This is a constraint designed into bitcoin to produce artificial scarcity so that the volume of tokens doesn't massively inflate and destroy their value. A blockchain doesn't have to operate this way if the goal is to produce unique tokens as identifiers rather than as currency.
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Yeah, there's nothing wrong with blockchain technology, but Surprise! the people most interested in unregulated financial systems are thieves and scammers. Who could have guessed.
Only one thing matters to Trump: Trump. Everything and everyone else is disposable.
So, like, which one goes in first? And if you need that, do you have to pull everything else out of your pocket to get to it?
Cool, cool cool cool... your pocket knife isn't spring-assisted is it? or a gravity knife?
The plan is to have a plan.
Q: Is it shut the fuck up Friday?
A: It's always shut the fuck up Friday.
Er, well, a lot of dogs get shot, but not by immigrants.
Hmm...
hmm...
We're watching you too.
Now, entertain us, we are bored.
Folding Ideas is basically must-watch content. Dan's thoughtfulness and thoroughness are unmatched.
Angela Collier goes into detail on physics topics, especially astrophysics. Don't miss her video on crackpots.
If you're into 3D printing you should be watching CNC Kitchen. Stefan does a lot of stress-test comparisons between different filaments and printing settings.
Moon Channel has some of the best sociocultural documentaries I've seen on YouTube. I particularly recommend Kawaii: Anime, Propaganda, and Soft Power Politics.
Practical Engineering is excellent. Grady is a civil engineer who discusses infrastructure and makes excellent demonstration models like this one on Why Engineers Can't Control Rivers.
The 8-Bit Guy will teach you things about the early days of digital computers that you didn't know enough to ask.
Jenny Nicholson does some great reviews of pop culture topics. Her video about Evermore: the theme park that wasn't is fantastic, as is her review of Disney's Galactic Cruiser (the Star Wars hotel).
He could probably draw it in with a sharpie.
The self-destructive voice is a liar. We do not listen to them.
truly the raccoon shall inherit the earth
“Following recent regulatory changes in Russia, we received persistent requests from Roskomnadzor demanding that five add-ons be removed from the Mozilla add-on store,” a Mozilla spokesperson told The Intercept in response to a request for comment. “After careful consideration, we’ve temporarily restricted their availability within Russia. Recognizing the implications of these actions, we are closely evaluating our next steps while keeping in mind our local community.”
People are getting upset about this, but it only applies within the country where Roskomnadzor has authority, and it's temporary pending further review.
Slow down your condemnations. Mozilla, as a law-abiding organization, must at least acknowledge the requests of a regulatory agency within its own country. Whether you agree with their requests or not, Roskomnadzor has governmental authority in this context within Russia.
Stop jumping to conclusions, actually read the article, and put the fucking pitchforks away.
In case you're ever wondering, this is an example of your tax dollars at work. Thirty years ago solar and wind generation had to be heavily subsidized with government grants to make them viable in the energy market. Now the technology of both has advanced to the point that it's undercutting all of the other forms of electricity generation, without subsidization.
Government subsidies work. They're effective for getting new technologies off the ground.
For everyone saying OP should let their kid play Roblox and just ban spending money... just no.
Roblox exploits child labor for profit and they have terrible scummy business practices. If you have even marginal ethical qualms about child labor and/or capitalistic exploitation of vulnerable people, you should be keeping yourself and your family away from Roblox. In your mind they should be in the same category as multilevel marketing, crypto scams and door-to-door religion peddlers.
Hong Kong, a former British colony, was returned to Chinese rule in 1997 with the promise of wide autonomy under a "one country, two systems" framework
A promise which China immediately broke. When the people of Hong Kong protested against China's increasing authoritarian control and general dishonesty, China used it as an excuse to brutalize them.
Beijing in 2020 imposed a tough national security law on Hong Kong, which it said was vital to restore stability after the city, a global financial hub, was rocked for months by sometimes violent anti-government and anti-China protests in 2019.
This is such a softball take. The violence was caused by a pro-Chinese mob who were probably a gang paid by the government to attack the protesters, and by the Hong Kong police.
China and Taiwan's main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), have cast the election as a choice between war and peace.
[...]
KMT presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih said on Saturday a vote for the DPP was equivalent to "sending everyone out to the battlefield" because supporting Taiwan independence would touch off a war.
KMT is threatening the people of Taiwan with violence in order to influence their votes. If there is a war, it will be because China started it.
What about what about white females?
jesus tapdancing christ, he actually said that. In public. To a reporter.
We need to vote these people fucking racists into oblivion. They genuinely think her skin color is the most important thing about her. Get lost, my country doesn't need asswipes like you.
Shit like this makes me not even care what Kamala does as president. She could sit in the Oval Office and spin around in her chair for four years and still be leagues better than Trump. I'll vote for her just to upset the racists.
Julia Ioffe, Washington correspondent for Puck News, said: “Imagine you’re sleeping over at a friend’s house and you get up in the middle of the night to pee and you hear a weird sound so you follow it to the kitchen, where your friend’s mom is drunk, crying, and rambling about the national debt. Those are the vibes from Katie Britt right now.”
Fucking amazing. So so accurate.
Watts said: “Senator Katie Britt says sexual assault is the worst thing that can happen to a woman while encouraging Americans to vote for a convicted sexual predator.”
Watts on point.
Republicans baffled by Katie Britt’s State of the Union response: ‘One of our biggest disasters’
So... did nobody review what she was going to say, or how she was going to say it, before they filmed it?
