A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
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@julianlam monkey patching is bad.
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Yeah, that's why we haven't done it already...
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@julianlam said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
There's some excuse puzrin gave as to why it's broken... I think it amounted to "it's too hard to fix at this time".
Well at least that meets my expectations of the laziness of open source developers.
I still will point out, however, that the RFC defining what a URL is and what characters are allowed hasn't changed in decades, so this should have been done correctly from day one. Instead of "well it kind of looks like it works, let's not bother checking it against the spec and ship it anyway."
Hell, you guys are swimming in JavaScript shit. JS'll tell you if it's a URL or not. Look: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/URL
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@julianlam Maybe someone should write an actual, you know, formal grammar for when something is considered emphasis, or bold, or a link, or whatever and write a parser according to that, instead of things weirdly interacting with each other all the time.
Do you think maybe-- just maybe-- we could get... underline? Like every GUI editor ever has had since 1993? Or are my hopes just too sky-high for web development.
Seriously, why do people like Markdown. Why. I will never understand.
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Here's the GitHub issue for context: https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/issues/38
As it turns out, you can also wrap the link in
lsquib< and >, and it should work.Not immediately obvious, I'll grant you that.
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@blakeyrat Seems fine to me.
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@pie_flavor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@blakeyrat Seems fine to me.
Underline in printed text is typographically ugly, anyway. There's better ways for adding emphasis.
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@topspin Please tell us which coffee shop, Macbook model and your Apple Care Id. We will send the typography response team straight away.
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@lucas1 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin Please tell us which coffee shop, Macbook model and your Apple Care Id. We will send the typography response team straight away.
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@lucas1 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin Please tell us which coffee shop, Macbook model and your Apple Care Id. We will send the typography response team straight away.
That makes me think of
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@julianlam or boldbolded text****
FTFY
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@lorne-kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
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@topspin Trust me mate I am the CSS snob here.
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@topspin Btw Comic sans is the font of Southampton University because people with Dyslexia can read it better.
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IOTA, the
cryptoscam with lovingly handcrafted artisanal ternary math, has goofed up again:These seem to be the important parts:
it is time to look at the other option, unsafe generation of the private key. We know that if the value to be signed is 13, no hashing is done to generate the signature. So when signing the value 13, a piece of the private key is directly exposed to an attacker.
So after generating one piece of the private key, the whole internal state of the sponge only contains information that is also in the first piece of the private key. A Key Derivation Function that behaves like this is critically broken.
Based on this, any time a transaction was made with a starting value of 13, an attacker could have forged her own signature and send out a competing transaction within seconds. The value 13 is much more likely to appear than the expected chance of 1 in 27 due to the normalization. In previous versions this used to put much more than ~3% of the transactions at risk. Note that recent versions of the IOTA Java and Python implementations specifically filter out any normalized bundle hash with[sp] contains a 13.
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@hardwaregeek said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges on the Internet
Never heard of it before.
I hadn't either (not that I follow such things) but their founder just was on the cover of Forbes:
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@lucas1 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I don't understand people calling me a dumbass for making money on a craze and then pulling my cash out near the peak.
Calling people dumbasses is just what we do around here. And your past performance has people really well primed.
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@boomzilla That seems like the sort of thing someone would write as a meme.
inance.
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@lorne-kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Peak (12 hours per day on weekdays) - $0.0132 / hWh
MidPeak (6 hours per day on weekdays) - $0.095 / kWh
OffPeak (6 hours per day on weekdays, 24 hours per day on weekends and stat holidays) - $0.065 / kWhDid you misplace a decimal? You have peak power cheaper than off-peak, and
it looks like that's theI'm not sure what number you used in your calculations, because I don't get the same result, whether I calculate ((kW * hours/day * days/week) * $/KWh) or I paste your formula verbatim (after correcting the mismatched parentheses)))) into a spreadsheet..Using $0.0132 peak, I get $191.66 to 283.14 per week. Using what I think is probably the correct peak rate, I get $348.48 to $514.80 per week.
@lorne-kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
assuming no other investment opportunities, and he wants the cards to be paid off over 5 years (lets say this is a 5 year plan)
That is, IMHO, not a good plan. Do you expect BTC to be anywhere near $10k in 5 years? I didn't think so.
@lorne-kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Okay, so chances are he will die from electrocution before he makes a profit. Gotcha
Sounds good to me.
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@ixvedeusi said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@sockpuppet7 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
When GPU mining gets unprofitable, I think there'll be a lot of cheap used second hand videocards for us.
... which will be completely outdated and unable to keep up with any (then) recent games by the time that happens :(
That depends on when the crash comes. If it comes sooner rather than later ... :D
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@dcoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
We know that if the value to be signed is 13, no hashing is done to generate the signature.
TDEMSYR
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@dcoder The fuck?!
This must be thePHPSSDS of crypto-currencies.
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@hardwaregeek said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@dcoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
We know that if the value to be signed is 13, no hashing is done to generate the signature.
TDEMSYR
In their stupid ternary system they can represent values from [0, 26] or in balanced ternary [-13, 13]. So 13 maps to a value of 0, which their unbelievably stupid scheme interprets as "hash this 0 times".
So yes, agreed.
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Playboy.TV will be the first of the company's media platforms to feature the new digital wallet which will enable the online platform to accept Vice Industry Token (VIT), among other leading cryptocurrency tokens, for access to the brand's exclusive content.
