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Binders full of MSDN CD-ROMs...IYKYK

Soooo many handles to remember to free in the right order, even before you got into OLE/COM. It was a lot of fun to come up with your own C++ wrappers to put them under RAII -- and…

Modern money has operated as you describe for less than one human lifetime. It might not work long-term, and indeed there are significant reasons for worry that it won't. Not that …

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If you mean to hold USD-denominated deposits in a local bank, the local government can easily confiscate or convert them. Numerous such examples. If you mean to hold USD paper note…

https://www.blackrock.com/institutions/en-zz/literature/whit...

This seems like a comment from 10 years ago. In 2025, Larry Fink just announced he's a "big believer" at Davos, and the President of the United States ordered his team to evaluate …

That was so funny they left out "and returns" Like, it's valid to point to its historical volatility, but it struck me as intellectually dishonest to say it's been (historically) r…

To me it's never been that "intrinsic value" of Bitcoin makes much sense, but that it holds up a mirror to the incumbent system and how little that makes sense either!

Not really, to the extent that Bell Labs undertook true basic research for its own sake, without much concern for any short/medium-term commercial potential. (No need to rock the b…

The square footage of this building is double that of Meta's MPK 20/21 complex, and comparable to the entire Googleplex. It wasn't even headquarters for Bell Labs. A reminder....al…

Bell Labs was active in this area going all the way back to the 1930s, where its relative isolation was ideal for radio astronomy -- in fact, one can reasonably claim Holmdel as th…

IMO a much more-thorough analysis of the essential point discussed here: https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-security-modeling/

An Ethereum address is just a public key (which, as the owner, you also have the private key to). You can make one, and sign messages with it, without touching the blockchain or se…

Ethereum has standardized ways to formulate (off-chain) signatures for arbitrary messages [1] and Solidity structs [2]. Convenient command-line tooling is lacking currently, but so…

With sqlite_zstd_vfs the data are compressed beforehand and stored that way "at rest", so web responses are directly copied to the wire controlled by HTTP range headers, similarly …

I plowed the 40 GiB database file into sqlite_zstd_vfs [1] which reduced it 75% to 10 GiB. This plug-in also supports HTTP access [2] in the spirit of phiresky's, however, I don't …