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by acoye 8y ago
Bitcoin's paper was that good. Simple. Easy to read. Easy to replicate (a poc in python is easy) It is a recent key innovation (the blockchain tech).
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iMac Pro Repair Linus tech tips – right to repair(youtube.com)
4 points by acoye 8y ago|0 comments
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by acoye 8y ago
Actually MIT was modelled from the French "École Polytechnique". In a same way like the white house was a copy of "Château de Rastignac".
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by acoye 8y ago
Yeah Cyberpunk 2077 has a je-ne-sais-quoi that reminds me of "Ready player one". The 80's are there.
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by acoye 8y ago
"The cyberpunk mental model [...] can be risky because it’s quite cynical and pessimistic. We expect the worst of people." If that does model best mankind and society, maybe it is not that much cynical and pessimistic but realisti
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by acoye 8y ago
This reminds me of a relevant XKCD, https://xkcd.com/1838/ Given the shown technique to build a state of the art neural net, I wonder what QA will look like and if we will be able to reach a sufficiently low probabilit
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by acoye 8y ago
Chain of trust for software update/delivery from what I understand. Nothing good ol' RSA signing could not solve if that is the case.
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by acoye 8y ago
"[…] Download features from the OpenSkillStore, based on the blockchain" I wonder, does it work with a contract on a public blockchain like ethereum or does it run on Snips's own blockchain? If so is there a white / yell
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by acoye 8y ago
Numberfile did a nice video on this phenomena. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFuR97YcSLM
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`let` all the things(medium.com)
1 points by acoye 8y ago|0 comments
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by acoye 8y ago
Well MacOS (an Windows) have built-in ones. MacOS has XProtect between other things like app signing. Also note that for Spectre and Meltdown 3rd party antivir had kernel patches delayed as they can become sort of an issue.
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I love Swift, I hate to use Swift – Bunn – Medium(medium.com)
1 points by acoye 9y ago|0 comments
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by acoye 9y ago
I lived in SF for a couple years near TL and I saw people doing it on the streets. To me this site is a good thing, harm reduction policies have shown good track record. They work. A good exemple is the "première ligne" associatio
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by acoye 9y ago
… Or a Threadripper.
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by acoye 9y ago
The author takes a large enough block for Visa or Master card volume like transaction and makes an educated guess. His argument is _true_ in the same way saying that you could only fit a calculator in a hangar using vacuum tubes is true. If
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by acoye 9y ago
That may not impact the mining speeds that much as most integer operations would then be done using floats. Also mining speeds are way more bottlenecked by memory speeds than GPU speeds these days.
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by acoye 9y ago
I peeked at the source code of the shaders, it looks like it is metal for the web. I don't get how a closed API like metal could be the future of an open internet. Yet it can start a discussion.
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by acoye 9y ago
You might want to check out "Turbo code" It approaches the channel max capacity and is the basis for modern cellular internet (3G/4G). It is also used for deep space communications, where squeezing every bit is essential. The
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by acoye 9y ago
> We are posting before an originally coordinated disclosure date of January 9, 2018 because of existing public reports and growing speculation in the press and security research community about the issue, which raises the risk of exp
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by acoye 9y ago
Google security blog says it is. > These vulnerabilities affect many CPUs, including those from AMD, ARM, and Intel, as well as the devices and operating systems running them. https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01&
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by acoye 9y ago
Yes, I knew you could do rowhammer on arm too where clflush does not exit. So rowhammer is not the correct example. Yet at some point it was believed that it was necessary on x86 for the attack to work. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by acoye 9y ago
It is not, but if like it was the case for rowhammer, it was linked to a specific instruction (clflush). This time it could be an AVX512 instruction (intel only) that leaks kernel address in a way or another. I was talking from an ISA persp
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by acoye 9y ago
Do you think this could be within the rather new Intel AVX 512 ISA or older intel CPUs like Sandy Bridge (first AVX chip) could also suffer? - edit - I checked Ryzen ISA, they support AVX2. So probably AVX512 is the issue.
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by acoye 9y ago
Ok so all I hear is Intel and no trace of AMD? So X86_64 ISA wise the only diff between modern CPUs are AVX512. I bet you within the foundations of AVX512 lies a nasty one that can't be patched with microcode update.
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by acoye 9y ago
I would like to know too. I know some PoS coins are there but I do not know of existing validator pools.
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by acoye 9y ago
True, and it happened recently to NiceHash. Yet the miner looses a portion of generated cash, not the capital (here GPUs)
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by acoye 9y ago
It feels a bit more risky than mining in a pool don't you think? If a validator pool is hacked you loose your stake. The equivalent in PoW world would be someone breaking in and leaving with all the GPUs of all the users of a pool, wh
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by acoye 9y ago
I'm reading the paper looking for an answer. (as I'm hopping to be able to run a PoS node in the future) As I understand PoS, for security to be achieved, you need to be able to lose a non trivial amount of ether. I guess the 1K5
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by acoye 9y ago
Yeah, why would smaller holders of ether would be excluded from PoS? Security probably. But it sucks that the small holders cant profit from their property. Maybe there is a need to create a "cooperative" of sorts hodling the eth
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by acoye 9y ago
Yeah, their tech is useful to the industry, that said the coin is a liability for a bank. I see a future where banks exchange value with 1coin=1USD to speed up transactions but not using the value of XRP. Plus for a random user making an in

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