Trailblazing Braille Taser

MlT (MlT): please accept this honorary PhD

Shills for big foie gras?

Cryptocurrency is not necessarily anonymous. Buying bitcoin from a broker leaves a record connecting your payment method to your wallet. Even if you mine them yourself, doesn’t your IP address show up on the public ledger? I guess if you somehow bought bitcoin in cash…

Is there a more private cryptocurrency I’m not considering?

I have to run the .ps1 script in a new Command Prompt because the compilation takes a few minutes

I don’t follow this reasoning. Is it because you don’t want to take over the VSCode terminal with a long command? Couldn’t you can open multiple tabs, or run in the background, or use screen/tmux, etc.?

They think… He is… A toad.

The implications of “magic is data” are fun. It leads to stories like Unsong where you can brute-force enumerate incantations until you find a good one. I also like the concept of Wizard’s Bane. I haven’t read it, but my understanding is that magic turns out to be Turing-complete, and the protagonist creates a LISP evaluator in magic, which enables them to outcast their enemies who are still doing the magical equivalent of writing assembly.

They have played us for absolute fools

Also RIP my teeth.

Until then, we have simdjson https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson

It is clearer now without a pseudo-justification.

Give me Bluetooth rice or give me death

I don’t know, Schlitz beer is doing okay

One pill makes you smaller

Won’t someone please think of the children…'s unkicked faces

Agreed! I admit I made a few sweeping simplifications to shoehorn this into a discrete math problem.

Let’s do the math! If you assume there are 300 kernels, the popcorn will be finished within two minutes, and all kernels popping within 100 ms of each other is sufficient for a big bada boom…

There are 2×60×10 epochs where the bang could occur. Each of the 300 kernels needs to pop in the same epoch, so 1/(2×60×10) is the probability of the second kernel popping in the same epoch as the first kernel. The probability of all 299 popping in the same epoch as the first kernel is (1/(2×60×10))^299 = (2×60×10)^(-299).

Crunching the numbers in the Google search calculator… the probability is zero. That was anticlimactic.

At this time, we have conflicting facts pertaining to the whereabouts of the midnight tokers:

• Maurice is a space cowboy
• He is right here right here right here right here at home
• He plays his music in the sun
• He gets his lovin’ on the run

I will post updates as the situation develops.

Yum yum

Politicians banning porn are probably already in the VPN business 👁️👁️

I’m always confused by these kinds of assessments people make with some unrealistic test. Lumber for building a house doesn’t need to withstand bites from a human jaw!

Years ago, Tesla advertised solar shingles that could withstand a bowling ball being dropped on them. Why?! Hail is a thing, but bowling balls don’t fall from the sky.

Extending this concept, let’s say I want to sell you a new motorcycle I invented. I won’t demonstrate how well it rides or how fast it accelerates, but I will show you how deep I can submerge it underwater before the gas tank crumples — 4000 ft! Let’s see Harley beat that.