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by majewsky 4y ago
When you think about how you read English text, or text in any language really, you don't decompose all that much during normal reading. For example, if you look at the word "house", you don't read it like "H-O-U-S-
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by majewsky 4y ago
Okay, but what does the blockchain do exactly? You can have all that with traditional databases and asymmetric signatures. My suspicion is that all these benefits were just from traditional process improvements, but the suits only approved
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by majewsky 4y ago
> Think about a logistics chain where everybody needs to know that a record wasn't modified in retrospect. Why not just have event payloads signed by a neutral fiduciary?
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by majewsky 4y ago
I agree, but I don't think the "few people talk about it" criterion applies. It's not that it doesn't come up in debates, it's that nothing much comes of it (yet).
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by majewsky 4y ago
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by majewsky 4y ago
How does that help during a power outage?
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by majewsky 4y ago
> Most software we use at work exists in one of two categories: > 1. It’s new and we love it for now. > 2. It’s old but we have to use it and we hate it. > [... Microsoft Excel] inhabits its own category: it’s old, but we love i
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by majewsky 4y ago
Moving the goalposts. GP's statement was that TradFi isn't close, so I showed an example where TradFi is close. Also, the number of people who accept Euro is definitely larger than those who accept any cryptocurrency combined.
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by majewsky 4y ago
I usually get the result I want in the second slot. The first slot is always wrong because it's always an ad.
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by majewsky 4y ago
Because the developers of window managers and desktop environments are precisely the people that benefit from foregoing backwards compatibility and getting rid of all the duct tape and zip ties that hold the modern X stack together. It is t
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by majewsky 4y ago
SEPA Instant Credit Transfer [1] has a soft limit of 10 seconds and hard limit of 20 seconds for money transfers between accounts of different banks. What's the use case for "faster than 10 seconds"? [1] https://ww
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by majewsky 4y ago
What's the business incentive for a validator to charge that much lower costs? If they know they have the cheapest offering on the market already, it doesn't make business sense to undercut Visa by that much (or, at most, to only
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by majewsky 4y ago
Consider the sheer amount of new tech, or more general, of new ideas being shared here and on other places every single day. How is a single person supposed to evaluate all that? You don't even need to go that broad. I'm working i
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by majewsky 4y ago
How can everyone convert bolivars into bitcoin? That would imply that equal amounts of bitcoin are being sold by someone in exchange for bolivar. Who is that and why do they think it's a good deal?
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by majewsky 4y ago
> Some people were leaving scooters in bad places and it seemed like companies didn't have a solution to this I don't have an anti-tech mentality, I have an anti-externalization-of-costs mentality. If those scooter startups did
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by majewsky 4y ago
> The idea of having a fast, easy, low emission and cheap way to get around short distances in a city without needing a car or having to bring a bike or similar is awesome. The solution you're looking for is a bikesharing service. T
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by majewsky 4y ago
Wayland and "an Xorg user experience that's not a disaster" came from roughly the same developers because of the same needs. Generally lots of stuff was moved out of Xorg into places where it fits better, into the Linux kerne
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by majewsky 4y ago
The core protocol is minimal because it considers not only PCs and laptops as a target, but also smartphones and tablets (where supporting xdg-shell is usually not desired because it breaks the UI paradigm), IoT and embedded usecases. In pa
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by majewsky 4y ago
> EU Cohesion Fund Oh, the irony.
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by majewsky 4y ago
> 3 Buzzwords Every Low-Effort Blogspam Should Consider Including FTFY
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by majewsky 4y ago
Once you cross a certain size, how else is it supposed to work, realistically speaking? My team administers servers in Brazil, Australia, Japan, Netherlands, the US, and several other countries. We can't do racking, cabling and hardwar
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by majewsky 4y ago
And by now, lazy programmers have made their programs so fat that SATA SSDs feel as fast as HDDs felt back in the day. Now everyone is hailing NVMe SSDs as our savior.
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by majewsky 4y ago
It depends on the station. If you're in Leipzig Central and you need to switch from platform 20 to platform 6, 5 minutes is very stressful because of the sheer number of platforms you need to walk past.
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by majewsky 4y ago
Wendover had a video on this topic just this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9jirFqex6g For a short summary, the basic problem is that rail infrastructure is paid for by national funds, so there is a bigger incentive
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by majewsky 4y ago
> The ideal situation would be an ability to write that information back to the card. Be careful what you wish for. You don't want them to have a dead man's switch on your physical copy.
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by majewsky 4y ago
I don't disagree, but there are other reasons to like Steam. I like Steam because they heavily invest into Linux support, even for games that are not theirs. I understand that they're not doing this out of altruism, they have seve
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by majewsky 4y ago
> Then MS Teams hit and we lost a bunch of performance due to crappy Electron apps . FTFY
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by majewsky 4y ago
I have one of these microwaves as well (albeit with a turntable) and it's one of my most beloved pieces of technology. The only thing is that it's 20+ years old and I'm dreading the day that it breaks and I won't be able
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by majewsky 4y ago
The point is that the cheating problem is unsolvable at scale against sufficiently motivated attackers. It would be possible to solve if the incentives are not that strong to cheat, but the status game associated with multiplayer games take
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by majewsky 4y ago
> Then pay them with state money if needed. We can't. The radical pro-small-state finance minister fights tooth and nail against any additional debt in order to obey the holy debt ceiling that a bunch of idiots wrote into the consti

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