I don't have to run ChatGPT on Pro level of reasoning. It's not necessary for most tasks. It takes longer to return a response. But it satisfies me to know that I'm consuming as much electricity as possible with every prompt.

What are they so afraid of? Are they warning you to keep your head down and stay in the fold because they're concerned about your best interest? View quoted note →

Most people have motives that they keep to themselves. Things that they don't say out loud. There are a lot of duplicitous conniving motherfuckers in Bitcoin.

Monero has far better privacy than any solution you can bolt onto Bitcoin without giving up the same tradeoffs that Monero already accepted. Understand the tools and use the right tool for the job. View quoted note →

They classified oppositional defiant disorder in the DSM because such personalities are averse to persuasion and groupthink making them difficult to control and dangerous to those in control.

Delete Taproot. View quoted note →

I have no idea what Codex is even doing anymore. It's had a bazillion sub-agents going for several days. I'm just trusting that it's going to give me a flawless update that I can deploy to the backend server. Nobody is using the app yet so we're gonna roll the dice and just deploy straight to production!

gpt-5.6 is the first ChatGPT to have the ability to read the full text of all of my past chat history. I can ask it a question about something I was working on three months ago and in seconds it can find the exact details I need. This is the one capability that I always thought was lacking and now that I have it it's very powerful.

18 legislative days left this Senate session. Hopefully the CLARITY Act doesn't pass.

If you ran into Mike Vinning in plain clothes at the supermarket you would never guess that he was one of the most deadly men who has ever walked the earth. View quoted note →

Any wallet app should do that be default: generate a new receiving address for the use every time. Just like any wallet should prompt the user to select which UTXOs will be included in a send. The fact that so many don't is a travesty. View quoted note →

Saying "somebody should..." about anything open source in the age of rapidly advancing AI coding agents is mental laziness. I've been guilty of it too. That will change.

My parents never smoked, but I loved the pungent aroma of cigarette smoke when I was a kid. It's why I started smoking when I got older.

They claim their nihilism is enlightenment. They claim their neutrality is virtue. They claim their ambivalence is harmless. Then they mock the people who act on principle. #coretards #bip110

The majority is often wrong.