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Two Column Hacker News?
3 points by daly 5y ago|5 comments
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by daly 5y ago
I have seen whole countries "drop off the internet" for extended periods of time. Sometimes it is political, sometimes it is due to a cable break. Russia has suggested dropping off the internet: https://www.technologyre
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by daly 5y ago
A 10 year chain of transactions would require an enormous amount of time to re-process. Effectively billions of transactions would arrive at once on both sides of the dropped firewall. Transactions that were "known good" for the l
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by daly 5y ago
As I understand it there is no central network. So nodes inside the firewall only see internal transactions. Nodes outside the firewall only see external transactions. As a result, both sets of nodes create long chains based on the transact
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by daly 5y ago
By assumption the BTC transactions are firewalled. Transactions can still happen on either side of the firewall but they are not shared.
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Handling Bitcoin Firewall?
7 points by daly 5y ago|14 comments
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Lost Money? Unrecovered Bitcoins
2 points by daly 5y ago|1 comments
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by daly 5y ago
Is this supposed to be difficult? If you are a "software engineer" and find this difficult, perhaps you need to find something else to do with your life. This is the equivalent of asking an electrician to install a new power socke
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by daly 5y ago
Not documentation, ... explanation. It's called Literate Programming.
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by daly 5y ago
Just as an example, I tried to cause an LED to blink on a microcontroller. It is a trivial task. It took me 18 hours. Lots of code to install, several error messages that required hours of google searches, several obscure root-only commands
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by daly 5y ago
In 50 years of programming I found: (a) time estimate are dangerous. In one case the leader of our team estimated 5 people for 5 months. The company wrote a fixed-cost contract. After 10 people for 18 months the company folded. (b) time est
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by daly 5y ago
Congratulations. You are the 10,000 person to propose infix for lisp.
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by daly 5y ago
Hydrogen makes steel brittle. News at 11...
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by daly 5y ago
Suppose you wanted to attack encryption using keys created on a laptop or desktop. For "strong keys" in certain forms of encryption you'd like to create 2 "random" primes that are of about equal length. This greatly
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by daly 5y ago
I've been listening to "This Week in Virology" (aka TWIV) ( https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/ ) for more than a year, about 100+ podcasts so far. This is a podcast about viruses. All of the people are fully qua
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FPGA vendors “don't get it”
4 points by daly 5y ago|2 comments
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by daly 5y ago
Is it ironic that I opened this in a tab? I'd like a browser function that says "open a text file and save all the URLs"
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by daly 5y ago
If you're running Linux you probably want to do development work (just a guess). My Linux boxes have uptimes of several years which is perfectly normal. WSL has uptimes of several days. Microsoft will reboot your machine to install an
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by daly 5y ago
One more rule. Proofread your document. question marks go inside our outside should be: uestion marks go inside or outside
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by daly 5y ago
Did something happen to Robert?
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by daly 5y ago
Lisp?
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by daly 5y ago
In 50 years of programming I found: (a) time estimate are dangerous. In one case the leader of our team estimated 5 people for 5 months. The company wrote a fixed-cost contract. After 10 people for 18 months the company folded. (b) time est
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by daly 5y ago
That's interesting. I'll look at it. Thanks.
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by daly 5y ago
I can highly recomment Robert Paz's channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7uJBXcRdGlDlKIyr6ZbjBw
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by daly 5y ago
I have a "prototype" but it is still in the truly hacky stage. When I have a decent "first draft" I'll post a github link. I want to try it on a range of microprocessors. Some of them, like the Arduino, have strange
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ThinLisp (Threaded Interpreted Lisp) and Microprocessors
3 points by daly 5y ago|5 comments
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Rich Hickey A Programming Masterclass (2 of 2)
3 points by daly 5y ago|0 comments
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Rich Hickey A Programming Masterclass (1 of 2)
2 points by daly 5y ago|0 comments
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by daly 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26917890
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by daly 5y ago
They should have directed to a Rick Roll video :-)

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