@ProofOfCash@MindfulArrow@Trezor I'll be that guy, how is the attack working? I'm picturing them just running combos of 12 and 24 in some restore loop until they hit pay dirt...but that obviously couldn't be it.
They are constraining the potential set to something, but what, how?
@zerohedge I put forth Galloway as the human embodiment of Sowell's great work, 'The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy'
I've never seen this suggested before:
Counting sheep works for the same reason some modern sleep techniques use closed-eye visual tracking.
The sheep aren't just being counted.
They're being followed.
A sheep crosses your mental field of view, jumps the fence/bed, repeat x100.
Less arithmetic, more low-effort visual pursuit.
Folk wisdom discovered an effective sleep protocol centuries before neuroscience gave it a name.