warbiscuit

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by warbiscuit 7y ago
Followup - I'd actually been using chrome a bit more heavily; and was wanting to use FF more, just to support open standards. One of the main things I was missing was being able to type in google docs domain, tab, and type a documen
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by warbiscuit 7y ago
That seems really ass-backward, and not just because I use the search feature a lot. If I'm reading that right, they're deprecating support for discoverable browser-independant markup for searches; and replacing it with the requ
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
> You may disagree that it's the real Bitcoin, but it's undoubtedly open to interpretation It really isn't open to interpretation. And that is why people have been disparagingly calling it a different name; because the
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
That's pretty much exactly how the EtherDelta smart contract works. The contract can only move coins you've signed an order for, and only when it's properly paired with a matching counter-order. I think the mainly catch would
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
Followup just to clarify: The reason smart contracts drastically mitigate "server compromise" is that compromising / altering the operation of the VM (and not merely exploiting a bug) requires a 51% attack on the entire netw
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
Oh, I definitely think they can. Didn't mean to imply otherwise! I do think the surface area for attack is much more limited, since the code is innately public (unlike centralized trading houses). That (in theory) should make them mo
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
That is one reason why I'm actually kinda wild about distributed exchange like etherdelta (as proof of concept, at least). The security model is such that it literally doesn't exist in any country, anywhere in the world; doesn&#x
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
1) No counterparty risk. Everyone can get hacked, but coinbase being hacked shouldn't every, under any circumstances result in me loosing any bitcoin they hold on my behalf. This point may prove to be very sticky. It might be solvabl
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
If they have the money to buy hashing hardware that's competitive, staking that money has a lower barrier to entry... You don't need space, hardware, or technical experience to assemble the rig. Just $.
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
That doesn't fit. Per bitinfocharts.com the coin with the highest txn rate is Ethereum, followed closely by Bitcoin. The others are far behind. I'd say it's seeing a lot of use.
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
Segwit was a soft-fork upgrade. It only takes effect if you move to a Segwit compatible wallet and send from there. Which tells me people don't actually care enough, or they'd be doing that. Which makes me wonder about the validit
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
Ethereum's Casper uses the solution that while validator A could double-vote for multiple blocks, validator B could take those multiple vote messages, and submit them as cryptographic proof of A's dishonesty. By submitting such p
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
Not that I'm totally sold on it, or grok it fully, but from my rough understanding the very highest level (for Ethereum's Casper)... The idea is that a double-spend attempt by a cartel of validators could be included in a new bloc
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
"ascii" the codec does exist under python. It's strictly defined as byte values 0-127, anything in the 128-255 range causes a decoding error... >>> b"abc\xf0".decode("ascii") UnicodeD
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
As the article points out, in a directed attack it just has to be an outage which affects the target server: e.g. compromise a firewall, lan DNS, or managed switch in front of the server and "block" duo.
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
Not to mention shorewall, which IMO provides a really nice abstraction over iptables, that fits 90% of the needs out there.
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
Would love to know this myself. I'm in process of moving my company's main web app to python 3, and standardized on 3.5 to match Debian 9. But python 3.6 has so many cpu & memory improvements (not to mention things like f&#x27
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
The post posits that, to handle the burden of legacy instructions, an "obvious technically-appealing approach (is) starting over with a clean-sheet architecture". The approach that immediately occurred to me would be have a layer
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
Wow! Thanks for mentioning OODA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop ), never heard of that before. That's a really intriguing concept... so many cogsci, ML, netsec, and game theory connections. While the wiki
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
Does anyone know if [Shorewall]( http://shorewall.org/ ) has plans to support nftables, or is it staying on iptables for now? While I'm excited to hear about a simplified abstraction at the kernel level, for most setups
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by warbiscuit 9y ago
At my company we tend to use "NOTE:" just to be aware of something, "XXX:" when something's functional, but has room for improvement, "TODO:" when functionality's missing, and "FIXME:" when
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by warbiscuit 10y ago
Not quite turnkey, but openvpn is essentially tls over udp with an ip tunnel on top
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by warbiscuit 10y ago
There was an article a while back -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1144548 -- purporting that the efficient market hypothesis is true if and only if P = NP. ... which I'd argue implies social science is overly
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by warbiscuit 10y ago
One bit of trivia I really love is why "DEL" is at 127 -- weirdly way away from all the control codes. It's because 0x7F is all ASCII bits set to "1". Back in the early punch card (and telegraph?) days, if there wa
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by warbiscuit 10y ago
Actually, per a snopes article ( http://www.snopes.com/donald-drumpf ), the Drumpf to Trump transition may have occurred because the former was more German sounding, and there was a good bit of anti-german hatred at the time.
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by warbiscuit 10y ago
What makes Donald Trump's action so sickenly selfish is that a better life is why his grandfather Friedrich Drumpf immigrated from Bavaria. Though one could argue 3 generations later that act of immigration is not benefitting the US.
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by warbiscuit 10y ago
Is that a typo? Shouldn't he be taxing exports? Taxes on imports just raise the price for Americans, it's taxes on exports that would bring money into America.
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by warbiscuit 10y ago
I think a lot of this debate argues for the sysadmin role being part of the dev team. The only real way to get both constraints (production stability and update to date fixes/features) is to have fast feedback between the interest h
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by warbiscuit 10y ago
IOUs that can't be repudiated, payments that can be cryptographically proven, payments that can have conditional logic attached (e.g. third party escrow, without third party having access to the money) -- and all without the need of a
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by warbiscuit 10y ago
That's a good example of where I think a gui has an advantage. For the example I gave, unless the hunks were asymetrically distributed, `git add -p` would require pressing "n" 20 times to skip through the excluded hunks (amon

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