@aiusepsi@mastodon.london

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@graydon@canada.masto.host @ysbreker@idlethumbs.social @cstross@wandering.shop Trying to add a (computational) cost to sending email lead to the invention of proof-of-work, which lead to Bitcoin. It’s unintended consequences all the way down.

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Andy Simpson @aiusepsi@mastodon.london

· 12mo ago

@ScottStarkey@hoosier.social @kaiarzheimer@fediscience.org This is real. It’s the former site of the Birmingham Children’s Hospital, the hospital itself moved to another site in 1998.

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Andy Simpson @aiusepsi@mastodon.london

· 15mo ago

What Dan Hannan thought June 2025 would be like then, and what he thinks about it now. What a clown.

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Andy Simpson @aiusepsi@mastodon.london

· 7mo ago

Replying to on mastodon.functional.computer

@samir@mastodon.functional.computer I installed Bazzite on my gaming PC a few months ago, and it’s working great. I hear that competitive multiplayer games with anticheat don’t really work, and Nvidia drivers could be better, but otherwise… Linux desktop gaming is here.

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Andy Simpson @aiusepsi@mastodon.london

· 7mo ago

Replying to on mastodon.functional.computer

@samir@mastodon.functional.computer Oof. C23 and C++17 have a [[fallthrough]] attribute, so compilers really ought to just default to unannotated fallthrough being an error.

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