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by codys 9y ago
Sure, I'm not contending that the information is exposed in the blockchain, I'm saying that third parties that keep logs of their sends can collude at a later time to produce a more complete picture of the transactions sent to an
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by codys 9y ago
edit: I just found a paper [1] which talks about this issue and a potential solution. Monero certainly has lots of things that make me excited about it, but it seems there is a downside: To recieve a payment, 'A' must tell the sen
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by codys 9y ago
It might be worthwhile mentioning that at some point in the past, HN ran on 1 server (and might still do so). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229522
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by codys 9y ago
> There's at least one unpatched and there are bound to be more. References, please.
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by codys 9y ago
"1 instruction on x86" doesn't really tell us much about the cost of executing that instruction. x86 has a wide variety of instructions that take varying processor resources to execute.
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by codys 9y ago
A choice is the often _worst_ possible solution, assuming it is encoded into the format (which it may not be in this case). With a choice, when reading every platform has a conditional swap rather than some platforms having an unconditional
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by codys 9y ago
> Poland is very much its own cultural axis since last election Election results are largely a reaction to existing "cultural" state. I don't think it's accurate to consider them to be changing it (think "effect
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by codys 9y ago
Not all mechanical keyboard switches have feedback (audio or tactile) when they actuate, making some more difficult to use than others (for example, cherry mx reds, referred to as "linear" provide zero feedback). What switches are
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by codys 9y ago
It's fairly hard to figure this out. What follows is a really bad comparison between Apollo & Curiosity, which completely ignores tech advancement, the difference between a moon flight and a mars flight, the length of time for each
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by codys 9y ago
> Space probes may be cheap but they are slooooowwww If we spent as much on a space probe (or probes) as on a manned mission, I imagine there would be enough weight capacity to make the unmanned rover (or rovers) faster, if that was cons
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by codys 9y ago
Ya, it seems like trying to choose words that are hard to mistake for each other (high lev distance, and perhaps also considering letter similarity) would be a very good idea for selecting a dictionary like this. I wonder what the original
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by codys 9y ago
The need for embedded some form of error correcting codes into readable keys like these is a really good point. While not the same, I'm reminded of the issue with etherium addresses where they've (after initially having no extra c
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by codys 9y ago
All the intel docs use intel syntax, and for some instructions converting between the 2 syntax forms isn't immediately obvious.
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by codys 9y ago
> maintain my own kernel updates Not really: zfs is available in aur as a dkms package. Pacman automatically rebuilds dkms modules when it updates the kernel. All you'd need to do is modify mkinitcpio.conf to include "zfs"
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by codys 9y ago
On btrfs causing latency: I've got a few systems with btrfs as the rootfs (on top of lvm, on top of dm-crypt, on a SSD). I recently started using `snapper` to create snapshots on a schedule on them. I enabled quota support in btrfs so
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by codys 9y ago
MA (near Boston), NH, CT.
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by codys 9y ago
I have not seen this while interviewing in the Northeast US.
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by codys 9y ago
To be fair, all the safety briefings I've seen tell you not to do that. ("Do not inflate while inside the airplane" is the line, I believe).
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by codys 9y ago
So is the FAA required to return money given to them for the registration? And what happens to the registration database?
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by codys 9y ago
Yep, just not allowing (directly) user controlled file names seems ideal. Maybe just hash the crate names and use the hash as a file name? No more silly restrictions due to platforms. Eliminates issues with some file systems having a length
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by codys 9y ago
So that is true as long as all the bloat is contiguous. If it is spread out throughout the file (in such a way that bloat doesn't fill an entire page) it will still end up loaded. Or even if it is "unused", that doesn't
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by codys 9y ago
I mean, you could add some indirection & some sort of directory data, if desired to allow hard links & get directory listing perf reasonable. This was mainly an example to show that "paths" in some sense are (or could be)
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by codys 9y ago
The typical (generalized) setup is paths -> inodes (called "refers to data" or ""something"" in my other comments to avoid using the weird terminology we've somehow adapted for naming file system things
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by codys 9y ago
Yep, this is misleading. "file descriptors" taken _literally_ don't exist (they are just the interface exposed to user space programs). Linux uses `struct file` internally as the generic file tracking, and multiple file descr
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by codys 9y ago
One of the things filesystems provide is a mapping from paths to data (files, directories, etc). How they provide this varies (tree of path elements, etc), but saying they don't think about paths (and implying they only think about pat
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by codys 9y ago
Note that lazy-static does not "statically allocate a buffer" for all definitions of "statically allocate": lazy-static computes it's value on first use, and must use dynamic alloc space (ie: malloc/box) Also,
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by codys 10y ago
That isn't true. Nothing about open source requires that they in any way stabilize their web-side APIs, the process they would follow could be the same as their binary releases, just with open source code released at the same time.
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by codys 10y ago
> All of this costs something like $20K at the minimum. So they only need to be cheaper by $20K over a couple of years for it to be worth it? That seems like a fairly small cost to overcome. And if there isn't very much demand for H
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by codys 10y ago
> Metrics are key to good management This doesn't follow from the GP's comment. All we know from that comment is that Metrics + some managers = bad.
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by codys 10y ago
> one of two things Google can push an update for [...] without any dialog or concent One of the two things Google _chooses_ to do this for. Nothing prevents them from doing the same thing for other pieces of software, except, perhaps, t

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