Posts by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
(DIR) Post #AKFHxoYDck7fTjnHUG by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-06-07T12:38:53Z
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@feld the difficulty in transport is an advantage to gold, because it also makes it easier to safeguard in large quantities.
(DIR) Post #AKFT4Uvc4tEy8v7rv6 by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-06-07T13:25:21Z
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@feld gold is hard to transport in large quantities. Which makes it harder to steal.It's physical, so you need to manage physical colocation with the actual gold.These are both factors that you can use in defenseBitcoin is easy to transport in any quantity, you just need access to the wallet for long enough to grab the necessary detailsIt can be stolen remotely. Bitcoin from a wallet in France could be stolen from Australia, so skill in theft gets you a larger target pool without travel
(DIR) Post #AKFlGlOKUaStquYXS4 by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-06-07T15:03:36Z
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@feld that's cutting into usability for the owner of the BitcoinThat doesn't matter if you are using it as an asset, but it does mean that using it as currency is problematic
(DIR) Post #AKFu74aTAQPU4wgkYy by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-06-07T19:42:53Z
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@feld well, if we're going to use it as the base for a currency, that does bring questions of ownership to a significant level.When gold was the basis, the government needed to control a significant portion of the outstanding gold supply.
(DIR) Post #AKM0ZQMwSjbixX25ia by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-06-10T15:43:48Z
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@feld toes will be dipped, but most of them will come back out. I've seen so many trendy projects cancelled or abandoned after 6 months, and this looks like just another fad
(DIR) Post #AKMX9erDGnYYqsVsW0 by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-06-10T18:59:49Z
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@feld 5 years minimum, unless the business case is unshakable.Web3 in a world that's barely embraced https properly is a reach.
(DIR) Post #AKmpLh80DbhvCTtxiK by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-06-23T14:40:20Z
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@feld PG is so much easier than Oracle. But even Oracle isn't hard (for the DB)Upgrading Primavera or the Cloud Manager is just a mess
(DIR) Post #AKmpPCQcIkXD93HOM4 by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-06-23T14:37:45Z
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@feld stuff starts happening around 100k to most cars, the interesting Tesla service stories really begin after the service.So let us know how it goes (even if it is good)I needed a new timing chain in my VW at 105k, but that was my own doing
(DIR) Post #AMEQAgYR5cKEFVJ8eu by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-08-05T22:28:09Z
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@wolf480pl this is why my home has so many bookshelves.I may never open most of the books on them again in my life, but they are there if I want to.OTOH, I went through a 15 year old bookmark file and it only had 6 dead links, so I'm not horribly disappointed in the Internet
(DIR) Post #AMEQtQ2RLIzg3Zfkum by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-08-05T22:36:15Z
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@wolf480pl because even if it opened a TCP socket and just accepted query strings in ASCII over that socket it would still be a wire protocol, just a much simpler one.
(DIR) Post #AMEgwUzmxzxjZBvHhA by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-08-06T01:36:04Z
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@wolf480pl and it would still end up different.Besides, DB services do a *lot* that's tied to sessions and authentication, even if you have some outside service doing authentication (which is quite common) the DB service itself has to do very strict session tracking to prevent various sorts of failures
(DIR) Post #AMcnQYPEPbLm1FHIvY by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-08-17T16:41:49Z
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@wolf480pl Depends.If it's urgent I grab what I can off the system and go from there to b). Otherwise I do a) until it becomes urgent or I find an answerNever underestimate the value of good logs.
(DIR) Post #AMcot7qKLqMJzI8jDc by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-08-17T16:58:08Z
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@wolf480pl historically it is very expensive to root out a dug-in and determined defender.In practice it's often a matter of whether the defenders have a choice. Even though the cost to the attacker is usually greater, the cost to the defenders may still be greater than they are willing to pay if they have other viable options.
(DIR) Post #AMcpXiP3qB6cxbjzfM by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-08-17T17:05:28Z
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@wolf480pl unless there are specific orders it's always the call of the highest ranking person in a unit (usually an officer, but not necessarily) doctrine varies depending on the situationIf there are specific orders, you stick to the orders.
(DIR) Post #AMgZqjnrasoyVGoNbU by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-08-19T12:28:31Z
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@wolf480pl Ah, but as a professional you can get the opportunity to get the dopamine rush of solving a problem that nobody around you knows how to fix (or even possibly being the first in the world to fix a problem!)
(DIR) Post #AMh0pGWxdnFABlQbVg by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-08-19T17:30:47Z
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@wolf480pl That is the majority of problems I've fixed, but I've also gotten to do things that weren't so obvious.I mean, most of the time it's just maintenance, there's stuff that you can't script away because it requires judgement.But every now and then a gem of a problem comes along and there's an opportunity for real fun.
(DIR) Post #AMh2gXAOcQof5Qq05g by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-08-19T17:32:25Z
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@wolf480pl or you discover a can of crawling c'thonian horrors and those sanity points are gone for good.But I'm considering doing a proper write up for an exploit report on the most recent one of those I've found.
(DIR) Post #AMnXI1DCB4yEsOkkQi by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-08-22T20:56:07Z
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@Elizafox I've seen estimates that the number of sociopaths is on the order of 5% of everyone.That's quite enough to make it necessary to take them into account when planning, and guarantees that everyone will have to deal with at least a few in their lives.This is why we can't have nice things.
(DIR) Post #AN08fx2NNVOd52UEQi by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-08-28T22:58:14Z
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@fitheach petrol refining also uses a lot of electricity, so price at the pump will also go up.Probably only a minor negative for EVs
(DIR) Post #AN0GOkoINt2DrwD9vs by RandomDamage@mastodon.technology
2022-08-29T00:24:48Z
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@fitheach the efficiency bump from an electric transmission is huge, and the UK is the perfect size for EVs. Worst case it might shift some demand to hybrids,.More likely to cause an increase in demand for solar if the local laws there allow for it. Doubling the price of electricity does nice things to the payback time of solar.