Ruphin

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by Ruphin 4y ago
Proof of Stake and Proof of Work only impact the consensus model of the network (i.e. how new blocks are added), but for network participants that do not participate on consensus there is no difference. Just like in Bitcoin or in Ethereum n
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by Ruphin 4y ago
Making it illegal to have Bitcoin is not very easy. What you call a "self-hosted bitcoin wallet" is just knowing some combination of bits that happens to be the private key that gives you the ability to sign transactions for some
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by Ruphin 4y ago
A technique similar to what you described is sometimes used in graphics engines for games. It's generally referred to as "motion blur". I think what the engines actually do is determine if an object has a velocity relative to
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by Ruphin 4y ago
Easy to make sure you're not seeing some cached version by doing a search for random string from mashing your keyboard. These days literally any string of characters shorter than 10 will find some sort of result and there's very l
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by Ruphin 4y ago
I think it's an interesting point to make, and it's important to understand that this type of selection is a form of bias. But I think the comparison you are making here with law enforcement using bias towards people of color is n
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by Ruphin 4y ago
There is always some fluctuation in the market, and it is impossible to tell if after hitting .99 it will go back to 1.0 or drop to 0. Sure, you mitigate risk of the asset going to 0 with this strategy, but at the same time you bleed 1% of
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by Ruphin 4y ago
I think in most (West-) European countries there are strict regulations/requirements that require ducts/pipes for any kind of power line. When my house was built (35 years ago) there were already regulations in place that required
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by Ruphin 4y ago
I recently did some renovation work and the house had unused telephone (and COAX cable) wiring running to most rooms. Decided they would probably remain unused forever, so I replaced everything with cat6. You can usually use the old cables
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by Ruphin 4y ago
I had the same issue with copy/paste on MacOS, until I couldn't stand it anymore and used software to remap the keys. I swapped the builtin Fn, Ctrl, and Meta keys around so they are positioned like you'd expect on a normal k
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by Ruphin 4y ago
Obviously I was not "broke" in the sense that I had no possessions of any value. With that definition nobody is ever broke unless they are naked with nothing left to sell other than their labor. I had plenty of things of value, li
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by Ruphin 4y ago
A number years ago I was unemployed for an extended period of time while working on open source projects, and I ran out of money, so I took out a loan to cover my expenses. I lived off this money for several months until I found a suitable
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by Ruphin 5y ago
Thanks for the trip down memory lane
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by Ruphin 5y ago
Deno does not have its own javascript implementation, it uses the V8 javascript engine, and V8 happens to implement padStart and padEnd. V8 was originally created as the javascript engine for Chrome, but it is used in many products now, inc
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by Ruphin 5y ago
Hi Surma. Thanks a lot for this writeup. I have been trying to get into WebGPU but good introductory material was sorely lacking some time ago. I have one question: I have had trouble finding a combination of browser/OS/GPU that w
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by Ruphin 5y ago
The idea that the (in)stability of a nation can legitimize military incursion by another nation is plain absurd. At what point exactly does a war become legitimate? Is it okay to attack a country when they are entwined in civil war? What pe
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by Ruphin 5y ago
Just curious, what does 3P stand for?
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by Ruphin 5y ago
There is such a wide range between "every man for himself"-style capitalist environments and "conform or be sent to the gulag"-style socialist environments, but for some reason many commenters here feel like it's a
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by Ruphin 5y ago
Looks to me like the regulations did exactly what they were designed to do, and Azure implemented support for the EU market. The goal of these regulations is not to make things harder for companies trying to publish products in different re
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by Ruphin 5y ago
The exact same argument can be made for the centralized services that Ethereum relies on. If Infura would serve incorrect or censored data, it only takes _one_ person to find out and the trust we have in them is also lost forever. There is
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by Ruphin 5y ago
Only operations that change the state of the Ethereum network require gas. You can use an application and as long as you only perform read operations, you don't require any gas. For example, in a decentralized Youtube-like application,
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by Ruphin 5y ago
Subdomains are not as much a problem as you would think. There is a resource ( https://publicsuffix.org/ ) that lists all public suffix domains. All direct subdomains of these are in full control of all their own subdomains
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by Ruphin 6y ago
I am running ETH nodes at home, on RPis. They are even participating in the (future) consensus model through PoS. I'm a fan of Bitcoin, and I'm not sure why the random need to criticize Ethereum here. Bitcoin has enough reasons to
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by Ruphin 6y ago
I made exactly that a while ago: https://github.com/ruphin/inline-shamir My use case was that I need to encrypt/decrypt private keys on an offline device, and I wanted a single file "program" that runs o
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by Ruphin 6y ago
The Ethereum Foundation is a legal entity, and as such they have to implement legal protections to any work they produce, or people will sue them. This is unfortunately how the current legal system works. The ToS basically says you're
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by Ruphin 6y ago
The Terms of Service cover the usage of the Launchpad website. The website is a service created by the Ethereum Foundation to guide users through the procedures required to join the Ethereum 2.0 network as a validator. You don't need t
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by Ruphin 6y ago
By limiting yourself to choices that do not cause loss of choice in the future, are you still free to choose anything? You value this freedom so much that you limit the choices you can make significantly only to retain this freedom, but unl
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by Ruphin 6y ago
My favorite version of this story is told throughout Logic's "Everybody" album. I highly recommend it.
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by Ruphin 6y ago
Theoretically there is no reason to assume that simulating the entire universe down to quantum level as we understand it is infeasible. Perhaps the laws of physics and nature are different in the 'real' world which allows the exis
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by Ruphin 7y ago
Hi ktpsns, As far as I know it is currently difficult to get API access as an individual. The APIs are available to third party developers as is required by European regulation, but they have to go through a procedure to receive access to p
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by Ruphin 7y ago
In case anyone wonders if this is actively beig used, Lion currently powers the internal ING web component library that applies our own design system on top. It is the foundation of the "next generation" web platform for all our w

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