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by bhaak 4y ago
For all its flaws (and there are countless) the one thing about the show cryptocurrency space that stands out to me as a programmer is that programming errors can be suddenly very costly (granted, in this case it was more of a DevOps blunde
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It's the first thing after the elevator pitch intro. I didn't even notice the install link (which is in a menu on the side) and the text didn't indicate another installation option.
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Somewhat odd to claim managing dotfiles securely and then tell people to execute 350 lines of shell script to install it.
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I don't have a problem with that because the likely workaround for those will be to not be allowed to be on at all. :-}
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There's a hill in Rome that's entirely made out millions of amphorae. Gives a fascinating view into Roman mass commerce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Testaccio
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Social slashing. The honest parts of the community would organize and fork you away. If you were following the current events on Ethereum, this question has just arisen in the last weeks when the US sanctioned the privacy oriented Tornado C
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by bhaak 4y ago
OP has provided the right links but either misunderstood the text or phrased it very confusingly. https://messari.io/asset/ethereum/profile/launch-and-initial... Ethereum's crowdsale supply was 72 millio
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by bhaak 4y ago
> But then, I wonder, if we're all anyway looking for the trustworthy data ourselves (based on general human intuition), why use blockchain at all? Why not just apply the same level of trust towards, say, a regular database? You don
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by bhaak 4y ago
All the nodes that have been online long enough will know that the fake chain is fake. Because it doesn't match the state that they have been observing all along. So as long as you have no extended downtime, your nodes know what the ri
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The argument was that Javascript wasn’t a popular and widespread programming language back then.
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For a low level view, as how the code actually should look like, I found the JPL C coding guidelines very useful. It had an effect on me on how I wrote C after reading it. Here's a github hosted version https://github.com&#x
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by bhaak 4y ago
No, in 2002 it wasn't. This was before reliable XMLHttpRequest cross-browser support and several years before Ajax started to push Javascript's popularity.
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As nobody reads TFA these days, I have to supply the money quotes myself. > I mean that the actual telescope, arguably one of humanity’s finest scientific achievements, is largely controlled by JavaScript files. Oh, and it’s based on a s
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by bhaak 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States > After four years and one regulatory change, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that software source code was speech protected by the First Amendment a
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To some degree I agree. But then it's average minutes per day. And for that about 1 hour is still a lot of time. Sometimes these days I would like it to be only 1 hour. :-)
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Javascript‘s adoption has much less to do with its language features but with its unique positioning. There was (and still isn’t) a competitor that can compete on the same level with Javascript in the browser.
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If you install into the root hierarchy then you must use the one that your OS is using. Creating such a package for your application can be a nuisance but it really is not rocket science. You can only use language specific packager managers
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by bhaak 4y ago
With a proper package manager that keeps track of the installed files and a proper permission system, it doesn't matter where the files are.
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OP used "couldn't" and was referring IMHO to the days of Java applets.
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It's not about newness thing. It's about software bit rot. Every piece of software lives in an ecosystem. Libraries even more so. Unless the ecosystem is dead, there are always small changes over time until the code is outdated an
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> Paul Moore noted that marking it as deprecated did not work, nor did ceasing releases in 2015; "I'm not at all sure 'tell people not to use it' is a viable strategy for getting marked as 'not critical'.&qu
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by bhaak 4y ago
I think that depends on how long the validators were cut off from the majority of validators. Ethereum's POS has a concept called finality which means that under certain conditions the blockchain gets checkpoints that can't ever b
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> Wait... Couldn't the same argument be used simply to move coins? "My keys, my coins. If I fuck up by holding my keys on an insecure computer, I deserve my coins to be stolen.". Yes. The blame of coins getting stolen is
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> Incorrect state is rejected by the majority, and the minority is punished (slashing their stake). That's wrong. Also the state of those validators that are separated from the larger network is not wrong it's just not the same
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What's that supposed to mean?
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We lost a lot of historical records between late antiquity and the early middle ages. Most devastating for Italy was probably the Gothic War. Then the records that were in Constantinople were also lost, not only by the fall of Constantinopl
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We know so little that there is no verified unbroken lineage between anybody from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_from_antiquity
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Time is signed though so time actually began at 1901-12-13T20:45:52Z.
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You underestimate how far racists are able to go. I always interpreted that story as the discussion between two public officials that are withholding a sensational curiosity or even the scientific discovery of this galactic cycle from the g
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For questionable values of “work”. It doesn’t work as digital money (see the narrative of it being digital gold). And it’s not stable yet. The block rewards are decreasing and we don’t know for sure if it will still work when they are mostl

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