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  1. .net, dynamics, power, 365, azure, fabric, copilot.

    There's always some pointless name change going on.

  2. "IBM for i" is up there
  3. Making up a bigger fraction doesn't mean that transaction fees will increase over time.

    For L1 fees to actually increase over time, we need increased L1 throughput. Without that, increased demand for transactions causes more batching of transactions (mostly between exchanges).

    Given the failure of BCH for pseudo-religious reasons I don't have much hope.

  4. Skiddies targeting an individual site are a drop in the ocean compared with the industrial scale LLM scraping, so blaming them for it is in bad taste.
  5. Most token holders use exchanges, where freezing accounts and just keeping the tokens is a daily occurrence.

    That's not something solved by cryptocurrency in its current form.

  6. That's infamously known as the "Oracle Problem".

    Blockchain can't handle external state.

    Smart contracts abstract it a bit by having a trusted third party or an automated pricing mechanism, but both are fragile.

  7. The stated purpose of RTO may be more-nimble-whatever.

    In practice it makes more sense if you always assume the intended purpose is to thinly veil constructive dismissal.

  8. The original release came with separate Allied/Soviet discs. You could put one in your buddy's computer.

    Keygen was also easily available.

  9. Forge is a good modern equivalent
  10. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/s...

    This one is a classic for MSSQL, most of it is applicable on postgres.

  11. "Dimension table" is the name for lookup tables in a star or snowflake schema.
  12. Anyone can generate an NFT, including IP you don't own or existing collections.

    Hundreds of wallets might contain a the same monkey picture (or same hash and IPFS link to nitpick).

    What matters is that Opensea says you have the "real" one.

    Their database is the real list of who owns what, the blockchain is a distraction.

    You can see it in their anti-theft systems. NFTs get hidden and blocked from trading after a police report, even if it's still there on the chain.

  13. To clarify, I don't see users ever leaving centralised exchanges.

    That means classic claims like "bitcoin is scarce" or "transactions don't require anyone's permission" or "transactions can't be censored" or "nobody can seize your bitcoin" are generally false in practice.

    Even if a person only trades via bags of cash in dark alleyways and never touches exchanges, they're affected by all this "paper" bitcoin.

    If they need to touch an exchange at any point, even if holding in a cold wallet 99% of the time, that exchange can still take 100% of their tokens.

  14. The users could reject exchanges and trade entirely on-chain, but that's expensive/complicated/risky.

    It is a serious concern for cryptocurrency that most users don't even get the touted benefits because of reliance on exchanges.

  15. This topic is undemocratic because it's part of the constant attempts to rephrase and resubmit the same unpopular proposal.

    It's p-hacking democracy. If a proposal has 5% chance of passing just resubmit it twenty times under different names with minor variations.

    It wastes time that lawmakers could spend on proposals that the public actually want.

  16. Nuget, Powershell gallery, the marketplaces for VSCode/VS/AZDo and the Microsoft Store too. Probably another twenty.

    They collect package managers like funko pops.

    I'm not quite sure about the goal. Maybe some more C# dev kit style rug-pulls where the ecosystem is nominally open-source but MS own the development and distribution so nobody would bother to compete.

  17. Group Managed Service Account is a better option than keytab if you're assuming Windows Server/Active Directory.
  18. Imgur deleted a huge number of old reddit posts when retroactively banning nudity.

    They broke the social contract of being a trusted host, that's the biggest change.

  19. FLOC/Cohorts API, AMP, Manifest V3, Widevine, WEI.
  20. RTL lets you obfuscate file extensions.

    E.g. Annexe.txt (that you might assume would be safely opened by a text editor) could actually be Ann\u202Etxt.exe, a dangerous executable.

  21. Another possibility is that every streaming service wants "Pokémon" and parents don't care which season.

    So each service buys a single season to tick that box.

  22. That way you can also claim 100% of mining rewards with 51% hash rate.
  23. BTC can't move to proof of stake because religious zealots would keep their money in the old fork.

    It's doomed in general, see the cash fork.

  24. AWS/GCP are at least making money with their current pricing model.

    When your provider is dumping at a loss, it's their way of saying that the business plan is to maximize lock-in/monopoly effects followed by the infamous "enshittification".

  25. You could, but it would be mad to skip the code review because it "only" touches customer-facing code rather than GHA.
  26. Giving analysts direct SQL access can be great, but you should tell them to use an IDE rather than trying to build your own IDE in a text box.
  27. Cryptocurrency contracts are going to touch actual tokens at some point.

    Even if the compromise wasn't on the developer's machine, it could have enabled a supply chain attack post-deployment.

  28. % of people vs % of games.

    A single person who "collects" games or buys them because it seems like good value can have thousands of titles in their steam library. Someone who actually plays all of them will have a much smaller number.

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