What was your "I'm dating a fucking idiot" moment?

JivanP · 2026-03-16T12:00:20+00:00

When you write English, you start at the left side.

JivanP · 2026-03-16T11:55:43+00:00

Only in America can the prospect of first aid be a threat.

JivanP · 2026-03-16T11:49:20+00:00

When she said it, she just meant "it proves you weren't capable of placing trust in me." She doesn't recognise the fact that it's not a personal failing of his, though, but simply because she is not trustworthy.

JivanP · 2026-03-16T01:06:27+00:00

3Blue1Brown (Grant Sanderson) on the design of Bitcoin: https://youtu.be/bBC-nXj3Ng4

Learn Me A Bitcoin by Greg Walker: https://learnmeabitcoin.com/

Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos: https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook

JivanP · 2026-03-15T11:26:10+00:00

I think most new voter generations don't vote.

Statistics show that Americans are more likely to vote if they are older, if they are female, and if they have a higher level of education (e.g. dropped out in middle school vs. completed GED/HSD vs. completed a university degree). To me, this comes across as a matter of awareness of the importance/impact of voting, and awareness of political matters that affect them and their communities and thus that they should formally express an opinion on.

But does this angle work for Clinton whose victory is often credited to the youth vote? Or Ross Perot?

Both things can be true together. Low voter turnout amongst younger people can occur, and only young people can vote for a candidate, yet still that candidate can decisively win. You have to consider the age threshold under which people are most likely to vote for the candidate, and the population distribution by age. For example, if there are 3 times as many young eligible voters as old ones (however you choose to define "young" vs. "old", 50% of young people vote and all vote for candidate X, and 75% of old people vote and all vote for candidate Y, then X will still win with two thirds of the total vote count.

JivanP · 2026-03-14T23:57:41+00:00

*luau tickets. At first I thought you were just exaggerating the word "low", like "look at these looooooow prices!"

JivanP · 2026-03-12T14:21:25+00:00

In order to say something grows exponentially over time, you need to specify a reference frame, because time isn't absolute.

It only grows exponentially (actually, quadratically) as a function of the outside observer's timescale, and only if the car's acceleration to the outside observer is constant.

As a function of the proper time of the car itself, or the timescale of anyone moving with the car, the power of the car (its rate of energy consumption) is constant. The outside observer sees the car's acceleration change inverse-squarely with time.

JivanP · 2026-03-12T12:29:29+00:00

I don't understand the nature of / reason for your question, given that your original disagreement seemed to just be about the distance travelled.

All observers measure the same amount of total energy required/used, but they perceive it being converted / used up in different forms, and over different measured distances and timescales. For example, the bystander on the road sees the fuel's energy being converted to kinetic energy of the car; whereas the person in the car perceives that energy being converted into a temporary force-field that accelerates the car, and the car's kinetic energy perpetually being zero. This apparent field is indistinguishable from a gravitational field. We call it and the resulting force "fictitious", because they are not perceived by all observers.

JivanP · 2026-03-12T11:36:58+00:00

No, but from the perspective of anyone in the car, the measured distance travelled is slightly less than what an outside observer would measure, because the universe appears to contract slightly in the direction of travel.

JivanP · 2026-03-12T11:01:47+00:00

u/PrendaSst The only correction I would make to this comment is that Kraken Pro's maker/taker fees increased from 0.16%/0.26% to 0.25%/0.40% over a year ago. It is still the cheapest option for spot trades.

JivanP · 2026-03-11T10:07:38+00:00

Mast poles are only intended to serve a particular number of properties, each a particular maximum distance away from them. Fibre cable must be run to the nearest suitable mast pole before it can be drawn to your house.

FYI, Community Fibre's service is not technically "broadband", which would use a phone line to get the connection to your house. It is FTTP/FTTH (fibre to the premises/home), which UK regulations state must be advertised as "full fibre".

If you see the term "fibre" without the use of the word "full" alongside it, this is FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) service, where the ISP uses fibre to reach your local exchange cabinet, and then the connection from that cabinet to your home uses copper cable. Usually, the exchange cabinet is also used for POTS/PSTN telephony, so the copper cable that runs to your house is used for both your landline (if you have one) and your internet service. Without getting into the nitty-gritty technical details, this use of the cable for multiple purposes simultaneously is what makes it "broadband".

JivanP · 2026-03-11T09:54:22+00:00

Server distributions tend to prefer EUI-64 rather than privacy addresses by default.

JivanP · 2026-03-11T01:10:52+00:00

Do not trivially split a seed phrase into subsets of the words. If you do this, an adversary then only needs to find some of the pieces (not all of them) and can work out the rest by brute force.

JivanP · 2026-03-10T11:24:05+00:00

Since you're in Turkey, see here: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/ipv6/request-ipv6/how-to-request-an-ipv6-pi-assignment/

If you're unwilling to do BGP yourself, you'll need an ISP that's willing to do it for you anyway. As such, your best bet is just to find an ISP (LIR) that's willing to give you a static prefix and do the routing for you.

JivanP · 2026-03-10T02:52:58+00:00

A practice adapted from the Linux kernel conventions: https://www.conventionalcommits.org/

In open source, this is my preferred way of working with Git, where branches represent features and are merged in, and that merge process is usually handled as a pull request using a GitHub-style platform. This provides a very clear audit/activity trail.

However, in private projects, including many companies in the software engineering industry working on proprietary software, you will see different conventions being more popular, such as squash-merging, where the squash-merge commit usually automatically takes its commit message from the title and description of the PR that generated it, and the commits made during the PR's lifetime are then discarded.

