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Ahhhh, the Russky method, administered to me in Krasnodar in 1995.
A little dramatic, eh?

Apple obviously doesn't want companies like AWS to be renting Mac Minis as some sort of VDI solution. That's consistent with the (shitty) practices of Microsoft with respect to Windows, which confines Windows 10 hosting to Azure services.

Given the nature of Mac, an AWS MacOS service is unique in that it's very clear who the manufacturer of the underlying hardware is. Apple, given it's control-freak nature wanted to have a model that accommodated both their needs and the provided a clear, multi-provider model to do what developers need.
Unrealistic surely but, "Some just wants to watch the world burn"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you own > 50% and get the ability to reverse transactions, it can still go undetected. So it's possible to hurt others without hurting yourself.
It's an easy form of self-effacement. If I state my opinion and someone proves me wrong, I'd look silly at best, or risk cancellation at worst. If I preface by saying it's a hot take, I can easily distance myself from what I said if it's received badly.
Whoa, according to AllNodes, Expected ROI for Eth2 stakeholders is 16.6%, which easily beats out almost any other DeFi interest bearing account (typically ~10%)!
Regulations can benefit incumbents in two ways.

The best cases occur where they raise a floor uniformly. For example I would prefer to add anti pollution systems to my paint factory, because I live in town too, and I just don't want to pollute. It would raise the price of my paint $1/gal, and not enough customers will chose a product just because it polluted less. Many of my competitors feel the same. If we all do it everybody benefits and nobody suffers relative to their competition. This is even more important in cases where the customer can't signal through the market, e.g. electricity generation. These can benefit incumbents but not necessarily hurt new entrants, especially when they are cap ex rather than op ex (e.g. minimum wage rather than an additional piece of equipment).

There are many bad examples as well, some of which raise a floor asymmetrically. For example FB, or at least their CEO, is willing to have the CDA's section 230 abolished because they have such a dominant customer base and enough cash that they believe they would be able to afford to do the resulting government mandated controls and fight any lawsuits, while a new entrant would not.
IMO "science" has become its own ideology that is in practice orthogonal or even opposed to science.
They do this very intentionally. If they wanted to be available on AWS they'd allow OSX to run in a VM which they don't.
Did anybody try selling a service like this:

Your our own instance of Mattermost, Discord, or any well know service like those. We manage it for you on our servers, keep it running and up to date. You have admin access to the web app, not to the server. Pay per seat? You can get a db dump at any time and start it over somewhere else.

Basically it's what we get from Slack but we would really own the data. We must trust the service provider but those machines are already in somebody's else cloud, so not a big change.
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Where does stuff get saved in this read-write web you imagine? You mention fixing Apache -- does that mean every Apache server must accept edits from every anonymous contributor? You also mention a 'distributed filesystem' provided by Apache servers. Interested in knowing how that could work.

Seems odd to blame the browser if it's really the server side that is what needs to be overhauled, to revive the open web.
This is not bad in itself. It's just the first step in the market evolution. Given a free market (barriers aside) an equilibrium will be found sooner or later, but this step needs to happen first.
The VM for smart contract is not set.

The roadmap has changed for the phases after this launch so that Eth1 contracts and the Eth1 chain can run on Eth2 so that the past years of Eth1 development are not thrown away.

Reading on the roadmap: https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-rollup-centric-ethereum-r...

Disclaimer, this roadmap is valid as of today Dec 1st 2020 but it might have change a couple of months from now.
Aren't both sentences synonymous? The problem is that the checking a condition "x<0" can take an arbitrarily long time to check, and maybe even be undecidable.
How does the toggle work? Is it per thread, CPU affinity, per process, CPU flag or something totally different?
I did this in my second year as a professional coder and it took me a while (a week? a week and a half?) to understand what to do and what I was seeing. I would prefer never to have to do it again.
"Too big to fail" apparently doesn't apply for science projects.

To put this in perspective, at the cost of a single F-35A, Arecibo could be running for ~7y with funding at 2011 levels.
For people who don't know Stewart Butterfield is the creator of Flickr and Slack. Both Flickr and Slack are side products/ideas which came up while developing a game.

