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by berkes 2y ago
BC? 3.8 billion + 2024 is still just 3.8 billion.
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by berkes 2y ago
Misleading? Or just misintepretable? Misleading implies the author tries to lead you to a wrong conclusion. The article is very clear about what it really means. I immediately read the headline as "it happened in a time span of 10 minu
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by berkes 2y ago
To make it worse: "Look, the things I added to the definition aren't bad in this specific language and use-case, so global variables are not the problem". To me, the author either has a very narrow field of focus and honestly
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by berkes 2y ago
Wow, nice achievement! It's funny to see the amount of community effort around vscode to make it behave like vim. I've never got to like oil.vim. Tried, but it doesn't stick. I guess, partly because it doesn't solve a re
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by berkes 2y ago
A trust box, for example. Or a simple donation option. The ticket (pay what you want) at my favorite punk gig in town. Etc. In e.g. the Netherlands, the majority of payments go via a payment system iDeal¹. Its easy to start an ideal payment
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by berkes 2y ago
NFC payments with cards. Payments based on proximity. Payment requests over chat etc etc. Please. By all means, get out there. And look around and be amazed by how inventive people are. How cultural differences form technological preference
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by berkes 2y ago
I have been using a catchall mailbox with hostname type names for over a decade now¹ So, com.example.shop@example.org for https://shop.example.com account(s). I've recently switched to a randomized username part, as bitward
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by berkes 2y ago
> Human suffering, animal suffering, morality, and so on are basically irrelevant. Not "irrevelent" but most often deliberately part of a strategy: In economics, an externality or external cost is an indirect cost or benefit to
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by berkes 2y ago
> How many developers are doing little more than writing boilerplate? Before you go down the road of what can be automated, let's try to answer this. I'm sure there's actual research, but I cannot find it. Anecdotal, but w
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by berkes 2y ago
Pissing it up the wall is exactly what the Netherlands did with it's now bygone wealth of natural gas. It's why the Netherlands (cold, cloudy, wet climate) is Europe's primary bell-pepper, tomato, cucumber etc producer all
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by berkes 2y ago
Age does matter for experience though. And "experience" is what allows one software architect to select the right stack, and the other to select something that turned out to be abandonware half a year later. It is what allows one
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by berkes 2y ago
I know that it freezes the classes (which are also objects, indeed). And I saw it does this by reading classnames from a list of textfiles. Both is not fast. The "freeze" isn't that invasive, from what I can see in the c code
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by berkes 2y ago
> but it's also nice that we can make Ruby behave like a more strict language in parts of a codebase Certainly! But that should IMO be i) part of the language and runtime - e.g. some immutable do/end block, ii) used, and promot
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by berkes 2y ago
I've used 'ice_nine' previously. When returning to some Ruby work after some significant rust-gigs, I really loved the "immutable by default" idea and kept running into issues caused by accidental or unwanted mutati
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by berkes 2y ago
Does freezing an object add overhead to running it? Memory, CPU cycles etc? In many languages, "frozen" or immutable objects typically allow for better performance, less GC overhead, and lighter data-structures when running parall
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by berkes 2y ago
TBC: I wasn't saying that F2B is a silver bullet. Not at all. But that protection depends on the use case. And that in many of my use-cases, a simple f2b with a large hardcoded list of URL paths I guarantee to never have, will drop bot
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by berkes 2y ago
A lot of modern standards rely on .well-known urls to convey abilities, endpoints, related services and so on. In my case, I never run anything PHP so I'll just plain block out anything PHP (same for python, lua, activedirectory etc).
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by berkes 2y ago
For what? That's the crucial question. Because the important parameter to "what is best ?" isn't the "day and age", but the exact use-case, and to lesser extent, requirements, existing stacks, team capabilities
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by berkes 2y ago
But how much of this "bad actor" interaction is countered with tracking? And how many of these attempts are even close to successfull with even the simplest out of the box security practices set up? And when it does get more dange
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by berkes 2y ago
WordPress is the exact example of the opposite of your point. WP started as the edge of a wedge. But contrary to the examples in TLA, it didn't become an everything platform deliberate and predetermined, but organical and messy. It sta
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by berkes 2y ago
This is also a personality trait. Where ADHD has this in the extreme. I, having ADHD, cannot do any task if it's not motivated by excitement and newness (or forced by raw discipline, which is extremely energy consuming). Your comment s
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by berkes 2y ago
> How does bitcoin defend itself? By being peer-to-peer, distributed, international and permissionless. As long as there are people invested in it (in the broad sense) it will continue to exist. It's defense mainly is "energy w
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by berkes 2y ago
How does "creating an image and selling it" clean black money? It's not as if creating it comes with great costs that could be funded with black money, right? Isn't the scheme that you then buy it from yourself, or via a
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by berkes 2y ago
pseudonyms are fine until the moment they can be linked to real identities. At which point, because of the public, mathematical provable, ledger, the pseudonyms become concrete evidence, often in a "viral" way, i.e. through transa
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by berkes 2y ago
> of being able to exchange it if needed yes. But my point is that "being able to exchange it" is what gives all assets value. From gold, via bonds to dollars. So 1) this isn't unique to crypto and 2) we should avoid nar
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by berkes 2y ago
Depending on how you use it, you mightn't need to exchange it often, or at all. Companies that use it as hedge, or diversification, just need to "hold" it. Investors (not traders, there's a big difference) also commonly
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by berkes 2y ago
It is unstoppable, permissionless and pseudomic. All but the last is indeed this criminals dream. But cash isn't pseudonomic, it's actually anonymous. It's even (practically) untracable. Cash is also unstoppable and permissio
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by berkes 2y ago
Nobody wants US greenbacks. You can't even use them to stay warm for long. What people want is the value it represents in a way they can manage that value. I don't want fictional numbers in some asset fund that say I own zero poin
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by berkes 2y ago
That's not laundering. That's getting paid. If you want to transfer money in a way that's unblockable, unceasable, and pseudonomic, Bitcoin is a good system. If you want to then convert that into dollars, it's not. Ranso

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