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So they front ran the front runners. Made the front runner buy shitcoins. Crime? Not an ETH bug though.
Re:The Case for IPv4.1 on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @10:19PM (#39611918)
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.
Re:Bug in std:shared_mutex on Windows on Monday March 04, 2024 @01:45PM (#39594254)
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.
Re:It's 29 Delphi, I mean on Thursday February 22, 2024 @06:51PM (#39475004)
Delphi supports inline variable declarations.

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

Re:Bad property debt exceeds reserves at largest US banks on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @09:38AM (#39441833)
The non-existent money to pay the interest is cancelled out by bankruptcies.
Re:On the Virtues of the Trailing Comma on Friday February 09, 2024 @02:36PM (#39319410)
I still think it looks ugly and syntactically "incorrect".
Delphi compiles the same code and UI to iOS, Android, OSX, Windows, Linux, etc.
Re:Ask HN: Do you have any lightning protection at home? on Saturday January 06, 2024 @09:21PM (#38897764)
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.
So Bitcoin is 'absolute money'?
Each block of IPs probably correspond to a ground station. Your data is probably mostly routed to the closest ground station.
Re:BBC Micro on Saturday October 07, 2023 @04:09PM (#37805100)
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.
Re:Crypto Fooled Us Once. It Will Fool Us Again on Saturday October 07, 2023 @03:37PM (#37804842)
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".
Re:Crypto Fooled Us Once. It Will Fool Us Again on Saturday October 07, 2023 @03:29PM (#37804759)
He is talking about inflating the money supply.
It's $2,000, not $20,0000 (I assume USD). Gold coins are pretty easy to come by in my experience.
Re:My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards ⌨ on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @01:57PM (#37678514)
That's nothing. I have 8 spare keyboards I still haven't used.
Re:Unicode 88 (1988) [pdf] on Friday September 01, 2023 @10:31PM (#37358113)
"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.

In the early days I managed to register [email protected]. It was of course taken from me.
Mr Wonderful?
Re:Ask HN: What is your home networking setup? on Thursday January 20, 2022 @07:46AM (#30008194)
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.
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.