Except that low income job is going away to automation. So you have the same number of people competing for fewer low income jobs. If you use this inflation to make sure those low income jobs pay the same, you've evened it out.
Well... here's the thing. 99% of people just don't need more than 16 or 32 GB of RAM. I don't do any video editing, but at any given time, at work, I have several VMs open, Chrome or Firefox which tend to hog memory, a couple of development environments (usually PyCharm, VS, Android Studio or Eclipse), and several more lightweight stuff - IPython, Sublime Text and a couple more.
At max, if I set the VMs to too much RAM, this adds up to about 16 gigs of RAM. 32 gigs? No way I could get up to that. Maybe if I had an itch to keep 30 tabs open in Chrome instead of my usual ~6.
In the past with weaker computers, I used to ration my RAM. Haven't needed to do that in the last couple of years. Same goes for CPU - anything that's not really computationally expensive just doesn't take a long time to run nowadays. We've more or less reached the point where computers are good enough.
A mac would be good, if only for the zoom ability available on Safari and Chrome (might be available on Windows too). Pinch out on the trackpad to zoom a web page (really zoom, not just change text size).
These visas were invented to enable highly-skilled workers to come from overseas to work in the US. That's clearly not what they're doing. Why don't those laid off sue? Or at least write your congressmen?
Not so sure about that. We've had the internet, up alive and working for what, going on 20 years now? With no major outages? Redundancy every step of the way? I think it's OK to assume that the Internet will be around excepting armageddon or maybe a world war.
That said, any one system can be taken offline by targeting it specifically.
I've heard of this time and time again. Is there any evidence that software engineers are good teachers? I mean, the challenge in K-12 is getting control of the students, not the teaching material (which is low level and entirely uninteresting).
I currently have a D-Link DIR-685 (which works ok 80% of the time). There's a TP-Link WR941ND and a W8951ND which doubled as an ADSL modem. We've gone through a couple more which we don't have anymore. All with stock firmware.
Where do I perform hashing (smartphone/web client or server)? You hash twice, with different salts - once on the client side and once again (i.e., hash the hash) on the server side. The doubly-salted, doubly-hashed password is the one you store.
What hash algorithm should I use? You said it yourself - bcrypt. bcrypt allows you to set a cost, which increases password brute-forcing difficulty but also increases computational cost on every verification. Set the cost to be the maximum you can handle - if you have a stronger computer and fewer users, you can set a higher cost.
How do I store the hashes? Chrome uses encrypted SQLite for browser saved passwords. Which encryption depends on the platform - Windows has CryptProtectData, KDE and Gnome have keyrings. The basic idea for all of these is to use some symmetric encryption algorithm (e.g. AES) with the key derived from some set of hashes on machine-specific data, like hardware serial numbers. If you want to go hardcore, use a hardware encryption dongle (HSM). Note that it is important to encrypt the file on disk, but it is also important to make sure that decrypted hashes stay in server memory for as little as possible.
How can clients recover forgotten passwords? They can't recover forgotten passwords - you're only storing hashes, remember? What they can do is reset their password. Two factor authentication is best (a verified email account and phone number, if you can send SMSes or automated calls), but at least email and a security question seems to be the standard.
We are three sharing an apartment, with three laptops, a Raspberry Pi, three phones, and the occasional guest. We've gone through several D-Link and TP-Link routers. The WiFi quality sucks, there's crappy, dropping reception 5m (15 ft) from the router beyond a wall.
What router can we buy? Do Open/DD-WRT affect performance?
But what if the cops want to stop you because you're breaking laws that aren't traffic laws? For instance, if they suspect you're fleeing from a crime, carrying weed or are a murder suspect?
It's not really that hard for a bad guy to buy a cop costume. Humans can't tell them difference between the police and some random jackass. Also, if a guy is standing in the middle of the road signaling you to stop, you're gonna stop just to not run him over.
I think self-driving cars should be treated as taxis. Just like you can't expect your taxi driver to disobey a cop, nor can you expect your SDC to.
Where's your math? This whole 5-point score rant is basically a big long ad-hominem argument, with not even a single link to back up your claims (who disagrees with Gavin?...).
Adoption rises and technology progresses, so, from continuity, there is some point in time where the higher stress is not as much an issue, and we will need the room for more transactions. Gavin et al say that point is not far, and we should take action now to avoid problems later. I think hearing the arguments so far, I agree with them.
