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@PiCoreTeam 50% balance unverified yet no pending pioneers

Pi Network is excited to announce that second migrations have started and will continue with a gradual rollout, opening the door for Pioneers to bring additional Pi to Mainnet and further participate in the ecosystem! While second migrations roll out, first migrations for eligible Pioneers will continue as normal. To be eligible for migrations, Pioneers must set up Pi Wallet two-factor authentication (2FA) through the Mainnet Checklist Step 3. This may include adding a trusted email address to their accounts if not set up yet. 2FA is enforced before migrations to enhance wallet security because transfers on the blockchain are irreversible and immutable. Second migrations will also include referral mining bonuses attributable to Referral Team members who fully passed KYC. Pioneers should therefore remind their Referral Teams to complete KYC so these bonuses can be migrated.

@alexandrosM Yep. @gepulse66 on YouTube jumped on board, which is the clumsiest propaganda channel I’ve ever seen.

Now that you mention it, I've seen you on a bunch of podcasts recently.

@veritasium The computer would realize I’m the sort of person who wouldn’t jeopardize a chance at 1 million for the sake of an extra 1k. I could also live with being wrong. Those two combined would make me rich unless it wasn’t a good predictor, which I can’t control.

This Paradox Splits Smart People 50/50

@TheVixhal @shekhu04 Only if you accept that 1/3=0.333…. Same problem. Once you accept that an infinite series of rational numbers is a number, then you get these shenanigans.

@shekhu04 Yep this one is better

0.999... (repeating forever) is exactly equal to 1. It is not approximately but precisely the same number. Most people assume there must be some infinitely small gap between 0.999... and 1, but there isn't. One simple way to see it: If x = 0.999... then 10x = 9.999... Subtract: 10x - x = 9.999... - 0.999... So 9x = 9, meaning x = 1. The reason this feels wrong is that our brains want to imagine 0.999... as a process that's approaching 1 but never quite getting there. But it's not a process. It's a completed, infinite decimal, and it lands exactly on 1.

@ID_AA_Carmack Story of my life. The IT guys swear that 100% utilization is what you want. I ask them how they would like it if the road outside their house was 100% utilization. Can’t be that hard.

The glory work of GPU scheduling is in the frontier data centers with hundreds of thousands of GPUs, but a lot of research work is done with single GPU jobs on modest clusters, and the scheduling leaves much to be desired. I wish there were a clean way to preempt GPU tasks, so long running tasks could be transparently paused to allow higher priority tasks to get the minimum time-to-results. Manual checkpointing and cooperative multitasking is an option, but it complicates codebases and is fertile ground for bugs. It feels like most of the pieces are present: Everything goes through page tables on the GPUs already, Nvidia UVM (Unified Virtual Memory) allows demand paging to host memory, and MPS (Multi-Process Service) could act as a CUDA shim to force everything to use a different memory allocator. Memory page thrashing would be catastrophic for GPU tasks, but the idea would be to pause the host task of the low priority process, then let the high priority process force only the necessary pages out (or maybe none at all, if the memory pressure wasn’t high enough) while it is running, then resume the low priority task on completion, allowing it to page everything back in. Task switching at the level of tens of seconds, not milliseconds. Even if it didn’t handle absolutely all memory (kernel allocations and such) and had some overhead, that would be quite useful. Of course, Nvidia would prefer you to Just Buy More GPUs!

@Grady_Booch Levels of abstraction I guess

Ya'll need to stop lol. This is why they keep technology from us. This is why we can't have nice things lmao....

@elonmusk Nonsense. The dataset for FSD will be leaked eventually and people will just install it themselves. It’s just ones and zeros. Data wants to be free.

Tesla will stop selling FSD after Feb 14. FSD will only be available as a monthly subscription thereafter.

@DavidCarbutt_ @elonmusk It would be like taking that ice and spreading it thinly over the whole solar system. There isn’t enough solar energy falling on a Tesla car to power the Tesla car. If I built an ordinary fire the size of the sun, it would be more powerful. The sun sucks.

