Please don't forget to add stratum on either port 80, 8080 or 443!  |
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Who's using the Linux Client now?
What features are people interested in the most? Pool failover? Stratum? More CUDA optimization?
CUDA optimization would be best, since hash rate is what really separates AMD from nVidia. |
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Stratum on port 80 (or 8080/443) would be really nice! |
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Please implement either port 80, 8080 or 443 mining! |
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Please add some nVidia GTX Titan models!  |
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Yeah, the 100 BTC threshold seems a good choice, averaging for daily payments.
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Thanks Inaba, everything correct over here also! |
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I don't think the answer to the OP's questions will come from this thread. I think its something you gotta figure out for yourself. This is a very bad place to come to for advice about women lol.
lol true So I've thought about the situation long and hard (no pun intended) I think the best advice is really just to move on, as much as that pisses me off and depresses me. If she breaks up with him then I'll move in for the kill, but you can't wait around for people. She's great but she has a certain inertia about her when it comes to making life changes, so my gut is telling me that even if she realized that she liked me better, she may still end up marrying this shmo. So, that's that for now. I'm still crazy about her, but I have too much dignity to waste on a girl that's already taken. I've seen friends waste years on specific girls with no results, and I deserve better than that crap. You are already accepting defeat without giving it a try. If you try and fail, you learn something. Fail to try nets you nothing. If she's already in an ok'ish relationship, she won't jump ship without first knowing if you are or not a better choice. You have to put up some cards on the table first. Finally, and most importantly, focusing on any specific girl at the start of anything is just a big mistake. Diversify. Don't put all the eggs in the same basket. Focusing when there's nothing substantial yet will frustrate you alot in the long run, especially when the outcome may not be what you want. Meet other girls. After you have met 10 more, is this one really that important? Is she really that awesome then? Only you can answer that question. |
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I could not agree more. You just have to trust me that this gift is an exception.
But you're right, it's giving too much off the bat. Maybe I'll still do it, but give her a little more time first. Like you said, "walk the line".
Easier said than done though sometimes... discipline... discipline...
Gifts are a way of saying someone "Thank you so much!". That's why we give gifts to significant others in our lifes. Giving a gift with nothing yet to thank for, changes the nature of that gift. It becomes an "offering to appease the gods", and looks like you are tying to "buy" affection, trying to take a shortcut, or trying to compensate something. Win her first by talking, they you can decide to "thank her" (give her a gift) for being part of your life or not. If you already had some time together, that's great. It shows that her initial interest level in you is not zero! It was during work, so she was right in her comfort zone. That's also good at the start because she won't feel the pressure of anything and will be more open. Use baby steps. After getting to know her better during work hours, at least a few times, only then you ask her for a coffee before or after work (the next comfort zones; before is time-limited (more comfortable), after may not be; one or the other depends on your standing), when you start feeling she will probably have no reluctance in accepting it. Don't be too eager. Remember, baby steps and a healthy dose of patience -- you need to give her time to increase her own interest level in you, since she's already with someone. Bottom line, you want gradually for her to know you as much as you want to know her. Only then you'll know if you really like this girl. Remember that looks are great at first, but no relationship thrives on looks alone. And above all, be honest. You want her to know who you really are. Lying is only a form of fear. There is nothing to be afraid here. Always have the guts to be a Man, with a capital M. |
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Not right now... I know a few other girls that seem cool I guess. But I really like this one the best by far...
Get to know them. See how it goes with them. See how you are around them. Try, fail, try, fail, try, succeed. Practice, practice, practice!!! |
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It sucks, any advice?
