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Re:Context is the bottleneck for coding agents now on Saturday September 27, 2025 @12:30AM (#45393215)
If context is the bottleneck, MCP is dead.

MCP can use 10k tokens. Everything good happens in the first 100k tokens.

It's more context efficient to code a custom binary and prompt the LLM how to use the binary when needed.

Great! I want to use SHA-2 git will all my new git repositories. Time to switch!
Re:The Lost Art of System Administration on Saturday September 10, 2022 @06:38AM (#32789403)
"The network is down, why are we paying the sys admins?"

"The network is running perfectly, why are we paying the sys admins?"

Things are not looking good for Bitcoin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_tcg9kOfkg

Re:I Built a Shed (2020) on Sunday January 02, 2022 @01:20PM (#29771747)
They are doing contained, well-thought-out experiments, with hypotheses, peer review, control samples, ability to repeat trials, data collection, and discussion.
Re:The Interledger Protocol on Sunday January 02, 2022 @05:26AM (#29767494)
"Hi, we're Ripple. We pre-mined 100 Billion XRP and gave them to ourselves.

Here's a non-profit to save the world we started. Everyone just needs to buy XRP, and the world will be saved, isn't that amazing? "

It's still poison. Check msds. Just because there is already poison in the air, doesn't mean people can't put more poison in the air. Just because the poison doesn't kill everyone, doesn't mean it isn't poison.
Pretty sure they were just screwing around.
Morality has nothing to do with it. There can't possibly be a control variable. Would you call someone who goes around smashing things a "scientist"? What is the experiment?
It's wasn't a test. Someone just poisoned all the air.

It's not a test to say "hey I'm going to poison all the air, let's see what happens".

We shouldn't call this a "test" as if it was conducted by actual scientists doing actual experiments.

It's so sad when Twitch streamers with 10,000+ Live viewers are forced to reboot for a Windows update
Re:I accidentally compromised my hot wallet on Monday October 18, 2021 @02:31PM (#28909395)
Lol, no terror, intrigue, or "espionage" here

just a dude who committed his private key to a public github repo

oopsie

Please explain how one uses blockchain to solve a zooko.

> I have nothing against blockchain when used where it’s actually useful (I.e. for solving double-spend or zooko).

Helium literally never did an ICO.

So funny watching bitter losers at hackernews get everything about blockchain wrong and stay poor over the past 10 years.

- Throw in some buzzwords you don't really understand like "lightning" (does not apply to helium as it is a protocol based on bitcoin script)

- use the word "scam" because you don't own any and you didn't invest a few months ago when it was pennies.

- sprinkle in some unfounded FUD about decentralization and Sybil attacks because you're bitter you still don't own any

Helium is the fastest growing wireless network on the planet.

There are currently 190,000 hotspots over the globe, up from 20,000 6-months ago. https://explorer.helium.com/

...but but but against your better judgement you read some of the technical stuff... wooooowwwww

Call me when the Helium node count drops below 100,000 again and I'll congratulate you and thank you for warning everyone about this "scam" before it was too late.

Things are not looking good for Bitcoin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_tcg9kOfkg

Re:We may soon have city-spanning 900 MHz mesh networks on Sunday March 07, 2021 @05:24PM (#26380377)
Helium network has been growing fast. Just crossed 20,000 hotspots and will probably reach 100,000 this year. It uses a crypto mining incentive so the network expands without any central corporation needing to spend a dime on infrastructure. People are already building cool IoT projects with it from adafruit kits.

https://explorer.helium.com/coverage

Re:Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched on Friday March 05, 2021 @12:10AM (#26352992)
If I've learned anything from a masters degree in nuclear engineering, it's that the internet comments are always right on this topic.
Re:Ask HN: What are you learning? on Monday April 06, 2020 @03:49AM (#22791656)
Fortnite

Add me on epic: Rhett800cc

Re:Electronic Lottery Tickets as Micropayments (‎1997) on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @01:50AM (#15701918)
This sounds like Peppercoin, which Rivest founded in 2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercoin
Maybe it's a tangent, but Overleaf is hands down one of my favorite services.

It follows UX designer, Bret Victor's suggestion that creators need to be able to see what they're creating. It also has a ton of convenient features like forking, auto-saves, and inviting people to edit through private links without requiring that your collaborators sign up for an account on Overleaf.

LaTex creates beautiful documents, but it was too difficult for me to use before Overleaf. Also, I only use the free version of Overleaf.

Thank you for creating Overleaf!

"That figure has roughly doubled in the past five years"

So, 14 lines of code?

Re:An Open Source, Self-Hosted Heroku on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:04PM (#12704008)
I looked into all the "Self-Hosted Heroku's" a few few months ago. One feature I found they all lacked is multitenancy, meaning that there is no security model in place to trust that you could host multiple pieces of code from different clients without them hacking each other.

I'm not talking about the deployment specifically, but rather isolating the code once it is deployed.

Am I missing something there?

Re:Simpler GitHub Pages publishing on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @07:48PM (#12309424)
Like i said, it was made for a terrible ideas hackathon.

Also, if you look at the source, you'll see that the form doesn't actually post anywhere. It's a joke demo.

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