Elon "That would be like having a tiny ice cube maker in the Antarctic and saying, hey, look, we made ice. Congratulations you’re in the fucking Antarctic"😂💀 Unreal. @elonmusk

@TheTrueVanguard Drink potion matching the first letter of word 7 on line 4 of page 12 of the manual.

Prove to me you’re an old gamer in one sentence. I’ll drop a like if I’m convinced.

@DanielHadas2 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit

No set of simple (or complex) rules can replace the collective, never finished process of working out how much is too much, or how little is too little. This too is part of the intellectual work of universities.

Footage has emerged of an event held at University College London on Tuesday, where a speaker told the student group UCL Students for Justice in Palestine about the "Damascus Affair". ...

House of dynamite youtu.be/t9wmWZbr_wQ?si…

@FilmUpdates Well, there it is

The teaser trailer for ‘AMADEUS’ starring Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany has been released. Premieres in December on Sky.

@davepl1968 Thank you for your service. It led to millions of kids at the dawn of the internet getting enthused about PC building.

The story of FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8. If you're not the type to pay for your software, you probably know this key. What you might not know is that I worked on the first version of Windows Product Activation, and this was our first major "hack". And yet, it wasn't a 'hack' at all - it was a disastrous leak. The FCKGW key was a valid volume licensing key, so all you needed was special volume media to go with it. Eventually, they were bundled and put online by pirates. WPA worked by generating a hardware ID from your CPU, RAM, and other components, then sending it to Microsoft alongside your product key for validation. A mismatched or suspicious key would flag the install as pirated. But as a legitimate VLK, FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 was whitelisted in XP's activation logic—it told the system, "This is corporate volume licensing; no need to phone home." During installation, users selected the "Yes, I have a product key" option, entered the code, and WPA simply... skipped the activation prompt. The OS booted fully functional, with no 30-day timer or watermarks. It even fooled early validation checks for updates. This loophole let pirates distribute "pre-activated" ISOs, making XP as easy to "acquire" as a free mixtape. Technically, you could still use it today on an old XP disc (if you can find one), but Microsoft's servers shut down validation years ago, and the key's long since been blacklisted.

They Tried to Kill Me...

@alexandrosM I like how you’ve elevated “if I’m allowed to kick them in the balls, they can kick me in the balls” to the level of game theory.

I teach my sons not to be this strategically stupid but I guess we really do have an absence of proper parenting in this country. Let me break it down one more time for you: nobody wins in trench warfare. If your opponent comes at you one way, you do not go out and face them on their chosen battleground. Here are some options: End student loan federal guarantees and that will immediately force universities to stop investing in luxury degrees and disciplines. Or auction off the public TV spectrum. And here is what you don't do: Get minimum wage workers fired. Have the FCC commissioner show up like a mob boss and demand that a specific comedian faces consequences. The former means you are changing the playing field for good. The latter means you are getting set up for trench warfare. I guess now that the abortion issue is off the table, the parties need something to motivate the base, and mutually assured cancel culture is going to have to be it. I'm not even mad you guys are hypocrites. I expected that. I'm surprised how bad the "whites have higher IQ" crowd is at basic game theory. I was stunned at first, now it's getting comical.

@bluegeorgia Everyone scrambling to pigeon hole him as far left or far right. As a community, we should just define him as far gone, and make sure to denounce all far-ness.

Bill Maher calls out Ben Shapiro for saying Charlie Kirk's shooter was "of the left" — then admitting he wasn’t sure because of reports that he may be a Groyper. "The internet is undefeated in getting it wrong." Shapiro also falsely claims: "A shooting of a Republican politician is very likely to be a trans/antifa/Marxist." Total nut job.

My first thought whenever I see pictures like this is how much the course of history now sometimes rests on arbitrary choices by the MPEG standards group.

@alexandrosM Eh…he’s a pretty neurotic dude. He’ll be a geriatric who is in the doctor’s office every second day. I bet he does that already.

@dafeez Then look at him during covid lol

At a time of dramatic events, remember narrative scaffolds. While you're shocked and trying to figure out what's what, many people on many sides are working on overdrive to put out spin in their preferred direction. Remember: the facts are not yet known and won't be for a while.