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by tveita 11y ago
> Node.js [...] whose idea of having a fun time is throwing promises into the future and hoping that nobody breaks them. As a non-fan of Javascript as she is wrote I'd hear this criticism and nod in almost any situation, but not whi
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by tveita 11y ago
That's about 2^58 hashes and 50.000.000 joules (14 kWh) per transaction when operating at the theoretical peak of around 3 transactions per second.
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by tveita 11y ago
That sounds like a straightforward admission of cruel and unusual punishment. Is there any criterion the quote doesn't nail?
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by tveita 11y ago
> My reasoning there is that those who want to use DRM are not going to accept any alternative that is not DRMd. Of course they will. The big media companies like to posture and pretend they're going to take their ball and go home,
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by tveita 11y ago
You could say the same about any bubble, though. If the price is driven by speculation a high price doesn't imply a healthy asset.
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by tveita 11y ago
How would you modify tls-unique to not be vulnerable to collision attacks?
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by tveita 11y ago
> Incorrect. Average wait time would be less than 5 minutes. Average wait time for a block is around 10 minutes. You may be thinking of it in terms of buses, where if there is a bus every 10th minute, you'd expect a 5 minute average
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by tveita 11y ago
Great article as usual, but I found it hard to read due to the use of en-dashes without spaces. E.g this sentence: However, only operations on a single document are atomic–queries which access multiple keys may read and write inconsistent
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by tveita 11y ago
Consider an analogous situation: the developer knows the email address of a user that pirated their software. They send them a link to a trojan that will wipe their hard drive when run. An illegal action is still illegal when it is done as
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by tveita 11y ago
> How would bitcoin's power consumption stack up if it were tasked with servicing tens of millions of transactions per second? There is no way to do this calculation. At the moment Bitcoin mining uses, let's say 150MW and can d
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by tveita 11y ago
Only by as much as the miners themselves spend. And it's a running cost, you have to spend it every day, while an attacker would spend it only during their attack. The only way to make a 51% attack impractically expensive is to make th
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by tveita 11y ago
It is in Python 2, but not in Python 3, where str.encode() and bytes.decode() have been restricted to only convert between strings and bytes. >>> "foo".encode('zlib') LookupError: 'zlib' is n
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by tveita 11y ago
So do the children share the blame?
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by tveita 11y ago
RFC 7539 documents the cipher itself. It's mostly just enshrining the existing specification as an RFC, except for changing the size of the nonce and block count to meet recommended nonce sizes. There are some additional details requir
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by tveita 11y ago
Has this been standardized yet? The latest draft I can find still has a bunch of 0xTBD values for the cipher suite numbers. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-chacha20-pol...
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by tveita 11y ago
Goroutines are for all practical purposes threads. Threaded code is generally thought to be difficult to write correctly, in ways that can't be solved just by making the threads cheaper to spin up. Queues ("channels") are a g
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by tveita 11y ago
So GPU texture formats are in-memory formats that must support quick random access to any texel position. This typically means that the texture is divided into blocks of fixed dimensions and bit size which can be decoded independently. IIUC
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by tveita 11y ago
There's some noise, but the trend seems clear to me. The median starts out oscillating around the '1' line, but by 2008 - 2014 it barely touches the line at all. There's a drop from 2014-2016, but it's too early to
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by tveita 11y ago
The chart you linked shows sea levels are rising, but that doesn't seem to match the argument you're making?
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by tveita 11y ago
The link redirects to the blog frontpage for me, but https://media.netflix.com/en/tech-blog/linux-performance-ana... works.
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by tveita 11y ago
People absolutely sincerely believed that not giving women the right to vote was for the best both for society and the women themselves. There wasn't some malicious conspiracy involving a majority of the voting population. Women were t
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by tveita 11y ago
Without any additional details your contrasting of "cheapass open" vs "scalable private peerings" seems completely baseless. Why is DTAG not the cheapass for skimping on their public pairings?
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by tveita 11y ago
"Packaging" in the context of integrated circuits usually refers to the case of the chip - the little black ceramic or plastic square with pins to connect the chip to the rest of the circuit.
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by tveita 11y ago
Even if you accept that, the cure may be worse than the disease. You'll lose programmers in under 2 years if they have to maintain a mishmash of learn-as-you-go style code with multiple quirky build and deploy systems, which seems to b
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by tveita 11y ago
The memory pool is not consistent among nodes, and nodes are free to drop or ignore transactions as they see fit. As you say, nodes may have conflicting transactions, a.k.a. double spends. Transactions are not durable in a meaningful way un
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by tveita 11y ago
It's not a given that a stock that just popped 15% trades the same as a stock that was offered at a 15% higher price in the first place.
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by tveita 11y ago
Can the old master still accept requests if it loses contact with the monitor or secondary? What happens if the monitor goes down? Can there be data loss on failover? It would be nice if the readme listed what failure scenarios are handled
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by tveita 11y ago
They could probably preload it with more bitcoins than this device is likely to mine in its lifetime for the same cost. It stumps me why they'd include the miner at all, but they may be trying to pivot from the miner as their main prod
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by tveita 11y ago
I don't think that's obvious, and my experience is the opposite. Domain specific languages make for pretty example code, but tend to lose some of the flexibility of the underlying general purpose language, which can cause you trou
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by tveita 11y ago
People who work hard and contribute to the economy but still live paycheck to paycheck due to stagnant wages care. It's an extraordinary proposition that sifting more money to the top instead of paying people fair wages would somehow h

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