So, in the latest episode of Silicon Valley the character Gilfoyle (pic related) has an audible alert set up for when the price of Bitcoin is profitable to mine.
He uses this alert to manually remotely toggle his rig.
Keep in mind, this is a world-class programmer, so why doesn't he write a script to toggle it automatically? Am I missing something?
So...
Hunter Perry
Aaron Phillips
>not being in full control of your mining rig at all times
Luke Powell
>Am I missing something?
You have autism.
Henry Evans
fucking this
Zachary Cox
is there really no way to securely control that automatically?
Evan Thompson
he doesn't actually plan to mine bitcoin for a profit. It's not practical or profitable in any way nowadays. He also included a loud as fuck and annoying alert sound that is played at full volume to the whole office. Note that the alert cannot be turned off. He's really just fucking with everyone.
Matthew Cook
I know that, but hypothetically wouldn't it be feasible and preferable to control it automatically?
Luis Hall
Because he's a jaded asshole and does it on purpose to make people around him suffer.
Do you literally have autism?
Nicholas Howard
Because how else would they make a joke at buttcoins expense?
Connor Mitchell
yes and it definitely could. that's not the point of his alert though