RL_Quine

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by RL_Quine 4y ago
It feels like over optimization. The base load of my house is around 1kW which is still completely irrelevant in the scheme of how much owning the property costs. The literal cost you’re adding as well as the mental cost of having to switch
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
When is night on the internet?
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
I find it really hard to watch because of the really constant camera focus changes, I don’t know why anybody would edit video to be so annoying.
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
It’s one of the glossiest screens around.
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
I can see why people idealistically want the device but mine is really not up to being a usable production device. The wonky design of the “modules” means they’re practically useless, the hardware has almost endlessly has stability and issu
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
> These simple building blocks create something surprisingly robust—a multicellular social organism with a memory and an immune system. It mimics the way that biological systems have managed to thrive in the face of novel threats for mil
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
I would bet very strongly that nobody has, or ever will use this for a serious project or service. You walk into a room with something like the diagram below and you're just going to have people laughing in your face. https:/&#x2
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
This seems to be a webpage entirely made of buzzwords. Store things cheaply, without blockchains or servers, so where is it stored? No infrastructure, so who is paying for it? Oh right if you click a little deeper, there's a cryptocurr
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
It’s a historical thing people used to do for length extension attacks, but it’s irrelevant where it exists in bitcoin, for example as branches in a merkle tree where every input is of a fixed length (another hash). For Bitcoin a good porti
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
It’s pretty unlikely that sha2 will ever broken in a way which actually has a meaningful security impact to bitcoin, especially considering that almost every value in the system is sha2(sha2()) which nullifies a lot of attacks against hashe
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
No, those are nasty slow.
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
My mistake, thanks for the correction
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
That isn’t what is happening, the connectors you’re talking about absolutely can not cause an arc to ground from live. They have gigantic clearances to make sure that there’s nothing tracking or arcing unless you are at the bottom of the oc
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
It’s nano amps at a moderately low voltage you’re able to feel, it isn’t unsafe, you just happen to be aware of it. The Apple chargers people often discuss this effect with are some of the most crazily over engineered available in terms of
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
In chargers with a ground the negative DC rail is connected to ground internally for suppression. In chargers without a ground the neutral AC pin is capacitively coupled to the DC output for RF suppression, which is what people are complain
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
That's one example of an invalid range, not all of them. Lots of the area codes in north america just haven't been used for one reason or another.
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
That has some problems. If you limit the total number of attempts globally then the feature is effectively disabled, every botnet and script will blow through the attempt budget and real users can't use it. Global limits and IP address
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
All of them. You don't need to provide one on sign up, but your account will be soft banned typically in a couple of hours until you provide one. So it's a requirement that they aren't forthcoming about.
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
Many "IOT" providers give physical numbers for almost no cost, and they provide physical SIM cards for the service. The aren't VOIP so aren't blocked by twilio, etc for use with Twitter and other services.
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
It's typically smaller though, not every phone number is allocated and many are in sequential groups. Some are special cased, you don't need to search any number matching `****555***` in north america for example, which cuts down
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
Rate limiting is not useful meaningfully. For a service we ran we regularly had botnets with 100k+ IP addresses making one request an hour to endpoints, which absolutely decimated the backend but hit no limits at all that a real user wouldn
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
If you know the right providers it's about $2/month for a non-VOIP, physical SIM to receive SMS for this sort of garbage.
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
The APU2 is cheap, has lots of hardware support, but is getting a little long in the tooth. If you can deal with maxing out at gigabit speeds, it’s an amazing choice and can run just about any software because it’s just a standard x86 board
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
I specifically bought hardware (APU2) for my wifi routers that has ECC, it's just not something that's commonly on hardware you could buy off the shelf. Like the other comment said, it's a stupid product differentiation thing
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
Satoshi assembled something that works out of the primitives available, and that is party of the reason that it was able to be produced to begin with. Taken in isolation it is already of mind boggling complexity, and it had to be presented
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
There's nothing whatsoever about the code released for Bitcoin which is "not brilliant". It is concise, it escapes all of the normal vulnerabilities you would expect to find in code that has extensive network access, and abso
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
My point was that you don't know when corruption has had an effect, because you're eschewing a method of detecting it.
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
I've seen many ECC log lines on machines before, my wifi routers have ECC memory and they have seen at least one fault each. It isn't a one in a million sort of risk, it's just that most systems don't run with ECC, and
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
They are riding on borrowed time, desperately trying to be viable companies. Not really an excuse though.
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by RL_Quine 4y ago
Technically it's slower, but absolutely meaninglessly so in the context of browsers.

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