All this brings up long subdued memory .... my HP-25 ,which had cost me one months work during school holidays.. I still
remember when I got payment and the next day walked into
the shop and told the perplexed salesperson : I want this!
He thought nobody in his right mind would buy a calculator without an equal sign button.
Anyway I used it from 1975 to abt 1993 when the battery
leaked .
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jaco8 commented on Ethereum London Mainnet Announcement blog.ethereum.org/2021/07... · Posted by u/bpierre
I compiled and run an ethereum beaconnode on a raspberry 4.
How much is this helping the ecosystem ? Why is running a beaconnode which helps validators to find the next transaction faster not being supported by fees (however tiny they may be). There seems to be no incentive to run this at all ... or am I missing something ?
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jaco8 commented on Grenfell Tower inquiry: key things we’ve learned this year bbc.co.uk/news/uk-5534939... · Posted by u/vijayr02
It basically is a fraud with the leaseholder the victim.
The system has failed.
The government issued occupational permits.
The fire services signed their ok.
The cladding companies used false reports to get approval.
The construction companies made a mess.
The solicitors approved the title deeds for signing without checking realities.
Now everything is false and needs to be renewed with costs beyond belief.
The leaseholder is the consumer and must be protected by
consumer protection law and also will need to be compensated for any loss.
The government will need to foot the bill and then can claw the costs back from their own departments,cladding and construction companies as well as other parties who failed the leaseholder.
The waking watch is another fraud forced upon leaseholders.
Two guys walking about with their smartphones playing games or sitting somewhere catching up on study books will not cut it. The freeholder getting kickbacks from the building insurance company , which is saying that anything can be insured at a price , is also laughing on the way to the bank.
jaco8 commented on Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence edition.cnn.com/travel/ar... · Posted by u/Tomte
The time of the night trains in Europe was the seventies with all kinds of nice routes like Lisabon-Paris,Munich-Roma,Amsterdam-Vienna,Munich-Copenhagen,Vienna-Oostende,Helsinki-Oulu-Narvik,Bodo-Oslo and many more come to mind. Hopefully these kind of trips will be possible again.
jaco8 commented on SQLite briefing for Linux kernel hackers (2019) sqlite.org/lpc2019/doc/tr... · Posted by u/symisc_devel
Wouldn't it just be easier to use MySQL or Postgres in that situation? I mean if you are connecting to a network share, why not use a database over the network instead?
You could also look into Firebird , there is an embedded server which provides you with more oomph , is easy to use
and has a small footprint.
jaco8 commented on Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial businessinsider.com/germa... · Posted by u/tosh
About 4 billion people will now ask themselves : Where is Germany and how can I immigrate ?
jaco8 commented on Go is boring, and that’s fantastic capitalone.com/tech/softw... · Posted by u/rauhl
If you were trying to choose between Go, D, Nim, and Zig for a general-purpose compiled language, what are the criteria for differentiating and what are the pros and cons of these languages? Are there other languages that should be included in this list? (Common Lisp?)
(FWIW, chief on my list of criteria is the "debug story": what kind of hell am I in when things inevitably go wrong?)
After looking through the lot we settled on Nim.
Give it a try , it will grow on you.
>Don't ever try Scala.
Don't ever try C++. I work on a medium-sized low-level C++ application, and every time we need to compile from scratch it takes over two hours on a single core. Even with distributing the compilation out across over a hundred cores the fastest it can get down to is around 20 minutes.
Just try Nim. It is fast.
jaco8 commented on Exiting VIM is hard; sometimes we need to take drastic measures github.com/caseykneale/VI... · Posted by u/3001
For the vim challenged:
apt-get install cream
takes care of most initial pain.