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by dozzie 9y ago
> The public database must be writable (only) by the corrupt authorities. What exactly does a blockchain do to make the authorities non-corrupt here? Wrong. In selling land to somebody else, authorities -- corrupt or not -- have nothing
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by dozzie 9y ago
Why not? Blockchain is a document timestamping system, which means its whole purpose is to tell which of the two connected documents was issued earlier. As such, it doesn't care if the document was subtracting a number from one account
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by dozzie 9y ago
> But I believe that parent linked trees are really needed in real world e.g. to get the path of a node. Yeah, it would be about that: belief . You can remember the path to the root when descending, so the parent node is not really nece
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by dozzie 9y ago
And another one with flat series namespace, with no dimensions whatsoever. Though props for writing it in C instead of Rust-du-jour.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> You can remotely edit on any system accessible over ssh thanks to netrw: Yeah, and either lose all the goods of path completion or gain atrocious lag on each tab. Because of that, I rarely use netrw.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> it’s crazy that you’d leave tons of productivity enhancements on the table because you want that standardized, bottom-of-the-barrel experience Like what exactly and compared to what environment?
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by dozzie 9y ago
> The user replaceable battery is gone - get over it. Only if you're Apple's fanboy. Virtually anybody else still has replaceable battery.
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by dozzie 9y ago
I have just one template and I fill it from a list of all things I did professionally (projects, tasks, achievements, important events).
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by dozzie 9y ago
Once an apple rots, does it become cider? What is "source code" of a patent? Because "open source" concerns source code.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Housemate did his girlfriend's iPhone 5 and just ruined it. Because it is designed to prevent user from replacing battery , so you pay $100 for opening the lid, taking out the battery, putting in the new one, and closing the lid.
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by dozzie 9y ago
That is, if they ever see the e-mail. They're hosted on Gmail, which tend to mark e-mail from smaller mail servers as spam.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Yeah, I figured, but I think I'll manage with Mordechai Ben-Ari's book (Ada 2005), John Barnes' book (Ada 2012), and Ada Reference Manual (I'm kind of used to reading specifications). Given that I mostly write network se
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by dozzie 9y ago
>> "why are you looking to leave your current job and why does this one interest you" > So why isn't the question phrased "What are your expectations of how we work here?" Because it's not the same que
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by dozzie 9y ago
Why do you think using ticket system for non-programming tasks is a problem?
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by dozzie 9y ago
From their very own README: > Ick2 will become a CI system. It is not there yet. It is not even ALPHA level yet. It doesn't even have a website, just a repository browser.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Yeah, another dumb try of applying timestamping (blockchain) to something totally unrelated and ill-suited. Ever heard of digital voting protocols and the list of their necessary properties? No? Then go learn properly cryptography first.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> I think anyone who uses the CLI is either trying too hard or hasn't realized the beauty of a git GUI. Or just couldn't be bothered with leaving terminal. I refuse to reach for mouse for any repository operation when everyth
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by dozzie 9y ago
You won't have Erlang-style reliability (predictable recovery after localized errors) without links, monitors, and supervisors, which themselves are built with links and monitors.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Ada. For C replacement (imperative and compiled to ELF) that (a) can link reasonably well through C to other languages, (b) is not entangled scary mess of half-random syntax and historical features (C++), and (c) has a type system that I ca
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by dozzie 9y ago
> A false allegation is fraud. This part is not the problem. The problem is that if you're falsely accused, it's on you to prove that you're not a horse, which will require enormous effort or an unusual foresight. A simila
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by dozzie 9y ago
> This is stupid easy. Don't make sexual advances at work. Yet if you're a male, you can still end up falsely accused of sexual harassment, because she didn't like you, she wants your position, she misunderstood you, or sh
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by dozzie 9y ago
Dude, you haven't provided any usable criteria to declare any particular block as "agreed upon". All you said was "eventually", and even that has flaws . It's not something to argue against well known mathem
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by dozzie 9y ago
> that's still about 11 years of inspection time 11 person-years. You don't need the same person to conduct all the inspection.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Convert to YAML and make unidiff from there?
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Do all miners [eventually] agree on the value of a block? Yes? That's a consensus. It's amazing how many things you got wrong in such a short statement. First, a program can't say when this "eventually" is. The
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Just because it doesn't fit into your contrarian view on consensus it doesn't mean it doesn't provide consensus. You do realize that this "my contrarian view" is what computer science calls "the consensu
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by dozzie 9y ago
> The established value of the consensus is the transactions contained within the block. Which of them? Because every node has a slightly different view and doesn't know how it differs from anybody else's view. > That's
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by dozzie 9y ago
> What? There is consensus on the public blockchain every few seconds + block depth. It's called Nakamoto consensus, so yes blockchain 'solves' the problem. It's a name used for Bitcoin's protocol . It doesn&#x2
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by dozzie 9y ago
First and foremost: what is consensus problem ?
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by dozzie 9y ago
It most certainly doesn't. You even confuse blockchain and Merkle trees, and call into existence some weird term "distributed blockchain". But then, consensus problem is a problem of establishing a specific value for almost a

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