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by bcrl 4y ago
Crypto needs exchanges to be useful. If exchanges can't be trusted, they can't be used. In that case, how does crypto interact with the real world? Crypto needs to figure out how governance works if it's going to survive.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Remove the corn subsidies and the ethanol mandates, then let's see how things play out based on their own merits.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Edge routers already have to cope with adding and removing arbitrary sized headers (just look at tunneling protocols like IPIP, L2TP or the more modern VXLAN), so it's not like MPLS with multiple labels is a new requirement for the dat
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by bcrl 4y ago
Eh? Each hop only looked at the outermost label, keeping it, doing a push or a pop. The label namespace is small, which made it possible to use it directly as an index into a small SRAM to do a lookup and determine what the next hop is.
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by bcrl 4y ago
It's the exponential SKU proliferation problem. There's good reason why manufacturers like VW bundle most feature choices into a small number of trim tiers.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Here in Canada the CRTC ordered incumbents to file tariffs and phase II cost studies for aggregated FTTP a few weeks ago by April 23rd. That is in part due to the new CRTC chairperson and the new policy directive that came into effect earl
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by bcrl 4y ago
I'm not scared of it. It's unnecessary excessive complexity that we have foisted onto ourselves. It has caused countless bugs and will most likely cause countless more before I die. Show me the software that copes with timezone
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by bcrl 4y ago
Timezones are disaster. Once upon a time it was difficult and time consuming to make changes to them. Then the world began developing more and "accurate" timekeeping devices. Atomic clocks were developed and began to be miniatu
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by bcrl 4y ago
https://archive.ph/rD4gN
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by bcrl 4y ago
My father had a stroke here in Ontario at the beginning of COVID. Total out of pocket costs: $0. This includes 2 ambulance transfers between hospitals because our local hospital didn't have the correct facilities for diagnostic imagi
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by bcrl 4y ago
ECC deniers are quite difficult to understand. Once one has experienced an unreliable system with a few bad DRAM bits that caused data corruption, the 20% premium for ECC is well worth it. An hour of my time being wasted on debugging a wo
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by bcrl 4y ago
I live rurally and know the difference, and guess what: the forest I'm in the middle of right now was actually cleared to fields by settlers 150+ years ago. Since it hasn't been farmed for more than 60-70 years, it's reverti
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by bcrl 4y ago
That's a fantastical viewpoint that borders on hypocrisy if you look at what the US did over the past 300 years. Forestry is quite sustainable when old growth trees are re-planted with new trees that can be harvested in a few decades.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Canada also replants the old growth that has been cut. Not sure what more people expect to be done. It's not like the US didn't cut their old growth in the past.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Lumber is not in quite the same boat as everything else: virtually every year the US reenacts protectionist import policies banning Canadian softwood lumber from being imported. The easiest way to lower lumber prices is to allow imports of
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by bcrl 4y ago
The Solace appliances use a card called the Assured Delivery Blade that basically consists of 4GB of DRAM attached to an FPGA on a PCIe card with a pair of 10Gbps SFP+ interfaces and a bunch of super capacitors to keep things running when t
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by bcrl 4y ago
The death knell for Optane was caused by the fact that the persistent memory had errors rates that required error correction. Lower error rates than flash, but greater rates than DRAM. This meant that remapping was required (wear leveling
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by bcrl 4y ago
So, the solution to bad assets is more debt? How are the banks going to cover that debt when their customers are fleeing and interest rates are rising? I fear this is only kicking the can down the road by a few months (or years) before ev
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by bcrl 4y ago
The scheme of getting new depositors to pay out existing depositors is better known by another name: a Ponzi scheme.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Everyone got their bonus last year. Nobody cares about the future if they've got their cash in hand today.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Canada is 1/10th the population of the US. We don't need regional banks. There are also plenty of credit unions for those of us that don't want to bank with the big banks which are just as capable as many of the larger bank
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by bcrl 4y ago
There's still a use-case for them. High performance high reliability persistent messaging is one such use case where SSDs do not have the required endurance. Solace builds their hardware messaging appliances with the Assured Delivery
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by bcrl 4y ago
A friend of mine still helps out a number of local businesses running their old MS-DOS Point Of Sales terminal software, as well as old high end printing hardware at a print shop. It works, and replacements aren't worth the CapEx as t
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by bcrl 4y ago
There is a risk that Intel gets too much money to build too many fabs too fast. If they don't manage that correctly, the could end up getting buried by the operational costs of keeping inactive fabs open because they were built with g
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by bcrl 4y ago
Companies are easier to sue.
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by bcrl 4y ago
And DeFi has no way to interact with the real world and fiat. The fundamental flaw with crypto is that the real world requires trust and governance to handle the corner cases when there are disputes between parties. None of the blockchain
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by bcrl 4y ago
Which doesn't help when your exchange steals your stable coins.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Is the world we want to live in really the one where pursuing support from a company requires the end user to perform a Turing test on their platform's support interface?
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by bcrl 4y ago
Except that wireless router manufacturers use ancient SDKs that are based on Linux kernels and tools that were typically 5+ years out of date as they were frozen by the hardware designers early in silicon development. It took a long time
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by bcrl 4y ago
Being a GenXer, my friends and I have regular contact outside of social media because we already had those habits ingrained in us before the current crop of social media platforms ever existed. I can't imagine being a teenager today h

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