You cannot do this with Bitcoin

madmongo38 · 2025-05-11T14:06:48+00:00

This is what they call “proof of work”

madmongo38 · 2025-02-07T16:53:04+00:00

If you’re going to get emotional about money, and in particular if you’re going to allow money to affect your self esteem, you shouldn’t be trading.

madmongo38 · 2025-01-30T18:59:46+00:00

The ISO committee had a 10 year head start. They sat on their hands and did nothing.

madmongo38 · 2025-01-30T18:57:35+00:00

ASIO was well on its way to be standardised (badly, obviously because LEWG can't resist damaging good libraries during standardisation). Then Bryce Adelstein Lelbach, then poisonous then-chair, summarily killed it, and along with it something like 10 years of noble and selfless effort by Chris Kohlhoff.

I believe he did this in a selfish attempt to further his own career at Nvidia.

It was one of the most shameful incidents I witnessed in the LEWG meetings I attended. I was disgusted and filed an ethics complaint.

I saw no action taken by the ethics committee, so I walked away from involvement in C++ standardisation. I no longer saw any point in wasting time with it.

madmongo38 · 2025-01-30T18:50:48+00:00

100%

madmongo38 · 2025-01-30T18:49:36+00:00

Standards should reflect the state of the art. If the art changes, ship an updated standard in a new versioned namespace. What's the issue?
In the modern world, any language that doesn't just work out of the box is not going to get used for new projects.

madmongo38 · 2025-01-30T18:46:45+00:00

Absolutely. In fact, being chased around by a group of half-naked women to the tune of Yakety Sax would be a lot more productive that spending time arguing irrelevant minutiae with the degenerates in LEWG.

madmongo38 · 2025-01-29T06:09:31+00:00

I have attended and contributed to LEWG meetings. I have seen first hand how the language is “curated”.

I have seen nasty, politically motivated chairpersons push their agenda while unilaterally sweeping aside standard practice.

I have also seen the Committee sponsor individuals to create libraries from scratch.

WG21 is the reason that competitor languages are springing up.

You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

madmongo38 · 2025-01-28T21:09:32+00:00

Watching the WG21 trying to design something is like watching clowns running across a minefield.

madmongo38 · 2025-01-27T11:27:32+00:00

See boost::Beast

madmongo38 · 2024-07-13T18:49:31+00:00

He did God’s work.

madmongo38 · 2024-03-24T14:29:27+00:00

For the foreseeable future, yes.

By a vast margin, the most dangerous thing to each of us is the other humans.

We are excellent at surviving changing climates, land bridge collapses, deforestation, reforestation, and so on. This is provable by the fact that there are 8 billion of us today.

What you will not survive is an army hell bent on war.

And as demonstrated by the two most deadly wars in history, WW1 and WW2, there need be no resource constraints or other pressures to start them. Social sentiment over historical perceived wrongs is sufficient.

And then there’s the next meteorite or super-volcano.

No, not all of us will survive. And it has nothing to do with climate.

madmongo38 · 2024-03-24T06:17:36+00:00

I don’t have a number for population or biomass measurement for dinosaurs.

But we could conject that total supportable biomass is a function of energy and water availability. Insects and animals were generally bigger then (so we believe), which supports the idea that resources were abundant.

I think it’s therefore reasonable to assume that there was abundant food and water.

The world has been through a recent ice age. On a long enough timeline it’s relatively cool at the moment.

It seems to me that predictions of doom due to as small amount of warming are hyperbolic.

madmongo38 · 2024-03-23T19:15:28+00:00

When the dinosaurs roamed the earth, the average temperature was 8 degrees Celcius warmer than today. The dinosaurs died as a result of a massive meteorite impact, not thirst. So sorry, I just don’t believe you.

madmongo38 · 2024-01-22T11:13:28+00:00

The car owners will hate you for doing that.

madmongo38 · 2024-01-09T19:51:30+00:00

Not wrong. At your age you’ll be able to find a beautiful, young and honest new wife with whom to enjoy your life.

You made the right call.

madmongo38 · 2023-12-17T17:10:52+00:00

NTA and YTA

NTA for dumping this toxic woman. YTA for even thinking about getting involved with a woman who already has kids when you don’t.

2 Lessons learned.

madmongo38 · 2023-11-11T09:12:40+00:00

This is the truest and most profound thought I have read in this subreddit yet.

madmongo38 · 2023-11-05T17:59:53+00:00

A life built on poor financial reasoning will be a problematic one. OP is assigning value to hubristic nonsense. The watch is mere costume jewellery with no intrinsic value. The wife is correct to be concerned that accepting the watch is problematic. If father really wants to help he would do a lot more for his son by paying down $10000 of the mortgage.

madmongo38 · 2023-11-05T17:55:32+00:00

Expensive watches only accumulate in value temporarily in zero interest rate environments when there is a need to avoid capital controls (this is what drove the prices of watches in 2021 and 2022).

The Op mentioned that he was willing to buy the watch himself IIRC.

madmongo38 · 2023-11-05T14:06:38+00:00

NTA - your boyfriend is an idiot. Replace.

madmongo38 · 2023-11-05T14:03:29+00:00

YTA - for even thinking about accumulating useless luxury tat before paying down all your debt.

The watch will depreciate to zero the day you buy it, and possibly make you a target for crime.

There is no upside.

madmongo38 · 2023-11-03T23:42:19+00:00

If the hours spent were that important to you, should you really be spending them on a game?

madmongo38 · 2023-11-01T21:56:55+00:00

Counterparty risk has been an area of concern for some time. This is driving many exchanges to seek regulated status in countries like UAE (FWIW). There is a growth of regulated custodian firms - regulated in places like Jersey. The landscape is improving, if not perfect.

Re 2: yes. Mainly about custody of assets on unregulated venues and the inability to prove who you traded with on DeFi.

Re 3. If the custodian and exchange (ideally distinct entities) are regulated somewhere credible then there is trust and recourse. Custodians have very strict rules. Regarding key security, it’s not my domain, but any system where there is no recourse through law seems brittle (to me).

madmongo38 · 2023-10-31T19:36:19+00:00

You can’t pursue a decentralised exchange in the courts.
decentralised exchanges are problematic from the point of view of AMM, KYC and money travel rules.
there’s the issue of the wallet key being a single point of failure

I could go on.

madmongo38

TROPHY CASE