dnamlin

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by dnamlin 1y ago
Binders full of MSDN CD-ROMs...IYKYK
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by dnamlin 1y ago
Soooo many handles to remember to free in the right order, even before you got into OLE/COM. It was a lot of fun to come up with your own C++ wrappers to put them under RAII -- and this was before "smart pointers." You sort o
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by dnamlin 2y ago
Modern money has operated as you describe for less than one human lifetime. It might not work long-term, and indeed there are significant reasons for worry that it won't. Not that it _can't_ in principle, but that it _won't_
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by dnamlin 2y ago
https://www.blackrock.com/institutions/en-zz/literature/whit...
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by dnamlin 2y ago
If you mean to hold USD-denominated deposits in a local bank, the local government can easily confiscate or convert them. Numerous such examples. If you mean to hold USD paper notes, that does happen a lot all over the world as you say; and
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by dnamlin 2y ago
https://www.blackrock.com/institutions/en-zz/literature/whit...
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by dnamlin 2y ago
This seems like a comment from 10 years ago. In 2025, Larry Fink just announced he's a "big believer" at Davos, and the President of the United States ordered his team to evaluate creating a huge reserve.
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by dnamlin 2y ago
That was so funny they left out "and returns" Like, it's valid to point to its historical volatility, but it struck me as intellectually dishonest to say it's been (historically) risky without also acknowledging that hol
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by dnamlin 3y ago
To me it's never been that "intrinsic value" of Bitcoin makes much sense, but that it holds up a mirror to the incumbent system and how little that makes sense either!
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by dnamlin 4y ago
Not really, to the extent that Bell Labs undertook true basic research for its own sake, without much concern for any short/medium-term commercial potential. (No need to rock the boat commercially, while the parent corporation had a re
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by dnamlin 4y ago
The square footage of this building is double that of Meta's MPK 20/21 complex, and comparable to the entire Googleplex. It wasn't even headquarters for Bell Labs. A reminder....all glory is fleeting!
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by dnamlin 4y ago
Bell Labs was active in this area going all the way back to the 1930s, where its relative isolation was ideal for radio astronomy -- in fact, one can reasonably claim Holmdel as the origin of that field. Also in this era, once you got a job
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by dnamlin 5y ago
IMO a much more-thorough analysis of the essential point discussed here: https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-security-modeling/
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by dnamlin 5y ago
An Ethereum address is just a public key (which, as the owner, you also have the private key to). You can make one, and sign messages with it, without touching the blockchain or sending any assets to it. So added complexity is -necessary- o
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by dnamlin 5y ago
Ethereum has standardized ways to formulate (off-chain) signatures for arbitrary messages [1] and Solidity structs [2]. Convenient command-line tooling is lacking currently, but some interesting twists to consider: If you sign using a key t
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by dnamlin 5y ago
With sqlite_zstd_vfs the data are compressed beforehand and stored that way "at rest", so web responses are directly copied to the wire controlled by HTTP range headers, similarly to the OP. They need to be decompressed by a clien
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by dnamlin 5y ago
I plowed the 40 GiB database file into sqlite_zstd_vfs [1] which reduced it 75% to 10 GiB. This plug-in also supports HTTP access [2] in the spirit of phiresky's, however, I don't have a WebAssembly build of mine yet, so it's