LikesPwsh

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by LikesPwsh 1y ago
BTC can't move to proof of stake because religious zealots would keep their money in the old fork. It's doomed in general, see the cash fork.
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by LikesPwsh 1y ago
AWS/GCP are at least making money with their current pricing model. When your provider is dumping at a loss, it's their way of saying that the business plan is to maximize lock-in/monopoly effects followed by the infamous &qu
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by LikesPwsh 1y ago
You could, but it would be mad to skip the code review because it "only" touches customer-facing code rather than GHA.
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by LikesPwsh 1y ago
Giving analysts direct SQL access can be great, but you should tell them to use an IDE rather than trying to build your own IDE in a text box.
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by LikesPwsh 1y ago
Cryptocurrency contracts are going to touch actual tokens at some point. Even if the compromise wasn't on the developer's machine, it could have enabled a supply chain attack post-deployment.
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by LikesPwsh 1y ago
% of people vs % of games. A single person who "collects" games or buys them because it seems like good value can have thousands of titles in their steam library. Someone who actually plays all of them will have a much smaller num
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by LikesPwsh 1y ago
At a certain scale, face value is meaningless and all that matters is liquidity. $21tn in bitcoin isn't going to get you any more money than $1tn would.
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by LikesPwsh 1y ago
Mining and theft mostly.
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by LikesPwsh 1y ago
Miners get paid in BTC but have costs in money. They have to sell, so the money is coming from buyers and impacts holders via reduced demand.
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by LikesPwsh 1y ago
Yeah the paper gains are nice, but they all net to zero in real money.
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by LikesPwsh 1y ago
In the long term everything goes to zero, so an asset that pays no dividends but has significant storage costs isn't much good for investment. Bitcoin holders as a group are constantly losing money by definition. Some of them cash out
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by LikesPwsh 1y ago
Also FPS just requires throwing more compute at it. Excessively high detail models require extra artist time too.
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
I realise this is meant to be a jab at high-level programming languages, but SQL really did succeed at that. Its abstraction may leak sometimes, but most people using it are incredibly productive without needing to learn what a spool operat
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
Downvotes help clear out false but emotive posts. The sort of "gangs of [minority] on murder spree in [town]" posts that get so much traction on Facebook. Even if most people dismiss it out-of-hand, it's so inflammatory that
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
If you're already using python or powershell, you're not going to switch for one library (I.e. pandas or ImportExcel). For this library in particular, powershell is already installed on the computers of 95%+ of non-dev admin worke
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
It's not a problem in MSSQL, so solving the fat head of problems is clearly possible. The escape hatch in MSSQL for the long tail is materialising an intermediate result to temp table.
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
Relational databases are going to be around for the next thousand years if you want something useful outside of tech.
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
If that list became popular it would be weaponised by military intelligence.
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
Csv is much more useful than Excel. Pdf is much less useful.
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
Rather than ignorance, it's the ongoing development of the language. French schoolchildren seem to spend half their time learning the gender of inanimate objects. The sooner we can get rid of that, the better. The closest equivalent ti
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
If it's an exit node, you know what the user is connecting to but not which user.
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
Personal assets in The DAO
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
Vitalik got indirectly pwned by the infamous DAO smart contract hack, but had the social clout to pause/rollback the supposedly decentralised/immutable Blockchain. Maybe not the best example of cryptographic security.
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
You can do dangerous actions in user space without any need for escalated permissions. E.g. downloading a file and running the contents as code, or uploading/encrypting all files you have access to. Crowdstrike and Defender handle thos
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
You'd seize the company from its current shareholders. That gives shareholders of other companies good reason to care going forward.
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
I'm mandated to use one of those. The security tradeoffs don't make sense at all once you understand how it works. Ssh or winrm are significantly more secure than whatever some security vendor thinks will tick an audit box. 10ft p
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
C# Dev Kit is not only recommended by Microsoft, but developed by and for them. It still has a serious license footgun built-in, Oracle-style.
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
Firefox mobile is still the hotness for that same reason.
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by LikesPwsh 2y ago
You could make that same argument for any parallelism - your CPU queues some inputs and processes them in an arbitrary order after considering dependencies. There's a long way between hand-writing CPU instructions to make sure it does
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by LikesPwsh 3y ago
Phones with docked keyboard and mouse seems almost inevitable.

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