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What do you think I am I reading incorrectly? The post seems pretty clear: "I filled 10 32-GB Kingston flash drives with pseudo-random data." "The years where I'll first touch a ne…

Did you miss that there are 10 different drives and so they have 10 different years of tests where they are testing a completely untouched drive?

You know that he already has stopped participating in the world championship organized by FIDE, right? The current 'world champion' is Gukesh Dommaraju, who took it from Ding Liren…

It moved. The old location redirects to neal.fun now.

The shortcut to flip between models in an expanded view is nice, but the original image should also be included as one of the things to flip between, and should be included in the …

I interpreted the function code as being a deliberately exaggerated satirical example that was illustrative of the experience he was having. So yes, in that example it was probably…

You think that the free market has regulated or audited Tether? I don't think so, that company is about as sketchy as it is possible to be, and yet it continues to dominate the sta…

It seems misleading to say that this is "rendered in ASCII art"... more like the phase is being rendered, and it has an ASCII art moon background. If I copy and paste the moon text…

I noticed a weird bug where sometimes the game will auto-move for a player. In particular, this seems to happen when one queen captures a piece, and the opposing side has the abili…

> Instead of trying to discuss that (and I could) - on HN there are plenty links to thinks I don't consider useful, like retrocomputing, programming in AGDA or yet another rust rew…

I was just repeating the quoted comment from the post I was replying to. Wasn't intending to say that the article was about tokens. More generally, I would say that Etherium itself…

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I think you mean Huffman codes, not Hamming codes.

I think that is a fine description of the backing of the US Dollar. For Bitcoin though, it sounds like you are defending Bitcoin as an investment, which I don't agree with. Unlike …

The price of bitcoin should generally not be considered newsworthy. There is no underlying value there, and engaging in this weird distributed Ponzi scheme is harmful to society. W…

These articles are mostly promoting bitcoin as a viable currency for people in desperate situations, and yes, possibly, if you are in an extreme situation like being extorted by so…

I didn't say anything about the amount of energy required to steal gold from anyone. I was talking about the energy required to maintain the ownership of the gold. These are two co…

Yes, and I believe that the total energy needed to secure and defend all the gold in the world is still much lower than the total energy needed to run the entire bitcoin network. I…

Well I'm not trying to argue for gold being a good store of value either, it might not be. But another reason why I would prefer to have gold is that people make use of gold to mak…

One nice thing about gold is that we don't have to keep paying money for gold to continue to exist. It will sit on a shelf and not charge us any money for sitting there. Bitcoin ex…

You are claiming that there is some sort of mathematical proof that this AI has no "worth"? There are a lot of people who are finding value from probabilistic generative AI, to the…

The value will deflate at some point, it's kind of a mathematical certainty. We cannot extract more money from the system than we put in, since Bitcoin is a non-productive asset. I…

But "xor" is the operation that prevents both. So maybe you meant that it is an implied "xor" instead of an "or"?

AI is not in the same category in my book. Both may be overhyped in some ways, but blockchain technology was fundamentally a bad idea with no legitimate use cases.

FedNow is not a CBDC. https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/is-fednow-replacing-cash...