The scariest thing about this isn't even Britt's speech, it's that there must be a group of people around her who were totally on board with it. This is the message they wanted to send.
Not to worry. It’s public domain! Freedom! Steal away!
This is such a shitty take.
The quote near the beginning of the article is the correct point of view:
“It’s important for the preservation of our cultural record, for meaningful access to older works for inspiring future creativity,” Jennifer Jenkins, the director for the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School, said.
Creative works entering the public domain is the norm. The past decades of Disney paying to get copywrite time extended are abnormal.
The author is using nostalgia and some cherry-picked examples to fear-monger in favor of corporate control over creative works. He might as well be kissing the mouse's boots.
If all the computers stuck in boot loop can't be recovered... yeah, that's a lot of cost for a lot of businesses. Add to that all the immediate impact of missed flights and who knows what happening at the hospitals. Nightmare scenario if you're responsible for it.
This sort of thing is exactly why you push updates to groups in stages, not to everything all at once.
You do know that rebar frames are completely essential for most concrete construction right? It's not some conspiracy to induce failure. Concrete by itself can only handle compression forces - the rebar allows it to handle tension, torsion and sheering.
Happiness, excitement and anticipation are cycles. In order to experience them again to their full, you must allow them to fade for awhile. Trying to hold onto them for too long is causing you more grief than the actual lack of them in the moment.
Take a moment to breathe, and appreciate where you are, what you have, and who you've shared it with, before you rush onward.
Even if it were possible to scan the contents of your brain and reproduce them in a digital form, there's no reason that scan would be anything more than bits of data on the digital system. You could have a database of your brain... but it wouldn't be conscious.
No one has any idea how to replicate the activity of the brain. As far as I know there aren't any practical proposals in this area. All we have are vague theories about what might be going on, and a limited grasp of neurochemistry. It will be a very long time before reproducing the functions of a conscious mind is anything more than fantasy.
They know what Lemmy is.
D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery @ xiph.org)
This is a video about the digital vs analog audio quality debate. It explains, with examples, why analog audio within the accepted limits of human hearing (20 Hz to 20 kHz) can be reproduced with perfect fidelity using a 44.1 kHz 16 Bit digital signal.
There is no audible difference between an analog and digital audio signal.
Among other things, xiph.org maintains the .flac and .ogg vorbis audio formats - they know a little about audio encoding and reproduction.
Trying to make a place popular for the sake of popularity is putting the cart before the horse, and will always be a losing battle.
Make your Lemmy instance a place worth spending time. Don't worry about user counts or popularity.
the commies
Everyone in this thread is missing that this is just a copy of the OS. OP said nothing about having a computer, or internet, or electricity.
I'll take Windows 7 because it was still issued on DVD which would be useful as a signal mirror for getting rescued.
Cowboy Bebop
79,000 rpm/88 guns = 897.7 rpm/gun, but Wikipedia has the PPSh-41 rate of fire listed as 1250 rpm, which would make this 110,000 rpm.
But, that drum magazine only has 71 rounds, so you could get 110,000 rpm for about 3 seconds (71 rounds/1250 rpm = 0.057 min = 3.4 sec) ... and then what? Fly back to base so you can swap out 88 individual drum magazines? And also do maintenace on any of the guns that jammed?
Some real redneck engineering energy.
This discussion has been going on for more than a decade.
I wouldn't bet investment money on something that Intel is "reportedly considering".
Trump’s lawsuit also claims that the VA and SBA violated the registration act and are “undermining confidence in the integrity of the electoral process and discouraging participation in the democratic process, which will harm the electoral prospects of Republican candidates.”
So. Much. Projection.
Imagine killing an animal because of a college sports rivalry, and not thinking there was anything wrong with that.
Seems like the entire networking stack is held together with string and duct tape and unnecessarily complicated.
The more you learn about network technology the more you realize how cobbled together it all is. Old, temporary fixes become permanent standards as new fixes are written on top of them. Apache, which was the most widely used web server for a long time, is literally named that because it was "a patchy" server. It's amazing that any of it works at all. It's even more amazing that it's been developed to the point where people with no technical training can use it.
The open nature of IP is what allows such a varied conglomerate of devices to share information with each other, but it also allows for very haphazard connections. The first modems were just an abuse of the existing voice phone network. The internet is a functional example of building the airplane while you're flying it. We try to revise the standards as we go, but we can't shut the whole thing down and rebuild it from scratch. There are no green fields.
It has always been so. It must be so. It will continue to be so.
(the flexibility of it all is really amazing though - in 2009 phreakmonkey was able to connect a laptop to the internet with a 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A acoustic coupler modem and access Wikipedia!)
Wow, I didn't realize CrowdStrike was widespread enough to be a single point of failure for so much infrastructure. Lot of airports and hospitals offline.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) imposed the global ground stop for airlines including United, Delta, American, and Frontier.
Flights grounded in the US.
They couldn't afford surveyors but they can pay lawyers to file a half dozen fraudulent lawsuits?
I hope a judge smacks them.
I mean... what is your threat profile? Are you a LinkedIn engineer with an unpatched Plex install and access to the company file server?
Are you going to do something that would attract the attention of law enforcement or nation-state threat actors?
Are you going to be using this mini PC to do your taxes?
Is it going to be in a DMZ with open access to the Internet?
Are you going to use it as an authentication server for other critical assets?
If you aren't assessing your risk level with some realistic idea of what threats actually apply to you and weighing that against the possible consequences of a breach, then you're pointlessly worrying about low-probability scenarios. Operational Risk Management right? Judge your risk by probability of occurrence and severity of impact and then make decisions based on that.