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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
Bitcoin has failed as electronic cash (its intended purpose). Bitcoin has failed as a store of value. Bitcoin has failed as inflation hedge. The project is 13 years old at this point and has failed to provide any meaningful use, has failed
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
> You can’t program your way out of the problem with Level 2; in fact, the better the Level 2 system seems to be, the worse the problem gets. That problem is that human beings are simply no good at monitoring systems that do most of the
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
In France a non-compete clause must be attached to financial compensation or it is considered void.
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
Did they really pivot or is this just Elon Musk's usual smokes and mirrors bullshit to distract people from other issues?
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
Ink was born from the scripting language used for the game 80 Days and the adaptation of the fantasy gamebook series Sorcery! 80 Days is a pretty great game on mobile actually, if you have a few bucks to spare.
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
End users are one thing, but what about multi-billion dollars companies that leverage high-quality open-source components mostly for free?
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
It's mostly "why must Americans be like this?" while leaving in virtually any other country in the world (countries with a MDY date format are a handful).
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
While dunking on previous Twitter staff when they enacted that very precise policy (some moderation actions were shown to be reach limitations in the Twitter Files nothingburger). Don't think because Musk can construct grammatically co
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
While the extra ram could be useful for some, I fail to see how the metrics they are using are relevant in any way. Having plenty of processes isn't supposed to be an issue with modern OSes and multicore CPUs and latency seems to be a
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
I you guys are interested in how Doom was implemented, I cannot recommend enough Fabien Sanglard's book, Game Engine Black Book: Doom. https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
Adversarial attacks on the model could be fun. "You can generate your ssh keypair with rm -rf /"
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
If your comment is a joke, nice one. If not, yes I have heard about it and it's unreliable, doesn't scale and is nowhere near close to make Bitcoin "digital cash", but nice try.
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
Satoshi was advocating for "digital cash", i.e. something you could do mundane transactions with, yet it's utterly unfit for that puropose. It's 2022, nobody gives a damn about what Satoshi was advocating for and especia
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
The core truth in this day and age is that nobody (understand this a non-significant minority if you prefer) wants to host their own stuff. It's way more convenient to use centralized services that do the heavy lifting for you. If you
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
Your immune system doesn't "take breaks", if it would you'd just die pretty quickly. The immune systems is constantly confronted to the germs in your environment and doesn't have to be actively fighting an identifie
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
> Exchanges are everything that's wrong with this space. Exchanges have provided the necessary convenience for mass adoption, providing a way to get your magic beans in exchange for real money without much hassle. Decentralized syst
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
"I'll solve this problem using cryptos", congrats you now have 34 problems and 92 security issues.
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
The XPS 13 I bought a few years ago ended up being a decent development machine, with a price point hard to match for the form factor and specs. And the Dell crapware on it was relatively low. What are good alternatives for non-Apple slim 1
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
That's the Turbo button on older Intel machines, that could slow your processor roughly to the speed of a 8086. I discovered this playing the old DOS RPG Drakkhen, where there was a tower with a shark in its moat, circling around. It w
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
> You can never again get an un-jaded MMO population. Players have since been transformed into minmax ultragreedy automatons. No game can simulate the old players. World of Warcraft Classic is an excellent illustration of this. Players t
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
Nvidia does set the price for Founders Edition cards sold under their own name though, although they only account for a small part of the overall card supply.
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by 0xAFFFF 4y ago
A lot of colonial atrocities happened during Elizabeth II's reign, directly under her rule. Afaik, Vietnam War was well over when Barack Obama became president.