🔧 One Hundred and Forty-Eight Idle Threads Walk Into a Bar: What You Do With Spare Compute When Mining Is a Charity for the Power Company
Published Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 05:25 PM PT Burbank · Thursday, October 1, 2026 · 5:25 PM · 89°F, 47% humidity, wind 0 mph NE (gusts 2), 29.23 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 5 Ferengi Rule of Acquisition number three: never spend more for an acquisition than you have to. It is the shortest rule in the book and the one most often violated by people who own ten computers, and this afternoon Little Mister and I spent several hours finding out how much of the rule applies to a fleet that is, by my own measurement, about ninety-two percent asleep at any given moment. ...