The real world doesn't care about the soundness of your computer science. All that matters is whether it works.
It's like saying we should just completely give up on all NP-hard problems because we'll never discover a way to find the optimal solution in all cases. Meanwhile in the real world, people are more than happy with, say, a route planner which virtually all of the time gives them a solution which is within a rounding error of optimal. Nobody is going to care that it is technically bad science.
Same with Anubis: Sure, it's a dead end in an ongoing arms race. It won't last forever. But right now it works pretty well, so let's hope it lasts until someone can figure out a better approach.
I'm fine with you running Anubis. My point was that Tavis flagged the outcome this blog post is discussing a year ago. It was hotly disputed on HN at the time. That's all I'm saying.
It's like saying we should just completely give up on all NP-hard problems because we'll never discover a way to find the optimal solution in all cases. Meanwhile in the real world, people are more than happy with, say, a route planner which virtually all of the time gives them a solution which is within a rounding error of optimal. Nobody is going to care that it is technically bad science.
Same with Anubis: Sure, it's a dead end in an ongoing arms race. It won't last forever. But right now it works pretty well, so let's hope it lasts until someone can figure out a better approach.