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Sometimes 0.004% matters when the population is not homogenous.

The 0.004% richest Amreicans hold the majority of US wealth. I would not be surprised if the 0.004% top X users in terms of followers have a majority of followers as well.

So implying that because 0.004% is a small proportion of total users, this user ban is unconsequential seems flawed to me.

Re:A no-brainer for protecting your brain on Sunday July 12, 2026 @06:33PM (#48885560)
Got the shingrix vaccine for free at my county health center, even though it was not covered by my insurance. Worth checking.
Re:Size of Life on Thursday December 11, 2025 @10:29AM (#46232587)
The OOM killer strikes again.
Re:Libghostty Is Coming on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @11:31AM (#45361779)
> All of this is packaged up into a single zero-dependency C API (it doesn't even rely on libc), allowing it to be easily embedded into any popular language ecosystem.

@mitchellh That's super exciting. I'm wondering how easy it would be to integrate in the debugger frontend I'm working on. Do you already know what the C API will look like?

They didn't sign a transaction for 1 billion dollars. They all signed what they thought was a routine transfer, but in reality what they signed gave the hacker full control of the smart contract (the Gnosis Safe) in which the 1.4B $ of tokens were stored. The hackers, having gained control of the smart contract, proceeded to empty it of funds.
They didn't sign a transaction for 1 billion dollars. They all signed what they thought was a routine transfer, but in reality what they signed gave the hacker full control of the smart contract (the Gnosis Safe) in which the 1.4B $ of tokens were stored.

The hackers, having gained control of the smart contract, proceeded to empty it of funds.

What you should do is sign the transaction on an offline computer (which is booted from a linux OS on a flash drive with only the essential software), simulate the transaction to verify it does what you expect, and then save the signed transaction to a flash drive. Then you can submit your transaction on a connected computer with confidence that you didn't sign your tokens away to someone else.
Re:A Visual Guide to LLM Quantization on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @09:25PM (#41125341)
> for exponent 1, 10 and 11 you then have the same

Right. But the exponent is signed as well, so you have the same number of exponent values mapping to values between -1 and 1 (roughly exponent values from -127 to -1) as to all other values (between -inf and -1 and between 1 and inf), exponent values from 1 to 126.

Re:The Miracle of Photography on Saturday November 04, 2023 @08:42AM (#38140519)
Nothing really compare to a well made daguerreotype.
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all charges on Friday November 03, 2023 @08:33AM (#38127776)
Elon Musk says idiotic stuff all the time and people revere him.
Re:Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:07PM (#37923715)
I'm surprised Intuit allowed this to happen. It almost look as if the govt is working for the people.
Unless they pretended being a man :-)
Re:Datomic Is Now Free on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:43PM (#35733540)
Re:Inmos and the Transputer (1998) on Monday February 27, 2023 @11:22AM (#34958248)
Makes me remember how fun it was to read Byte in the 1980s! https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-05/page/n219/...
Re:Sundar Pichai: An important next step on our AI journey on Monday February 06, 2023 @04:39PM (#34684801)
Page and Brin's original crawler had the issue, but they were unable to fix it, and it was Jeff Dean and Sanjay Gupta that rewrote the crawler so that it and the index storage would be hardware fault tolerant.
There was a lot less googling for sure.
Re:Byte Magazine: The Forth Language (1980) on Saturday July 16, 2022 @08:45PM (#32123326)
I remember reading this issue cover to cover. Good times. The August issues of Byte were always a treat!
Re:Summary After Four Months with Ada on Sunday August 29, 2021 @07:00AM (#28345762)
Both are named after Ada Lovelace, mathematician and first computer programmer.
The writer obviously does not understand the benefit of curved sensors. They will make the lenses cheaper and smaller - they will not change the way photographs look.
That would be an amazing transformation from a dumpster.
Re:The Limits to Blockchain Scalability on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:53PM (#27258505)
Looking forward to the bright future where we rely on centralized exchanges and banks!
Re:Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @10:09AM (#27208846)
Most GPUs are used to mine ETH. It is by far the most profitable. Unless another POW coin becomes as valuable as ETH, demand for GPUs will drop precipitously.
Re:Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @10:06AM (#27208810)
Have you heard of DEFI (decentralized finance)?
Re:Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @10:05AM (#27208803)
Ethereum will solve both issues, removing miners and the energy use by moving to Proof of Stake at the end on this year, and increasing the transaction throughput by 100x factors with level 2 solutions.
Re:Coinbase from YC to DPO on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @02:14PM (#26810899)
I don't see any reason to be skeptical of proof-of-stake. The ethereum beacon network has been up and running fine for months. And POS negates the power usage objection to POW.

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