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by hnarn 5y ago
I’m not exactly a proponent of crypto currencies, but this description seems like it holds true for any currency in the world, regardless of whether it’s crypto, fiat or natural. It’s not like you can carry dollars or a nugget of gold and e
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by hnarn 5y ago
I don’t mean to sound tongue in cheek, but claiming that “predictability” is one of the major benefits of crypto currencies seems like a very rose-tinted way of describing how they behave in real life.
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by hnarn 5y ago
The blog post itself is also archived here: http://archive.today/1cNZb
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by hnarn 5y ago
> Sorry, I meant "to run 50% of the nodes" Ok, but if we're stopping the NSA by forcing them to put down 0.5% of the world's economy to control half of the Tor network... then presumably the rest of the Tor network ne
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by hnarn 5y ago
How does proof of stake help defend end users against nation states? It sounds like it does the complete opposite.
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by hnarn 5y ago
I just question the value of using 0,5% of the worlds electricity to keep the NSA out if there are other options. For example, like the article suggests, if I could decide what nodes I trust as entry guards and so forth, any malicious actor
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by hnarn 5y ago
The adversaries mentioned in the article are highly sophisticated and seem to have access to a great amount of resources. They may be, and some would probably say they likely are, working for nation states. Given a situation where your adve
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by hnarn 5y ago
For a UI centered tutorial, I think this has way too much code and far too few screenshots of what the code results in (and explanations of why).
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by hnarn 5y ago
Is WhatsApp still fully end-to-end encrypted? Can it be trusted compared to Signal, for example? Would be interesting to see if any audits or investigations have been done within the past year or so.
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by hnarn 5y ago
> There’s a clear takeaway here, and put simply, it’s that we didn't see much performance difference between the two operating systems. That's pretty unsurprising since I haven't heard any claims that Windows 11 brings any
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by hnarn 5y ago
It sounds to me like the real story here is how someone was able to access a Pixel that was turned off.
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by hnarn 5y ago
There's definitely an assumption by Hotz that programming and solving "real" problems is what everyone should aspire to, and that anything else is just meaningless. Like anything in life, what's meaningful is of course c
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by hnarn 5y ago
George Hotz said something once that most modern developer jobs are depressing because you're not doing any actual programming. I.e. you're not given a problem to solve with code, you're just taping together frameworks and pi
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by hnarn 5y ago
I think there's a general lesson to be learned here, which is that you should be wary of any colleague within any branch of IT that honestly claims the things you're working on are "simple". I'll take an insecure co
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by hnarn 5y ago
There's power in a union.
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by hnarn 5y ago
What value does this provide over simply Googling or DDG'ing "array.map mdn"? It's shorter and the first result for me is (unsurprisingly) MDN on both, and I don't have to run my searches through an unknown third pa
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by hnarn 5y ago
> In my experience human readability is pretty important when you are debugging or working with SQL in a raw form (running random, ad-hoc queries). I agree, but most databases have functions for this. MySQL example: > SELECT FROM_UNIX
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by hnarn 5y ago
Documentation does not belong in asciinema. It’s for presentation, and using it as an excuse not to document is pure laziness.
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by hnarn 5y ago
> That only applies if what you're storing identifies a point in time. A meeting is definitely "a point in time", and your example illustrates my point: the display of "2022-07-01 09:00 UTC+2" should be up to the
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by hnarn 5y ago
People conflating subjective opinion with objective fact is in my opinion one of the most frustrating things about Internet discourse today.
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by hnarn 5y ago
>they don’t otherwise support a convenient desktop experience I have no idea what this means.
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by hnarn 5y ago
Your claim that no operating systems support this seems extremely unlikely. I’m pretty much certain there are multiple Linux desktop environments that support vector based background images.
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by hnarn 5y ago
If this affected all links, couldn’t you just monitor it with a general “does downloads of these URLs work” check? You don’t have to (and shouldn’t) monitor 404 returns to test whether downloads are working, the naive and obvious test is to
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by hnarn 5y ago
You are correct, there are many other reasons for saving dates and times in a database apart from recording "events", and for those it does make sense to use "relative" descriptions of time or date. I'd argue though
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by hnarn 5y ago
The argument "this doesn't matter because all SQLite databases are small anyway" does not hold water. There are many large SQLite databases out there. And even if there wasn't, storing timestamps as text is simply and fu
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by hnarn 5y ago
First of all, I don't see how using unix epoch timestamps can be called "premature optimization", it's a pretty widely used and standardized way of saving timestamps. Secondly, if you're in "SQLite Strict Land&
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by hnarn 5y ago
If you’re going to convert it anyway, why use a human readable format in the first place? If you store it as unix epoch, not only do you never have to worry about time zones, it’s also a sortable integer instead of text.
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by hnarn 5y ago
It’s not last resort, you should do both because you’re alerting on different things.
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by hnarn 5y ago
A telco I used to work for did this like two decades ago but even better, they mapped incoming support calls (customers) to stations, and if more than N came in during a certain period for the same DSLAM it triggered some kind of alert. Sam
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by hnarn 5y ago
You cannot "always" do this because some of us frequently or occasionally work in environments where external, non-reviewed software simply isn't allowed.

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