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by mrb 3y ago
If you guys like solving brute forcing games, you can solve this series of puzzles to win prizes totaling about 970 BTC (45 million USD): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5218972.0 For example the next unsolved puzzl
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by mrb 3y ago
Nice ;) 00000000001a22ae7ad6ee672633fa5504e8f7be8d0252ba5a5906e20408ccec "retr0id was here" Yeah I am not going to attempt to beat that without a GPU! Man, I miss my time doing GPU coding, writing miners, etc
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by mrb 3y ago
Sorry Retr0id I took your spot ;) It's a fun little game, turbidimeter! Request: it would be nice if the page showed the history for the best winning texts and their hashes. I don't know what the hash or string was before Retr0id
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by mrb 3y ago
Wise wouldn't have worked as my friend was among the 10M American adults who are unbanked. Also I doubt him and I would have been able to do account setup on a Sunday, within 1 hour, which is the time it took us to do the transfer, des
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by mrb 3y ago
Nice little bubble you live in. 18% of US population is unbanked or underbanked.
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by mrb 3y ago
You could also say "more power than 3 large US cities" (Los Angeles = 60 TWh/yr, Bitcoin = 180 TWh/yr) and your statement would be equally valid, yet much less impressive. Saying "mid-size country" is about as
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by mrb 3y ago
Interac wouldn't have worked even if him and I had been Canadians. My friend was unbanked due to past financial issues (which is also the reason he was homeless at the time.) This is one significant advantage of Bitcoin, that it works
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by mrb 3y ago
Nope. The closest Western Union/MoneyGram/similar services to me were hours away by car. Hence why we tried to do it online. We tried MoneyGram because my friend was banned from Western Union. But even MoneyGram wasn't possib
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by mrb 3y ago
Cryptocurrency, when used as intended, is pretty boring. Send funds from A to B. Done. yawn . You won't see headlines about it. The news that make it to your eyeballs are always sensational: fraud, crime, scams, etc. So if your exposu
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by mrb 3y ago
An irreversible permissionless way to send funds near-instantaneously to anyone anywhere in the world is pretty darn good at a lot of perfectly legal use cases. My personal favorite example is that I once used Bitcoin for an emergency so my
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by mrb 3y ago
0.05? You probably misremember the amount. For reference, in 2010 the Bitcoin faucet gave away 5 BTC just for visiting a web page. A decent incentive for subscribing to a newsletter, more involved than visiting a web page, would have to hav
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by mrb 3y ago
While I generally agree that in the real world you never get close to the theoretical max bandwidth, it is worth pointing out that 7 is significantly faster than 6E, so in laboratory condition you will definitely be limited by the 2.5 GbE
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by mrb 3y ago
I will also add the mentality of choosing to allow or deny access to your service for millions of IP addresses at a time based on some ill-defined rule or based on the service operator's whim is EXACTLY the same mentality that lead us
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by mrb 3y ago
" the IP may be renewed every day or every hour) " What a coincidence! Right now from my phone on my carrier's network while traveling in the UK I am unable to reach https://cheapskatesguide.org My phone's IP
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by mrb 3y ago
" With the extra weight, a charge will only last about 60 miles, rather than the standard ~300 it normally gets " A 5-fold difference?! Towing a trailer makes the Tesla use 5 times more energy per mile!? This can't be right..
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by mrb 3y ago
For the record, it took me about 30 minutes of playing, reverse-engineering, and writing the bot. So, indeed, no need for an ML solution :)
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by mrb 3y ago
I reverse-engineered it. This whole exercise took me about 30 minutes while half coding and half watching a TV show. Since the JS code was neither minified nor obfuscated, it was easy. Here are my exact steps: In Chrome, right-click on the
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by mrb 3y ago
Of course ! Nice.
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by mrb 3y ago
Here, I found it fun to write a small bot to play automatically. Just paste this JS code in the dev console. It reached 9000 points on my first attempt to let it run. Feel free to tweak the code to make pac-man survive longer :-) func
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by mrb 3y ago
Very cool ! I like the idea of voice controls. Right now I have a 22-foot long LED strip on the fascia of my house. I was thinking of putting a physical button for visitors or random pedestrians to play the games, but voice control would be
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by mrb 3y ago
I have been looking for 1D game ideas to implement on an addressable RGB LED strip. 1D pacman seems perfect, as it's instantly recognizable even with a single-pixel pacman and ghosts, by using the right colors.
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by mrb 3y ago
Still, I don't understand why someone who was self-hosting for 23 years suddenly abandons everything, instead of going "mostly self-hosting". I genuinely think some people are not aware you can have free, reliable, outgoing S
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by mrb 3y ago
" But my emails are just not delivered anymore. I might as well not have an email server. " I will never understand people who see it as an all or nothing proposition. You can perfectly self-host while using an outgoing SMTP provi
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by mrb 3y ago
My impression as well. It seems to be typical mismanagement of the mine's construction, or people disagreeing on contractual aspects, where the responsibilities stop, etc.
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by mrb 3y ago
Or tell them if you wrote 0s and 1s on a paper tape, for 2TB of data, you would need a tape as long as the distance between the Earth and the sun. (9mm or a third of an inch per digit)
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by mrb 3y ago
That was my first intuition as well, seeing the brigthness limited to 0x1f. With any luck, the power supply might have a fuse, and it's just the fuse that blew up. Anyway, if you can't salvage it, standard WS281x LED strings can b
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by mrb 3y ago
" a person from Switzerland who lacked fingerprints. The phenotype was mapped to chromosome 4q22. In the splice-site of a 3' exon of the gene for SMARCAD1-helicase, a point mutation was detected. " In the future parents might
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by mrb 3y ago
It bothers me that the author mistyped the z.com link (he links to q.com instead). How ironic given single letter domains are supposed to minimize typos like this...
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by mrb 3y ago
" The theory that this market exists in any significant way never pans out in practice. " The transition from HDD to SSD technology is a counter example to your claim. It was a drop-in replacement (same SATA interface) and the tec
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by mrb 3y ago
Thank you for the dozen of you who responded. It's fascinating for me to see the large range of price points due to different regulations in different countries and also affected by different needs (eg. need to track kWh for subsdies).

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