Interesting read: https://www.fastcompany.com/3026418/this-story-about-slacks-...
You can have desktops that you can switch between in KDE. How are activities different from workspaces? I've never really used any of the two.
And the more agile systems gave us what? Twitter and Facebook? They're cesspools of idiocy and tribalism. Please bring back the walled gardens.
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Not sure it'll apply to all the cases, but I actually did submitted a ticket to Google Pay on support.google.com back in early 2019 and somebody in Google did replied and tried to fix the issue (So I can pay them, hehe).

But as I understand it, it is really risky if you host all your online assets in one company. So if you go back around on the topic, yeah, that 30% fee is probably really too much for company might not want to serve you.
I've done iOS builds using Github actions. The build minutes cost 10x as much as Linux. Anyone out there offering MacOS in the cloud is doing the same thing. Just racking Mac Minis. It means you can't slice CPUs or memory like a VM so it's less efficient and more expensive.
Seems to be export only though
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Is it still deflationary?

Wondering if I should invest in the coin itself (which makes sense for deflationary coins) or a company doing something with it (which makes sense for an inflationary coin)
APR depends on total staked amount, and decreases as staked Eth increases. You can see the chart here: https://launchpad.ethereum.org

Now that the launch has succeeded, I will stake some of my Eth. As more people do that, APR will fall.
Not every single study is blinded -- sometimes there are ethical reasons that lead against it. And you can have a valid study without it sometimes.

But looking up this one, it was blinded, indeed! https://www.henryford.com/moderna-vaccine/faqs

Even if it isn't blinded, you try to make sure the control group and experimental group are equally representative though, you don't "put all the X in the Y group" ever, this is true! Because the whole point is testing two groups as much alike as possible other than the thing you are testing.
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Is is able to run Android apps? Like Signal for example? Or maybe the Signal desktop app works?
It might seem like they should have more redundancy - one cable broke, then a second, and just a week later the whole thing falls apart - but for structures held in place by tension it doesn't work like that.

A bicycle wheel has redundant spokes: you could design a wheel with 66% of the typical number of spokes and it would work OK. But if you do break a spoke, the wheel will start deforming straight away. If you can't replace the spoke, one piece of advice is to loosen the spoke directly opposite the broken one to even out the distribution of force.
> I don't know how any competition would be negatively impacted by Apple implementing these terms, unless the competition was already selling services that were on a short-term basis (below 24 hours).

Almosto all of MacStadium post is about those competitors, did we read something different?

And Amazon would be much more of a competition were they allowed to rent by the minute, it's their selling point!
The British troops had set out to disarm the local militia. I have a hard time seeing how something that began with armed infantry units confronting each other at Lexington was not a war.

And by the way, when the British seized a Spanish fleet--which had imagined itself to be neutral--during the Napoleonic wars, their government stated that the United Kingdom had never been in the habit of starting wars with a declaration.
I don't know how much data you have on your websites, but my daily backup tar is under 3GB, or under 100GB a month. My $5/month lightsail server comes with 2TB a month, and linode 1TB.
Take a look at PeerTube. It's federated and they have a global search.
Well we had to shut down, because of traffic we weren't ready for. :D Will probably be up in couple of days. Need to hotfix this.
Seems reasonable, but then this is not "exact" precision as you claim, but "very large" or "dynamic precision". Saying that the precision of a real number is exact is very misleading, as it evokes inevitably an automatic theorem-proving context.
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No. The required amount is greater than 2/3 (67%) not greater than 1/2 (51%) on PoS for Ethereum.

Also, see this tweet from Vitalik: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/130129808602782105...

So even if there was a successful first attack from some organised body that's all the time they get.
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You know what 2000's era cliche has really come to fruition? "The Network is the Computer".
Another aspect of PoS: it makes these attacks incredibly expensive. Currently staked value is over half a billion USD.
I find it disgusting that Apple can force people to jump though these hoops while paying them a huge premium for sub-standard hardware[1] so that these people can develop for their platform.

Not only are they bleeding the developers at build, test and sale time. They are providing a shitty experience while doing it.

Of course from an economic point of view they are right! For businesses it still makes sense to do this most of the time (especially since webapps are crippled on iOS) due to the large user base. If they didn't have that user base I'd bet very few people would tolerate this crap.

