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by tromp 5mo ago
> ‘Euro’, or German style, games and what is affectionately called ‘Ameritrash’. Trash sounds more derogatory than affectionate to me?!
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by tromp 5mo ago
> “If you had a $100 billion fortune, you’re not just going to sit there and live a life of frugality,” Cohan said Many billionaires (such as Warren Buffet) did just did; continue their lifestyle of modesty. There's not that many wa
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'Finding Satoshi' Makes the Case for Hal Finney, Len Sassaman as BTC Co-Creators(decrypt.co)
2 points by tromp 5mo ago|2 comments
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by tromp 5mo ago
https://archive.is/ELm90
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by tromp 5mo ago
I wasn't talking about fees, but about chain size, utxo set size, and code complexity. Fees are always low when blocks are far from full.
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by tromp 5mo ago
https://archive.is/kXVNR
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by tromp 5mo ago
Most of what this article says, including the title, remains just as true with "Russia" replaced by "Ukraine".
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by tromp 5mo ago
Monero is far more bloated than Bitcoin, paying a high price for its privacy features, most of which (no visible amount or address) can be had while making even Bitcoin look bloated [1]. [1] https://np.reddit.com/r/grin
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by tromp 5mo ago
Bitcoin could have achieved A) through D) by simply doing away with the capped supply and the accompanying subsidy halving needed to achieve it. Just a pure linear emission [1]. That would avoid the extreme concentration of wealth on early
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by tromp 5mo ago
Caml was originally an acronym for Categorical Abstract Machine Language [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caml
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Robot sprints to victory in Beijing, beating the half-marathon world record(apnews.com)
16 points by tromp 5mo ago|0 comments
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by tromp 5mo ago
According to that table, it's larger than the EU and China and India combined (with the leftover enough to include Belgium as well).
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by tromp 5mo ago
> Every language that has added sum types in the past twenty years has added, with its own syntax, what Ada's designers put in the original standard. While true, that doesn't mean that other language's sum types originated
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by tromp 6mo ago
Any lambda term is equivalent to a combinatory term over a one-point basis (like λxλyλz. x z (y (λ_.z)) [1]). One difference is that lambda calculus doesn't distinguish between functions and numbers, and in this case no additional cons
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by tromp 6mo ago
If anyone can bring about enough disappointment and disgust for 2/3 of the population to vote Democrat, it is Trump.
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by tromp 6mo ago
https://archive.is/7XquH
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by tromp 6mo ago
Not that serious, since you can solve the 7x6 game from scratch on a typical 2013 single core in a few minutes (and in 67s on an Apple M2): $ time ./SearchGame < input.root Fhourstones 3.2 (C) Boardsize = 7x6 Usin
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by tromp 6mo ago
As you can see on https://www.f2pool.com/coins other coins using SHA256 as PoW algorithm only amount to about 1% of Bitcoin's daily dollars of Pow Produced, so if any nontrivial amount of hash moves there, then those w
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by tromp 6mo ago
Turn off their mining rigs.
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by tromp 6mo ago
> which is fundamentally different from existing strong and weak solutions It doesn't seem fundamentally different from Victor Allis' solution, but 2swap managed to generalize and streamline the rules available for static solu
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by tromp 6mo ago
1D Go is also interesting and doesn't require any change in rules or starting position. TIL that it is known as Alak [1]. One of the open problems in our Combinatorics of Go paper [2] is whether you can play a game that goes through al
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by tromp 6mo ago
I had to manually delete it.
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by tromp 6mo ago
A more accurate but less inspiring title would be: RAM Has a Design Tradeoff from 1966. I made another one on top. The first tradeoff, of 6x fewer transistors for some extra latency, is immensely beneficial. The second, of reducing some of
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by tromp 6mo ago
You can do amazing things in 8 bytes [1]. [1] https://tromp.github.io/blog/2026/01/28/largest-number-revis...
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by tromp 6mo ago
Good article with some questionable remarks like > Q: Stealing is illegal, so why would anyone use a CRQC to steal Bitcoin? > A: If you truly believe this, you really should value Bitcoin at 0 – it has many unnecessary components with
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by tromp 6mo ago
The linked-to page mentions: > Infinite length Mazes: It's possible to create an infinitely long Maze (a finite number of columns by as many rows as you like) by only keeping part of the Maze in memory at a time and "scrolling&
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by tromp 6mo ago
The notation used seems rather confusing, not even showing the list of arguments. For example, the argument swapping combinator C which is normally defined as C f x y = f y x is shown on this page as as y F x, which I can only make
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by tromp 6mo ago
I think that "having no known quantum attack" is a reasonable interpretation of "quantum resistant". If there were no possible "quantum attack" (under appropriate complexity assumptions, such as EC-DLP not bein
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by tromp 6mo ago
> let webWorkerURL = `${options.basePrefix}/.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/static/js/worker/sha256-${workerMethod}.mjs?cacheBuster=${options.version}`; It looks like it's computing sha256 hash
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by tromp 6mo ago
https://archive.is/FAqZV

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