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by knorker 4y ago
Oh, you mean KYC and AML? Turns out "math" doesn't make legislators and regulators go "oh, it's math? Ok, then I have no requirements". I've said it many times before: Cryptocurrency and smart contracts ju
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by knorker 4y ago
Anyone selling OpenBSD should try to avoid the topic of support and especially mailing lists. Unless you deliver a working patch for the bug you found they're more likely to tell you to piss off. A question? Lol, no we don't answe
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by knorker 4y ago
Feedback for the author: If you've never heard of "The wirecutter" then it's really hard to understand what you're saying. Are you "The wirecutter"? It's not part of your domain name, if so. "C
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by knorker 4y ago
What about ovpn.com?
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by knorker 4y ago
> True but they might not know what it is. With a half life of 87.7 years there won't be any left by the time it's found. They'll have to know nuclear science to even propose a hypothesis about what was in that container.
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by knorker 4y ago
Good thing they won't find it in the next 100 years, then. It'll all be gone. Literally every single atom in about 7500 years.
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by knorker 4y ago
Sure, but it sounded like you meant while not instadeath, it'll be eventua-death. I.e. the Simpsons view of plutonium, which is likely what's in most people's minds. Anyone encountering the probe will pretty much by definitio
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by knorker 4y ago
This is from 2021 by a good margin. Anything new since i last read it, or should this have 2021 in the title?
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by knorker 4y ago
I know. And the USD is not just backed by the military. War is just diplomacy failed. It's just the most obvious backing. It's enough to send fines, most of the time. Actually just the threat of fines. If foreign then diplomatic c
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by knorker 4y ago
On the black stain on the CV: the best time to quit cryptocurrency companies is before you start. The second best time is today. It's just a year or so. Two years will look worse. Three years and you'll start looking like a frauds
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by knorker 4y ago
Meh. Plutonium is safe below criticality.
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Like I said, I was not the one starting the comparison.
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Two things: > You can't just compare bitcoin to a corporation and get something that makes sense. 1) I agree. I was replying to a comment that did. > Cash just as well "has no assets". 2) USD is backed, ultimately, by t
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by knorker 4y ago
> Bitcoin has value for the same reason Visa has value. No. Visa has contracts, offices, and cash. They have over $81B in assets, over $12B of which is cold hard cash.[1] Visa also has employees who know what they're doing. Bitcoin
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by knorker 4y ago
I'm up there on the mound preaching the same thing, trust me.
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It's not far fetched. Microcontroller programming should not be seen as magic. And microcontrollers will never get abundant capacity because smaller and more efficient means less battery , no matter the tech level. So it's not li
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by knorker 4y ago
I'm actually also talking about the second. > avoid having the CPU do useless work all the time It's not worth an engineer spending 1h a year even investigating this, if it's less than 20 CPU cores doing useless work. The
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Why not both?
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by knorker 4y ago
Maybe. Using actual numbers vetted by actual expenses in an actual company, if you can save 100 CPU cores by spending 3h a year keeping it optimized, then it is NOT worth it. It is cheaper to burn CPU, even if you could spend one day a year
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by knorker 4y ago
Yeah, it doesn't have a simple answer that works for all cases. Say you need to do some data processing from format A to B. There's already a maintained codebase for converting from A to C, C to D, and a service that converts indi
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by knorker 4y ago
That's true. I'm not saying a browser solves a small and simple problem. But on the other hand Chrome takes much more RAM than the operating system (including desktop environment). Even after closing all tabs, since tabs (and exte
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by knorker 4y ago
And ones with a choice. Given the choice between program X and program X plus higher speed at higher cost, some will choose the latter. But that's never the choice. All else is not equal.
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by knorker 4y ago
I'm of course aware of all this. If you don't want to take the advise of running the numbers that's up to you. E.g. if end user latency is 10ms (and it's not voip or VR or something) then that's fast enough. Doesn&#
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by knorker 4y ago
If humans wait, yes. If you can just buy another server: no. I 100% agree on saving human time. Human time is expensive. CPU time is absolutely not.
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by knorker 4y ago
It depends. Run the lifetime cost of a CPU, and compare it to what you pay your engineers. It's shocking how much RAM and CPU you can get for the price of an hour of engineer time. And that's not even all! Next time someone reads
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by knorker 4y ago
Not that it invalidates anything you said, but it was 750ms vs 200 microseconds. But yeah. I agree. Why does Lightroom take forever to load, when I can query its backing SQLite in no time at all? And that's not even mentioning the RAM
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by knorker 4y ago
Facebook, Deutche Telecom (Terastream), and other huge players I can't mention because NDA.
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>>This idea that a central entity can’t regulate cryptocurrencies is pushed around by crypto enthusiasts. However, governments are trying to bring regulations into cryptocurrencies and stable coins. > Literally nobody claimed they
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Interesting. How do I invest in your 3-token? Please let me know, as I want to get onboard early. Take my money!
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by knorker 4y ago
Indeed. Probably the most common data structure ever used, list of stuff, Go managed to make subtle and full of surprises. A knife without a handle. This makes the stated reason for the delay of generics hard to understand. They didn't

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