This is one of the handful of reasons that I boycott Apple, I find their business practices morally unacceptable.

[1] Sub-standard for CI/server use cases.
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Allowing the USPS to provide pass through FedAccounts makes it easier for the USPS to provide the service.

Digital dollars is just a deposit account held at the Fed. Instant payments are coming for everyone in 2023-2024; the heavy lifting is enacting legislation to reduce the burden of providing accounts to everyone. You have to turn banking in the US into a utility like Europe did, and drive down it's parasitic drag.

TLDR Fight incumbents on every front.
Thanks. Then the 'bad' code should look something like:

// bad
NotifyIcon CreateNotifyIcon()
{
NotifyIcon icon = new NotifyIcon();
icon.Text = "Blah blah blah";
system.Display(icon);
icon.Icon = new Icon(GetType(), "cool.ico");
return icon;
}

Which would make noticing the coding error quite a bit easier, as we are passing an obviously incompletely initialized object to a third party. As presented, the code presumably is intended to be used like so:

NotifyIcon icon = CreateNotifyIcon();
system.Display(icon);

which works in both versions. If 'icon.Icon = new Icon(GetType(), "cool.ico");' throws, then the NotifyIcon is never displayed.

As presented, this is hardly an argument that explicit error passing code is better at detecting bad code than exception based code. His other article, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040422-00/?p=39..., is making the point a bit more clearly.

The point itself is half-sound. While it is true that with exception based code, it is hard to distinguish which statements may fail, the real issue is about correctly releasing resources. Assume that every statement can fail, and use some form RAII to manage resource cleanup. The exact content of RAII is hard to glean in both explicit error code and exception based code, as it depends on how the specific third party API acquires/releases resources. Though APIs can be organized to essentially force the use of RAII, even if popular but ancient APIs like POSIX file system are not designed that way.

The real language design issue is that Java/C# mechanism for running cleanup code 'try {} finally {}' a. fails to pass through a handle to the resource that needs cleanup and b. is not scoping the lifetime of the resource that needs cleanup. Furthermore, the standard API makes no effort to provide RAII constructs for correctly managing resource lifetimes. Those language ecosystems actively steer people towards writing bad code. Exceptions may be fine, but the lack of language supported RAII is definitely poor language design. For better language design, exception based Python offers 'with' mechanism and error code based Golang offers 'defer'.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343

https://golang.org/ref/spec#Defer_statements
Can someone explain how block timing works in proof-of-stake systems? As I understand it, with proof-of-work the mining difficulty increases or decreases to maintain that each block is found in roughly the same amount of time. In proof-of-stake is there also a mechanism to regulate the time for each block to be added to the blockchain?
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Why would we expect a not free market to behave as a free market?
any idea on the increase in transactions per second/month/some time period? The things that have stopped me from getting into btc/eth are:

- scaling issues (it can't be used as a currency if this isn't fixed)
- power issues (would be nice if we didn't create a huge pointless energy sink if we could avoid it)
- the amount of footguns in ethereum (I think the language is too permissive)

It looks like this solves at least 2 of the three!
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I often put two engines to play against each other.

This makes for the most boring games ever, with a long endgame and few pieces.

In contrast, human beings are capable of beautiful checkmates and crazy attacks. Without this aesthetic aspect, chess is just not interesting to me.

Having said that, many years ago, with the Chessmaster DOS engine, a Casablanca bot managed a beautiful checkmate. Which is now lost in time.
> I don't know how any competition would be negatively impacted by Apple implementing these terms, unless the competition was already selling services that were on a short-term basis (below 24 hours).

Macstadium competes against other short-term rental companies but also against real Macs, Hackintoshes on physical machines, Hackintoshes on virtual machines (inc EC2), and non-consumption.

Hacks on VMs are a pretty direct competitor I’d think.
This comment doesn't add anything.

You're just putting yourself in the spotlight to promote your multibillion mcap scam coin, HEX.
Not from the US but it isn't that hard to imagine where removing "ethically reprehensible" content will lead to, especially with a global perspective.

