lime!

get bigger hands

“kph” is an americanization. the unit is km/h. i’m assuming the commenter did not know this since the first abbreviation is not used it most languages.

interesting with a bit of perspective. i started balding at 21 so i don’t really have anything to compare to…

ah so no generative ai used in actual article production, just in meta stuff and for newcomers to ask questions about how to do things.

can’t wait to be accused of being a collaborator just because i’ve been peter principled into a position i don’t understand

yup, running a global network on top of something designed to be slow seems… inadvisable.

you’re calculating the sha256 (i think) hash of the previous transaction block’s hash plus your block of transactions. What’s making it proof-of-work though, is the stipulation that “the hash has to start with at least five zeroes”, with “five” being an adjustable difficulty value. To be able to get that specific hash an otherwise meaningless number (a “nonce”) is included, and by increasing this number by one you can change the hash value.

so basically, all these servers are running hash calculations on the same thing over and over again with a single number changing between runs until they get an “approved” hash value. whoever gets there the fastest gets their block added to the chain, then everyone else has to start over with that hash as the “previous” one.

It’s called “proof of work” because it’s difficult to find a suitable value, but it’s trivial to check that it’s correct. you just need the nonce. so by presenting that nonce to everyone, you’ve proved that you “did the work”.

as for the reason why they do this, if each block’s hash is dependent on the hash of the block before it, it means the entire chain is resistant to tampering. you can’t insert a block in the middle without recalculating the entire chain.

how do you even “feel” an increase in T? more irrational aggression? acute hair loss?

i had such a bad experience with 7, it was horribly unstable on a computer that had handled vista just fine. i switched to 8 as soon as i could and was better off for it.

the trademark got bought. it’s still FLOSS, and they pledged to keep it that way, for whatever that’s worth. code can’t be retroactively un-gpled, so if they did decide to close it down they couldn’t just take it offline, only do new development in private. the big fishy thing was that they added a CLA to their repo, which only affects developers. as an end-user you’re fine.

also, the “crap” was a draft proposal of opt-in telemetry, which was subsequently scrapped. the company in question is based in the EU, anyway, so they would have to abide by the gdpr for any collected information.

the hackaday series on this is probably the best summary.

“melaninated” makes it sound like these people had melanin added after they were born… like a reverse michael jackson

sound of music

as long as floorp’s funding can sustain 500 full-time browser engineers, sure.

because that’s the way it is. if google stops funding firefox development, all the forks disappear.

impossible to type correctly and possibly generated by a computer

if you mean the post in the image, only the second post is transphobic. the first says you can’t “define a woman” without excluding people who are afab.

if you mean this thread, i just see discussion.

are you sad because people want to read what you have to say?

smorty you’re adorable but i can never tell what you’re saying. please spare a thought for us poor esls.

no we have one of those too

the devkit was an SGI supercomputer, since they designed the CPU. no nintendo hardware in it.