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peteretepon EasyDNS is now accepting Dogecoin for payments

By “hard coded” you mean “a variable” though.

EDIT: wow, sorry Dogecoin fans, I double-checked my notes and you’re right, it’s actually some kind of universal constant that can’t be changed

peteretepon Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

Mining is guessing a number that will give a given hash output. The verification part is simple, and only needs to be done once, the guessing and retesting bit is the intensive bit

peteretepon Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)

The value added by the desktop variant also seems very minimal. Anyone seen an open-source easy-to-use docker host for OS X?

peteretepon Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

It’s much much cheaper to verify than it is to mine. That’s kind of the whole point.

peteretepon Banner Ads Considered Harmful

If you just skimmed this and didn't finish reading it, the surveys section is particularly interesting: https://www.gwern.net/Ads#they-just-dont-know

peteretepon Just Be Rich

> Of course the Gini coefficient is increasing. With more people starting more valuable companies, how could it not be?

By taxing people properly?

peteretepon Anxiety is in your body, not your mind

Maybe relevant

> Klein is a professor of psychiatry who studies the delightful field of “experimental panicogens”, ie chemicals that cause panic attacks if you inject them in someone. These include lactate, bicarbonate, and carbon dioxide, all of which naturally occur in the body under conditions of decreased respiration.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/05/the-case-of-the-suffoc...

peteretepon Anxiety is in your body, not your mind

> Not only did all that talking not do much to alleviate anxiety, but it could also even have made it more acute.

If you’re going to go counter to a large body of scientific evidence (re efficacy of CBT), ya need something stronger than the thoughts of some people trying to hawk products, ya know?

peteretepon Google used past bid data to boost win rate in advertising auctions

> There are a lot of people bothered by this, so this data discovery could prove very expensive for Google.

Apparently none of the right people are sufficiently bothered, because it’s been this way for a decade and we’ve seen no real resolution to date.

peteretepon Embrace the Grind

Two very easy ones that I’ve never had fail in practice:

1. Get them to tell you to stop as you flip through the cards vertically, and then sleight the card from the bottom of the deck instead.

2. A simple counting trick like this https://youtu.be/ekPbMhJGYmc

peteretepon Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree

I feel like the pattern is that when you start to dig into people talking about their great experience with Linux on a laptop, you end up eventually getting them to admit that there are a lot of annoyances they’ve just resigned to living with

peteretepon Wuffs the Language

> Traditionally, the first program anyone writes in a given programming language is something that prints "Hello world". This doesn't work for Wuffs, for two reasons. One is that Wuffs doesn't have a string type per se. Two is that Wuffs code doesn't even have the capability to write to files directly, such as to stdout. Wuffs is a language for writing libraries, not complete programs, and the less Wuffs can do, the less Wuffs can do that is surprising (such as upload your files to the internet), even when processing untrusted input.

peteretepon BleedingTooth: Linux Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution

We benefit a lot from Google doing this, for sure. Do we owe them a lot? For that to be true, it’d have to have an altruistic motive and for the value being delivered to be less than Google derives from the open-source community / security community in general.

peteretepon Have I Been Facebooked?

If I posted it as a comment, it would be tied to my identity.

peteretepon Have I Been Facebooked?

We’re talking about a website that allows you to enter a number to see if it’s in a leak.

People are saying you shouldn’t put a number in there because if it’s not already in there, you are leaking some kind of privileged information.

That’s not true.

peteretepon Ubiquiti all but confirms breach response iniquity

I think this derives from “state-sponsored”. “The state” has a distinct meaning from country or nation which I think is important to capture too.

I think your point about confusion with constituent states is spot on though

peteretepon Have I Been Facebooked?

1 factor of 2 factor auth is completely useless without any identity to tie it to

peteretepon Backblaze Hard Drive Stats

> This issue was perhaps X lines of code away from

This is a weird metric.

peteretepon Janet Yellen to call for global minimum corporate tax rate of 21%

Why do you think the rest of the EU wouldn’t be on board? Nobody in the EU is happy with Ireland’s corp tax rate. China’s corp tax is 25%, India’s is complicated but around the same (in practice), PRC and India don’t want its rich people and global corps abusing tax shelters either.

peteretepon Janet Yellen to call for global minimum corporate tax rate of 21%

You seem to think this will be a hard sell to most countries, where in fact 21% is below Corp Tax for most countries with clout. Most of the EU would be on board, China would be on board, all nuclear powers would be on board...

peteretepon Janet Yellen to call for global minimum corporate tax rate of 21%

So it doesn’t get locked out of the financial system by America

peteretepon Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision

> That is hardly the point

What is the point?

peteretepon Ubiquiti all but confirms breach response iniquity

> nation states

Nation state is not a fancy infosec way of saying country

peteretepon IRS guidance for thieves, drug dealers, and corrupt officials

> The more we remove supermajority protections, the closer we move to 50% of the people thinking it isn't used well

I assume you're talking -- primarily -- about the Senate and the filibuster? If so, you'll be pleased to hear the UK has managed OK for the last 400-500 years in having a parliament that can do _literally anything_ it wants with a majority of 1 person[0] including deciding to pick on a single person individually without trial and subject them to whatever it pleases[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder

peteretepon In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway

Someone skilled is less important than someone who’s empowered. These projects fail because of SVPs and CXOs who get to bully their favourite features and requirements as priorities rather than having someone taking a holistic view of the roadmap.

peteretepon Conway's Game of Life TUI GUI

From a linked page:

> Thanks to Linus Torvalds, we not only have a consensus on architecture, but we've come pretty close to having a consensus on the input output mechanism by which programs communicate with their host machines, via the SYSCALL instruction. He accomplished that by sitting at home in a bathrobe sending emails to huge corporations, getting them to agree to devote their resources to creating something beautifully opposite to tragedy of the commons.

Could someone explain this to me?

peteretepon In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway

Also internal company politics. What would fix much of this, for many projects, is a very experienced product person with final say over every feature, reporting directly to the CEO / board, and outranking everyone else in terms of decision making.

peteretepon Emoji Under the Hood

An excellent article, although:

> “Ü” is a single grapheme cluster, even though it’s composed of two codepoints: U+0055 UPPER-CASE U followed by U+0308 COMBINING DIAERESIS.

would be a great opportunity to talk about normal form, because there’s also a single code point version: “latin capital letter u with diaeresis”.

peteretepon AI names colors much as humans do

If I decide to throw in the towel in my business and go and become a well-paid AI researcher at some big company, which companies currently have anything like Facebook's AI team or Google Mind, but aren't a) in the Bay Area, b) FB or Google? Netflix seem to have a decent AI team, although they're in the Bay Area.