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New comment by voldacar in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

voldacar — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:05:58 +0000

The common linguistic quirks are interesting and extremely convincing at first glance, but the article doesn't investigate C++ coding style, which as others have mentioned, seems quite different between Back and Satoshi. And Satoshi didn't believe the blocksize should be set in stone, the notion that he just casually changed his mind on that isn't impossible but deserves a closer look than the article gives it.

New comment by voldacar in "Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI"

voldacar — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:10:23 +0000

Thank you! Despite being older than me, those books look really thorough and well written. It's sort of crazy that these APIs are still as usable today as they were in 1998

New comment by voldacar in "Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI"

voldacar — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:58:08 +0000

What's the best way to get into MFC or Win32 in current year? Is there a canonically best book or tutorial for those wanting to learn?

New comment by voldacar in "Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?"

voldacar — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:57:07 +0000

You could also chuck a bunch of ferrites on your PC power cord

New comment by voldacar in "Antislop: A framework for eliminating repetitive patterns in language models"

voldacar — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:13:52 +0000

Instead of "surgically adjusting" logits within an existing model, couldn't you just build the slop detector into the loss function during the initial training stage?

New comment by voldacar in "German government comes out against Chat Control"

voldacar — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:58:12 +0000

The EU tries something like this every few years. If you don't want this to happen, you have to win every time, while they only have to win once.

It's an unsustainable situation.

New comment by voldacar in "People Who Hunt Down Old TVs"

voldacar — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:48:17 +0000

Most TV tubes aren't too valuable. Now if your TV was made by telefunken, that might be a different story

New comment by voldacar in "Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves"

voldacar — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:17:45 +0000

Instead of re-engineering complicated systems to be resilient to thieves, what if we just got rid of the thieves?

New comment by voldacar in "Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks"

voldacar — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:57:04 +0000

A quantitative look which might interest you:

https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/is-wikipedia-politically-...

New comment by voldacar in "Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks"

voldacar — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:33:46 +0000

Seems misleading or at the very least incomplete to blame these fees on "the power of the free market" when the visa / mastercard duopoly exists due to regulations making the entry barrier to creating a new card network essentially infinite

New comment by voldacar in "US national debt reaches a record $37T, the Treasury Department reports"

voldacar — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 21:30:10 +0000

Taking bets?

New comment by voldacar in "Google kills diversity hiring targets"

voldacar — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 21:15:10 +0000

The loss of DEI programs is good, as it reduces the pressure for these companies to discriminate against white and asian men in hiring.

New comment by voldacar in "Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014)"

voldacar — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 01:03:30 +0000

Wearing a t-shirt with a prefabricated group identity marker, whether purchased or self-manufactured, makes one a curious sort of "non-conformist".

New comment by voldacar in "I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research"

voldacar — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:57:52 +0000

IIRC they have never defined "substantially similar" and they don't actually go after people who sell etf X and immediately buy etf Y with an identical price graph

New comment by voldacar in "Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale"

voldacar — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:03:55 +0000

Are you kidding? Even if you're a very skilled sculptor, you don't get an extremely accurate sculpture of a human body without a living reference in front of you. A muscular person doesn't look like a non-muscular person with various regions puffed up

New comment by voldacar in "Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale"

voldacar — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:08:45 +0000

It's worth noting that the anatomic accuracy of classical statues like Laocoon, the Farnese Hercules, etc. indicates that there were at least some men walking around in antiquity with an amount of muscle mass that could only be developed by deliberate hypertrophy training of the whole body, as opposed to just getting muscle as a side effect of specific athletic training. It seems like these people were doing something quite similar to modern bodybuilding, goal-wise.

New comment by voldacar in "Show HN: Satoshi9000 analog BTC key generator (mechanical)"

voldacar — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:22:44 +0000

The key assumption is that T and H may not have the same probability, but each flip isn't correlated with past or future flips. Therefore, TH and HT have the same probability. So you can think of TH as "A" and HT as "B" then you repeatedly flip twice until you get one of those outcomes. So now your coin outputs A and B with equal probability.

New comment by voldacar in "We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger"

voldacar — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:04:51 +0000

Isn't this a huge security vulnerability for the client?

New comment by voldacar in "We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger"

voldacar — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:01:55 +0000

So it's a Caesar cipher, which is trivial to break. You don't need OCR or any computationally intensive solution.

New comment by voldacar in "Is Tor still safe to use?"

voldacar — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:45:37 +0000

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