RustyRussell

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by RustyRussell 3y ago
Someone is creating tokens with the hope of selling them onwards. Most of them are created by a single entity, who spent about $30M in fees to do so, so presumably they expect people to buy them, and thus profit. The only reason most Bitcoi
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by RustyRussell 3y ago
Yeah, it's weird how this anti-GNU piece became interpreted as a pro-Open Source piece. The main thing I learnt from ESR was that you can, actually, do worse than Crazy Uncle Stallman. But we got "Everyone Loves Eric Raymond"
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by RustyRussell 3y ago
For those who like me had no idea what a sixel was: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
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by RustyRussell 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect Disputed, especially how significant it is...
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by RustyRussell 3y ago
Um, does Linux run on such systems? There's a broad assumption that atomic ops work efficiently (or at least, that was true when I dropped out 7 years ago...)
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by RustyRussell 3y ago
Oh, blast from the past! The original futex code used physical addresses, and pinned the page, which is simple: if you can share memory somehow, you can use a futex. Of course, most people use pthreads and increasingly the idea of a Linux u
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Frankly, the C standards ctte went off the deep end when they effectively banned NULL to memset etc (obv with zero length). Not because these functions couldn't handle it, but because this assertion simplifies optimizations elsewhere
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Sorry, what? Binance came out of nowhere with massive fake volume, as a China-based exchange pretending to be based in Hong Kong. They've proceeded to thrive by having a reputation for giving accounts to anyone, globally (which, TBH,
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
FWIW I get a 503 on that URL. Any chance someone can give me that magic one-liner?
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
You keep saying this, but it's not true: they only allow one borrower of any work at a time. This really does mirror the Library model, but on the internet.
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Generally true, but I've been known to do `goto again;` for those cases where retrying is a corner case. Sure, you can put the entire code inside a `for(;;)` but if it almost always only runs once, you're not helping the reader u
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
No, I clicked through and got confused, came here for enlightenment. Thanks!
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Let's take this as evidence that the proposal is counter-intuitive?
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Not for bool though.
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Yes, it's backwards. And counter-intuitive use of bool :( They felt fine changing the argument order, why stick with the reverse polarity?
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
"donated to" not "invested in". It's just a plain FOSS project.
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
At USENIX in 1997 I went to a talk by a young David S Miller and Miguel de Icaza on porting Linux to the Ultrasparc. That talk (regretfully unrecorded) more than anything else convinced me that I had to work on Linux. Throughout the talk t
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Exchanges these days are casinos, not on-ramps. You can use them like that, but it's not their core business. There are trustworthy businesses (e.g keys.casa) which help with custody. But it's a different business these days.
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Well, there's some evidence that people are withdrawing from exchanges (to their own custody, assisted custody, or other custodians). This is probably a good thing, as it's the only real way to ensure they actually have your money
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Actually, there are a whole range of metal seed backup systems available! But seriously, write down the 12 seed words, keep it somewhere safe. Make another copy, tear it in half (6 words each) and keep one with a relative and one at work. C
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Actually, websockets are trivial full stop. I implemented a web socket proxy in C in a day by reading the excellent RFC (sure, there's weird shit in there, but it's not hard ).
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Yeah, the original Proof of Reserves proposals (and this is probably a decade ago, on the bitcointalk forum) was a merkle scheme IIRC in which each user could verify that their amounts were added into the proven total. Most people seem to b
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
No, you're thinking of Kraken, which has been doing this for years (not an endorsement!). Binance just did it, by revealing their wallet addresses, and promised more in future. Two important points: 1. Generally Proof of Reserves is a
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Well, their largest asset was probably their own token. Once that went to zero, maybe it was Bitcoin, but I doubt it. Tether more likely. Remember, this was a casino, not really an exchange.
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Strange; I've been working on it for over seven years on the assumption that it does. Would you like to expand your point?
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Really? That seems weird to me. Do you know of one?
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Note: This is a very long read about Ethereum, with only 7 occurrences of the word bitcoin, most in the first paragraph, and one in the title. I guess Bitcoin gets the clicks more than Ethereum?
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Yes, I would second this. It's hard to rewrite, but needs it in many places that I've read (in particular, the code to detect BIP9 etc soft fork activation is horrible). To be fair, the slow polishing of a thousand hands continues
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
Yes, it was the moment I personally realized we were in eternal September :(
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by RustyRussell 4y ago
(2013) Though I responded in 2012, so it may be older (the log on the site says 2013 though). FWIW, my response, as FHS editor: https://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=236

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