Principal Software Engineer. This is not my employer's account. I have a wonderful family and faith in a real, bona-fide Heavenly Father. Will work for Zcash.
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MoneyStream just got an upgrade: smoother net-worth charts, better budget controls, smarter investment account support, faster sync feedback, and a ton of stability fixes. From CI reliability to transaction filtering, this release makes personal finance feel sharper than ever.🚀
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To X folks who post math questions they think are clever: I mute all of you.
Mute X2 if you make ridiculous claims like "95% of you will get this wrong" or "only 140 IQ get this".
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So a lot of people are upset that Elon Musk is a trillionaire. And they’re suggesting he share his wealth with the world.
Which would entail liquidating his companies, laying off over 100,000 employees, bankrupting all the people who now own SPCX stock, and crashing the economy.
I don’t think they’ve thought this through.
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I used GPT-5.4 for almost all my AI coding. But after about 6 failed attempts to fix a bug, I switched the session to GPT-5.5. It fixed it immediately.
No, this doesn't mean I'll use GPT-5.5 all the time from now on. Cost matters, and 5.4 gets the job done most of the time.
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Andrew Arnott 🛡️ retweeted
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Zcash brought zk to life.
We made it fast.
We made it usable.
Now we make the supply trustlessly verifiable.
Then we scale. Then quantum secure.
Private digital cash. ZEC for billions.
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Lots of exciting enhancements just dropped for MoneyStream users. Better reports with saveable configurations, a new Investments tab... Check it out.
moneystreamapp.com/
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Jun 6
How do I delete all saved passwords in Microsoft Edge, today?
So many web sites answer this question in a way that used to work. But Edge removed the option to clear all passwords from the 'clear browser data' dialog.
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I've been thinking about AI as a compiler for a while now, so Linus Torvalds is spot on in this. A C compiler translates something like human language into machine code. An AI agent translates actual human language into something closer to machine code. The only difference in these two transforms is that AI is non-deterministic while traditional compilers are far more deterministic.
Using AI is nothing to be ashamed of. But don't hide behind it either. If you use AI to generate code, you are the manager and AI is your employee. Real managers don't hide behind their employees when their software has bugs. They own it. Then they go talk to their employee. AI is the same. If it produces bugs and you ship it, take responsibility. Then go duke it out with AI to get AI to fix the problem and learn from the mistake by writing an AI 'skill' file so it knows how to do it better next time.
The creator of Linux just publicly called out the AI hype. Word for word.
Linus Torvalds took the stage at Open Source Summit 2026 and said this:
"When I see people saying 99% of our code is written by AI, I literally get angry. Because those same people — I can pretty much guarantee — 100% of their code is written by compilers. But they never say that."
He is not anti AI. The Linux kernel saw a 20% jump in submissions this release because of AI tools. He uses it. He gets it.
His point is something most people are too afraid to say.
AI is a productivity tool exactly like compilers were. Compilers boosted programming by 1000x. AI adds another 10x on top. Enormous. But nobody says "the compiler wrote my code." So why are we saying AI wrote it?
He also flagged something nobody is talking about.
AI is flooding small open source projects with drive-by bug reports. Someone runs a prompt, files a report and disappears when asked for a patch. Maintainers with one or two people are drowning trying to keep up.
"Sometimes AI reports a bug and when you ask for more information the person has done that drive-by and does not even answer your question. That is the real burnout issue."
And his final warning was the sharpest of all.
"People who do not understand the complexity of systems will prompt systems and write processes that will fail."
The AI hype crowd is very loud right now.
Linus has been building real systems for 35 years. When he talks, engineers listen.
Full interview here:
thenewstack.io/torvalds-ai-p…
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Some people will be fearful of the Zcash inflation risk due to the Orchard bug until we move to another pool, as we did with Sprout. Until then, I wonder if moving funds back to Sapling would be prudent to protect funds that otherwise might be locked in Orchard due to the turnstyle if there were actually inflation in there. Thoughts, Zcashers?
(warning: This is for Zcash developers and ecosystem. Party crashers will be blocked).
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Do AIs kill sfests? Or do fests teach AI skills? Hone your AI skills all next week at aka.ms/aiskillsfest
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At $657, Zcash will overtake USDS by market cap.
At $871, Zcash will overtake DOGE (how DOGE is worth anything is beyond me).
At $980, Zcash will overtake HYPE and take the #10 place by market cap of all cryptocurrencies (including stable coins).
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We have lots of providers with "a team of AI agents" ready to help you. But what I'd really like is for a voice AI to join a group of humans. When I and 2-3 other people are having an intellectual conversation, I want AI to listen and jump in naturally as a human would, dropping opinions, trivia, etc. that is relevant to the conversation. Maybe even correcting us on occasion.
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If you exclude stable coins, #Zcash is now in the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap.
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I cannot fathom how Apple gets apps written for its platforms when signing the code is so hard.
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Linux users: There's an app you want to download and run. Would you rather see it as an executable .AppImage (that updates itself) or a .deb file or an .rpm file?
Why?
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This author can add. But he can't do physics. He claims that a data center that consumes 9GW of power and expels 7-8GW of heat must therefore have a total "thermal load" of 16 GW. Um, no. That would violate conservation of energy dude. You don't add these numbers. You subtract them. 9GW in - 7GW heat = 2GW converted to other non-heat forms of energy, still leaving "only" 7GW as heat. Not 16GW. No one can turn 9GW of power int 16 GW of heat. @franklandymore you have a correction to make.
futurism.com/artificial-inte…
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I learned somewhere else that the extra heat calculation comes from inefficiency of the power plant--Not the data center itself. So now I see why you're adding the two numbers. IMO that could have been more clear in the article.
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