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by bouncycastle 4y ago
My guess is that it's because the Japanese are so much used natural disasters such as typhoons, floods, landslides, volcano eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis, a nuclear meltdown is the last thing of their worries.
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
I wouldn't. Market can be irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
I can activate the 'flow" state, starting with doing small tasks in the comments like changing / editing comments, commit them to git, and then see if your next commit can have more changes than the last one, perhaps find and
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
There is a reason why it's often used in crypto. From Wikipedia "now gaining in popularity due to its several nice properties. Most commonly-used curves have a random structure, but secp256k1 was constructed in a special non-rand
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
Interesting! Are the roms available on any emulator where I could try it?
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
I guess this was the usual time for os/2 to boot on a 486 back in the day!
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
yes, I just remembered! JMP is more like an if...then. There was a JSR (Jump to Sub Routine) instruction on the good old C64, good times!
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
BASIC itself was written in Assembler, with the nearest thing to a procedure call was the 'JMP' instruction. It's amazing how any of such scale software was written in Assembler. See here https://github.com/mi
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
They know everything.. And yet on top of this, Google is still nagging me to add my DOB to my account...
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
Omg, yes!
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
I recently bought a brand new pair of golf shoes from a physical store. I did not even search for them or look at any golf shoes online. The next day, I got Google ads served for the same brand of shoes I bought... Coincidence? Seemed very
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
In my teens, we would swap Commodore 64 games with each other. One day, I discovered that I can use a hex editor to change some stings in the games, writing my name or other silly messages in the games before passing them on, to surprise my
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
There are four hard problems in CS: naming cache things, invalidation, off by one and concurrency. errors, and memory alloca
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
0 here is a figure of speech. Chains never go to zero if they are still alive, they are always worth something to someone, even if they are test-nets. Also, high price of a token does not mean the security is high! What matters is that the
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
Counterpoint, the Goerli network is not useless.
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
It is wrong to assume that crypto is broken if it doesn't have a high value in some arbitrary currency like the USD. Crypto works just as well even if the price 0. It will still process transactions, still create new blocks, and it wil
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
But that's what "errors" are, the're signals.
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
How do you use it? The website does not have any link to a ui?
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
Because Moore's Law has stopped at 28nm. https://www.eetimes.com/28nm-was-last-node-of-moores-law/
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
Related: There is a massive TSMC factory being built in Japan right now. Take a look at the pictures, I've never seen this many cranes at one location: https://www.nhk.jp/static/assets/images/newblogposti
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
Hate to be that guy, but someone has to say it... In this case the code worked as expected and the "attacker" played within the rules of the game. Except they "won" too much. That's not supposed to happen.
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
Yup, the other side of the coin is even darker. To add to the list - the recent trend to phase out cash in favor of electronic payments. Protesters can just have their accounts frozen, and/or deposits confiscated, as we seen in recent
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
Back in the 80's, I remember that people were protesting without internet and mobile phones, with very successful results. They bought down the iron curtain after all. The most sophisticated technology they used was the printing press,
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
Spoiler: "Salt added to an ice / water slurry in an ice cream machine lowers the temperature of the mixture beyond the typical freezing point of water."
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
Related anecdote: I've recently had a banking app on my Android that would close itself after reporting that I had "Flappy Bird" installed on my phone and that it was malicious which of course isn't true. (It's the
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
False. Ethereum did not roll back the attacker's gains, instead, there was a transaction made in the fork that moved the ETH out of TheDAO into a new contract where the ETH was returned to its owners. (An "irregular state change&q
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
These are engineering limitations, not "light speed limitations"
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
time slows down as speed increases, so in theory, it may be possible, for the traveller to leave? (Although the observers would be long gone on the return journey. Relativity is a crazy thing)
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
ENS leads by far in the blockchain space. Almost 2 million names registered. Stats: https://dune.com/makoto/ens Note that ENS is not only ETH, it supports multiple coins, and it's also compatible with the legacy D
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by bouncycastle 4y ago
Hmm.. Analog "Vocoder" technology was invented in 1939 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocoder So I'd imagine that by 1993 it would have been possible to do analog voice coding, digitize the codes, and the

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