krupan

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811.
by krupan 3y ago
Any PCIe device you plug into your computer has the same potential to do something nefarious. We already have problems where no two PCIe implementations interpret the spec the exact same way and they all have bugs. What you are hypothesiz
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by krupan 3y ago
Sorry, but it's still not clear what exact attack scenario you are envisioning. I have PC with a motherboard that has a CPU and am FPGA. I load my custom nefarious PCIe core onto the FPGA that bypasses the built in PCIe core. Now wh
813.
by krupan 3y ago
When a .o is stored in the cache it is associated with the hash of the .c file
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by krupan 3y ago
Occasionally it's necessary to write code that would make people ask, "why?!?" and comments definitely help there, but I feel like that's generally rare, especially when you use good variable/function names, keep fu
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by krupan 3y ago
https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/02/portrait-of-n00b.ht...
816.
by krupan 3y ago
Maybe, but it also seems fraudulent for the car dealership to act like you are talking to a human when you are really talking to a computer program
817.
by krupan 3y ago
"Cost and production scale are different questions" No they aren't. At any given time cost is determined by supply and demand. If you can't supply enough to meet demand, then the cost is high. If there is no supply, th
818.
by krupan 3y ago
Are batteries renewable?
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by krupan 3y ago
So then batteries are not actually cheaper
820.
by krupan 3y ago
While I completely agree with you, cheap printers do a lot of heavy lifting in the printer driver, so we'd have to give up on $100 inkjets. Which we a really should do, but, well, good luck with that.
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by krupan 3y ago
If you are along time GNU user (meaning GNU grep, sed, less, awk, find, tar, etc., etc.) this will be way more frustrating than you realize to use. Having lived in the UNIX days, I can still remember the subtle differences in all the comma
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by krupan 3y ago
"As with so much in AI, people are left with nothing more than “vibes” to go on. And the vibes are bad." word
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Layoffs Hit Troubled Robotaxi Developer Cruise(wired.com)
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824.
by krupan 3y ago
If we ever end up in a situation where nobody is feeling charitable then we are screwed as a society no matter what.
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by krupan 3y ago
Mercurial is (was?) better, but I would actually be really surprised to hear anyone else say that these days. Glad to see it made the bingo board though. Everything else on that board I think I have heard (or said myself) in just the last
826.
by krupan 3y ago
Now I'm totally picturing a hollow Burj Kalifa with airships stacked vertically inside :-)
827.
by krupan 3y ago
Oh don't worry, when this happens I always go back to my maps and then make another attempt.
828.
by krupan 3y ago
Finally looked at both of those bitcoin events that you are attempting to equate to the DAO fork. I commented about the first one elsewhere here. The second one was indeed a chain fork, which is actually a normal and expected event in Bit
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by krupan 3y ago
You aren't going to have sunlight for 45 hours straight
830.
by krupan 3y ago
"as long as you have a hangar large enough to build them" seems to be doing a lot of work in your reasoning here
831.
by krupan 3y ago
Another way of looking at it: The bitcoin fork was to fix a broken promise. The bug meant that Bitcoin didn't work as promised, the code fix and fork fixed that. One of Ethereum's promises around smart contracts was, "code i
832.
by krupan 3y ago
It feels like most of those bullet points, if not all, could be applied to any fledgling new energy source, or actually any new technology in general. I hope there's more to this analysis than just these bullet points
833.
by krupan 3y ago
"Since then, there have been various incidents involving Ethereum and Bitcoin and hacks or smart contract bugs that caused losses of millions or billions" Sneaky of you to add "Bitcoin" to that sentence, implying that sm
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by krupan 3y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't know that bit of Bitcoin history. I see a big fundamental difference between that chain fork and the ethereum DAO fork. The bitcoin fork was to fix a bug in the bitcoin source code. Without doi
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by krupan 3y ago
Great advice at the end of the article, "put unknown trails to the sniff test: If they peter out into forest or unmarked desert, or you find yourself unexpectedly scrambling up steep or loose terrain, stop." Every one of these &qu
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by krupan 3y ago
Pro tip: definitely go through a tutorial when you first try to use inkscape, at least if you are like me with no previous vector drawing experience
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by krupan 3y ago
I guess it depends what you mean by "number 1" but we are claiming that it is the number one best ;) In all seriousness, it's not just a talking point. Bitcoin's invention, promises, implementation, and operation has si
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by krupan 3y ago
If you can't figure out why Bitcoin stuck and the others didn't then maybe you should put a little more effort into understanding the differences. Or just respectfully stay out of these conversations maybe?
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by krupan 3y ago
And sorry, I know I should but I can't just let this go. You keep comparing Bitcoin to cash, as if cash is the solution to the unbanking problem we are talking about. You say this about Bitcoin vs. cash: “Harder to use, costs more, s
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by krupan 3y ago
Yes, following the chain of addresses is pretty easy, but proving who owns which address is not. Using the new tech like Schnorr signatures is not "a complicated setup" that "has to be maintained perfectly." It is (or w

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