It's obvious that if you want to be able to have more transactions/minute, the block size limit will have to go up. Everyone knew it had to happen sometime.
Back then, 2013, large block sizes (granted, occuring once in a few weeks - not much considering there's one block every 10 minutes or so) reached 900k and even 990k. We're two years later, adoption goes up, and two core maintainers think it's about time we raise that limit.
Why not? Why wait for the problems - in the form of high processing fees and higher waiting time for transaction approval? Now's as good as it's ever gonna be.
We used to have applications run locally. They used to have a lot more freedom - any and all apps could know exactly who you are and what your computer's UUID was, not only how your battery's doing. Today most of what you use - the obvious examples being your mail and to a lesser extent office suite - is at least sandboxed inside your browser.
This is not to say there hasn't been a rise in tracking, but the story just got me thinking that maybe it's a good thing it's being done in a browser. (And you should be whitelisting the use of cookies and javascript - and blocking unnecessary trackers).
Can someone explain how exactly they're "moving between two different resistance states"? Because I think that that in itself does not guarantee lower wear.
Has anyone heard anything technical about how this works?
The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a visualization environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the world’s best ground- and space-based telescopes for the exploration of the universe. WWT blends terabytes of images, information, and stories from multiple sources into a seamless, immersive, rich media experience. Explorers of all ages will feel empowered to explore and understand the cosmos using WWT’s simple and powerful user interface.
Apart from the pretty colors, it's pretty badly designed. There's only the one video explaining why it's bad, no text, no in-depth analysis, no outside opinions, no nothing. There isn't even (that I could find) a link to the text of the TPP. This might be a seriously important cause, but the website's not making a very good case against it.
Anyone know and want to elaborate on what this TPP is?
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You can't play it on the subway, you can't play it on a plane. When are you supposed to play it then?
Except that low income job is going away to automation. So you have the same number of people competing for fewer low income jobs. If you use this inflation to make sure those low income jobs pay the same, you've evened it out.
Two cases:
Either Satoshi has his private keys from back then, or he doesn't.
If he has his private key, have him sign a message that reads "John R. Smith is Satoshi Nakamoto" with his private key.
If he doesn't, I say it doesn't matter who he is, his money isn't going anywhere.
Well... here's the thing. 99% of people just don't need more than 16 or 32 GB of RAM. I don't do any video editing, but at any given time, at work, I have several VMs open, Chrome or Firefox which tend to hog memory, a couple of development environments (usually PyCharm, VS, Android Studio or Eclipse), and several more lightweight stuff - IPython, Sublime Text and a couple more.
At max, if I set the VMs to too much RAM, this adds up to about 16 gigs of RAM. 32 gigs? No way I could get up to that. Maybe if I had an itch to keep 30 tabs open in Chrome instead of my usual ~6.
In the past with weaker computers, I used to ration my RAM. Haven't needed to do that in the last couple of years. Same goes for CPU - anything that's not really computationally expensive just doesn't take a long time to run nowadays. We've more or less reached the point where computers are good enough.
Obligatory CGP Grey
These guys really have some nerve. You'd think the least they would do is try to avoid the courtroom.
A mac would be good, if only for the zoom ability available on Safari and Chrome (might be available on Windows too). Pinch out on the trackpad to zoom a web page (really zoom, not just change text size).
http://bash.org/?14207
250,000 IOPS per second, right up there with your LCD display, PDF format, and PIN number.
I just don't get you Americans.
These visas were invented to enable highly-skilled workers to come from overseas to work in the US. That's clearly not what they're doing. Why don't those laid off sue? Or at least write your congressmen?
Not so sure about that.
We've had the internet, up alive and working for what, going on 20 years now? With no major outages? Redundancy every step of the way? I think it's OK to assume that the Internet will be around excepting armageddon or maybe a world war.
That said, any one system can be taken offline by targeting it specifically.
I've heard of this time and time again. Is there any evidence that software engineers are good teachers? I mean, the challenge in K-12 is getting control of the students, not the teaching material (which is low level and entirely uninteresting).
I currently have a D-Link DIR-685 (which works ok 80% of the time). There's a TP-Link WR941ND and a W8951ND which doubled as an ADSL modem. We've gone through a couple more which we don't have anymore. All with stock firmware.
All neighbors are older, youngest kids are in the 8-10 year old range.
Leaky microwave - it's possible.
Directional antenna - tinfoil style? Or does it require a purchase?
