Because execution is guaranteed to stop, it is technically not turing complete.
Turing completeness assumes infinite resources and just concerns itself with the ability of a system of rules to simulate a Turing Machine.
Readit Newsgrandphuba commented on Vitalik Buterin Proposes New EIP to Tackle Ethereum’s Sky-High Gas Fees cryptonews.com/news/vital... · Posted by u/marcoslozada
Yes, it hasn't taken any shortcuts or sacrifices to the blockchain trilemma. They have the best balance of decentralization, scalability, and security.
Solana has made many sacrifices to decentralization and basically requires a super computer to operate a validator. As a result the chain is so centralized it actually went offline for a day which is unacceptable.
Cardano is just a hot mess. They spent years in research to "fo things right from the get go" and since their launch have had a ton of issues and realized why ethereum made the decisions they've made.
Polkadot is pretty much following ethereum's rollup design but their downside is it's pretty much a vc chain like the others.
Nobody would miss these chains if they disappeared, just like nobody misses the previous wave of "eth killers" (eos, neo, tezos, lisk, etc). They come in with a huge marketing budget to mislead the likes knowledgeable mainstream, but the builders see through all that nonsense and as Palmer says, "developers, developers, developers".
> Yes, it hasn't taken any shortcuts or sacrifices to the blockchain trilemma
Eth has sacrificed on scalability. Whether you find that the balance is subjective.
Cardano's issue to this point is that their eUTXO model and their smart contract tooling is a bit too esoteric for the current crypto community. What you get in return is deterministic and verifiable smart contracts. Whether that will matter in practice time will tell
Eth didn't come up with the rollup design.
I agree with your Steve Balmer take, but the rest of your assessment is something else.
Perhaps the most important contrast that can be made here is between the ideas about causality. When AIDS first hit hard it was gay men in coastal cities, so people quickly became comfortable with the idea that rampant decadent buttsex was the cause and the issue and that allowed them to frame the whole mess in a more comfortable way. Later it was found that the virus had been for some time percolating in the Caribbean. Many stayed stuck to the original narrative and others came up with a minor variation that decadent travelers were the cause and the spread and the only at risk. Only much later was it found that the virus started in the wilds of Africa, and by that point many had already locked in their own preferred framing and causality story.
When COVID-19 hit people saw Wuhan, the wet market there, and the virology institute as being obvious scapegoats. Seriously studying and pinpointing the origins of infectious agents often takes decades and much rigorous science, but once again a simple story was quickly set to assign blame and explain the tragedy in simple terms. Now it is common knowledge worldwide that the virus was created or accidentally caused in a lab in Wuhan even though the true inception story may be quite different and perhaps will remain unknown to us for decades. The desire for simple stories to direct blame ends up being even more powerful than the killing power of a pandemic virus. Such is the human condition.
It also doesn't help that there are entities out there will actively make it hard to do proper investigations.
grandphuba commented on Why WHO skipped 2 Greek letters to name new variant ‘Omicron’ globalnews.ca/news/840776... · Posted by u/woranl
I don't know their exact definition, but I'd assume something like all members of an occupation - e.g., a name like "pilot's disease" would probably fall into the banlist.
I mean the whole pandemic is dubbed the "Coronavirus pandemic" - and while that's not an officially designated term, the WHO frequently uses it.
If they had had any consideration for Corona the beer brand, they'd probably have made that known.
> I don't know their exact definition
So it is not clear contrary to your previous comment.
That’s true but depends on what you’re building. We don’t have a million users or anything yet but I clone the prod db every month or so, change the passwords, and use that for testing. Before we had a staging db and a prod db but they’d diverge and staging would have almost no data while prod would be full of it.
How do you manage sensitive data with this workflow (i.e. do you do it manually everytime, do you automate it, what scripts, etc.)?
I get changing passwords, but say that data leaks (whether by a vulnerability in the clone environment, or by a dev gone rogue), how do you mitigate possible damage done to real users (since you did clone from prod).
I ask not because I question your actions, but because I've been wanting to do something similar in staging env to allow practical testing, but I haven't had the chance to research how to do it "properly".
grandphuba commented on DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users cnbc.com/2021/10/01/defi-... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Code hasn’t been law for “defi” since Ethereum reverted the DAO hack in 2016. Then the DAO went defunct later that year anyway!
Code seems to be the law, hence why they're resorting to begging and blackmailing
grandphuba commented on Landemy – Futuristic sounds for work landemy.netlify.app/... · Posted by u/newcoders
UX nitpick: no pause/stop button.
There's a volume control/mute button
grandphuba commented on Landemy – Futuristic sounds for work landemy.netlify.app/... · Posted by u/newcoders
Yes, I’m on a phone. I don’t see a way to use it in-browser. I don’t install apps unless absolutely necessary (no need for the a app to have more permissions than it needs to function)
I don’t see why this has to be an app. I’ll have to wait until I get in front of a laptop to try it in-browser (if I remember).
Have you tried changing your user agent/checking the "Desktop site" on your mobile browser?
grandphuba commented on The surreal art of ‘unnatural lighting’ nationalgeographic.com/ma... · Posted by u/tumidpandora
>This is nothing new.
I feel like this comment has some good content and could hold its own without this statement. It just feels a little antagonistic. Everything has been done before, we're all on the shoulders of giants.
This is no different from the "first" comments in youtube or when sharing a meme to a friend that has already seen it and says "I've seen that already" instead of discussing essence of the content itself.
grandphuba commented on Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 pythoninsider.blogspot.co... · Posted by u/vishnu_ks
There isn’t anything inherently wrong with still using 2.7.x . Just don’t expect updates. For new code using 3.7 is probably the best bet at this time.
3.8 seems to have some new keywords and jazz introduced, so might be better to start with that instead of 3.7 for new projects.