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Saddle on up to a stool and spill the beans about your day, fire away with them questions, or let loose and give us the lowdown on your wild and woolly life. We're all ears, so don't hold back!

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Out here, yo, nothin' ever certain
Only thing that's promised is that promises are broken
Yeah, so we findin' ways to cope then
Only thing I'm breaking is my youth with these emotions.

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Anyone see this 300EH spike in Oceans hash rate? Can't be right... It's around a third of the total hash rate.

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write something original

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something original

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Today I learnt that shell treats numbers as octal: $((10#$2)) vs $(($2)) when my second argument was 08, completely messing up a script. I only noticed it two weeks into the calculation. fml

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you've been calculating something for 2 weeks?

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The computer cluster has ;)
Doing a lot of HPC these days.

Not as much as a few years back, though; at the time, I was running jobs on 10,000 CPUs in parallel.

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dang, what kind of crazy simulations are you running

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he's probably trying to prove Nick Bostrom's simulation theory right

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Nick Bostrom theory is wrong by principle. It's a projection, not a simulation.

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yeah but south_korea_ln is probably trying to simulate it all the same 😂

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yer move GARRETT

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Pretty slick. I might not ship it from the jump though given it's another thing to test.

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multiple sources in

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multiple sources in with a non-custodial out (zap with CCs and reward sats paying part of the sybil fee)

the coolest thing about these aren't the charts. it's that the data backing the chart isn't deduced after the fact. it's displaying the data that's been recorded exactly as it has been recorded (the visualization has even unintentionally helped me catch bugs). (and the data model is extensible, ie can easily allow for more splitting.)

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with forwards

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how will forwards work with mixed CCs/sats

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When this ships, for receivers they'll work as they do now (ie CCs only). In some later release, each forward will be an independent, fractional zap (ie potentially non-custodial).

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What's the difference between sats and lightning

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Sats are reward sats. Lightning is some noncustodial source of sats

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YES readable overview, that's really cool

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Just realized that I forgot to replenish my emergency butter stash last time I raided it. Not good.

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Hahaha it happened to me, why do you have an emergency one?😅

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I wonder what's more important in today's world, assuming you have a 5-year time horizon and just plan to figure out what's next after that

A. Ability to raise capital
B. Ability to deliver product

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Historically, if you could deliver product, raising capital is easy, and delivering product is hard whether you had money or not.

As machines get smarter, delivering product should get easier. At the limit, delivering product will amount to transferring money to some machine process that delivers product. At that point, product outcomes differ only as far as the abilities of the machine process that capital raisers have access to differ (assuming product delivery isn't a true commodity). So imo the only thing that changes as we approach the limit is what it means to deliver product and the ability to deliver product will always be more important until it's a true commodity.

So I'd ask, what will delivering product look like in five years? Meaning what skills should someone develop other than capital raising that will help them deliver product best?

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I think you are very right in what you say. I think what is needed would be more integration between the product and the person who uses it and the tools they have for that purpose.

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Cutting back on using stacker news at work. If my posts and engagement are down it’s because I’m trying to focus at work for a change and limit my phone addiction

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142 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 27 Aug 2025

Maybe how much time you can spend on Stacker News can be part of your next conversation regarding promotion

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Hahahaha if only

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🫡

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We do not maintain a redundant store of unspent outputs. We just store the chain, which includes everything necessary to validate. We split the process into 4 major loosely-coupled phases: (1) headers, (2) blocks, (3) validate, (4) confirm. Headers and Confirm organize blocks into a "chain" and are thus totally ordered. Blocks are downloaded fully in parallel given a stronger candidate chain. Validation is performed fully in parallel given a contiguous set of downloaded blocks. Confirmation is sequential for validated blocks. Milestone bypasses unnecessary checks in the validation/confirmation phases given the presumption of a previously-validated header chain. Eric Voskuil on Libbitcoin design
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I love it. I may come here from time to time to rest my cowboy hat, assuming I still have one. How do I keep losing it? Am I leaving it somewhere?

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The answer will come to you in your dreams when you are ready

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the woke will never understand.

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Many people like to visit this souvenir shop because its unique array of products gives it a _______ feel.

  1. weird
  2. strange
  3. quirky
  4. eccentric

Crafted the above question. What do you think the answer is? ☝🏻

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I feel like this would be difficult for non native English speakers

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Yet 12-year-olds in Singapore are expected to know these subtle differences. Many consider English as their native language even though we speak horrible English known as Singlish haha

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quirky, but eccentric is okay, too. give us 15 years and weird might work.

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Thank you for responding!

I get the idea that eccentric is used to describe people’s old habits.

(of a person or their behaviour) unconventional and slightly strange
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eccentric definitely has an "odd" flavor, but it's sometimes positive as in "unique." quirky is mostly positive and more lighthearted.

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Willy Wonka
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!!

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Yes! there's maybe an edge to the uniqueness but it's mostly positive.

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Can someone remind me how to view an SN post in markdown? know it's /something.

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It’s /edit

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Quote reply lets you see the markdown

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That’s how I always do it

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Thanks

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Day 610 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 497 sats on 26Aug2025!
Running total: 405,920 sats!

Yesterday's comment

💰This week Comics & Meme ~Design bounty #51 is about :

Bitcoin Hieronymus BoschBitcoin Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch

Check it out here #1195923
or simply use the sticker shortcode to create something fun in your next SN post and comments.

![Hieronymus Bosch](https://m.stacker.news/71389)

This is last JABBB to be published for now, due to the lack of engagement. Has been fun, for me at least, to dig into the ideas behind each one of these stickers. It allowed me to learn more about bitcoin and western culture. Thanks @spiral.

There're still over 40k sats up for grab on previous bounties, enjoy.

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