I take the freedom, thank you very much. You think there is a consensus about that and there is mostly on the worst stuff out there, but that is where this common sense ends.
Thanks for mentioning it.

How does fluxbox works on mobile? Is it basically the same than the desktop on a small resolution, or it can receive phone calls and have a notification bar?
> The thing that tolerates the garbage is the decoder. The format says what’s valid and how to read/write it.

The format also gives the decoder ways to re-synchronize with the stream. That isn't guaranteed to be possible for arbitrary formats.
So, one thing that isn't clear to me. They were already planning to decommission the structure, so was this a planned collapse, or did this happen literally right after their announcement by coincidence?

If its the latter, I'm very glad they made the call to not try to fix this thing. It would have been so much more tragic had someone been up on the sub-reflector/instrument assembly. Good call by the powers that be to keep it clear.
I wonder why all other cryptos follow bitcoin up and down, though.
Maybe a case can be made to eliminate the 24 hour minimum by focusing on reducing carbon emissions Why force someone to rent for a day when they need it for an hour?

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I used Michael & Scott lock-free queue and bounded SPMC & MPMC queues in my fibers library. Queues with locks were faster though.
I've also written some QSBR to reclaim sockets registered in epoll/kqueue without a need to wrap concurrent epoll/kqueue calls in a lock.
They are the same: asm! was replaced by llvm_asm! because it currently only supports llvm asm and the name might suggest otherwise [1]. A backend independant syntax for asm! was recently specified [2], but that will take some time to implement.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2843

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2873
Why companies waste so much time in meetings
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Wouldn't you also need to run a pip3 install -r requirements.txt before the pip freeze?

Otherwise pip freeze won't find any dependencies.

So you end up having to run something like this:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt
pip3 freeze > requirements-lock.txt
pip3 install -r requirements.txt -c requirements-lock.txt

Mainly because you can't run pip3 install -c requirements-lock.txt on its own it seems. It requires the -r flag.

That is a lot more inconvenient than running `bundle install` and if you use Docker it gets a lot more tricky because a new lock file would get generated on every build which kind of defeats the purpose of it, because ideally you'd want to use the existing lock file in version control, not generate a new one every time you build your image.
I am incredibly happy about this. It's the first step for a major cryptocurrency towards ledger security that does not damage the environment via mining.

I always hated how wasteful and energy-inefficient mining is. Staking reduces energy costs by many, many orders of magnitude. With lightweight clients in development, it is possible to validate chain using Raspberry Pi.

I hope (but don't expect) that some time in the next 10 years Bitcoin will follow. If not, it's just so much CO2 that could have been avoided.
ETH was never deflationary.

As a matter of fact, knowing how many ETH will be produced over a given period of time is a question I never managed to get a satisfactory answer to.

There's probably an algorithm buried somewhere in the code, but it's likely not a simple one.
BTC (2%) and ETH (4.5%) are both inflationary right now and have never been deflationary. BTC will be inflationary until about 100 years from now. ETH is a bit more complex but in about a year when it switches from proof of work to proof of stake the inflation will drop to <1%. When EIP-1559 is implemented next year then most of the transaction fees are burned which will likely drop the inflation rate into the negatives which will turn Ethereum into a deflationary asset.
How would it go undetected? The people whose transactions are being reversed would definitely notice, as would anyone else paying close attention to said transactions.
Not in a literal sense. ETH is still awarded (and can be adjusted as it can on the PoW chain) but plateaus around 10MM ETH staked. The more people that use the network the more ETH that's being burnt due to gas (operation, practically 'network') fees.

So Ether's (in/de)flationary behaviour is a consequence of multiple factors: network consensus participation (mine or stake), network utilisation (burn due to gas fees for using the Ethereum VM), and network parameters (block or epoch reward)
That weight figure (7190 tonnes, not 4000) for ARC is just for the reactor.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.3540.pdf (page 30)

The net output of ARC in that design is 190 MW(e), which comes to 26 kW(e)/tonne.

It doesn't include anything outside the reactor, which would likely increase the weight by at least an order of magnitude. It doesn't include (for example) the cryo plant, tritium processing, heat exchangers, turbines, cooling system, the BUILDING, and facilities for installation and disposal of vacuum vessels.
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