preillyme

Joined 13 years ago

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199

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145

Member since

Nov 5

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/pmo_us; my proof: https://keybase.io/pmo_us/sigs/ao2KmHqUKOZGjCTfd92do1avx_X5ADVjwLd3GPfUtFk ]

Verifying my Blockstack ID is secured with the address 18D29xyHeo9J9qoRf1icAg9SbbiqGYYxjK https://explorer.blockstack.org/address/18D29xyHeo9J9qoRf1icAg9SbbiqGYYxjK

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Comment · 3 years ago

My circle is 97.6% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/

(Now my hand hurts...)

Comment · 3 years ago

The initial version, released in 2010, was based on Apache Thrift and it predated Finagle, their building block for RPC services at Twitter. The Snowflake they're using internally is a full rewrite and heavily relies on existing infrastructure at Twitter to run.

Comment · 3 years ago

This reminds me a little bit of Twitter's snowflake: To generate the roughly-sorted 64 bit ids in an uncoordinated manner, we settled on a composition of: timestamp, worker number and sequence number.

Sequence numbers are per-thread and worker numbers are chosen at startup via zookeeper (though that’s overridable via a config file).

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/announcing...

Comment · 3 years ago

Ah, that makes so much more sense. I had thought after looking at the wallet: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qd2jkf8lxp5d3y50gf... that it was "scrambled/tumbled/anonymized" by the attacker.

Comment · 3 years ago

Interesting... on 2022-12-13 the bounty has been claimed! Just a few hours after mprime1 shared the project in a comment on HackerNews, someone managed to drain the BTC.

https://github.com/mprimi/portable-secret/commit/3b22d2b42ba...

I'd love to hear more about this.

Comment · 5 years ago

I'd like regular meetings with one of Clubhouse’s founders and early access to special tools designed just for power users.

Comment · 6 years ago

haha haha haha

Comment · 6 years ago

For that reason alone it seems so silly to me that Google would make this change and cause this headline to occur. Hell like the poor folks rest and vest as the worse case.

Comment · 6 years ago

Looks like the good folks over at the NSA are reading Hacker News. And fix issues quickly. I’m proud of them.

Comment · 6 years ago

I loved working with Ian back in the day at Media Revolution. He was so much fun.