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by shawnz 6y ago
Same here, I've never heard the phrase "DuPont connector" until this article (I would also call them 0.1" pin headers). But I thought it still had a nice exploration of the history of that terminology and the connector i
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by shawnz 6y ago
I am not putting words in your mouth. I am trying to understand what your concern is. Every major vendor of Linux distributions maintains their own source tree with patches specific to their usage. That is the way Linux is normally used. So
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by shawnz 6y ago
What about when the admins of the most popular "social blocklist feeds" decide to put your instance on the block list? How is the cartelization problem solved there? You can say that the blocklists will be voluntary but instance p
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by shawnz 6y ago
Can you explain what modifications you believe it has that typical installations of Linux don't?
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by shawnz 6y ago
It is basically an unmodified kernel. Like in any purpose-built usage of Linux, it is compiled with specific options and patches for the environment it is made to run in, but you can replace it with your own kernel image if you want.
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by shawnz 6y ago
WSL1 used a syscall translation layer in a "pico process", WSL2 simply uses Hyper-V
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by shawnz 6y ago
"Jailing" isn't necessarily just about security, but isolation in general. Unveil would be a stronger tool if the concern is strictly security, but also there's no reason they couldn't both be used. Chroot is itself
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by shawnz 6y ago
The use case is isolation, which is not necessarily exactly the same as reducing access. For example, maybe you don't want the process to be able to easily detect that it has had its access reduced, by simulating a full-access environm
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by shawnz 6y ago
Unveil has no way to change the existing structure of the filesystem. With chroot it's easy: create the structure you want in a subdirectory and then chroot into it
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by shawnz 6y ago
That doesn't let you construct an arbitrarily structured virtualized filesystem like chroot does, just hide parts of the existing filesystem
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by shawnz 6y ago
F2P game tokens are a much different situation because they are not a liquid asset (you can only buy them) > "I'll gamble my 10 BTC" and "I'll exchange my actual $500k to gamble as BTC" would have a very di
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by shawnz 6y ago
OK, sure. Those things are all true, but it doesn't change my point: He could have "realized" the gains any time he wanted and it wouldn't have affected the outcome of this scam. For all we know he actually did "rea
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by shawnz 6y ago
As I asked in the other part of this thread: Would you feel differently if he sold the bitcoins and then immediately bought them again before participating in the scam? Of course not. Even though that would make them "realized", t
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by shawnz 6y ago
I think this is a pointless distinction. A 500k bank balance is just an "opportunity" to withdraw 500k of cash. There are a number of things that could bring your bank balance to $0 without the scam. 500k of cash is just an "
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by shawnz 6y ago
You obviously don't want that in every situation, only some situations. Would you make an argument like "Wow, it's sure a nice feature that [full disk encryption software] doesn't have any way to reset lost passwords&quo
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by shawnz 6y ago
There is no question he really could have exchanged the coins for $500k of value though. If he had sold the bitcoins for cash and then used the cash to buy bitcoins again immediately after so that he could send them to the scammer, then wou
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by shawnz 6y ago
I agree with you, he lost real money. But I also agree with the other poster: it's hard to feel bad for him gambling away money that he got by gambling to begin with.
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by shawnz 6y ago
Even if the account literally was Elon Musk's real account (i.e. if he were hacked for example), nothing but greed could make someone fall for this
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by shawnz 6y ago
Ethereum is typically mined on GPUs so I would argue there really is a giant pool of hardware waiting to take over. On Bitcoin where ASIC mining is common that is indeed a concern, but consider even then, each hardware owner has stronger in
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by shawnz 6y ago
I will reply to this despite the fact that it's an obvious troll and has nothing to do with the topic at hand (this thread isn't even about Bitcoin). People are actually using Bitcoin strictly because it lacks a government backing
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by shawnz 6y ago
The incentives of the miners are aligned with the users: The miners mine and then they get paid. If the incumbent miners stop mining in protest of their future profits declining, then new miners will just come in to take the profits they ar
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by shawnz 6y ago
If the current group of Ethereum miners decide to stop mining, why wouldn't new parties come in to take the profits they are leaving behind?
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by shawnz 6y ago
They are paid fairly in exchange for providing it. If the current set of miners decide that they don't like Ethereum anymore then those profits are sitting on the table for anyone to take.
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by shawnz 6y ago
If a big government seized control of a coin's development, it would surely lose most of its value and users would likely just create a fork which is not under that government's control.
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by shawnz 6y ago
The point of the analogy is that they are being paid to provide a service, and if they have a disagreement about it, then their only choice is to forefit their profits and let someone else come in to extract them instead.
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by shawnz 6y ago
Closures capture all in-scope variables by reference in most languages. Same situation in Python for example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54288926/python-loops-an...
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by shawnz 6y ago
The same is true of most of JavaScript's warts
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by shawnz 6y ago
Sure, but at the point where the efficiency is sufficiently poor, why not run a Bitcoin miner instead of the heat-pump-turned-space-heater? As I understand most heat pumps in cold climates are usually installed with "backup heat"
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by shawnz 6y ago
They also don't provide very much heat output when it's cold outside
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by shawnz 6y ago
The wheels are in motion now. The first block was proposed on the proof-of-stake system on December 1st.

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