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by Slartie 9y ago
So I guess this means that we'll have to wait an additional year for the MacBook Pro that finally smashes through this archaic limit of 16 gigabytes of memory :( Except if Intel wakes up and relieves us from our pains by inserting a Ka
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by Slartie 9y ago
There is no actual "worth" of all Bitcoins as a whole, whether in regard to USD nor in regard to anything else. The only thing that exists is the last price at which a non-zero amount of Bitcoins - usually only a tiny, tiny fracti
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by Slartie 9y ago
They should have scanned the QR code on it first, it would have told them something's rotten in there.
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by Slartie 9y ago
I currently drive a 2015 Opel Astra. It shows an average of 5.1 liters per 100 kilometers (sorry, German, so it's metric units for me) over multiple months of driving in the dashboard. At the same time, I'm tracking every one of m
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by Slartie 9y ago
> True enough, but assuming they decided to pull the stunt before the new laws came into effect, which isn't until the middle of next year, the real question is whether public opinion could be shifted in so little time. Interesting
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by Slartie 9y ago
Laws don't change in a matter of one or two days. So if they did this shutdown with the argument being that they otherwise can't offer their service in a legal way, it would have to be a permanent shutdown (or at least on a scale
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by Slartie 9y ago
> First of all, it should be common sense that no one has the right to force legitimate news articles to disappear because they don't like the content, but that is what the EU has ruled should happen. No, it is about deleting person
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by Slartie 9y ago
Nope, actually the most significant risk to Bitcoin specifically from the Chinese government would be an effective block of all Bitcoin-related traffic between China and the rest of the world. This would lead to about 50% of mining power be
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by Slartie 9y ago
TL/DR version: AI to the rescue! If there's one thing I really hate about all this machine-learning/AI scene it is this "Have a seemingly unsolvable problem? Don't worry, just let an AI that you don't understan
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by Slartie 9y ago
Which is just an implementation of precisely the oracle scheme I talked about. Introducing precisely the problems I mentioned: blockchain bloat, additional trust anchor which can never be 100% validated and thus destroys the idea of requiri
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by Slartie 9y ago
I can agree with you on the fact that ICOs have been the first actual "killer application" for Ethereum. But they only work because they're based on another lie. People buy into these ICOs because they get tokens that they as
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by Slartie 9y ago
Actually, it can't. In no existing blockchain-based smart contract system is contract code able to request random data from websites and act upon it. Websites as external sources are not deterministic, and determinism is necessary for
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by Slartie 9y ago
Actually, "understanding" something can hinder your success (at least short-term) significantly. I for example missed out almost completely on the recent Ethereum craze, even though I learned about this new project shortly after t
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by Slartie 9y ago
That could very well be true. All mining for BTC is done via ASICs now, specialized silicon that just hashes crazy fast, but can't even get a TCP connection up and running. For networking, a bunch of ASIC chips is typically connected t
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by Slartie 9y ago
World of Warcraft for quite some time, I think about 4 years, had a "mysterious" limit for the maximum amount of gold that you could accumulate on a single character. It was 214.748 gold, 36 silver and 47 copper... At least they p
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by Slartie 9y ago
Damn, took me too long to type ;-) But it's funny that you thought of the exact same conferences when it comes to good recordings with large viewer counts.
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by Slartie 9y ago
> Also only very few people watch conference videos. This is quite often true, but it hugely depends on the conference in question. The annual Chaos Communication Congress for example (well-known international IT security conference in G
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by Slartie 10y ago
This is awesome! I work in the cash register software development world, and our customers are sometimes quite picky about the latency of our systems as a whole (= the time between a scan of an item happening, indicated by the scanner beepi
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by Slartie 10y ago
Yep, played it! Although I preferred Railroad Tycoon, and when Transport Tycoon finally came out, I was totally hooked to it and quickly abandoned everything else.
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by Slartie 10y ago
True, but in this case "return to compliance" means "scrapping the company", because its key product depends on the non-compliant behavior and is impossible to implement otherwise.
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by Slartie 10y ago
Oh, so maybe THAT is the reason why one of our customers had funny cases of thousands of his customers being double-billed on card payments by the payment processing provider! As a developer (of the cash register software, which wasn't
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by Slartie 10y ago
Totally seconding this. Just trying to "quick fix" apparent bugs, without having understood the complex problem in its entirety beforehand, is a pretty bad approach in quite some areas of the tech world. This is true for most serv
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by Slartie 10y ago
Neat idea! As a mostly-Java coder (by choice), I love both the approach to testing your own tool as well as the slight side blow into the Java community regarding long stack traces full of framework-contributed delegation classes and virtua
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by Slartie 10y ago
Not at all - there's some clever wording at play here. Apple may well be the "largest" taxpayer in the world. But that doesn't require that they are the singular entity paying the largest total sum of taxes. It's pr
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by Slartie 10y ago
I was doing that too, until I tried lbzip2 ( http://lbzip2.org/ ). Does basically the same, also a drop-in replacement, but is even faster by a noticeable amount!
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by Slartie 10y ago
Guess what caused a serious outage of a system at a customer that I know, with an estimated impact on his bottom line in the seven-digit area? Yeah, right: naive copying of some XML out of IE into the configuration of said system. Including
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by Slartie 10y ago
This is exactly how it typically works. There's a time that needs to pass before the scanner accepts the same barcode again, and any other barcode scanned resets the lock for the previous barcode (so you could scan two different items
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by Slartie 11y ago
They have driven millions of miles - in perfect driving conditions: great weather, lots of highways, all of it by day (how do I know that? Simple: Google would brag about their AIs being able to drive in rough situations if they were able t
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by Slartie 11y ago
Hehe, I've been using different European-based dedicated server providers (including Hetzner, but also server4you, OVH, Strato) for 10-15 years as well, with varying numbers of servers. All of this happened during the cloud revolution,
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by Slartie 11y ago
AFAIK there is nothing stopping you from encrypting arbitrary amounts of data directly using asymmetric algorithms like RSA. The scheme you describe is implemented because asymmetric crypto is dead-slow compared to symmetric crypto, so the

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