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811.
by perlgeek 5y ago
Note that I meant a strictly monotonic sequence number PER PRIVATE KEY. This only means that each holder of a private key must have some sort of synchronization mechanism (if they use several agents/clients), but it doesn't centra
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by perlgeek 5y ago
I'm trying to understand the central technical argument being made here. Please tell me if I got this right. --- Somebody has a stake in a PoS crypto currency. They can now do two things: 1) sell their stake 2) sign something fraudulen
813.
by perlgeek 5y ago
I know in 2D there are patterns that tile aperiodicly, compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperiodic_tiling If the same holds true in 3D, maybe some of these proteins simply do not form crystals. Sucks to be a PhD st
814.
by perlgeek 5y ago
> A lot of the fuel can be recycled and doesn't need to be stored for thousands of years. But is it, actually? The amount of nuclear waste in interim storage speaks against it. > It's a solved problem It is certainly not. Fo
815.
by perlgeek 5y ago
I don't think so; the angling of the mirrors is done with small steps, which the mirrors smooth out. If you apply a very thin film, it will just follow the steps.
816.
by perlgeek 5y ago
That's the point, you can't. Put quite many people say "you cannot have all three of Conistency, Available, Partition Tolerance", which sounds like you can keep any two / drop one at will. But the right starting poi
817.
by perlgeek 5y ago
> Even a "breaking apart" that proposes splitting "search" from "advertising" would do nothing to address the issues that are getting raised at present. Alone it wouldn't help, but what if you split sea
818.
by perlgeek 5y ago
The part that annoyed me the most about the series is this: it doesn't show anything in trial about whether the patent is actually valid. And then in the final verdict, the jury decides the patent is invalid. Of course, if it's in
819.
by perlgeek 5y ago
Another aspect: if the kids ask what things cost, answer (truthfully). Depending on your culture, it might be weird /unusual/inappropriate to talk about how much rent you pay, how high that restaurant bill was, what you pay for a
820.
by perlgeek 5y ago
I don't think it's possible for a country of the size of the US to have decent missile defense. Israel has it for certain areas of high population density, not for the whole country. But that is also against relatively low-range m
821.
by perlgeek 5y ago
> virtual currency does not have the same legal status as legal currency > they are not legal and should not and cannot be used as currency in the market So, you're not allowed to use it as a currency . Can you still use it as a
822.
by perlgeek 5y ago
Traceroutes. Peering information is also often public. More sinister options like insider information or leaked/exfiltrated network plans are also an option, but usually you get pretty far with standard network diagnostic tools.
823.
by perlgeek 5y ago
ISPs have a very decentralized network, that is, they have routers in a lot of places. If you sum up the available traffic capacity, you get a number that's far bigger than 250 Gbit/s. But that's not the right comparison to m
824.
by perlgeek 5y ago
Going after bigger pieces in higher orbit might not bring much of an immediate benefit, but it can reduce the amount of damage if such an object is hit and shattered into many pieces (Kessler effect comes to mind). So it might still be very
825.
by perlgeek 5y ago
> If you're vaccinated, you can still get and transmit covid. You just don't get as sick. The vaccine protects you. While you still can transmit COVID-19 if you're vaccinated against it, it's far less likely (the ti
826.
by perlgeek 5y ago
When thinking about length limits, always try to come up with use cases for the data that limit the length. If you have a legal name, you might want to write that person a letter (an invoice, injunction, notification of breach, whatever), s
827.
by perlgeek 5y ago
Tying it to a donation of USD 100mm to charity is a very good PR move. It's much harder to be upset about private space being a billionaire's club when society stands to gain from the ride.
828.
by perlgeek 5y ago
Offering API-compatible tools is very deeply ingrained in the UNIX philosophy; just think of the different implementations of "ls", or the C functions mandated by POSIX, or the way that clang (the compiler targeting LLVM) has the
829.
by perlgeek 5y ago
Ironic that the website hosting the article likely itself violates the GDPR. It makes it much easier to accept all cookies than to reject, without any good technical reason to do so, and presents the "accept all" as the default ch
830.
by perlgeek 5y ago
It's not just limiting to three hours a week, but to three particular hours a week. Feels even more Draconian to me.
831.
by perlgeek 5y ago
> Starting in October, the company will prohibit creators from posting material with sexually explicit conduct on its website [...]. They’ll still be allowed to put up nude photos and videos, provided they’re consistent with OnlyFans’ po
832.
by perlgeek 5y ago
This reminds me of somebody who held my job before I joined. He had questionable test/release/deployment practices, so they took his root privs away in prod, and instead made him build packages (that was mostly already done before
833.
by perlgeek 5y ago
There's a huge bias towards the happy case in specifications, user stories and so on. I try hard to discuss error cases, but often I only get a very unenthusiastic "well, show an error message, d'oh" as a response, which
834.
by perlgeek 5y ago
> 2. Even if there was a congress committee/investigation done, what changes can actually be instituted? Block any more Russian modules? There are certainly less dramatic measures that could have prevented this incident. To quote th
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by perlgeek 5y ago
A somebody who first started using DB code from Perl, and later learned Python, I always wondered by Python doesn't have a general database interface like DBI in Perl. In Perl, all the database specific modules have a DBI backend, and
836.
by perlgeek 5y ago
Risk management can (and often does) include simply accepting risks and their consequences. A strong risk management doesn't necessarily mean strong protection of employees, just that lots of risks have been considered, documented and
837.
by perlgeek 5y ago
I still get some benefits of modularisation, even if there are some cross-dependencies.
838.
by perlgeek 5y ago
A Customer has a BillingContact, which references a Person, which has primary Customer. Boom, circular dependency. Happens in basically all corporate code bases that grow over the years, with varying path lengths. Throwing all potentially c
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Nobody assumes all photos should be great looking, but if there were really spacecraft or aircraft of foreign origin, wouldn't you expect the occasional high-quality image or video of it? Instead we only see blurry UFO images, because
840.
by perlgeek 5y ago
There are millions and millions of sharp photos; on all of them you see it's not an alien spacecraft (but weather ballons, light reflections and very mundane objects). Independently of how good our technology is, there'll always b

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