angry_albatross

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by angry_albatross 7mo ago
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 new drive (assuming no errors) are: 1, 2,
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by angry_albatross 7mo ago
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?
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by angry_albatross 8mo ago
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 the year before, but of course Magnus would proba
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by angry_albatross 8mo ago
It moved. The old location redirects to neal.fun now.
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by angry_albatross 11mo ago
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 side by side view.
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by angry_albatross 1y ago
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 told to be overly cautious, but I agree with him that the d
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by angry_albatross 1y ago
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 stablecoin market.
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by angry_albatross 1y ago
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 into a text editor, the phase is gone, so it&#x27
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by angry_albatross 2y ago
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 ability to capture that queen with their queen, the game automati
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by angry_albatross 3y ago
> 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 rewrite of some tool. I don't go around and leave
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by angry_albatross 3y ago
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 is mostly nonsense. I will admit I don't understa
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by angry_albatross 3y ago
I think you mean Huffman codes, not Hamming codes.
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by angry_albatross 3y ago
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 Bitcoin, the US Dollar is not considered an investment.
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by angry_albatross 3y ago
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. We can all do our part to help make it irrelevant by ignoring
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by angry_albatross 3y ago
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 someone with ransomware, or in a place where your government i
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by angry_albatross 3y ago
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 completely different things. If I bury a box of gold in t
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by angry_albatross 3y ago
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 don't feel motivated to do a back of the envelope calc
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by angry_albatross 3y ago
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 make jewelry and electronics, so that creates a demand tha
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by angry_albatross 3y ago
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 exists on a network of computers that need electricity to
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by angry_albatross 3y ago
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 extent that they are willing to pay OpenAI $20&#x
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by angry_albatross 3y ago
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. It does not generate revenue the way that a business&#x2
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by angry_albatross 3y ago
But "xor" is the operation that prevents both. So maybe you meant that it is an implied "xor" instead of an "or"?
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by angry_albatross 3y ago
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.
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by angry_albatross 3y ago
FedNow is not a CBDC. https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/is-fednow-replacing-cash...
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by angry_albatross 3y ago
You probably meant to say that few people would argue that the answer to #1 is "no"
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by angry_albatross 4y ago
It's not done in the sense that people are still involved in it, but I think that public sentiment has shifted toward realizing that NFTs and crypto are not solving any problems better than existing alternatives, and the whole thing wa
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by angry_albatross 4y ago
> if it becomes the main currency of countries with terrible currencies Yeah I guess we would just disagree about the probability of that happening. There are inherent technical limitations preventing bitcoin from ever reaching a high tr
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by angry_albatross 4y ago
When I say it has no value I guess I mean the "intrinsic value" as defined here: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/capital-mark... A stock is considered overvalued when its price is not justifie
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by angry_albatross 4y ago
I don't see that problem as being massive. Our society depends on some amount of trust. In order to view this webpage, your browser put some trust in the certificate authority that verified the certificate of the hacker news servers. S
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by angry_albatross 4y ago
What I meant by nothing backing it is that it cannot be redeemed for any other thing of value, in the same way that at one point we used gold certificates as currency, which were "backed by" gold. At that time you could literally

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