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Richard Gaywood
@PenLlawen
Embittered veteran coder. I mostly tweet about tech, cooking, dogs, and games. Often joking. He/him.
Feb 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
the sheer chaotic energy of publishing this during PMQs, absolutely amazing scenes

ImageImage Holy crap!

This is the Commons seconds after Johnson denied this latest No10 party photo. The entire Tory side is on their phones looking for it. And look at the reaction from the MP in glasses and the grey top 😬
Jan 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Bitcoin paper was published in 2008, 14 years ago. Ethereum was released in 2015, 6 years ago.

Berners-Lee's first web browser was prototyped in 1990, and published in Comms of the ACM in 1993.

1/ 14 years later was 2007. In that time, the web went through the entire dot.com boom-bust. In 2007, Google was 8 years old, and had gone public 3 years previously. The iPhone was released in 2007.

Bitcoin is almost as old as the first iPhone.

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Nov 18, 2021 • 16 tweets • 8 min read
@thisismyroom @smdiehl @GeoffreyHuntley Pick apart any NFT smart contract (eg etherscan.io/address/0xbc4c…) and you’ll find a payload that points to a URL hosting a JPG (eg ipfs.io/ipfs/QmRRPWG96… )

So yeah, it’s just a hyperlink to an image. @thisismyroom @smdiehl @GeoffreyHuntley Let me know if you need me to show you the decompile process for the smart contract! It’s quite easy. I assure you there really is nothing in there apart from that URL.
Nov 16, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Here are a group of fishing industry leaders who are, to paraphrase, shitting themselves about going bankrupt once they can no longer sell fish to the EU without trade barriers:

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Here are the signatories to that letter.

I wonder what these people used to think about Brexit.

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Nov 13, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I want to talk about this for a second, and how it's nonsense.

The manufacturer, BD, claims a 16% false positive rate for these tests [1] (the false negative rate is, they claim, approximately zero.)

[1] fiercebiotech.com/medtech/bd-net…

1/ So if you have COVID-19, and you take one test, you have a 16% chance of a negative result (and a 84% of a positive one.)

If you take two tests, the chances of both tests coming back positive is (0.84 * 0.84) = 70.6%. You have almost a 1/3rd chance that one result is wrong.

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