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@pie_flavor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@lorne-kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
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Has your mom started accepting Bitcoin from the more tech-savvy sailors, yet?
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@dcoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
"a curious name for their key derivation function""Which encryption/hashing function should we us?"
"I know: our own! That way no one can hack it, because it's a trade secret!"
"Brillant! All those idiots using well-known and vetted functions are sooooooo stupid."
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@hardwaregeek said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Did you misplace a decimal?
Probably. It's correct in the spreadsheet. Tpyo error
OffPeak 0.065
MidPeak 0.095
Peak 0.132@hardwaregeek said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
That is, IMHO, not a good plan.
I know.
@hardwaregeek said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Do you expect BTC to be anywhere near $10k in 5 years? I didn't think so.
Well, maybe the grand total value of all BTC in the entire world will be $10k. Not "each" but "sum".
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@perverted_vixen said in Weekly Programmer Challenge - Week 8b, By the Naked Vixen:
Description
Write a program that produces a single letter ciphertext, sometimes known as a cryptogram or a cryptoquip, for a given input.
Example Inputs/Outputs
> the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog qco htvsb fipzg jpe rtadok pwoi qco yunx kpm o=e
Still more secure than IOTA.
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@boomzilla They will just move north of the border
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@timebandit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@boomzilla They will just move north of the border
Did the two articles use the same fucking stock photo set?
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@lorne-kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Did the two articles use the same fucking stock photo set?
Definitely. It's the same rack with the same guy in it
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@dcoder How much in denial do you have to be to write that story and end it with "Bitcoin ended my marriage".
Even the guy in Margaritaville eventually realized it was his own damned fault.
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@boomzilla Utilities are catching up all around:
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@adynathos said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@lorne-kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Ah man, if this had fucked up the Falcon Heavy launch and crashed a multi-million dollar spaceship I would have laughed so hard.
I wondered what would be the practical use of inter-planetary travel:
- too high cost / mass for mining and bringing resources back
- humans can't live there in a practical way
(we could have a research base, but its not feasible to do more - like in the Antarctic right now) - but if there were cheap resources and fuel, they could build a datacenter!
The problem is communication delay, but maybe for some long running tasks.
Bitcoins would fit perfectly, but I am hesitant to call this practical.
Holyshit.
Free power (solar)
Free cooling (it's cold in space!)BRB, starting a Kickstarter
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@sloosecannon said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Free cooling (it's cold in space!)
Cooling in space (vacuum) is quite difficult: you can only transfer heat through radiation, which is quite slow (no air/water cooling available).
But Kickstarters that promise the break the laws of physics sell quite well :)
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@bb36e To be fair if you are paying for playboy and there is loads of free porno out there, you are a fucking idiot.
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@dcoder I reckon that is bollox tbh.
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So the "This Last week Tonight" got round to my co-workers. They heard I made money on it, and was asking me how I didn't lose money on it. Most of them don't get trading or gambling so it hard to not use Jargon from both industries. I ended up telling them "It was a gamble, I only put in what I could afford to lose and I did well".
I then told them about the whole ICO stuff, which is more dodgy than KickStarter TBH. I think ICOs should be illegal.
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@lucas1 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@bb36e To be fair if you are paying for playboy and there is loads of free porno out there, you are a fucking idiot.
I must be an idiot then, because I pay for my porn.
@lucas1 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@dcoder I reckon that is bollox tbh.
That idea did cross my mind. But my sense of schadenfreude likes that story and that's good enough.
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@adynathos said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@sloosecannon said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Free cooling (it's cold in space!)
Cooling in space (vacuum) is quite difficult: you can only transfer heat through radiation, which is quite slow (no air/water cooling available).
But Kickstarters that promise the break the laws of physics sell quite well :)EXACTLY. I understand it now! All you need is to have a passing understanding, and it sounds like a great idea! Brillant!
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@sloosecannon said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@adynathos said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@sloosecannon said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Free cooling (it's cold in space!)
Cooling in space (vacuum) is quite difficult: you can only transfer heat through radiation, which is quite slow (no air/water cooling available).
But Kickstarters that promise the break the laws of physics sell quite well :)EXACTLY. I understand it now! All you need is to have a passing understanding, and it sounds like a great idea! Brillant!
Get yourself an adress in silly con valley and you are set!
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@carnage said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@sloosecannon said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@adynathos said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@sloosecannon said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Free cooling (it's cold in space!)
Cooling in space (vacuum) is quite difficult: you can only transfer heat through radiation, which is quite slow (no air/water cooling available).
But Kickstarters that promise the break the laws of physics sell quite well :)EXACTLY. I understand it now! All you need is to have a passing understanding, and it sounds like a great idea! Brillant!
Get yourself an adress in silly con valley and you are set!
That costs way too much. Of course, being able to get mail in silicon valley looks good.... I'll rent a box from UPS there!
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Hey, finally someone might make money for a real service related to Bitcon!
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Hey, finally someone might make money for a real service related to Bitcon!
The GPU companies (and the parts stores) have been making money--they can't keep the things in stock and so prices have increased.
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@benjamin-hall
Yes, but that directly negatively impacts me, so itβs no laughing matter :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye:
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Now this is an interesting consequence of "a permanent ledger". How long until some bureaucrat acts on it?