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This isn't strictly true. The protocol ensures that there is on average a block produced every 10 minutes. As hash rates increase, and blocks are found slightly faster, the difficu…

> This is really beginning to concern me. I think we’ve created a fake plastic economy built on face plastic house prices. By stoking the bubble, the purchase and renovation of hou…

I use one for driving a ILI9341 TFT display. It uses a 433mhz receiver and picks up temperatures from a couple of commercial temperature sensors, uses pygame to display them to the…

> It should be noted that although it was terribly designed the Commodore 1541 disk drive was by far the most common peripheral sold with the machine. It was fairly uncommon for C6…

I've not read Diaspora, but I have read Schild's Ladder. I found it difficult to follow in parts ( the science explanations ) but some of the themes it touches on are absolutely fa…

I first heard of openstep from this brilliant post yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091588 ... and here it pops up again.

There is an interesting answer here with regards to how the Pauli Exclusion principle is related to magnetism. https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/246439 As I understand it, with m…

Indeed this does look very useful. I had a quick glance over this, but for contexts which are defined as remote ssh hosts, I couldn't see where the images are obtained. Are they be…

Apologies for the way this was linked to. The 6% is from this study: https://www.miamidade.gov/releases/2020-04-24-sample-testing... "Our data from this week and last tell a very s…

Not sure why you are being downvoted: https://www.oxfordbiosystems.com/COVID-19-Rapid-test "In order to test the detection sensitivity and specificity of the COVID-19 IgG-IgM combi…

Not sure why, but this gave me asmr tingles....

I was thinking the same, but more so with Frontier: Elite II :-)

You are able to disable GC with: GOGC=off As someone mentions below. More details here: https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/

From a service point of view, you should be able to provide isolation between services using namespaces, istio and Calico. You can read about "Soft multi-tenancy" here: https://ist…

I'd like to know this too. The NIST page links to this site, which suggests no exploit is known of as yet: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107063/exploit

Looks like this is the fix: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9060cb719e61b685ec0...

I assume we'll get some clearer images as more data comes in. I believe it is going to take until autumn of 2020 before we receive all of it.

I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has tried it how well it integrates into their storage, load balancers, dns and firewall offerings. Prior to this, it was possible to manu…

The North African Christian church even had it's own schism, Donatism, between the 4th and 6th centuries, centered in Carthage. Donatism had its roots in the long-established Chris…

I've had sleep paralysis but never had the feeling of the presence. I just know I'm stuck. As if some kind of force has frozen my whole body. The first few occasions it is extremel…

Thanks for sharing your experience. Can I ask how you found your sleep paralysis encounters? (for want of a better word). Personally I've found them deeply disturbing. Throughout m…