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by andirk 3y ago
Things that are super time sensitive should never have distractions present. The Uber app trying to get me to buy cold upside down delivery food while I'm trying to get a ride is a terrible UX. Another example is Waze, the once most am
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by andirk 3y ago
The repeating issue in these comments: very small fiat transactions are difficult. Crypto solves this. The barrier to entry is cumbersome because of KYC, but after that the whole ecosystem is ready to go. People talking 25 cents for an arti
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by andirk 3y ago
Except that bitcoin transactions are far more public than accounting for gold bars.
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by andirk 3y ago
The immobility of many coins makes the rest of them _more_ valuable, not less. Calculating worth of a stock or person is usually pretty inaccurate because it assumes the 1st and last piece of the asset are sold at the same amount, but if so
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by andirk 3y ago
I second keeping the giant pit in the guac. And if I'm the only one eating it, I don't care if it changes color a bit because it has no effect.
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by andirk 3y ago
Cashless is classist. Not everyone has easy access to banking. There's plenty of uses for credit, debit, wire, crypto, but thinking that cash doesn't have its place is short-sighted. Giving some 2-5% of every purchase to some othe
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by andirk 3y ago
I still don't understand. Is that a feature of the vehicle or not? Is this an April Fool's joke or is there a setting that cheers on the driver while accelerating? I see some individuals took insult to my question. Some of the sou
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by andirk 3y ago
I don't get it. OK there are sounds to let you know the car is falling apart constantly, but this one is ambient sound of people encouraging you to accelerate??
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by andirk 3y ago
I think a lot of addicts despise their addiction. Exceptions are the few highly acceptable addictions in society such as coffee. Nonetheless, doing anything in excess can be detrimental to one's health and livelihood and should be kept
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by andirk 3y ago
Might as well add LOC as a metric. Both can mean the person is extremely inefficient, over-engineering everything, and their eyes are begging for a break. However! The best engineers I've been around do work a lot and they like it.
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by andirk 3y ago
A web component should do ONE thing whereas a JS framework is a whole ecosystem. I made a video player web component that could take in various inputs, with a torrent file being the most complex of them. I was then able to port it to Vue&#x
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by andirk 3y ago
Cool. It's like Sega Channel but only those choose-your-own-adventure games with 2 buttons.
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by andirk 3y ago
<Aside> from the rest of the discussion, `input` element is infamously shitty for having vastly different ways of interacting with it, whereas most other HTML elements have one signature.
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by andirk 3y ago
There are often 2 consumers of your code: users and developers. If a developer can write error-free binary code that improves performance (as seen by the user) by 0.1%, BUT the next developer (or even the same dev months later) can't a
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by andirk 3y ago
When companies get more extreme with attempts to increase ad revenue, it leads me to believe they're getting squeezed for profits and this is a last ditch effort. Similar to how this "extreme chocolate chunk" cookie has 1 cho
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by andirk 3y ago
A few jobs ago, there was a huge influx of hacking attempts coming from some specific part of India. Until we could figure out the best way to detect and block those nefarious connections, we decided to just block ALL traffic from that area
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by andirk 3y ago
"With great power comes great responsibility" That's version control. You have every choice from straight forward to mind-blowingly time-manipulatingly complex. If you fear the unknown, then just do the out of the box stuff v
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by andirk 3y ago
Good use case for bitcoin. Not as user-friendly as fiat and traditional banks, but bitcoin literally can't cancel you no matter what.
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by andirk 3y ago
Some of that phenomenon may be that people want to be considered shy. Like how people say they were a "nerd" in high school, so their current them is "but look at me now!".
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by andirk 3y ago
I know your type and it's great! But yes, a connection is a dance, so if I'm getting pelted with these seemingly reasonable questions (read: "and how did that make you feel?"), they start feeling insincere.
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by andirk 3y ago
A dating advice, for a guy, is "70/30"; Let her speak 70%, you speak 30%. People really like to share their own knowledge because that is their comfort zone, especially about themself. When I throw a few cocktails back, I can
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by andirk 3y ago
This is very common. Pretty annoying at first, but once I notice someone does that on the constant, I can zone out while they try to divert the story, and then return to continue the natural path of the convo. If it's every other sente
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by andirk 3y ago
How crazy is it to think the first big crypto version of money is the ONE that will rule all? I have some faith but can't some other coin get traction and be way better than something that one guy made who probably died in 2011. And if
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by andirk 3y ago
Brave browser isn't necessarily blocking advertisements as much as it is blocking scripts that are naughty, and those naughty scripts are very popular in ads and ad networks. And the Basic Attention Token concept is something I hope ta
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by andirk 3y ago
True, and we do, but broadcast and cable TV have done this for decades, and some current streaming services do this. If an advertiser wants to pay for guaranteed attention, maybe some sort of "click this dot in next 10 seconds" an
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by andirk 3y ago
The majority of my friends met their better/other halves at the office. But now the in-person office culture is far less. From a pandemic keeping us physically distant to this current stay-at-home office worker, seems like some sort of
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by andirk 3y ago
Let's consider other options. What about: - Select "Watch ads later" a few times, until required, so time sensitive situations aren't bothered - Choose "Watch 1 long ad, then no more today" and pay the piper al
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by andirk 3y ago
Agreed, but I think the key is: targeting + good creative. Ad networks often allow targeting to some extent and I suggest targeting your audience as much as possible. 2nd, if the ad isn't relative to me BUT is interesting or funny, the
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by andirk 3y ago
In "agile" or "scrum" or whatever story pointing is, the "level of effort" is often touted and rightfully so. The mind can quickly become exhausted after grueling mental labor. Personally, I often get some 5 ho
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by andirk 3y ago
Someone brought the TCP and the HTTP together. Both popular. Worked out.

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