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Greg Utas wrote: It's safe and secure unless your private key is hacked or you disclose it to someone
OK, this is probably where I show my very limited knowledge about cryptocurrencies, but isn't it also completely traceable? Which must be a bit of a downside if you are trying to bypass law enforcement.
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It's traceable because the entire ledger of transactions (with public keys) is available. So the way it's traced is by identifying the owner of one public key, threatening to nail their head to the floor so that they disclose who they dealt with, which reveals the owners of those public keys, and so on.
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It is, and thus, not anonymous.
And it's not like criminals didn't have access to currency before the invention of BC.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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True, but it seems to have really helped their business model. They and early miners and investors seem to be the biggest beneficiaries of the technology. Common folk have no need for this. The world would have been better off without it.
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Cp-Coder wrote: somebody threatened to break my legs if I don't hand over my key, I would shout: "Break away and be damned!"
You need the money to pay the entrance fee for a marathon, right? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Bitcoin, or cryptocurrency in general, is such a nice example of things working out in principle but failing spectacularly in the practice.
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After all of the great musicians credited in the "Sunday 6:30am, I was awoken by this..." thread I am disappointed to announce that I have had Tom Jones, "Green, Green Grass of Home" stuck in my head since I woke up. Usually if this happens it is with theme tunes from the children's TV that my Grandchildren watch but this time Tom Jones!
What music do you get stuck in your head from time to time?
Andy
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AndyChisholm wrote: What music do you get stuck in your head from time to time?
Up until Sunday, Three Lions (Football's Coming Home), was turning my brain to mush! It seemed like every TV channel was set on finding yet another version they could trot out. 
Yes, it's probably the best Football song ever, but I really don't want to hear Betty, (from Blackburn) and her parrot giving us their interpretation! [OK, I made that bit up!] But it was nearly that bad. 
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It's Not Unusual to get a Tom Jones song stuck in your head. 
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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Sunday I had Sly and the family stone's Everyday People in my head from the moment I opened my eyes. "And so on and so forth and scooby doobie doobie"
There now you can have it too. 
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Three Dog Night's Joy to the World is my goto ear worm.
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Talk like an egyption
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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AndyChisholm wrote: What music do you get stuck in your head from time to time?
Whatever was playing last in my car. I take an anti-depressant as a migraine prevention measure. One of the common side effects of SSRI's (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors) are changes in short-term memory. Today it's been parts of tracks from a jazz duo named the Braxton Brothers' latest album.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Foreign consulate without third Kiss? (8)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Well, it's the right number of letters ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OSCULATE
Foreign - anagram indicator
Consulate without third = consulate
anagram of OSCULATE = kiss
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Absolutely correct, you are up tomorrow!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Hadn't come across "foreign" as an anagram indicator before...
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There are a heck of a lot: 1001 Anagram indicators[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I guess I'll never look down on typesetting as a profession. There's way more to it than I ever expected going into this.
I've laid out code to print "Hello World!" using a truetype font and all is well and good except that the letters can extend outside of their bounding positions. This means a font's glyph, when drawn starting at point (0,0) may extend to (-4,-3) for example. This makes positioning text kind of ... not so straightforward.
What I do with the overhang? Do I allow you to draw outside the destination rectangle? That creates a number of issues. I think I need margins. I hate that I need margins, but I think i need margins.
What if you can layout text within a bounding rectangle, and within that bounding rectangle there are margins? Your text starts at where the margins indicate but parts of the individual glyphs may extend into the margins depending on the font.
Does that make sense to people here? Can any of you think of a better way to handle the problem?
Did how I describe it even make sense?
Edit: I've forgone margins in lieu of a simple offset. The margins will be handled at a higher level.
Thanks all for being my rubber duck (again)
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 13-Jul-21 3:44am.
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honey the codewitch wrote: What if you can layout text within a bounding rectangle, and within that bounding rectangle there are margins? Your text starts at where the margins indicate but parts of the individual glyphs may extend into the margins depending on the font.
Yes, that makes a lot of sense.
Nostalgia... In the (good|bad) old days, metal slugs (sorts) for hand setting very occasionally overlapped the implicit bounding box (the shank). Made them a right PITA to handle, as well as being fragile. Usually in large sizes for headlines, etc, and fancy typefaces.
[edit]  The word Kerning[^] slipped through the sieve that is my memory. (Wikipedia article has a picture.) [/edit]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
modified 12-Jul-21 23:24pm.
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I user kerning tables to advance the text cursor horizontally but there's no equivalent adjuster for vertical spacing in a TTF that I'm aware of, though you have things like ascent and descent.
Real programmers use butterflies
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