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by erincandescent 4y ago
You deposit $10k in the bank The bank originates a mortgage to someone. It uses (some of) your $10k to give cash to the customer getting the mortgage, and the customer then uses that cash to buy the house. For whatever reason, a bank run ha
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by erincandescent 4y ago
XQuartz has been a part of X.Org since forever https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/tree/master/hw...
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by erincandescent 4y ago
ACH is a US dollar bank transfer system between US registered and regulated banks. "Overseas ACH" isn't a thing; anything which looks like it is fronted by a US institution
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by erincandescent 4y ago
I think one other major reason SCTP never went anywhere because performant SCTP NAPT is impossible. With UDP, TCP and SCTP, if you need to change ports in the header, then you need to update the checksum. The traditional TCP/UDP checks
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by erincandescent 4y ago
NVIDIA Denver was basically the Transmeta design with an ARM instead of x86 frontend. It was very underwhelming.
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by erincandescent 5y ago
The home office's checks there were quietly discontinued a short while after they were rolled out - a short while after the Windrush scandal broke. Regardless, identifying bank accounts possessed by illegal immigrants is probably a use
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by erincandescent 5y ago
Interchange fees are capped at 0.2% debit, 0.3% credit. Somewhat higher (~1.2%) for business cards. These caps do not apply to cards issued outside the EEA, nor do they apply to three-party networks such as Amex. Despite that this displease
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by erincandescent 5y ago
> Plastic (debit or credit) lets you spend more than you should. I think this differs from person to person. Cash for me requires more self-discipline, because I don't automatically get a log of where the money has gone and so in so
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by erincandescent 5y ago
It also needs to support whatever hostname resolution systems the local system administrator has chosen to use. DNS is the most common, yes, but mDNS is in common use (for .local hostnames, via Avahi or mDNSResponder), you might need LLMNR
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by erincandescent 5y ago
Market Makers are basically the financial system's buffers: they exist to make sure that you can always buy or sell a given security/commodity. They are the people who make buying or selling something _immediately_ possible, rathe
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by erincandescent 5y ago
The ERCOT maket is stupidly designed - it excluded demand from shed load from pricing calculations. This caused the price of electricity to drop to a point where it was uneconomical for many gas power plants to operate (because of the high
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by erincandescent 5y ago
> If I am remembering right, this was the original idea behind UEFI drivers too — you could in theory write drivers that the firmware would load and they would present a simpler/class-compatible interface to whatever operating syste
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by erincandescent 5y ago
> a snickers bar (or in my case, some artificially sweetened protein bar) is far more filling. Come on, this is just incomparable. Protein is satiating. A protein bar is a very different experience from a Snickers
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by erincandescent 5y ago
> Furthermore, this all inhibits en-registering variables, because exception unwinding doesn't restore registers. I'm sorry, but this is just not true of at least the Itanium exception handling system used by Linux, macOS, etc
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by erincandescent 5y ago
> As explained in another comment below, it's a good thing when all the byte usage is represented in the ELF section headers or the symbol tables. It's an ELF binary; all that's relevant are the program/segment heade
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by erincandescent 6y ago
> That's a whole different topic and not what I was pointing at. No, fundamentally it is If I'm Evil Social Media Company and I want to leak your secrets to someone (the NSA, KGB, whatever), I could 1. Send your plaintext to th
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by erincandescent 6y ago
You have a task to build a Thing, which involves creating the basic "Thing framework" and then implementing subfeatures A, B and C of into/on top of it Maybe you'll build the framework & subfeature A together, becaus
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by erincandescent 6y ago
This is anhistorical; Nokia abandoned the Meego project with/after the burning platform memo. The Linux Foundation abandoned the Meego project and adopted Tizen afterwards, in part because of Nokia's departure
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by erincandescent 7y ago
You can _always_ derive it. For any case where you can't, something funky is going on (perhaps a common holding account IBAN where customer-specific information is encoded in the reference. I've seen this occasionally from Transfe
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by erincandescent 7y ago
It's baked into various systems, protocols and conventions? Sweden and other EU countries which didn't adopt the Euro also retain their traditional account numbering systems A part of the Eurozone transition was that all local sys
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by erincandescent 7y ago
UK Sort Code + Account Numbers _do_ have check digits (Its not precisely a check digit as such: they have rules that they have to obey to be valid). Because of the age of the system, there isn't one _consistent_ rule for all sort code