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A pet-rock may cost $10-$20 and mostly for collection and not as investment... These NFTs are for millions, with expected revenue of millions...
Something is wrong here...
βReal stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.β
β Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I just can't understand how one payed $2.9 million for something that not actually his.
99% of crypto news can be reduced to this story in 2 parts due to peoplessuckers unending faith in Line Goes Up.
1) Dunning-Krugerrands.
2) Money with wings. πΈπΈπΈ
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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All I know is that NFTs aren't for me, as I'm the type of guy who still wouldn't pay $10 for the real/original/authentic Mona Lisa.
I've seen it. It can be reproduced. What would "owning" the original provide me with?
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You have to consider the true NFT acronym.
Not
For
Thinkers
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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Wordle 310 5/6
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Wordle 310 4/6
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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Wordle 310 5/6
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First time I got one on second guess. Bit of luck, but the three letters that hit... I don't think they left so many options for alternative 5-letter arrangements. It was the first guess I mustered which could possibly fit.
1st guess position = solved position: 4=1, 5=2, 2=3
Edit: I'm realizing this may have been 309 and not 310. Only just found that the share link is what does the formatting and you don't have to copy paste boxes here yourself.
modified 25-Apr-22 11:42am.
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Difficult one!
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Most of the time, I donβt even remember the solution an hour after solving Wordle!
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Wordle 310 5/6*
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This was not straight one for me
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"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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A good restart...
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βReal stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.β
β Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Wordle 310 3/6
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This one took me a while:
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Nearly missed this one. I should've had it in 4. When I thought of the word for some reason my minds eye saw it spelled with 6 letters so I threw it out of consideration.
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[^] i am in awe/
Β«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindledΒ» Plutarch
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Tiny Desk: far out man !
ADG7: a mind-numbing series of fantasies. I suggest you read my friend David Wray's book [^], and Robert Alter's translation of the Torah.[^]. Research the Luwian culture [^], and what is being learned at Gobelki Tepe.
If the ancient Israelites had any astronomical knowledge, it came from Egypt and Babylon. The Egyptians remarkable astronomical achievements include calculation of the Sothic cycle: an incredibly difficult calculation which requires knowledge of latitude.
The trope of "Samson," the superman whose great feats are equaled by his psychotic episodes, emerges from the same mythic/chthonic substructure from which the Herakles/Hercules trope emerges later in Attic Greece. And, earlier, in the Gilgamesh epic.
Β«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindledΒ» Plutarch
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BillWoodruff wrote: If the ancient Israelites had any astronomical knowledge, it came from Egypt and Babylon.
They did, and the knowledge did come from Egypt and Babylon, as you said. The Jews once worshipped Saturn, as testified to by Sanchuniathon, and the fact that Saturday is still their day of rest.
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BillWoodruff wrote: Research the Luwian culture [^]
That was interesting, thanks! Even though it didn't go into astronomy, it started making sense of a historic aspect I had been unaware of!
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For a long time, I've wanted my graphics library GFX to be able to use temporary RAM to cut down on bus traffic.
How it works is, it takes a lot of traffic to even write a single pixel. There's very little overhead however, for writing a bitmap.
So what I intend to do is back some of my drawing operations with bitmaps - at least where it's possible. It gets tricky though, because I'm constantly dealing with memory pressure. So what I do is I try to allocate a bitmap to hold the entire draw. If there's not enough memory, I keep dividing the height of the bitmap by half and trying until I'm down to a single line. If I still can't do it I go pixel by pixel. This works because the little heap - at least on the ESP32 - is blazing fast - maybe because it deals with so little RAM?
I feel good about this because to the degree that I've got it working it really speeds things up, but gosh is it going to be hard to maintain and it's really hard to code.
Putting on my design hat, I'm torn. This is a graphics library so some allowances must be made for performance reasons in terms of writing maintainable code. On the other hand, holy elephant this is difficult, and that makes alarm bells ring.
I learned most of the development skills that serve me in the IoT realm when I was a kid banging out code on 8-bit and 16-bit systems. However, not having the professional experience I didn't care about readability or maintenance.
Years of professional development have on one hand given me an advantage in that department, but it sort of paralyzes me in situations like this where the pull from my professional experience is STOP BEING CLEVER and yet any significant optimization I do pays for itself down the line because of the nature of the library. Graphics need to be as fast as they can reasonably be. I mean, I'm not banging out hand optimized ASM and I never would for IoT - too many different processors to target even on the ESP32 line - but algorithm level improvements are always fair game.
I eventually work through it but the point is my experience is actually slowing me down here. In some ways working on massive servers and desktops with gobs of RAM has spoiled me - and I'm quickly learning that sometimes readable code is a luxury.
Edit: I made it go, figured out a way to cut maintenance to 1/3rd and then decided to blow it up again by making it capable of doing all this asynchronously by alternately writing to one bitmap while sending the other in the background, and then flipping the pointers and alternating them until the end of the run. This blows up complexity but increases framerates by maybe 30% if the hardware is DMA capable.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
modified 24-Apr-22 13:17pm.
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Transcriptions of your conversations with your rubber duck are often interesting. 
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