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netcruiser··on Ask HN: What are options to build cross-platform efficient desktop apps
Delphi
netcruiser··on MIT students stole $25M in seconds by exploiting ETH blockchain bug, DOJ says
So they front ran the front runners. Made the front runner buy shitcoins. Crime? Not an ETH bug though.
netcruiser··on The Case for IPv4.1
I always thought IP6 addresses are too long. Even with 8 bytes, as proposed here, there's 4 billion addresses each for 4 billion people. That should really be enough.
netcruiser··on Bug in reader/writer locks in Windows API
The read threads block because the ReadWriteLock algorithm tries to prevent thread starvation (i.e. when the exclusive lock never gets acquired). Most ReadWriteLock implementation alternate between giving the read locks then the exclusive locks access to the lock.
netcruiser··on It's 29—Delphi, I mean
Delphi supports inline variable declarations.

https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Sydney/en/Inline_V...

netcruiser··on Bad property debt exceeds reserves at largest US banks
The non-existent money to pay the interest is cancelled out by bankruptcies.
netcruiser··on On the Virtues of the Trailing Comma
I still think it looks ugly and syntactically "incorrect".
netcruiser··on Ask HN: Is Pascal a good choice for cross-platform development?
Delphi compiles the same code and UI to iOS, Android, OSX, Windows, Linux, etc.
netcruiser··on Ask HN: Do you have any lightning protection at home?
I live in a super high lightning area. No matter how good your protection, if you get struck directly, everything is fried. But that's not your biggest problem as you'll rarely if ever get hit directly. The electronics killer is static electricity that builds up everywhere during an electric storm. For this your DB and plug lightning/surge protectors work quite well. The rod on the roof helps preventing direct strikes, good grounding helps with static build-up. You can even put a copper wire around the perimeter of your property to equalise/move the static electricity. Nothing helps when you get struck directly.
netcruiser··on Yesterday, someone sent over $1M in Bitcoin to Satoshi Nakamoto
So Bitcoin is 'absolute money'?
netcruiser··on Ask HN: How does Starlink work for IP address/ASN internationally?
Each block of IPs probably correspond to a ground station. Your data is probably mostly routed to the closest ground station.
netcruiser··on BBC Micro
Somehow my school in a developing country had a fully equipped BBC Micro lab with network (Econet) and file servers. Due the BBC Basic I picked up assembly language for the first time there. Also the sound chip was very advanced with programmable envelopes. And all the screen modes were very useful for different applications. Amazing computer for its time.
netcruiser··on Crypto Fooled Us Once. It Will Fool Us Again
The utility of a scarce token that can have ownership changed, permissionless (without a third party) to anyone, anywhere in the world, basically instantaneously. Some might call that "money".
netcruiser··on Crypto Fooled Us Once. It Will Fool Us Again
He is talking about inflating the money supply.
netcruiser··on Costco gold bars are selling out within hours
It's $2,000, not $20,0000 (I assume USD). Gold coins are pretty easy to come by in my experience.
netcruiser··on My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards
That's nothing. I have 8 spare keyboards I still haven't used.
netcruiser··on Unicode 88 (1988) [pdf]
"it is certainly possible, albeit uninteresting, to come up with an unreasonable definition of "character" such there are more than 65536 of them".

They probably didn't foresee the "unreasonable" and "uninteresting" use of emojis.

netcruiser··on Elon Musk takes control of X account from user who had held it for 16 years
In the early days I managed to register administrator@gmail.com. It was of course taken from me.
netcruiser··on Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company
Mr Wonderful?
netcruiser··on Ask HN: What is your home networking setup?
About 40 networking devices spanning 3 properties (mostly Mikrotik). Around 24 cameras. Two NAS, each with 24TB. Around 30 network points. Two properties are linked via 60Ghz wireless connection. Third property linked via IPTunnel through Internet. Whole network is backed up with Li batteries, some charged with solar. Starting to upgrade some of the network to 10Gbs.
netcruiser··on On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward [pdf]
Sounds like its based on a flawed assumption:

"Now, immediately after a block is found, there will be no more transactions in the network to be claimed by a miner making the next block"

The fact is there is usually a large backlog of transactions.