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– Just a Crypto Sales Pitch? “Buy-and-burn” mechanisms are one of the most commonly touted strategies for increasing the value of tokens in the cryptocurrency world. The narrative is simple: by using a portion of revenues or transaction fees to …
Sit back and enjoy this Kiwi pilot’s take on flying — a cheerful mix of laid-back wisdom and mild paranoia wrapped in a flightless bird’s reality check. “Flying is safe,” they said. “It’s statistically safer than driving,” they claimed. And …
The Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto: A Masterfully Constructed Persona? As cryptocurrency evolves and infiltrates every corner of the global financial system, one of its most captivating mysteries remains unsolved: the true identity of Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Since Bitcoin’s debut …
Opinion: How to Live in a World Where AI Shapes What We See and Believe Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing everything around us, faster than we ever imagined. From the news we read, to the ads we see, and even …
The mystery of consciousness is arguably one of the greatest, if not the greatest, philosophical and scientific challenges we face. It lies at the intersection of many disciplines—neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, and even quantum physics—all offering fragmented insights, but none delivering …
The Evolution of Consciousness and AI: A Shared Journey of Existence Read more »
A conversation with ChatGPT 4o — October 2024 This post was shared with family as a demonstration of ChatGPT’s current ability to contruct meaningful dialogue. PROMPT Considering the illusion of time, it’s intriguing to think about how our perception of …
macOS As of this writing, when one attempts to run a custom Python3 plugin script for KiCad (v6) where the script file is not located at /Applications/KiCad/KiCad.app/Contents/SharedSupport/plugins python complains that it cannot find the KiCad libraries. Apple security boffins have …
Single line at shell prompt … In a bash/zsh script …
Say what now?! Octoprint has a built-in module “Pi Support” that gives warnings if something’s up with your ‘Pis power supply or if it’s been “throttled” any time since system boot-up. Very clever … but what happens if your sweet …
If you stumbled on this via Google, I hope you found it useful in your specific use case. While using intelFPGA (Quartus) Lite v16.1 on my Ubuntu Linux 16.x system, I was seeing this shared library-related error … The problem turned …
Intel Quartus 16.1: Fix for, “Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-close.c” Read more »