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by vvillena 4y ago
Haha, I just noticed, I got him mixed with another author!
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by vvillena 4y ago
The Mars trilogy from the same author is also a good recommendation. Hmm, probably his whole bibliography. Lots of solarpunk elements.
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by vvillena 4y ago
Implants are not a thing because there's already a much better alternative in the form of highly portable devices that can be easily replaced. Unless there's a specific use case where a device needs to be inside the body, it won&#
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by vvillena 4y ago
This is an interesting chicken-and-egg problem. It could be said that other OSs had to add lots of file management features to their file selector dialog because relying on drag-and-drop from another application was unfeasible.
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by vvillena 5y ago
Relying on the commit log email for checking someone's identity is probably a really bad idea. Public-key signed commits are the better tool for that.
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by vvillena 5y ago
Uncharted 4 comes to mind: https://youtu.be/KdDHJnqS32E That said, I agree eye movement is a great way to convey feeling, and Horizon Zero Dawn did it well (and its DLC even better). Yakuza 0 is another example of doing a g
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by vvillena 5y ago
Please consider the fact that anyone here can click on your name, look at your comment+submission history, and place a value on your arguments. It's actually a good exercise that puts in practice some of the claims made in the comic.
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by vvillena 5y ago
I can't reply to your last comment, we're at the limit of comment nesting :) Transactions are signed using public key cryptography. A miner can't modify a transaction present in the pool or make it up. Transactions need to be
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by vvillena 5y ago
People choose their chain by choosing the software they run on their standard (non-mining, non-staking) nodes. Dishonesty requires custom-made software. Regarding "stealing a token": remember that even in the case a block gets rep
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by vvillena 5y ago
"Stealing stuff" is not possible. All this time we've been talking about subtler avenues of attack such as delaying or banning transactions, or overpowering and replacing some of the blocks at the top of the chain. Proposed b
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by vvillena 5y ago
It's indeed a fork. Ethereum has shown to embrace forking as the tool of choice to update their own consensus, thanks in part to the lesson learned with Bitcoin, where the lack of incentives to change the consensus have resulted in ext
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by vvillena 5y ago
Controlling 51% of all staked ETH is enough to launch some attacks, but the cost of the attack is way way higher than in PoW. The gist of it is that the community can reach a new consensus in which the malicious majority staked funds simply
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by vvillena 5y ago
You are right. Whoever controls the pool controls what goes into the mined blocks, so there's a chance they could cooperate to forbid certain types of transactions. Mining empty blocks in Ethereum is something that happens from time to
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by vvillena 5y ago
Please respect the HN guidelines: this response makes clear that you were not asking a question, but fishing for debate. Let's be better.
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by vvillena 5y ago
51% of miners need to be censoring you. If not, the transaction will eventually get in.
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by vvillena 5y ago
The 80/20 approach of renaming "timeout" to "timeoutSeconds" or "timeoutMillis" is also valid. They key takeaway is to not make assumptions.
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by vvillena 5y ago
I think it's part of the game design. I also think it's bullshit from a game perspective. Tying the box to Gascoigne is a secret bordering on an easter egg. The item must be equipped in the usable items bar. And you have to use it
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by vvillena 5y ago
I agree. If I wanted to guess weird side effects of items when used in different ways, I wouldn't play Elden Ring. I'd play Monkey Island.
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by vvillena 5y ago
I mostly agree... and I'd still argue that the FromSoft games kinda fail at the "knowledge gathering" phase. Walking into a boss that kills you in less than 20 seconds means very little knowledge can be gathered, and sometime
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by vvillena 5y ago
I usually connect to Google Meet calls using my iPad, so I can carry it around if I need to. If I'm working on my computer, the iPad is placed a bit out of reach to make the camera angle work a bit better. Universal Control means I can
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by vvillena 5y ago
Or the old Motorola Defy from 2010. IP67, removable battery, and near indestructible.
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by vvillena 5y ago
Ruby is a mashup of Perl and Smalltalk wrapped in pleasant syntax.
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by vvillena 5y ago
It can be said that Smalltalk syntax isn't standard across other languages. Ruby has some Smalltalk-flavored syntax (e.g. blocks, symbols), and there's Objective-C, which more or less copies Smalltalk message syntax. But in both
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by vvillena 5y ago
Must be nice to always live in the middle of the bell curve.
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by vvillena 5y ago
Simplifying a submenu by replacing it with a quick option that works in most cases is a great improvement, but removing the underlying feature that lets users select the text encoding manually is bad. There must be a good way to keep the me
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by vvillena 5y ago
The "wave of consensus" refers to the fact that a decentralized network cannot have a definition of "current state" for everyone in the network. There's some sort of "undisputed state" because as blocks pi
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by vvillena 5y ago
You are right! Bitcoin and Ethereum (in its first PoW phase) work in the same way. The "wave of consensus" described in the Bitcoin white paper is the true innovation that enables this kind of decentralized government. But the cor
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by vvillena 5y ago
You're late to this discussion by almost six years, when it became clear to the Ethereum team and the people running Ethereum nodes that code isn't law, but consensus is. Consensus is indeed the "higher power beyond the code&
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by vvillena 5y ago
AFAIK Chrome behaves the same. You can't update a browser cleanly while it is running. In Windows is is handled correctly because both browsers are updated in the background when the browser is closed, but in Linux-style environments t
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by vvillena 5y ago
Are both things linked? Even if they were, it's difficult to see how, say, caning as an accepted punishment, or gay rights suppression, can make an effect in ethnicity issues, unless we take this in the context of co-opting the cultura

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