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by joeyh 15y ago
Coincidentially I had just taken a cold shower before reading this. But then, it's 95 degrees out; it's 75 with high humidity in the earth-sheltered house, and in these conditions a spring-fed shower is very welcome. I'll bet this guy is go
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by joeyh 15y ago
What a great technical problem, except for this bit: > Btw, I didn't try to hide behind "this is scientific computing -- no way to optimize". It's just that the basis for this code is something that comes out of a "black box" where I ha
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by joeyh 15y ago
The most amusing change with ipv6 for me is that google now tries to crawl the webserver on my laptop whenever my ipv6 tunnel is up. I suppose I should add a robots.txt. (I have no clue what link led it to my laptop, although its AAAA is in
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by joeyh 15y ago
100% agree, but ironically the most read single post on olduse.net so far actually fits in a tweet: http://identi.ca/notice/75500867
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by joeyh 15y ago
This was just posted in the "hacknews" newsgroup. Its resemblance to my day is uncanny. Message-ID: <696@Autzoo.UUCP> Newsgroups: hacknews Path: utzoo!henry Date: Fri Jun 5 15:44:20 1981 Subject: morning crash From: h
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by joeyh 15y ago
Here's my announcement post, which is, I hope, worth reading for some context of what's going on in 1981 "now": http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/announcing_olduse.net/ Also, if you see a blank box where the newsreader should be, yeah,
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by joeyh 15y ago
While forbin is cagey, my bet is it's a single linux box running some python code, as well as shelling out to various programs (BASIC, etc). OTOH, I could be very wrong.. it does seem to have a CPU, with opcodes, that I can disassemble.. Tr
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by joeyh 15y ago
I have been on telehack a few days. For me it really brought out the repressed 13 year-old hacker, high on Mtn Dew, that I never quite got to be. I've seen others say similar. It's awesome to have a place where I can snoop on Waxy's tty as
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by joeyh 15y ago
What bitcoin address do we send tips to?
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by joeyh 15y ago
Bradley Kuhn's take on this is that "relicensing part of the codebase out from under LibreOffice may actually be the most insidious attack Oracle and IBM could make on the project" http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/06/01/open-office.html
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by joeyh 15y ago
This is an article from April 2006, so was written around the same time he was rewriting couchdb in erlang.
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by joeyh 15y ago
That's a story conceit. If you're going to pay off < 5 cent suits, and ignore suites from Nigeria, you just program your lawsuit filter to do it. If that doesn't cut it, you buy access to an legal expert service that is updated as neede
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by joeyh 15y ago
Like the two spaces after a sentence rule, the traditional quote style has much to do with typesetting. And so in the monospaced, limited font, early online setting, those rules were not very relevant, and were often ignored. When it wasn't
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by joeyh 15y ago
Another good reason for certain use cases is its support for resumable uploads: http://code.google.com/apis/storage/docs/developer-guide.htm... Afaik S3 can't do that.
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by joeyh 15y ago
Cloned but with some required new fields like "x-goog-api-version", so existing S3 libraries won't quite work without modification, it seems.
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by joeyh 15y ago
Prophet ( http://syncwith.us/ ) was originally talked about as a way to build a darknet or sneakernet. Perhaps some are still pursuing that, though the main public development has to do with building SD on top of it and using it for distrib
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by joeyh 15y ago
And it's not just academic, consider if you want to run lots of https and support browsers that don't support https on one address. Not to mention all the applications for many addresses that should develop if/when ipv6 is widespread. As a
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by joeyh 15y ago
Not really. Ipv6 support has been an open and much-discussed wishlist feature on the Linode forums for ages, and a few months ago they finally committed to providing it ASAP.
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by joeyh 15y ago
Wow, just one IPv6 address for free, pay for the rest. Granted, you're paying for addresses pooled among hosts with failover, which could be well worth paying for. But come on Linode, a single IPv6 address allocation is ridiculous. Update:
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by joeyh 16y ago
Check this out: 200,000 bitcoins transferred in one transaction today. http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MqsETo2t6W61QUCL9KRdw2P1PW... That's roughly 4% of all bitcoins ever minted, if my math is right.
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by joeyh 16y ago
Probably a lot of historical users will never tick the box to allow their data to be transferred, and that data will fall off the web, or at best be archived. That would happen even if there was not a time limit for users to take action; Ju
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by joeyh 16y ago
Makes me wonder how many people just punch in "Maiden". Of course those security questions are nearly useless anyway.
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by joeyh 16y ago
Overestimating 100k per user, it would only be 6 terabytes. And all those low-entropy passwords etc should compress quite well.
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by joeyh 16y ago
I've read fairly convincing arguments that we don't know how to land on Mars, either. Problems of thin atmosphere, difficulties in aereobraking, etc. http://www.universetoday.com/25438/why-cant-we-land-on-mars/ Currently the method that's
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by joeyh 16y ago
The title here on Hacker News has been mangled to be incomprehensible or just wrong. This is not a "Linux patent", it is a software patent which is potentially infringed by the Linux kernel.
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by joeyh 16y ago
The dvcs-autosync author is also looking at making it use git-annex for large files.
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by joeyh 16y ago
Use public key cryptography to encrypt a symmetric encryption key. Only those who the symmetric key is encrypted to can decrypt it, and in turn use it to decrypt the content. All existing infrastructure (ie, WoT) for distributing public key
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by joeyh 16y ago
Look at it this way: It would be approximately as hard to change the rules of a mature bitcoin network as it would be to change say, the rules of the web (perhaps adding something easier to implement than <video>; more of a server-s
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by joeyh 16y ago
AFAICS, the benefit to being in a mining pool is you can make some bitcoins immediately, rather than waiting for a big, rare payout. There's no increased probability of winning due to pooling resources is there?
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by joeyh 16y ago
The number of bitcoins produced in a given time interval is kept close to constant, based on the quantity of resources used to produce them in the recent past. So throwing vast resources at mining should be conterproductive. Serious miners

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