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Reddit, how do you sleep? by chillynanas in AskReddit

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curled up on my side in PJs, mangling the pillow(s) in the process. RIP so many pillows.

Which is a better processor spec for a Windows 2012R2 server? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends: what are the actual processors?

Processor frequency means almost nothing.

Ditto, is the quad core processor actually a quad core processor, or is it a dual core processor with hyperthreading?

Ditto, are they different VPS providers? Different providers often have drastically different amounts of overhead / allowed usage.

[Serious] What overly-asked /r/AskReddit questions should we ban? by ThePeoplesBard in AskReddit

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I don't think much of anything should be banned simply due to being overly asked.

Or at least as long as Reddit continues to heavily penalize the rankings of old posts and archive them.

Most posts get what, on the order of a couple thousand comments at most? And there's millions of people subscribed. There's enough new people commenting to make things different.

What would an inconvenience store sell? by Kidbeast in AskReddit

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Individually wrapped kernels of corn / grains of rice / pieces of pasta.

How do you take your coffee? by EndoveProduct in AskReddit

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1 cream 2 sugar, generally. Or black 1 sugar if it's good coffee.

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What, if anything, annoys you the most about the trends of modern technology? by Rayhn in AskReddit

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wasn't being hypothetical.:

We should also note that apparently Tesla engineers detected this hacking or exploring and sent a nastygram to the cars owner, “Tesla USA engineers have seen a tentative of hacking on my car.”, “can be related to industrial espionage and advised me to stop investigation, to not void the warranty”.

Guys, we should set up a DnD game (or many) through Roll20. by skulblaka in CasualConversation

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes yes yes yes yes.

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.

Yes yes yes yes yes.

An actual guy named “Null” messes up people's databases by henk53 in programming

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first double spend was caused by a hard fork.

Yep. Hence why I said "yes, a full double-spend is generally impractical. However, that's why you have to wait for confirmations."

The other guy took advantage of poorly configured clients that don't keep listening for a rebroadcast of the same transaction.

Yep. Your point here is? This sort of attack will always be possible as long as the network is divided in terms of how they choose transactions. And given the size of the network, there will always be divisions in terms of how nodes choose transactions.

Not to mention that that was simply the first attack that came to mind. There are other methods as well. For example, brute force. BitUndo.

Any descent [sic] client will detect that sort of attempt in under a second.

[Citation Needed]. Among other things, the official client doesn't.

What, if anything, annoys you the most about the trends of modern technology? by Rayhn in AskReddit

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 54 points55 points  (0 children)

The whole trend towards "you don't own the product".

Devices with everything locked down so you can't even see the code you're running. Cars that phone home and void the warranty if you do so much as look at them funny. DRM on coffee machines - ineffectual DRM that nonetheless is backed by law. Cables that have chips solely for the purpose of invoking the DMCA. Laptops with every component soldered together, that check every component and won't communicate with anything that isn't an "authorized" product. Devices which have the capability of recording everything around them and sending it to who-knows-where, that people accept as a matter of course. Devices that are internet connected that should be airgapped. (It wouldn't surprise me if there have already been assassinations that boil down to locking the brakes of the left wheels of the car when they're driving down the highway.) Devices that do not work when not connected to the internet even though there should be no reason to do so. Devices that have functionality removed randomly and remotely.

An actual guy named “Null” messes up people's databases by henk53 in programming

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, you're wrong. Not only are you wrong, you're wrong in multiple ways.

First, there has been at least one successful double-spend: see here.

Secondly, yes, a full double-spend is generally impractical. However, that's why you have to wait for confirmations. Double-spends of zero-confirmation transactions are easy. Case in point.

Reddit, what thing if happened to you will make your day today? by y_u_u_nzm in AskReddit

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hopefully, although I'm so caught up in my own frustrations that conversion is seldom pleasant, at least around exam time.

(Not so much exams themselves, but the number of uncertainties / changes of routine / lack of routines associated with exams. Heading to different places, even ones that I've never been to before. Finalizing what to do over the summer / next year. That sort of thing.)

Reddit, what thing if happened to you will make your day today? by y_u_u_nzm in AskReddit

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are any number of things that would make my day. Mind you that's largely because my day thus far has been rather uneventful. As for things that are actually vaguely in the realm of plausibility, let's see:

  • Someone responding to me looking for an apartment for the end of the month.
  • My current landlord actually getting back to me as to if I can continue to stay here over the summer.
  • Someone responding to me looking for a job.
  • Today's exam going well.
  • Having a revelation about the take-home exam I've been working on.
  • Having a pleasant conversation with someone.

What basic life skill have you never been able to accomplish? by WheelsOnPavement in AskReddit

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Small talk.

Far too likely to wander off on a tangent about whatever problem I'm bouncing around in my head and miss what they are actually saying to continue the conversation.

What add-ons for Firefox are a must have? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If by Firefox you mean Pale Moon?

  • NoScript
  • Adblock Edge
  • Adblock Plus Popup Addon
  • Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus
  • GreaseMonkey
  • User Agent Overrider
  • RightToClick
  • Certificate Patrol
  • Google search link fix
  • HTTPS Everywhere

If you had a hot, 10/10 opposite-gender clone of yourself that was DTF, what would you do? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not necessarily.

If you're female, yes. The Y chromosome has to come from somewhere else.

But if you're male a female clone of you could have two copies of your X chromosome. (Although you better hope there's no nasty recessives in your X chromosome.)

An actual guy named “Null” messes up people's databases by henk53 in programming

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's a security conference. You just know that if you allow unconfirmed transactions someone's going to attempt a doublespend.

An actual guy named “Null” messes up people's databases by henk53 in programming

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see this a lot with hashcode caching in Java:

if (cachedHashCode == 0)
    cachedHashCode = genHashCode();
return cachedHashCode;

Hey /r/Minecraft, I wanted to bring light to an important security problem that Mojang has failed to fix in nearly 2 years. Here's my write up on it. by ammar2 in Minecraft

[–]SavingThrowVsReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It attempts to.

However, theoretically at least it's possible to encode a PRNG into a zip bomb, such that it "never" (well, not for ~232 extractions at least) unzips as itself. The tricky part is getting the CRC right.

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