You have to be as much honest to both your feelings and towards her, as you can. Express her your interest. Be very concise, don't overdo it. You don't know her that well yet. A simple "I'd like to know you better, wanna go for a coffee later?" will work wonders. Remember that the golden rule is to keep interest level high. Do nothing and the opportunity passes. Do too much and you'll just drop your interest level in her eyes. Walk this subtle line, keep some mystery, but most of all, be honest to yourself. Better to try and fail, than to never try at all. Already done this, we went out during work for about an hour or so, it was great. Now I realize this sounds like "overdoing it", but I have the perfect gift for her for christmas. Not that I'm a gifter guy (that's a stupid strategy that I would never go down, you cannot ever guilt a woman with gifts!) but there are very rare exceptions where you have an idea that's just so perfect, and so personal and life-changing (for her), that you just can't not do it. This is one of those exceptions. I vetting the idea by a female friend of mine, and she said to go for it and that the gift idea was "better than all the diamond rings in the world". But the best part is that given the nature of the gift I can absolutely do it "as a friend" without any unusual suspicion. Boyfriend or no boyfriend, I don't give a shit, I'm doing what I want. And even if it doesn't make a difference to my life (almost certainly not) I sure know it will make a difference to hers. You can give her the gift, but have this very clear in your head: "gifts are dangerous territory". The better the gift, the more you have to back up next and give her space, or she can feel overwhelmed. Its somewhat of a gamble, really. Gifts are good when you already know of her interest towards you, but can be bad when she feels you might be "misinterpreting" her actions of just wanting a "friendship". Think a relationship like a rubber band. Make her want to pull you by knowing when to back up -- you do this by knowing to respect her personal space. Show too much, and you'll come as needy. Keep the mystery up. Walk the line! |
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It sucks, any advice?
You have to be as much honest to both your feelings and towards her, as you can. Express her your interest. Be very concise, don't overdo it. You don't know her that well yet. A simple "I'd like to know you better, wanna go for a coffee later?" will work wonders. Remember that the golden rule is to keep interest level high. Do nothing and the opportunity passes. Do too much and you'll just drop your interest level in her eyes. Walk this subtle line, keep some mystery, but most of all, be honest to yourself. Better to try and fail, than to never try at all. |
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The 1:1.1 rate proposed by Epoch seems a fair middle ground, if it's ok with Inaba. |
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Nope. Any time you change 1 bit on the input, you change all bits on the output hash (SHA-256). If it were like you said above, it would be a pretty crappy cryptographic function in the first place! Not all. If it would be so, changing 2 or any even number of bits would result in the same hash. Optimally one bit changes about half of the result hash. Bt the real problem is that changing a bit affets on that what other bits affect. Anyway, I also think it would not work. Just a stupid idea. No, a good hash function, and sha256 is that, will make the results have absolutely nothing in common even if only 1 bit is changed. This is called the avalanche effect and is a most desirable property. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_effectThat's what I practically told. But if one input bit allways changes *all* the output bits, then the function is not a hash, but it is binary "NOT". And that means they (inputs with 1bit difference) would practically have almost all in common with the results. So optimally (as your link also noted), about half of the output bits are changed when one input bit changes. But this conversation is quite stupid. We all agree, but are still arguing. And quite much off-topic. Of course, if you use a binary system for representing something, at the bit-level there can only be 0's or 1's. So, even if the bits don't seem to change much at a low level between the hashes of 2 different data, the hashes themselves are quite different because they can only be interpreted at the word level, and they are built to minimize the correlation with original data. Think of a hash like a "random" function. Although not all bits change between runs of random trials, at a higher level the numbers are still random, and follow no predictable pattern. |
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I guess it's also not worth first finding what affect of nonce bits has on the hash result and going throught only those nonce bits which affects the higher bits on the result?
+ since every bit cannot affect every hash result bit, there are some bits that affect more high bits than lower bits. Are they worth more intensive test?
- maybe not: every input bit not only affect certain result bit, but they also affect on what other bits affect..
Edit: Let's make a simple example:
1. We test with 0000001 and find out that bit 0 affects bits 3..17 on the hash result
2. we test with 0000010 and find out that bit 1 affects bits 31..24 on the hash result.
Would it give better results, if we only calculate hash values on even (or only odd) nonce values?
I think not, but maybe worth discuss? What do you think?
Edit2: so in the end we would find 16 bits on the nonce that affect most on the higher bits on the result and only vary them. We would need only 1/65536 time to search nonce area, but would we get more likely a match compared to used time? Still, I think likely not, but mabe we should try?
Nope. Any time you change 1 bit on the input, you change all bits on the output hash (SHA-256). If it were like you said above, it would be a pretty crappy cryptographic function in the first place! |
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