wladimir

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by wladimir 14y ago
My first thought was "these are US or SK actions". On further thought it doesn't seem likely, but still, everyone can hide behind the Anonymous flag for plausible denyability.
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by wladimir 14y ago
cgdb looks promising. I really, really liked the Turbo Debugger in the 90's. No debugger has offered me the same experience since. It was fast, the text-based windowed interface allowed efficiently jumping to assembly as well as to the sour
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by wladimir 14y ago
Worryingly, indeed. To me it appears that the "cloud" is the next bastion of centralization and "too big to fail"s. In this case, instead of providing services in a decentralized fashion that makes it hard to attack, they hide behind ever l
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by wladimir 14y ago
In what sense are banks decentralized? Aren't those too-big-to-fail giants what we're trying to get away from in the first place? :-)
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by wladimir 14y ago
Agreed. Still, bitcoincharts is a centralized site too, and could be DDoSed, overloaded, blocked, etc. Maybe ticker/trade data could be spread over a gossip network as well. That's not as trivial as it sounds, though, for example how to che
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by wladimir 14y ago
I know that. But for some reason there is an extreme reliance on mtgox for price information. Even trades in -otc are usually based on the mtgox price. So maybe I worded it wrong, it's not so much trade that is centralized but the trade/pri
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by wladimir 14y ago
One thing with Bitcoin that still needs to be decentralized is the exchanges. This shows again that mtgox is the achilles heel. Sure, there are many other exchanges and ways to sell/buy, but it's telling (and sad) that DDoSing mtgox is an e
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by wladimir 14y ago
Botnets are usually rented out. So there is an opportunity cost, when the nodes and their computational/network resources could be used for more profitable activities.
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by wladimir 14y ago
You are right. CPUs are already useless for mining. Currently, GPUs can still mine their share (but running a GPU miner on a botnet is a risk; computers become very noisy, hot and slow, which increases the detection rate). But as the first
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by wladimir 14y ago
Can we stop with the bitcoin topics that are solely about the price? Sure, if a company starts accepting it it's news, if something happens to bitcoin network it's news, but not this. This is getting crazy. This is not 'pimp your currency'
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by wladimir 14y ago
Indeed, it's surprising. I wonder if it has dedicated circuitry to do the verification, or that it somehow executes a verification program on the processor itself. I suppose it's the second because the first sounds really expensive.
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by wladimir 14y ago
It's an international currency, so it's interesting how all the "government will kill Bitcoin" hysteria is coming from the US. Is that a specific US thing, that people have a special distrust and fear of your government destroying everythin
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by wladimir 14y ago
That is the current state of affairs, but I don't see how any of those issues is fundamental, or should be extrapolated to 'ultimately'. Sure, BTC has a different risk profile from a bank account, or gold bars under your mattress, but if it
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by wladimir 14y ago
Even though they look a bit fake, I like these photos. The atmosphere reminds me of Alan Weisman's book "the world without us". The cities appear as ghost cities, everything dark, allowing natural light to be visible again. It's like the ea
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by wladimir 14y ago
AFAIK that's already more than was lost in any of the bitcoin heists...
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by wladimir 14y ago
OpenGL ES 2.0 is still the safest bet, as it is what most mobile devices support. Though devices with GLES 3.0 are appearing, driver support is still subpar. I agree it may be time to look at bumping the API level.
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by wladimir 14y ago
In principle I agree with you. But the danger here is that, unlike with physical projectiles, it can be difficult or impossible to find out where a hack attack is originally coming from. I'm sure all of the world powers and quite a few smal
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by wladimir 14y ago
E-ink sort of addresses the 'distracting' part for me. I find it much more pleasant to read than from LCD. No direct light shining into the eyes, and the low frame rate is also an advantage here as it means no annoying animations and 'real
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by wladimir 14y ago
Oh this fills me with a mix of nostalgia and dread. The first time I saw a 'flat' instruction set such as MIPS and ARM, with a large file of registers that are treated the same, was really refreshing.
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by wladimir 14y ago
Yes it could. I suppose especially on ARM/MIPS SoCs (which many consumer devices are based on). Linux is a one of the few valid choices once you stray from x86, especially as China govt has already said they want to reduce dependence on Goo
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by wladimir 14y ago
I'm not sure why the register article is the one being most voted up, instead of the official Canonical announcement: http://www.canonical.com/content/canonical-and-chinese-stand...
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by wladimir 14y ago
Open source dongles are good, everyone is welcome to fork our repos: http://www.github.com/imx6-dongle/
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by wladimir 14y ago
Indeed. For me as open source developer, the most frustrating issues are the ones that demand functionality without code attached. Especially if they are worded in a way that the creator is somehow entitled to have his issue solved (witho
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by wladimir 14y ago
See http://walter-nest.deviantart.com/art/Homeworld-2-Space-Back... Note that the backgrounds are meant to map over a sky sphere, so they look a bit distorted.
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by wladimir 14y ago
Please don't joke about this. Perception of ownership has changed so much over the last ~20 years, that I wouldn't be surprised if someone actually tried to jail people for improving hardware they bought, by claiming that you only 'license'
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by wladimir 14y ago
Also the renderings that alternate from wireframe to solid fill. It just changes too quickly which is distracting when you try to read the text around it.
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by wladimir 14y ago
I'm sure they tried that. It is likely that the driver uses another "proprietary" way to read the ID as well and uses that as definitive answer. Having said that, distinguishing in software would mean that open source drivers such as Nouvea
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by wladimir 14y ago
Using vertex colors with linear interpolation over triangles is an interesting way to compress low-frequency images such as backgrounds. I had no idea that they did this in HW2. It also looks surprisingly good. The page is neigh-unreadable
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by wladimir 14y ago
It may be computation-bound (I'm not sure) but training deep networks generally does use a lot of memory, because of the giant training sets. You're right that GPUs are a good fit, for example libraries such a theano exploit this.
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by wladimir 14y ago
Now this is hacker news! Wonder why it doesn't get upvoted more, while we have 2 friggin SimCity posts on the frontpage :(

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