockchain tech.
netrikare··on BTC Hashrate dropped another 27% down ~62% form peak now at 2019 levels
This is temporary until miners move their hardware elsewhere.
netrikare··on Why this expert says to fight ransomware, we need to ban cryptocurrency
Banning it would make malware encrypt your data for "fun" and not profits of malware groups. Just like viruses in the '90s were written for fun.
netrikare··on Bitcoin is a disaster
In reality bonds are rolled over so not really.
netrikare··on Optimising for Concurrency: Comparing the BEAM and JVM virtual machines
>When is concurrency in Java ever hard+?

Take a look at dated, but still relevant book by Brian Goetz - Java Concurrency in Practice - many problems are illustrated with a code section.

netrikare··on I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower
Thank you for your answer! Any idea why would loops not use LSD when programmed using loopXX instructions but would use when cmp/jnX is used?
netrikare··on I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower
loopXX instructions do not use CPU LSD (Loop Stream Detector) while cmp/jnz construct takes advantage of it. This speeds up some small loops. Also, there are some rules in intel manuals for instructions within cmp/jnz loop like no mismatched push/pop, etc.

now, does anyone know why?

netrikare··on PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub
There are free, base functionality accounts in every bank in Poland. Debit card use is also free provided you make few transactions per month.
netrikare··on Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track
ark.intel.com indicates that transactional extensions are not present in 10th gen processors. Did Intel decide to abandon tsx-ni?
netrikare··on AMD Zen 2 Microarchitecture Analysis: Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome
Does anyone know if AMD is working on supporting transactional memory in their cpus?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Synchronization_Facil...

netrikare··on Facebook plans cryptocurrency debut
This will probably be great for people who trade a lot of cryptocurrencies. In some countries crypto-crypto trading is free from taxation. When cyclic crypto bubble bursts and multi-year downtrend starts, you have to sell those cryptocurrencies for USD and pray exchange does not go bankrupt/hacked/exit scam or withdraw and pay taxes. Right now there are some forms of stable coins issued by private companies with no guarantee of buying back issued tokens. Very unstable market. FBCoin may change this. I believe first customers will be cryptcurrency exchanges.
netrikare··on 500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a language app
A lot of people have impressive streaks - https://duome.eu/
netrikare··on Fuchsia OS Introduction
not true - you can have a program that is free of data races but still contains race conditions. Rust prevents data races.
netrikare··on Linux on the Mac – state of the union
Apparently you can now install Linux on yogas: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-Yoga-Series-Notebooks/Yo...
netrikare··on Apple Pay
Well, the point of those payment systems is to make money out of fees and basically control the whole system. You cannot do that with decentralized payment methods.
netrikare··on How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math
This. Whenever someone tells me programming is some kind of magic I tell them to write me a note with steps of making pancakes. That's the most basic form of programming I can think of. That opens their eyes.
netrikare··on Bitcoin heading towards $200, new bubble forming
Well, price has risen not because of businesses across the world adopting the currency but because of only Baidu saying they will accept Bitcoin. That does not justify 50% rise at all.