Where do I perform hashing (smartphone/web client or server)?
You hash twice, with different salts - once on the client side and once again (i.e., hash the hash) on the server side. The doubly-salted, doubly-hashed password is the one you store.
What hash algorithm should I use?
You said it yourself - bcrypt. bcrypt allows you to set a cost, which increases password brute-forcing difficulty but also increases computational cost on every verification. Set the cost to be the maximum you can handle - if you have a stronger computer and fewer users, you can set a higher cost.
How do I store the hashes?
Chrome uses encrypted SQLite for browser saved passwords. Which encryption depends on the platform - Windows has CryptProtectData, KDE and Gnome have keyrings. The basic idea for all of these is to use some symmetric encryption algorithm (e.g. AES) with the key derived from some set of hashes on machine-specific data, like hardware serial numbers. If you want to go hardcore, use a hardware encryption dongle (HSM).
Note that it is important to encrypt the file on disk, but it is also important to make sure that decrypted hashes stay in server memory for as little as possible.
How can clients recover forgotten passwords?
They can't recover forgotten passwords - you're only storing hashes, remember? What they can do is reset their password. Two factor authentication is best (a verified email account and phone number, if you can send SMSes or automated calls), but at least email and a security question seems to be the standard.
We are three sharing an apartment, with three laptops, a Raspberry Pi, three phones, and the occasional guest. We've gone through several D-Link and TP-Link routers. The WiFi quality sucks, there's crappy, dropping reception 5m (15 ft) from the router beyond a wall.
What router can we buy? Do Open/DD-WRT affect performance?
But what if the cops want to stop you because you're breaking laws that aren't traffic laws? For instance, if they suspect you're fleeing from a crime, carrying weed or are a murder suspect?
It's not really that hard for a bad guy to buy a cop costume. Humans can't tell them difference between the police and some random jackass. Also, if a guy is standing in the middle of the road signaling you to stop, you're gonna stop just to not run him over.
I think self-driving cars should be treated as taxis. Just like you can't expect your taxi driver to disobey a cop, nor can you expect your SDC to.
Where's your math? This whole 5-point score rant is basically a big long ad-hominem argument, with not even a single link to back up your claims (who disagrees with Gavin?...).
If you want more transactions per minute, you're going to need a higher limit; a higher limit puts more stress on the nodes and the network. That's where the argument lies.
Adoption rises and technology progresses, so, from continuity, there is some point in time where the higher stress is not as much an issue, and we will need the room for more transactions. Gavin et al say that point is not far, and we should take action now to avoid problems later. I think hearing the arguments so far, I agree with them.
It's obvious that if you want to be able to have more transactions/minute, the block size limit will have to go up. Everyone knew it had to happen sometime.
Check out this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=322748.0
Back then, 2013, large block sizes (granted, occuring once in a few weeks - not much considering there's one block every 10 minutes or so) reached 900k and even 990k. We're two years later, adoption goes up, and two core maintainers think it's about time we raise that limit.
Why not? Why wait for the problems - in the form of high processing fees and higher waiting time for transaction approval? Now's as good as it's ever gonna be.
We used to have applications run locally. They used to have a lot more freedom - any and all apps could know exactly who you are and what your computer's UUID was, not only how your battery's doing. Today most of what you use - the obvious examples being your mail and to a lesser extent office suite - is at least sandboxed inside your browser.
This is not to say there hasn't been a rise in tracking, but the story just got me thinking that maybe it's a good thing it's being done in a browser.
(And you should be whitelisting the use of cookies and javascript - and blocking unnecessary trackers).
Can someone explain how exactly they're "moving between two different resistance states"? Because I think that that in itself does not guarantee lower wear.
Has anyone heard anything technical about how this works?
And who would compensate me for time and money lost when the white-hat "fix" bricks my phone out of the blue?
About
The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a visualization environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the world’s best ground- and space-based telescopes for the exploration of the universe. WWT blends terabytes of images, information, and stories from multiple sources into a seamless, immersive, rich media experience. Explorers of all ages will feel empowered to explore and understand the cosmos using WWT’s simple and powerful user interface.
Source: their website.
Apart from the pretty colors, it's pretty badly designed. There's only the one video explaining why it's bad, no text, no in-depth analysis, no outside opinions, no nothing. There isn't even (that I could find) a link to the text of the TPP. This might be a seriously important cause, but the website's not making a very good case against it.
Anyone know and want to elaborate on what this TPP is?