Russ Ross

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CS professor @utahtech. I'm interested in low-level systems, Apple IIs, and a bunch of other stuff.
Russ Ross4d ago

You hate to see it.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/22/bitcoin-miners-are-losing-usd19-000-on-every-btc-produced-as-difficulty-drops-7-8

Bitcoin miners are losing $19,000 on every BTC produced as difficulty drops 7.8%

The average production cost was sitting at $88,000 per bitcoin in mid-March, according to Checkonchain's difficulty regression model.

CoinDesk
Show threadRuss RossApr 4
@regehr I read her book and talked about it so much my wife read it, too. It’s a wild ride—highly recommended.
Russ RossApr 4
Show threadAzApr 4
50 years on and space travel has become the techno utopia we have always wanted, as summed up in this quote from NASA's Artemis II livestream
Russ RossJan 3

@dev @cross @steve I liked C from the years I lived in England. Every 10 degrees is basically a season and a wardrobe change, and each degree is just enough to be meaningful. F degrees are a little too close together.

0-10: cold, wear a coat, gloves, etc
10-20: cool, wear a jacket or sweater
20-30: warm and pleasant
30-40: hot, shorts only
40+: summer in the desert (where I live)

Show threadRuss RossDec 25
@regehr took me a couple tries before I saw something that wasn’t a croissant
Show threadRuss RossNov 23
That’s just what I picked this morning. Peppers in my garden are a boom or bust thing so in boom years I dry them and grind them into chili powder. So many habaneros mixed in that I’m getting orange powder
Russ RossNov 23
The habanero plant went a little overboard this fall
Russ RossNov 8
Show threadRob RicciNov 8
@sgnj151 DAMMIT THE REGISTER YOU HAD ONE JOB https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115096806565494197
Rob Ricci (@[email protected])

One of my life goals is to get described by The Register as a "boffin"

discuss.systems
Russ RossOct 21
The AWS outage meant I didn’t have to log in to Canvas all day. Does the person responsible have a tip jar?
Russ RossSep 12, 2025

Decided to play with Claude Code so I started by installing node and the default install on Debian came with 383 packages.

Part of me just died a little.