pyalot2

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by pyalot2 13y ago
What's the point of doing a browser at all then? Or email? Or a new device? Or having a company in the first place? Or inventing anything? How can you tell a tech company is dead and done for? It's when they stop pushing the bound
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by pyalot2 13y ago
The click trough rate from a website to a downloadable/appstorable package until it's installed, found, opened and used is around 1%. The click trough rate from a website to another website is around 50%. Writing a native applicat
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Really, plumet? The only thing that's plummeted is MtMickeyMouse goxtokens/goxbucks exchange rate (that's down +80%), and that's got not much to do with the real world. All other exchanges took a bit of a hit (15% or the
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by pyalot2 13y ago
I think there's two problems nobody seems to be addressing about space elevators. 1) A vehicle starting at the earths surface has the moment of earths rotation. As it climbs the cable it would need to be accelerated to a suitable orbit
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by pyalot2 13y ago
A theory is useless if it isn't testable/falsifiable. It's actually not a theory at that point. You don't have a theory of consciousness, period. And attributing something you can't explain, to a physical effect you
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by pyalot2 13y ago
To rewrite OpenSSL you'll need to be a security and cryptography programmer. And even if you are, the task is daunting to say the least.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Been there done that, but the fact is, there is no alternative to OpenSSL I could see if you want to have SSL/TLS 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Yes
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by pyalot2 13y ago
You can replicate the exact same experience (only worse) with any other webserver like apache, lighttpd, cherokee, etc. Tux may be a bit faster, but it can't serve dynamic content nearly as fast as it serves files, so that's prett
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by pyalot2 13y ago
If you use anything like Apache, lighttpd, Cherokee, Nginx, Tux, etc. they all use OpenSSL, and nothing else.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
That's really too long to list, I could conceivably write a book about it. But, fortunately it's relatively easy to test. You get whatever server you prefer, and install nginx and install a bunch of performance testing tools (like
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Yeah I'm not disputing that there aren't bottlenecks in the system (it's not only the memory, the bus between NIC and CPU is also to blame). But, blaming bad I/O performance on large datasets misses the point slightly. Y
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by pyalot2 13y ago
You know, it's cute when somebody who wasn't even born when I started writing software for servers tries to discredit me.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
But that's a bit absurd isn't it? A recent core i7 reaches 124850 MIPS. That means that if it takes 1/1000th of a second to handle a connection, the CPU could execute 124 million instructions during that time. At 10/1000
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by pyalot2 13y ago
The 10k problem is still not solved. A run of the mill VPS typically manages around 1k simultaneous connections and 10k requests/s. That is, over plain http. Over TLS this goes down to about 100 connections and 600 requests/s. A c
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by pyalot2 13y ago
PC, self assembled, GTX-780, core i7, 8gb ram, ssd OS: Ubuntu 13.04 SVC: git/hg Editor: vim on a terminal, dark background picture, alpha blended text. Plugins: syntax highlighting for glsl and coffeescript
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Uhm, "And gets it all wrong" why exactly? Other than being a wall of text pissing on veritasium, there's no explanation or debunk of what veritasium actually got wrong, none, zilch, zip. There's a saying that, extraordin
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Shadow DOM is a mechanism by which a browser can inject a subtree into the DOM, but it won't be visible to JS. This was often used for things like custom elements (inputs and such). I presume it wasn't very popular to use the shad
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Tom Perkins of "Kristallnacht" fame now suggests that money is a democratic medium. Let's not forget how in Nazi germany the Nazi party and Kristallnacht was sponsored proudly by IG Farben, VW, Bayer, Thyssen, and so forth, a
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Outsourcing jobs. Outsourcing layoffs. Checks out, what did India expect?
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by pyalot2 13y ago
> Do you have any idea how much code is in the kernel? Yes I do, and that's kind of my point. It's a Kernel. I.e. it's the proverbial operating system. It's written as an operating system. Systemd wants to be the oper
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by pyalot2 13y ago
All those components that systemd manages, that's easily, I don't know how many millions of lines of code, and it all runs as pid 1, which, when it crashes, takes the whole system with it. Just doesn't seem terribly smart.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Have you actually looked at what systemd does? Here's a handy chart curtesy of wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Systemd_components.svg That just seems insane to me, what do I know... (admittedly not mu
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by pyalot2 13y ago
If you give me bitcoins, and I give you virtual magic mushrooms, and then I go and list the trade for the mushrooms online. Would say that, the assessment is true that this is USD trades?
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Gox had a huge gap in its price to other exchanges. This gap came to be because Gox replaced USD with Goxdollars (a kind of currency that only exists inside of Gox). Therefore arbitrage was not capable of closing this gap, because Goxdollar
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by pyalot2 13y ago
How about, prices start reflecting true market sentiment without a huge manipulator artificially propping prices up on its own make-believe exchange that doesn't allow withdrawals and reports fantasy trades?
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Because it was known he was there. It would have looked very bad indeed if Roger went to Gox and didn't release a statement.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
So "full faith and credit" if congress republicans and democrats can agree, that's all fine then.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Why would the FDIC need a $50b fund, if it's backed by "the full faith and credit" of the US? They wouldn't need any funds at all. Whenever they needed money, they'd just ask the Fed. So, what's the $50b for, r
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by pyalot2 13y ago
XCP would rely on the blockchain, and therefore it's atomic transactions are executed. However, the ones putting the transactions in the chain, are not XCP miners. They're bitcoin miners, they don't care what extra informatio

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