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by copirate 9mo ago
But the time spent by B is not wasted. If they find a block between minute 1 and 2, their block will be accepted, and A just lose the reward of the block they found.
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by copirate 9mo ago
Wasting time would mean not receiving the rewards if they find a block. But that's not the case here. If they find a block within the time interval, they get the rewards (and the withheld block is discarded).
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by copirate 9mo ago
They are not mining on the wrong head. They are mining on the current head. If they find a block it will be accepted as the new head and the withheld block will be rejected, so it's not wasted mining time at all.
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by copirate 9mo ago
If the attacker is waiting for a lucky event to occur (finding more blocks than others while having less than 51% of the mining power) it means that they are constantly wasting mining time. That in itself is a huge cost (operational cost an
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by copirate 9mo ago
> If a pool can set up a situation where they mine a block and wait X seconds to reveal it, they can force other miners to waste X seconds of has power and gain an advantage. How is it wasted if they work on the current chain? If they fi
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by copirate 10mo ago
Or environmentally conscious.
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by copirate 10mo ago
> When you slow down your eating speed, say to half or a third your default speed, you get much more enjoyment out of a smaller amount of food. That's not always the case. With certain types of food, it's much more enjoyable to
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by copirate 10mo ago
With a Framework laptop you could fix these superficial issues while keeping the chips (and the superficial parts that don't need replacement).
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by copirate 10mo ago
Yes, but as long as you monitor, double spending is not possible. And it's possible to use tools to do that somewhat passively. There are conditions on every payment system. With bitcoin you also have something to do to prevent double
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by copirate 10mo ago
With the Lightning network, L2 is basically a database between only 2 parties that are required to be online during the transaction. It's not possible to double spend in that situation. There's the possibility of double spending b
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by copirate 10mo ago
> giver and receiver perfectly "identified" (in a unique way, albeit just pseudonymous) Not perfectly. A lot of heuristics are needed to link a unique owner to multiple transactions. With bitcoin, it's recommended to use a
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by copirate 1y ago
"Extreme programming" methodology said you should not do TDD if you don't already know how to implement the code. In that case you should instead experiment until you know, and then throw away the experiments and write the co
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by copirate 1y ago
How can you tell how much battery capacity is left?
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by copirate 1y ago
> for a web-focused scripting language Ruby is not a web focused scripting language.
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by copirate 1y ago
They only want ASCII tablature parsing because that's what ChatGPT produces. If ChatGPT produced standard music notation, users would not care about ASCII tablature. ChatGPT has created this "market".
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by copirate 2y ago
There is a least one provider that sells a full VM with 1 TB for 5 € a month (AlphaVPS).
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by copirate 2y ago
SSH access on the storage boxes is quite limited: > It is possible to get interactive SSH access, but this access is limited. It is not possible to have interactive access via port 22, but it is possible via port 23. There is no full she
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by copirate 2y ago
Of course, you can easily chain many commands in the pipeline: last_stdout, wait_threads = Open3.pipeline_r( ["gzcat", "some.txt"], ["grep", "foo"], ["sort", "-u
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by copirate 2y ago
You can pipe with the `pipeline*` method of open3 which is part of the stdlib: For example: require "open3" last_stdout, wait_threads = Open3.pipeline_r("cat /etc/passwd", ["grep", "roo
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by copirate 2y ago
> Ruby has no built-in for "call a subprocess and convert a nonzero exit status into an exception" Since Ruby 2.6 you can pass `exception: true` to `system` to make it behave like your `system!`. https://rubyreferenc
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by copirate 2y ago
> How do you "prove" that other people are conscious? For sentience scientists mainly look at behavioral cues: > For example, "if a dog with an injured paw whimpers, licks the wound, limps, lowers pressure on the paw wh
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by copirate 2y ago
Or even "MY autism makes travel a challenge". There's a spectrum of autistic traits and not all of them affect travel.
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by copirate 3y ago
There is one[0] that works on all PCVR headsets and it's great, but unfortunately it's been abandoned by Google. [0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/348250/Google_Earth_VR/
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by copirate 3y ago
YouTube also asked me if I wanted to unlink my YouTube account from other Google services. I can change this setting at https://myactivity.google.com/linked-services and it says: > Google currently shares data across its
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by copirate 3y ago
> We estimate that 99% of US farmed animals are living in factory farms at present. By species, we estimate that 70.4% of cows, 98.3% of pigs, 99.8% of turkeys, 98.2% of chickens raised for eggs, and over 99.9% of chickens raised for mea
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by copirate 3y ago
I've read that ZFS is less safe than other Linux filesystems if you don't use ECC RAM, because it assumes that there are no memory errors and therefore doesn't provide a tool to repair a filesystem corrupted by such errors. I
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by copirate 3y ago
I've been summoned by the police because of a "dot-zero" address on one of our servers. Someone had been buying stuff online with a stolen card and the shop admins provided a list of the IP addresses used, including our serve
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by copirate 3y ago
And also the ones before that explain the attention mechanism: https://youtu.be/wzfWHP6SXxY?t=4366 https://youtu.be/gKD7jPAdbpE (up to 25:42)
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by copirate 3y ago
The people who want the content most could pay the content creators. These creators would pay for video hosting in the same way they already pay for their hardware and software. This way, you wouldn't have to pay (which is what the p
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by copirate 4y ago
I don't think there's been a review yet. They plan to deliver review units to YouTubers in April[1]. [1] https://simulavr.com/#timeline

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