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by nwh 13y ago
They don't need to. The transition is complete, any many apps had Universal binaries that ran seamlessly on both platforms.
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by nwh 13y ago
They could. Apple run PowerPC apps on Intel processors. The real answer is that they don't want them to.
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by nwh 13y ago
The proof of work mitigates that issue. The reason you are asked to wait for 3 or 6 confirmations is to ensure that you can't be outrun and have those transactions removed. If an attacker could, then they have a majority vote in the ne
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by nwh 13y ago
This post is unfortunately incorrect. > If, say, there’s 50 computers in the network and you’re only connected to 5 who happen to be attackers, they could tell you that you only have 5 coins instead of 20. No node ever "tells&quo
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by nwh 13y ago
Little cosmetic bug, doesn't seem to effect the results — http://i.imgur.com/ttof6iD.png
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by nwh 13y ago
I feel the presentation would have had a lot more weight and clarity if not for the memes in the bottom right corner. As it stands, they just make it another fantasy creation- only the writer has an email address @google.com.
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by nwh 13y ago
Major? It's been that way since 2007 at least, it's just a side effect of the way they design their machines. It's not as if this is a recent thing that Apple has just introduced.
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by nwh 13y ago
This is completely correct. At full load I can draw 100W+ from my MacBook, which does indeed drain the battery. It's just a side effect of them having a small lightweight charger, and it's never affected me in the slightest. This
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by nwh 13y ago
I wasn't aware of that shortcut, that's very useful.
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by nwh 13y ago
My apologies, I've removed that line.
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by nwh 13y ago
ping and other command line tools don't mind it for me on OSX, I don't know what the distinction between them would be though. $ ping 7393249866 PING 7393249866 (184.172.10.74): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 184.172.
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by nwh 13y ago
The decoded URL for this submission is http://184.172.10.74/ — the server for Hacker News. Here's some other encodings you can use for the same address, they're all valid and recognised by most browsers and other
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by nwh 13y ago
I second this.
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by nwh 13y ago
I would liken it more to the OSX PPC > Intel transition than between OSX > iOS, though both did involve porting a whole operating system to a new processor architecture. In the case of iOS, Apple had a fresh start so there was no need
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by nwh 13y ago
It is bizarre really. Apple managed to keep OSX running even in their transition from PowerPC to Intel, not sure why Microsoft decided to split Windows up quite so badly.
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by nwh 13y ago
"At launch" it was worthless.
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by nwh 13y ago
The hockey puck mouse got a nice introduction though, check the applause Jobs gets when he shows it off — http://youtu.be/0BHPtoTctDY?t=6m25s
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by nwh 13y ago
Soak some toilet paper in alcohol, run the mouse upside down over it, then admire the smear of black dirt that comes off the roller.
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by nwh 13y ago
My original SSD setup didn't actually have any problems in the 2007 model MacBook Pro, so I can't imagine you would either. The speedup is absolutely incredible, even with a cheap Chinese SSD.
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by nwh 13y ago
I've never had an issue with getting a HDD in the optical bay to sleep. Just checked the option in the settings and used a tool (CHUB? CHUD?) to set the minimum spindown time to be lower than normal.
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by nwh 13y ago
I wouldn't say that. I've been using SSDs since 2009, and I've never had an issue with them. Every MacBook I've owned since then has had a hybrid of SSD + HDD for speed and capacity, and it seriously works a treat. The o
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by nwh 13y ago
Sounds like it. I'd be taking it in anyway, even if you're slightly out of warranty, most Apple Stores are happy to waive the cost if you have had any specific suffering due to it.
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by nwh 13y ago
Could be a completely different company and model of storage.
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by nwh 13y ago
I respect that. I'm very impressed with the speed of that emulator too.
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by nwh 13y ago
That's very nice too, though aren't you going to be running into some legal issues by distributing their ROMs?
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by nwh 13y ago
You thoroughly missed the point of this discussion.
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by nwh 13y ago
The idea is good, and it would actually work as it currently stands. The fundamental issue is that the signatures it creates would be massive in comparison to the lean scripts that the Bitcoin network uses internally. There's certainly
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by nwh 13y ago
> Surely whatever scheme you have to obfuscate the trail could be built into the network? If so, why wasn't it? Not really. Mixing Bitcoin relies on shared wallets controlled by a third party. You trust in them not to leak the det
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by nwh 13y ago
I don't think any of them ever got a CVE to be quite honest. There's a few that come to mind, my favourite being an integer overflow that lead to the creation of billions of Bitcoin in a single transaction. Here's the thread
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by nwh 13y ago
> This is refreshing to hear, however the Government does not have a history of writing good code (excluding NASA) I still feel like the Government argument could be correct. My point was more that if it was set up to be a honeypot, th

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