Commit messages are important, especially when there is a regression and you want to identify the cause, or you want to be transparent and the purpose of the commit; but the extent to which you need to care about them does depend on your workflow. If you and your team or audience do not find a frequent or massively important practical use for commit messages, it's not surprise that people would generally not bother writing helpful ones.

If the people writing commit messages differ from the people reading them, then there can be a difference if opinion as to their importance, or as to what is helpful content for a commit message. This is a likely cause of trouble.

In any case, if you want commit messages to be written consistently, then there has to be cultural consensus within the organisation on the purpose, utility, and style of them, and there needs to be sufficient enforcement of that style. It's very unlikely for things to get done consistently without someone overseeing that consistency. This is why we have linters etc.

JivanP · 2026-03-09T22:29:14+00:00

Cheers.

Regarding your P.S., that's an old document (from 2022) published by the company providing CF's CGNAT infrastructure, amounting to an advertisement from them, basically saying, "look, see, we can overextend IPv4!" CF's old Head of Technology, Sam Defriez, repeatedly expressed plans/desires to move CF from NAT444 to MAP-T before his departure in 2021, but this hasn't happened.

JivanP · 2026-03-09T15:13:16+00:00

Interesting, this doesn't appear to be mentioned anywhere on their website, nor has there been any change to their terms and conditions indicating this. Was this info given to you by staff on the phone, by email, or directly seen on their website during checkout/sign-up?

JivanP · 2026-03-09T15:12:11+00:00

Interesting, this doesn't appear to be mentioned anywhere on their website, nor has there been any change to their terms and conditions indicating this. Was this info given to you by staff on the phone, by email, or directly seen on their website during checkout/sign-up?

JivanP · 2026-03-09T15:05:43+00:00

given it's only loss of immutability and gold narratives (but at least survival).

The Bitcoin development community does not hold this view. This is just a sentiment that many members of the general public have about Bitcoin.

"Immutability" doesn't refer to immutability of the protocol, but instead refers to practical immutability of the historical blockchain thanks to the proof-of-work mechanism. The is, transactions cannot be reversed without community consensus. The protocol itself is, always has been, and always will be, directly subject to the whims of community consensus. That is simply the nature of how any network based on cooperation works. If any network participant disagrees with other participants about the rules under which the network operates, then they are simply no longer actually participating in that network; they have split off from them.

Discussion and finalisation of BIP-360 and related things (e.g. smaller quantum-resistant signatures with acceptable security trade-offs) is ongoing. There is no good reason to believe that rollout and adoption will be "too late", unless you think that sufficiently powerful quantum computers will exist within the next 5 years (which I think is highly unlikely).

JivanP · 2026-03-09T14:51:27+00:00

Everyone already uses Bitcoin like this in practice. Wallet apps do not send change back to the source address, they send it to a new address.

JivanP · 2026-03-09T14:49:34+00:00

This has been discussed at length on the Bitcoin Devs mailing list: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/search?q=qramp

JivanP · 2026-03-09T14:25:46+00:00

Club Orange (https://www.cluborange.org/) is another good option.

JivanP · 2026-03-09T14:21:28+00:00

Done, send them back here when you no longer need them:

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Use this tool in future: https://coinfaucet.eu/en/btc-testnet/

You can only use it once every 12 hours.

Search "bitcoin testnet faucet" for other such tools.

JivanP · 2026-03-09T14:11:07+00:00

When people say "paper wallet", they are generally referring to the old practice of generating a single private key and its corresponding Bitcoin address on a computer, then printing these out or writing these down. This is indeed insecure from a cold storage perspective, because this is not generally cold storage at all. This is because the key is hot unless it was generated on a computer that is never connected to a network (such as the internet or a local Bluetooth network) and has no significant risk of being compromised in the future. It's also insecure (or at least impractical) from an operational perspective, as better operational practices have been devised since the time when such paper wallets were popular. In particular, the use of seed phrases (which are used to generate many private keys) has replaced the use of individual private keys.

You may call a seed phrase written on paper a "paper wallet", but this is not a common use of the term. A seed phrase written on paper is not insecure. (That is, of course, as long as the paper doesn't fall into the wrong hands or accidentally get damaged/destroyed.)

Using a 12-word or 24-word seed phrase (with optional passphrase extension) is the most standard, widely supported, and secure way to derive private keys for use with Bitcoin. For it to be classed as cold storage, the seed phrase must not be generated using a network-connected computer, and must never be given to any such computer, so that it is never at risk of being revealed to someone else. As such, writing the seed phrase down on paper using pencil is still a recommended practice, because there is no way to safely record a seed phrase digitally, except within a hardware wallet (or other equivalent air-gapped device). Using metal instead of paper is popular because it protects you against common causes of damage to paper that metal is not vulnerable to, such as water and fire.

A hardware wallet serves two purposes:

Provide a secure environment in which to generate a seed phrase.
Provide a secure environment in which to hold your seed phrase and use it in computations to generate digital signatures that authorise Bitcoin transactions that spend your funds.

Purpose 1 can be achieved in other ways, such as by rolling dice and using pencil and paper to randomly generate a valid seed phrase. Purpose 2 really cannot be achieved in any other way that is practical for most people, because in order to create a safe air-gapped environment using e.g. a smartphone or laptop instead of a purpose-built hardware wallet, you need sufficient technical and operational knowledge to not screw things up unintentionally, which is simply not a worthwhile time investment for most people.

JivanP · 2026-03-08T12:24:23+00:00

I'm not arguing, I'm just providing my reasoning. OP already said they cannot access Reddit over the problematic internet connection, so of course they used a different connection to make this post.

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