this morning I wrote that computers can keep a list of numbers and subtract 100 from one number and add 100 to another, and now all the software engineers in my feed are like “lol no they can’t, that’s impossible,” technology is wild.
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There probably are crypto-weirdos in his mentions, but it's standard distributed systems humor that incrementing a counter on two separate computers is Impossible™.
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Blockchain "solves" this problem by not solving it.
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And that's without even considering cool special hardware like Tandem NonStop
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