andy81

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by andy81 4y ago
Specialized mining hardware is an environmental disaster but it does make 51% attacks more difficult. With POW on general purpose CPUs, anyone can rent cloud processing to mine for short bursts in a way that's just not possible for att
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by andy81 4y ago
Bitcoin mining is almost entirely ASICs. GPUs aren't much good at the algorithm used.
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by andy81 4y ago
Anyone making $500m/year legit could rug for $20bn+, so they walk away before that point. Tether have a great business model but seem to spend 90% of their time falsifying reserves instead. It certainly gives the impression they'r
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by andy81 4y ago
Monero still tries to fit in this niche. The only thing it's useful for is financial crime though - if your problem is just making a payment you can do it in dollars relatively easily and safely.
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by andy81 5y ago
For read-only workflows Power Query is the killer feature of the past decade. For writes, there's Airtable, Google Forms, PowerApps etc.
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by andy81 5y ago
Works now, probably just pebcak
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by andy81 5y ago
Shift isn't picked up on Firefox. Am I missing something or is this Chrome/Desktop only?
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by andy81 5y ago
Thanks, we were thinking of the same thing.
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by andy81 5y ago
Today I appreciated Powershell
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by andy81 5y ago
Must have been bad- the normal recommendation for norovirus is to avoid hospital because it's so infectious. e.g. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/norovirus/ That's what isolation wards are for, I suppose.
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by andy81 5y ago
Not completely true. Dogecoin for example has some config changes to block size that make transactions cheaper. It's factually "better" as far as code goes.
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by andy81 5y ago
Data tables and keeping one tab per table solves all of those. Sounds more like an issue with the skill of average excel users than a feature gap.
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by andy81 5y ago
That's a common opinion. The object model and IDE are a big part of it though, maybe even more so than syntax horrors like while..wend vs do while..loop.
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by andy81 5y ago
Let's not give Amazon a free ride, cancelling the Prime trial was some real bullshit last time I tried. The option was hidden behind several pages of "Here's what you'll miss out on" and "You still have x days
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by andy81 5y ago
Not a problem if you only sell to the bottom 50% of drivers.
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by andy81 6y ago
From the article that caused the panic- https://crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com/the-bit-short-insid... The last nail in the coffin was when I found out about the lack of visible reserves. If Tether Ltd. really was taking i