That's like saying your'e not understanding how contractions work with a hand wavy reason
Smart response! It's a contraction of you and all, the spelling of which is likely not important.
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uzbit commented on Show HN: Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro missile-command-game.cent... · Posted by u/vbtechguy
I was in Santiago when this happened. While working in the basement of my hostel, all the power went out, and it was pitch black. I didn't really think much of it at the time because there had been several minutes-long outages before in various places in Santiago/Chile. When I got upstairs, I noticed that I had no cellular coverage, nor did anyone else, which is when I realized that this one was different. Took about 7hrs to get the power back on in my part of town.
It's very interesting when there is ZERO internet or any other form of external communication. In hind-sight I'd say it was an interesting short simulation for the zombie apocalypse.
uzbit commented on Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC cointelegraph.com/news/se... · Posted by u/talboren
There is no underlying value. No intrinsic value.
The value is purely a function of speculative demand. And while previously people anticipated the demand would go up "organically" because of actual real-world usage, you know to pay for stuff and such, that hasn't really materialized in the way we hoped. How many actually use BTC for things like that? At its BEST it has usage to purchase other coins - but that's about it.
It is digital gold, but with seemingly less IRL usage. When I started with BTC 12 years ago, the community was really optimistic on the potential use cases - but mostly the aspect of it replacing expensive wire transfers, potential for being a digital currency you could use in your daily life.
After each hype cycle that belief diminished, and it became more apparent that people only buy it to get richer by the means of speculation.
The days of BTC 1000x'ing are long gone. Even if 1 BTC is to go for $1MM, that's "only" a 21.5x increase, and it would mean that BTC alone has a 21 trillion cap. That's half of the entire S&P500 market cap. And you'd still have a slew of other safe coins that competes against BTC for the same money.
So, my point is: While BTC is still the king of crypto, it lives in a financial market that is mostly driven by speculation and expectations of huge returns. The very same investors can earn a lot more by gambling on "lesser" coins.
There's still money to be made, but that boils down to people buying and selling between the various boom and bust cycles. We're 15 years into this now.
> There is no underlying value. No intrinsic value.
I'm surprised this comment still shows up. The intrinsic value is literally all of the energy spent ensuring the validity of the blockchain via expensive PoW. If you want to point at something with no intrinsic value, look to the fiats.
uzbit commented on Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC cointelegraph.com/news/se... · Posted by u/talboren
The US military stockpile is staffed by Americans, not Ukranians, and there's no political will to transfer some of the really expensive stuff which requires extensive training like F35s. The transfers of Patriot anti-missile batteries, HIMARS, Bradley vehicles etc have been extremely effective in pushing back the Russian line of control from the initial invasion, but now it's a nasty question of assaulting well defended positions without air superiority.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12040
• 39 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
• 12 National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS); 1 Patriot air defense battery; other air defense systems; and 21 air surveillance radars;
• 31 Abrams tanks, 45 T-72B tanks and 186 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles;
• 300 M113 and 189 Stryker Armored Personnel Carriers;
• 2,000+ Stinger anti-aircraft missiles;
• 10,000+ Javelin and 90,000+ other anti-armor systems;
• Phoenix Ghost, Switchblade, and other UAS;
• 198 155 mm and 72 105 mm Howitzers and artillery;
• 227 mortar systems;
• Remote Anti-Armor Mine (RAAM) Systems;
• 9,000+ Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire- Guided (TOW) missiles;
• High-speed anti-radiation missiles (HARMs) and laser- guided rocket systems;
• 35,000+ grenade launchers and small arms;
• communications, radar, and intelligence equipment; and
• training, maintenance, and sustainment.
(What's NOT on that list? Aircraft. What's the US doctrine way of winning a war, such as OIF? Air power.)
Wow, nice find with the evidence right there! Comments like this is why I read HN. The US may not be fighting with troops, but definitely fighting proxy with it's m.i.c.
Edit: Do you think no aircraft because they'd have to use US trained pilots?
uzbit commented on Fundamental Math for Game Developers pikuma.com/blog/math-for-... · Posted by u/signa11
I found bi-vectors[1] to be a really interesting algebra for graphics. Unfortunately, I've not had much use for this kind of math to be able to really dig in.
uzbit commented on Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020) kevquirk.com/is-dark-mode... · Posted by u/eBombzor
Photons was only mentioned 4 times at the time of this writing. I appreciate low frequency waves when my eyes are adjusted to those low frequencies. Same as another would high frequency. Is my red the same as yours? My blue is very significant; in this way we experience colors.
uzbit commented on What’s so great about functional programming anyway? jrsinclair.com/articles/2... · Posted by u/redbell
To me it just seems like different syntax for different types of abstraction, not based on the OP, but from my own trials. Depending on how the calculation needs to be handled, one or the other may be more useful. As with all conceptual constructs, there's likely more than one conceptual projection in which it can be viewed with maximum clarity.
uzbit commented on CRISPR cancer trial success paves the way for personalized treatments nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/dsign
This pulls together so many advancements that it would make a 90s oncologist cry.
1) Being able to rapidly sequence the genomes of cancer cells to detect common mutations
2) Computationally simulating those mutations to look for viable T-cell targets
3) Custom building T-cell receptor proteins [0] capable of recognizing those targets
4) Inserting those custom receptor proteins into the patients' own T-cells with CRISPR
Truly, we're living in the days of future medicine...
Thanks for breaking out all these crucial steps!
Do you know of any journal articles that cover step 3? I'm very interested in how this whole process works and can't seem to find much (paywalled at Nature for this one.)
uzbit commented on Oilslick – an elevation map showing fine detail in terrain mrgris.com/projects/oilsl... · Posted by u/mleonhard
I'm mostly a lurker, but I logged in just to say: wow! nice presentation of topo data!