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pimbrah··on FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs
he means quicksort will be enough to make further boot time improvements due to precomputing and storing the sorted list insignificants
pimbrah··on Pëtr Kropotkin and Mutual Aid
A movie "Unrueh" (Unrest) has just been released in the theaters about Kropotkin's Swiss period. Haven't seen it yet but it is on my list
pimbrah··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
salaries rarely and hardly ever go down. however inflation does exactly that in real terms. This is an interesting article about it: https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/9566.html
pimbrah··on Traces of ancient ocean discovered on Mars
*anthropic
pimbrah··on Failing Intro Economics
Socrates didn't leave any writings
pimbrah··on Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
But the accounts 1 and 2 on VCE 4 (the ones funded by Monero) weren't registered in either Morgan's or Lichtenstein's name. They were created with fake credentials.

The feds were able to link them to the couple because bitcoins were moved from VCE 4 to other accounts that also had received bitcoins which were traceable to their alphabay accounts.

If they had funneled everything through monero I can't say that they wouldn't have got caught like this.

pimbrah··on Et Tu, Brute?: Review of Day of the Assassins: A History of Political Murder
"Tu quoque" is a later tradition. According to Suetonius, who writes more than a century later but is our oldest source on this, the literal words were in greek and it was "kai su teknon?", which is literally translated as "You too son?".
pimbrah··on Show HN: A high-performance TensorFlow library for quantitative finance
you want fixed point for accounting, but there's no reason not to use floating point in quantitative analysis