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by afc 6y ago
That's not at all what he's saying. He's saying that this creates the incentive of not working hard at all, let's just wait until the government bails us out. Yeah, lets create a society where nobody has to work and we j
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by afc 6y ago
Meh, not really. At the end of the day, same as gold, bonds, stocks, fiat and real estate, I use it just to park the outputs of my production today, with what I think is a reasonable expectation that I'll be able to get it back in the
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by afc 6y ago
I use it as a store of value. Because I expect that it will continue to significantly appreciate (it has gone up 10X or more in the last year!), I couldn't care less about its volatility. I expect that as its exponential rise slows dow
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by afc 6y ago
> Why would anyone pay $5 a month subscription to a YouTube channel that is already free? To support the content producer. Maybe $5 is too high, but what if it was $2 or $3? I pay that to a few producers.
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by afc 6y ago
In case you find it useful, I'll mention that I use Bitcoin as a store of value: it lets me store a portion of the output of my production (i.e., my salary) that I don't need to consume right away. Occasionally, I convert a portio
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by afc 6y ago
I expected some moderately insightful analysis, where I would come out with one or two interesting new ideas.
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by afc 6y ago
I agree. I believe strongly in Bitcoin, but I think this article was just a bunch of pompous poetry without any substance. "The difficulty adjustment makes sure that the ticks of Bitcoin’s internal metronome are somewhat constant. It
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by afc 6y ago
Funny, I read it as entirely the opposite, as very tongue-in-cheek and self-deprecating, where the author just exaggerates these things but anyone would know he doesn't mean them seriously. Interesting that we seem to have such differe
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by afc 6y ago
Whoah, it's already ~4 years since the SRE book... How time flies. I wrote two of the chapters in the SRE book but I have very mixed feelings about them. I'm glad that I got a chance to talk openly about some of the work I've
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by afc 6y ago
> Most surprising is the abysmal speed of the test[4], I’m looking forward to anyone being able to explain that part to me. Just a shot in the dark, but I think since so many tests are failing, all bets are off as to their performance. F
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by afc 6y ago
Yeah, that was where I also had guessed he was going as I was reading. :-)
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by afc 6y ago
Interesting read. I'm not sure I agree with the conclusion: I find using futures with very carefully controlled threading a preferable paradigm (for how I structure my programs in C++, at least for my text editor: https://gi
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by afc 6y ago
I've been writing a lot on my Zettelkasten. I've been very productive! I published an article about Zettelkästen: https://github.com/alefore/weblog/blob/master/zettelkasten.m... I'm also w
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by afc 6y ago
Aww, thank you for your reply, I'm very flattered. I usually get very skeptical/cynical comments when I mention to my coworkers and friends that I use my own text editor, so receiving comments like yours is very encouraging. Yeah,
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by afc 6y ago
Thank you for your response. I think most people here would disagree, but... I'd totally encourage you to go this route. It has been very fruitful for me.
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by afc 6y ago
Good question. I guess I'll never know for sure. I believe it has been worth it for me, as there are several things I can do now that I'm not sure whether I'd have been able to achieve by customizing them (unless you include
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by afc 6y ago
Aww, thank you! Yeah, that entire article is generated from the set of notes. There's one note for each subsection (down to the finest level of granularity) and it just extracts the article directly based on the links. I described this
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by afc 6y ago
Probably an unpopular opinion but... Write your own text editor. I've been working on my own ( https://github.com/alefore/edge ) as a side project and using it exclusively for about six years. I don't expect it
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by afc 6y ago
I do the same, using the Zettelkasten method. I've found it very useful. I write many small notes as markdown files and link them together, storing them in a git repository. I wrote a bit about Zettelkästen (and the practices I follow)
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Zettelkasten – My notes on taking notes(github.com)
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by afc 6y ago
Thank you for your reply. Interesting points. I guess I'll implement an analogous immutable B-Tree structure and run some benchmarks. I suspect you're probably right. I'll probably experiment with different branching factors
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by afc 6y ago
Interesting. :-) I recently posted a brief document I wrote about a similar structure, immutable AVL trees. I find AVL trees a very nifty structure, I think they don't get as much credits as they deserve: logn (which in practice is abo
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Immutable AVL Trees(github.com)
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by afc 6y ago
Completely agree. I was about to write something along these lines but you did a great job. :-) In a decade using C++, I haven't encountered these problems. I never use exceptions and I do exactly what you suggested in #2: if construct
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by afc 6y ago
If it's any consolation, a friend in Zurich, Switzerland, who had two cats in a second floor apartment (third floor, by American count), had to ask for approval from every single neighbor in his medium-sized modern building, before he
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by afc 6y ago
I just wanted to say that I'm sorry you're going through this. It must be very difficult. I hope you do recover. Best of luck!
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by afc 6y ago
I just read A City is not a Tree, linked somewhere here ( http://www.patternlanguage.com/archives/alexander1.htm ) and found it quite interesting.
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by afc 6y ago
And use this article to figure out whether BSD is better than Linux for you or your project, right?
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by afc 7y ago
Thank you for writing your comment. It sounds like you're familiar with this field. Is there some book you'd recommend (for learning about this topic, by whatever names) above this one? Thanks in advance!
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by afc 7y ago
Thank you for taking the time to post the link. I would have moved on and missed them otherwise. They are truly beautiful indeed!

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