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timow1337··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
Compared to C, rust compiles much slower. This might not matter on performant systems, but when resources are constrained you definitely notice it. And if the whole world is rewritten in Rust, this will have a non-significant impact on the total build time of a bunch of projects.
timow1337··on ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
unfortunately, the sdk doesn't work with hi applications yet. the way the screen works has changed significantly. There are community projects that make it work though: https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer
timow1337··on European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
Does anyone have a list of which MEPs voted for and against? I can't find it yet.
timow1337··on Blockchains from a Distributed Computing Perspective [pdf]
The paper just describes a new method for selecting the main chain. Bitcoin uses the longest chain (with the most work) whereas this paper wants to use the block that is the child of the heaviest sub tree.

The ledger would still be a chain of blocks.

For real tree like blockchains there are a few examples such as IOTA, raiblocks and byteball.

timow1337··on Cuberite – A lightweight, fast and extensible game server for Minecraft
Does anyone know a similar project but for the client side? I've always thought using c++ instead of java would improve performance a lot.
timow1337··on Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units
Too bad it doesn't support complex numbers
timow1337··on The Slow Criminalization of Peer-To-Peer Transfers
Satoshi Nakamoto also intended for the block sizes to go up after an amount of time, yet the bitcoin core team isn't willing to upgrade and tries to promote their own agenda (blockstream).
timow1337··on Green Threads Explained
If loops are implemented as tail calls, doesn't the call opcode get optimized away thus preventing the reduction checker from being run?
timow1337··on Facebook fined €110M for providing misleading information on WhatsApp takeover
I'm in favor of the ruling but I don't understand why the European commission has any authority over two american companies merging?
timow1337··on Modern C [pdf]
now do the second example with an unsigned type.
timow1337··on Raspberry Pi Bare Metal Programming with Rust
The new raspberry pi zero can be run as a device, so you could use that.