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Comment · 16 days ago
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.

Comment · 3 months ago
Got the shingrix vaccine for free at my county health center, even though it was not covered by my insurance. Worth checking.
Comment · 10 months ago
The OOM killer strikes again.
Comment · 1 year ago
> 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?

Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 1 year ago
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.

Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
> 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.

Comment · 3 years ago
Nothing really compare to a well made daguerreotype.
Comment · 3 years ago
Elon Musk says idiotic stuff all the time and people revere him.

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