cryptica

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by cryptica 5y ago
Part of me wonders why nobody tries to make software like we make buildings... After some time, it's all done and nothing else needs to be added. People will be quick to point out that "the hardware keeps changing so the software
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by cryptica 5y ago
If the project has good separation of concerns, you don't need atomic updates. Good separation of concerns yields many benefits beyond ease of project management. It requires a bit more thought, but if done correctly, it's worth m
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by cryptica 5y ago
To scale a monorepo, you need to split it up into multiple repos; that way each repo can be maintained independently by a separate team... We can call it a multi-monrepo, that way our brainwashed managers will agree to it.
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by cryptica 5y ago
The narrative about automation is used to justify Big Tech monopolies. I.e. there are huge tech monopolies nowadays because big tech is automating everything and driving all local brick-and-mortar shops out of business and people are going
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by cryptica 5y ago
The stock market has more or less monopolized the global fiat monetary system. Politicians can decide what the returns will be in any given year because they control the currency. The returns are only meaningful in the short term while ever
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by cryptica 5y ago
It does make you perceive life as less precious because the constant struggle creates a negative association with everything. Suicidal ideation seems to be a natural progression for long-term poverty. The observation about falling for scams
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by cryptica 5y ago
Not having money is horrible. The only benefit of not having money is that it makes all other horrible life conditions and outcomes seem somewhat less horrible comparatively. It dulls the pain and stress receptors.
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by cryptica 5y ago
The limiting factor here is that unlike stocks, it's not safe for a public figure to say bad things about Bitcoin. It would be like a public figure saying bad things about Nazi Germany while living in Nazi Germany during WW2. Bitcoin i
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by cryptica 5y ago
Yes and this is a good thing. It will become impossible to say how much money someone has; everything will become decentralized and competitive as it should be.
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by cryptica 5y ago
The kind of software which creates more jobs is not what I would call 'quality software'. Quality software gives people more free time, it doesn't consume more time. The fact that most people can't see the difference tod
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by cryptica 5y ago
It died because big tech companies realized that their real customers are reserve banks; big tech companies are being paid for job creation, not product development. UML allows companies to build high quality software faster so it destroys
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by cryptica 5y ago
If the reserve bank money printing continues, soon there won't be anything to eat but at least we'll have plenty of smartphones! The big market distortion is coming. Get prepared for absolute insanity.
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by cryptica 5y ago
Well it could be your own secret hashing or concatenation algorithm which you can do in your head. For example, you could use parts of the domain name to map to a specific word from a list that you've memorized. But there is an infinit
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by cryptica 5y ago
You can have different variants so you try one and if that's not it then you try the backup/alternative. In my case, this was only a problem with a couple of websites which I rarely used. I just did a password reset every time I w
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by cryptica 5y ago
>> every worthwhile password manager never sends your passwords to any intermediary Except in cases where the password manager is 100% open source, the people who wrote the password manager are intermediaries. As I said, you need to t
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by cryptica 5y ago
>> And no, none of the folks I'm thinking of actually make money from password management solutions. Not directly, but maybe their peers do. If your buddy works at Facebook, you're not going to say bad things about Facebook&
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by cryptica 5y ago
It's easy. Just come up with a secret rule and derive the passwords from that rule such that the password is different for each website/service.
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by cryptica 5y ago
These days I generally don't trust any security product. They are as much malware themselves as the malware which they claim to protect you from. - Many security software providers are hackers or ex-hackers... So you're basically
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by cryptica 5y ago
Of course security folks who stand to profit from selling these password management solutions will insist that these solutions are important... After all, like you say, their whole career depends on selling 'security products' to
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by cryptica 5y ago
That's why I never used and will never use a password manager... You can't get more security by trusting more intermediaries with your passwords. When it comes to anything that matters, you want to trust as few intermediaries as p
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by cryptica 6y ago
It looks terrible. What were they thinking?
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by cryptica 6y ago
This article points to one poorly designed website which uses CSS media queries incorrectly (poorly chosen breakpoints) to try to justify that media queries are bad and it fails to mention the millions of websites which are doing it right.
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by cryptica 6y ago
It's like this currently, but it doesn't have to stay that way. You could have multiple cryptocurrencies which support the exact same public API and clients could figure out their relative values automatically by crawling DEX mark
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by cryptica 6y ago
Not sure why this is being downvoted. Before the pandemic, the Fed tried to wipe out the crypto space by raising interest rates... Then when they realized that their policies were threatening to take out the entire stock market instead, the
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by cryptica 6y ago
I don't think so because the entire stock market would collapse if the reserve banks stopped printing money. Smart people look at Bitcoin and Ethereum and think "wow that's inefficient, if the banks raise interest rates, they
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by cryptica 6y ago
I don't have the statistics and I made it pretty clear that I'm guessing the numbers but I can see what kind of people are getting rich. They all have social connections to rich people, mostly family ties. This is so obvious. I do
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by cryptica 6y ago
Why should it be a single world currency? Why not just have a system of multiple currencies which can be accepted interchangeably as payment? Automatic valuation and conversion of a cryptocurrency is possible. It can even be done in a decen
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by cryptica 6y ago
There is no doubt that it's a pyramid scheme. Everything is a pyramid scheme these days including the entire stock market (especially big tech). But the modern monetary system is designed to sustain such pyramid schemes. It can keep th
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by cryptica 6y ago
It's disturbing how tribalism is allowing people to completely ignore reality. Ethereum's blockchain uses up over 1 terrabyte of space. Because Ethereum nodes do not provide any search feature natively, most third-party software i
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by cryptica 6y ago
I would even make the case that self-awareness and success may be inversely correlated in fact. I've heard many people say similar things over the years... Why is that? Is it some kind of kin selection? Is this total lack of self-aware

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