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People tried this in 2013 or so, there's no point to it. Doing proof of work in javascript in a browser is so crushingly, pointlessly slow that there's no value at all. Some browse…

The prompt used for Opus 4.8 was: write a implementation of the anubis proof of work in native c code, optimized for speed above all else. use every trick available to make the pro…

It's more or less designed for it, it's SHA256 with a break in the middle for midstate compression to be effective, and the difficulty system is based on a misunderstanding of how …

Which is trivially bypassed by an actual implementation of the proof of work in non-javascript, rendering it absolutely useless. The website is approximately 3800x times slower tha…

The barrier is a two sentence prompt to Claude to add a patch to curl that does 500MH/s to the 50kh/s the javascript version does on the same hardware, it only works because it’s o…

Then the only people who can use it are the ones with a GPU implementation.

Claude Opus can make an optimized version of the proof of work solver that’s more than 10000x faster than the javascript one, in about 5 minutes time. Who is this stopping exactly?…

Very little uses crystal oscillators, they’re gigantic compared with electronics today and have very wonky performance over temperature and shock.

That's why this is just using off the shelf cartridges with commercial heads.

1 petabyte per 60 second scans implies a kind of comical data rate to storage, even at RAM speeds that’s implausible. Imagine we need to write these to hard drives, they happily su…

xray, photomultiplier and laser tubes are still SOTA. PM tubes in particular have a huge number of glass feed through for the intermediate plate voltages.

The idea that you could buy any food that doesn’t fit that definition is silly, all foods have additives that’s why you can buy them and they last for more than 60 seconds on a she…

It’s basically a wildcard, “ultra processed food” is a classification of nothing and everything. There’s nothing inherently bad about processing food, lots of food is terrible for …

There's actually a known prototype MacBook Pro from 2006 with a cellphone radio, and the release MacBook Pros from the time all have a weird looking area near the battery and RAM w…

I had a thinkpad at one point that had a slot, but because it wasn't optioned for it you had to patch the BIOS or it wouldn't boot with anything in the slot, it seemed so hostile a…

I somehow managed to get it working in 2016 with a lot of hackery, I'd still have it as a usable device if the weird little pouch cells it had didn't die, repacking those batteries…

The cause is just that the panel is mounted rotated on the device. It's supposed to be used in a tablet where the top is the short end and the side is the long end, opposite to a l…

The GDP devices are amazing except for the keyboard, which is some fever dream layout I've never been able to understand. https://img.website.xin/contents/sitefiles3601/18006016/im…

I miss my Sony Vaio P series which fitted in a similar sort of niche, the cellphone radio made it just by far the best laptop I've ever used. Modern laptops don't seem to have prov…

They’re used for proofs sometimes, if you expect your security company to do a specific route they need to go to each token on it and touch them, you see iButtons glued to walls ou…

Proof of work doesn’t work here same as it doesn’t work for email. The effort to mint a valid PoW is always going to put the legitimate user at a disadvantage, whatever the impleme…

The authors profile is also just ridiculous, hundreds of commits a day and their entire profile is also just AI generated lists of AI generated projects each one filled with pompou…

The whole website is AI slop, from the text down to the design. If it's an actual product who knows, sort of hard to care when the website came from a Claude prompt.

3D printed spring, magnet, hall effect sensor by the looks of it.