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by sorbits 12y ago
> Yes, you must have some trust in the ledger owner Then I fail to see the advantage of a decentralised system, as we can let the ledger owner sign each transaction, instead of a consensus. > although, as mentioned in another post, de
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by sorbits 12y ago
As I understand it, it is required that people trading units in a ledger trust the ledger’s creator not to issue new units to enrich themselves. If so, is that much different from using a central service and trust its creator?
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by sorbits 12y ago
The article’s title is: “Searching 20 GB/sec: Systems Engineering Before Algorithms”. Current title on Hacker News is misleading as the “simple code” is not compared against any “fancy algorithms”. This is about not spending time devis
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by sorbits 13y ago
Apple has deprecated OpenSSL as of Mac OS X 10.7 and they are not including it with iOS. Instead they provide their own APis. The semi-official reason though is that OpenSSL doesn’t offer API compatibility between versions.
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by sorbits 13y ago
Or if your laptop has a security slot then bring a portable kensington lock.
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by sorbits 13y ago
Big-Oh notation deals with theory, and in theory the cost of a variable is fixed. Furthermore, an array of size N is normally storing N variables (pointers) not N bits, so calculating storage required in bits relative to the input size (wit
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by sorbits 13y ago
I moved from a dark to a very bright apartment, and it fixed my sleep problems, except during winter (where there is little sun, as I’m from Scandinavia), to fix that, I try to spend the darker months on the southern hemisphere.
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by sorbits 13y ago
> […] why we still sleep. Why hasn't this evolved yet? A number of animals can put one half of the brain to sleep while the other half remains alert¹. As for eliminating sleep or shortening it; for such “trait” to evolve there wou
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by sorbits 13y ago
> "Where the F& ^K" does this $100M or $1B business number comes from* Funding rounds that want to raise millions in VC are for companies that aim to eventually be a $100M business. A smaller business wouldn’t involve vent
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by sorbits 13y ago
TextMate 2 is back on track and developed as open source to hedge against potential abandonment: https://github.com/textmate/textmate
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by sorbits 13y ago
I have postfix reject anything from invitations@linkedin.com. Though requires running your own mail server.
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by sorbits 13y ago
> […] changing color temperature based on time of day […] to reduce late-night eyestrain and fatigue is something non-obvious There are themes for text editors which have both a day and night version (and some users will without a doubt
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by sorbits 13y ago
> In "the obvious", note that the switch to ARM64 also allows a more efficient Obj-C runtime […] Why wouldn’t inline reference counts (as an extra 32 bit word in the object struct) be just as effective on a 32 bit architecture?
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by sorbits 13y ago
Another alternative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_(SSL) See Moxie Marlinspike’s talk from DEFCON 19 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDmj_xe7EIQ
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by sorbits 13y ago
According to GitHub, last commit (which is also initial checkin) is two years old.
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by sorbits 13y ago
> in the real world your parent process does more than the article implies […] keeping the child processes running/restating […] performing graceful config or code reload […] The article suggests you let http://supervis
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by sorbits 13y ago
Why is it a hack job? I would say it’s patching a hole, and it’s the feasible way to make email secure, rather than throw it all out and convince the world to switch to a new system. Most (internet) standards evolve this way. That’s the cur
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by sorbits 13y ago
> If they're wiretapping everything, there's no way for you to hide the fact of a communication taking place, but at least you can protect the data itself using client-side encryption No, you misunderstand. With S/MIME,
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by sorbits 13y ago
The problem is that only the body is encrypted. Who you are communicating with (and in term, who they are communicating with) is at least as sensitive as what you are writing.
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by sorbits 13y ago
How about some new sound effects into the default library for Mac OS X? I think those we have are carried over from Mac Classic.
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by sorbits 13y ago
They talk about privacy, but MTAs like Postfix can already encrypt mail via TLS when moving it to another host¹. GPG gives us a better guarantee, but more user overhead, and unreadable by many recipients. Additionally SPF gives us a way to
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by sorbits 13y ago
Spot on! I am surprised this isn’t mentioned more often, but there likely is a strong correlation between the price and lack of trials.
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by sorbits 13y ago
If you’re the same felix as the comment author of the following comment, then it seems you meant to suggest it, but never did: LaunchBar style file opening ! You are a god ! I was going to suggest this as a feature. You have saved us t
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by sorbits 13y ago
Source for TextMate’s ranker can be found here (GPLv3): https://github.com/textmate/textmate/blob/master/Frameworks/... And some tests here: https://github.com/textmate/textmate
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by sorbits 13y ago
> And yet, astonishingly, you get your mail There are many places (where people live) that you can’t send a letter to. Instead you’ll have to send it to a mail drop where the intended receiver will have to pick it up.
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by sorbits 14y ago
TextMate has an elegant implementation of multiple carets: http://blog.macromates.com/2011/multiple-carets/
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by sorbits 14y ago
The point is very valid. The person who has to install some third party web application is mainly concerned with “how easy is this to install”. Not only have I steered clear of installing things with too many alien prerequisites, I’m often
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by sorbits 14y ago
Such solution require much of the page-building logic (loops, conditions) to be moved into the template language, and the state transfer that goes with it. This means trivial tasks require editing multiple files, e.g. say we introduce pagin
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by sorbits 14y ago
> I don't get why textual templates are so popular […] you can't open a tag in a subtemplate and close it in another one but I think you can see that as a feature For many, it’s frustrating having to work with a model where you can’t
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by sorbits 14y ago
Adding to that, his stated advantage of not having to limit yourself to one platform also seems opposite of my experience (i.e. keeping all on the same platform is an advantage). When you have a big system with disjoint parts written in d

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