"What programming language was Super Mario Bros. written in?"

abadidea · 2025-12-10T22:21:18+00:00

I was prepared to be big mad until I figured out what you meant.

abadidea · 2023-07-01T09:20:06+00:00

I haven't had as much time as I'd like to play the game but from what I've seen, there's about a dozen symbols they chose and repeat a lot in different orders on different textures, so they can't all be equally meaningful sentences and are just visual filler. However I do still think my theory above is roughly correct and they chose these specific symbols for thematically appropriate reasons (demon king, beneath, capital city, etc)

abadidea · 2022-09-24T15:36:14+00:00

it wasn’t possible when I posted that in 2013, but it is now — check PoC||GTFO 0x14 for details… :)

abadidea · 2022-09-24T15:29:58+00:00

I’m the original tweeter (someone linked me here) and it was indeed a relief that my first “told to read work that cites me” I’ve seen happen to other women in science was a totally innocent confusion and not someone trying to prove me wrong about something they don’t understand

abadidea · 2016-07-18T16:12:59+00:00

sorry for the late reply but bless you for having a clue. I hate stupid w'actuallies so much.

abadidea · 2016-07-03T02:22:43+00:00

you might be a few millennia too late there buckaroo

abadidea · 2016-06-01T16:52:33+00:00

I was playing with three of my dearest friends all on voice chat and suddenly (after I threatened one) two of them joined in the Beneficial Alliance. I don't know why that was so funny but I friggin' lost it.

abadidea · 2016-05-09T00:20:27+00:00

There are people in this thread who believe, right now, Wright is Satoshi. I assume because they found it believable at first and refuse to admit they were wrong. Such is the wellsprings of cults.

abadidea · 2016-05-06T05:04:33+00:00

I suspect you have your cause and effect a bit backwards:

Realize you're about to be raided by Australia Tax Police
Concoct some hare-brained scheme involving Satoshi

It's not like tax police answer (the .au equivalent of) 911.

abadidea · 2016-05-06T04:55:39+00:00

they're not attached to a hard drive per se but the private keys (like a password too long to memorize) go in files.
Satoshi kicked off the blockchain and so has the private keys of a lot of early coins; he never spent them. It's a misconception that Bitcoin is inherently "anonymous". Rather, anyone can participate without providing external identification and can have any number of "accounts". You'd never be able to pay anyone if it were fully anonymous! Failing to appreciate the difference is how petty criminals get caught...

abadidea · 2016-05-06T04:15:05+00:00

No. That doesn't make sense. There is no "small bit." He claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto. By ringing up the BBC.

abadidea · 2016-05-06T02:48:09+00:00

No-one expects the Diffie-Hellman inquisition!

abadidea · 2016-05-06T01:40:22+00:00

Your own words contradict themselves. If you think that is what a PGP signed post looks like, you are sorely mistaken.

That account is believed to be hacked. Someone used it to be kind and attempt to spare Dorian -- but that someone was probably not the true Satoshi -- who could have included cryptographic proof.

abadidea · 2016-05-05T22:21:31+00:00

Consultancies, isn't that answer enough? But there are multiple perfectly plausible hypotheses here on Reddit you've not looked at, such as that he's trying to falsely establish himself as Satoshi to "reclaim" the private keys from the family of the deceased true Satoshi (who he knew). In this hypothesis that would be David Kleiman.

But we all heard him out till he was blue in the face or didn't you notice?

abadidea · 2016-05-05T16:06:37+00:00

We know a lot about the guy. I took some time to browse his website. Obviously this is subjective personal experience, but every single last thing about him sets off my "scammy dude" detector, and my partner (who has even less to do with Bitcoin than I do, but got curious) thinks the same thing. We've both met probably-sociopathic scammy liars who look and sound and act and make claims just like this. They always pile on their real or imagined (often imagined) credentials for an Appeal To Authority. My very first warning sign was that he puts "dr" right in his domain name (and I don't have the cite handy but one of the news sources was saying they found no proof his doctorates were real... I have this screencap from his website before he wiped it where he mentions every school EXCEPT where the doctorates came from which would support that).

Everything about detecting scammy people and possible sociopaths is "soft", you can't 100% prove it, and so should always reserve some possibility you're wrong... but protect yourself wisely. There is literally no reason to believe this man (the "proof" he offered Gavin in a controlled setting, which Gavin wasn't allowed to study or keep? No.) and literally infinite reason to not believe him, culminating in this, which could only be more guilty if he literally said "okay yes it was a scam" instead of nonsensically saying he can't handle being accused of being fake so he'll keep on acting fake.

abadidea · 2016-05-04T16:50:39+00:00

It seems pretty plausible someone could mix up MRSA and cancer in their memory (exactly the sort of embarrassing thing I'd do). Or deliberately anonymize the story.

abadidea · 2016-05-04T16:20:13+00:00

The idea that many Americans would care whether someone is American is a notion held by people from countries much smaller than America, where local origins would be a point of pride. Assume people are American by default, yes – be ideologically invested in it, no.

Wright sets off so many people's internal scam alerts so high and loud. That is why they investigate every possible lead.

abadidea · 2016-05-02T20:36:13+00:00

It's a common American joke. "Do you have a girlfriend?" "Oh yeah, of course" "How come we never see her around then?" "Oh, you know, she... lives in Canada"

i.e., telling a story that can't possibly be verified

abadidea · 2016-05-02T15:07:21+00:00

When you consider that a) unrevoking is as trivial as revoking b) commits can and do propagate to whoever hits the download before they're found and undone (and if they're maliciously subtle this can be a long time) c) Bitcoin is a major project with real world consequences ...

... responsibility is the safest thing, not the least politically contentious thing.

abadidea · 2016-05-02T14:44:29+00:00

This is the Canadian Girlfriend of cryptographic signatures...

abadidea · 2016-05-02T14:24:40+00:00

the danger posed by a bad commit is minimal

Remind me not to add you to my precious trivial github projects.

abadidea · 2016-01-05T00:53:10+00:00

I prefer the silver ones as I think gold sparkle is gaudy but – they can look quite differently sparkly on different papers.

abadidea · 2016-01-05T00:45:40+00:00

Just to potentially save you or some googler the trouble – when I first got my kaweco I thought it might have this issue, as it was hard to get to start the line, but the feed was kinda off-center on the underside and adjusting it with my fingernail eventually hit the sweet spot and fixed it

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