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it's comments like these that get people killed.

yeah, but we urgently need that huge amount of renewable energy elsewhere.

but there is no hydrogen to mine either. Hydrogen is made from fossil fuels too (most of it)

helicopter parenting is not a good thing.

Fuck that shit. Even if i did have a phone, I am still not obliged to answer that immediately. I am currently busy. Respect my time.

yeah there was no need for any of that. what has changed?

the sound one makes while using them

lol. Of course there is. Ai cannot code. it's a glorified autocomplete that mostly gets things subtly wrong. So you'll spend more time trying to understand the code you didn't write and look for any bugs, than if you had written and understood it yourself.

so they build the thing that pretty much everyone is running at a loss...

fuuk this AI bubble. the browser is one place where ai is not needed

tchnically not. the guy had just been fired seconds before

blind people exist.

blind people use computers.

Maybe she's using accessibility tools to yogacode

i think the real explanation is simpler and more understandable.

NaN is what you get when you do something illegal like dividing by zero. There is no answer, but the operation has to result in something. So it gives you NaN, because the result is literally not a number

that doing more work, takes more time.

Gamers are especially guilty of this.

"that 2013 game runs at a smooth 60 fps. This medern game running at quadruple the resolution with raytracing sometimes dips to 58 fps on the same hardware. Devs must be lazy, they just need to add OPTIMIZATION to the game

i do use json instead of yaml precisely for the reasons you mentioned. That was my original point in the first place that json does not have these problems. something must have been lost in transmission

proof of work is objective. It sucks for other reasons, but I do not need to trust anyone to start participating.

cut out a random piece of your document. is it a partial or a complete document?

paste it somewhere else in the document. you have to fix the indentation because if not then the document won't work or mean something completely different

the power is needed because trustless distribsuted ledger is mathematically impossible.

So there has to be some mechanism that actually prevents someone being able to just change anything at will. This is the mathematical impossibility part. What bitcoin does to get around it is to (artificially) make it cost resources to write into the ledger by making everyone solve a random useless puzzle. And with each block depending on the one preceding it, changing implies also changing all the subsequent ones.

This of course assumes that the chain is ever growing, otherwise the attacker just needs time to catch up. Bitcoin's security guarantees come from ensuring the network keeps growing faster than any one single entity could write to it. The only thing that keeps anyone from writing whatever is that they just can't do it fast enough.

This implies that the network is only (probabilistically) secure as long as there are people mining it. If people stop mining, bitcoin instantly loses all of its security.

It then follows that the security of the chain depends on its ability to keep its users wanting to mine it. This is handled by it being a currency. something that humans would have a psychological need to hoard.

This is also why any non-cryptocurrency application of blockchain simply cannot possibly work.

the power is needed because trustless distribsuted ledger is mathematically impossible.

So there has to be some mechanism that actually prevents someone being able to just change anything at will. This is the mathematical impossibility part. What bitcoin does to get around it is to (artificially) make it cost resources to write into the ledger by making everyone solve a random useless puzzle. And with each block depending on the one preceding it, changing implies also changing all the subsequent ones.

This of course assumes that the chain is ever growing, otherwise the attacker just needs time to catch up. Bitcoin's security guarantees come from ensuring the network keeps growing faster than any one single entity could write to it. The only thing that keeps anyone from writing whatever is that they just can't do it fast enough.

This implies that the network is only (probabilistically) secure as long as there are people mining it. If people stop mining, bitcoin instantly loses all of its security.

It then follows that the security of the chain depends on its ability to keep its users wanting to mine it. This is handled by it being a currency. something that humans would have a psychological need to hoard.

This is also why any non-cryptocurrency application of blockchain simply cannot possibly work.

it is now provably not secure. Because pos is provably not objective. Making the whole thing moot. Also, it is literally a system explicitly designed around "the rich get richer".