damon_c

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by damon_c 5y ago
People who use Macs have been just closing and opening their computers for about a decade and not thinking about it. The wifi is still connected, the ssh session I was in is still connected... The tests I was running when the doorbell rang.
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by damon_c 5y ago
Yes. The weird thing about bitcoin is that at least mining it doesn't create additional waste products. If you spent the same energy used to mine bitcoin on producing Legos or In-N-Out burgers, then you'd have much bigger problem
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by damon_c 5y ago
Is there a max limit on how much a stock can go up?
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by damon_c 5y ago
I feel like the author doesn't mention one thing that I always thought was one the best advantages of using tokens stored in browser localstorage instead of cookies which is that the risks of CSRF attacks are lower/gone? Cookies _
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by damon_c 6y ago
Why is it a non-starter? I have a few ElasticSearch clusters that have been running for years with zero effort/downtime/hassle.
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by damon_c 6y ago
If you had reduced your latté consumption by just 5 lattés per day you'd have had that spare $500.
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by damon_c 6y ago
Ugh... The GPS project was started by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1973...
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by damon_c 6y ago
TCP/IP is pretty awesome. How about that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite To be fair... it's also from about 50 years ago. Hmm...
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by damon_c 6y ago
Your web server sucks for me ;)
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by damon_c 6y ago
Here are a few projects that use Ethereum to do things that have nothing to do with acquiring chemicals or crypto asset speculation. https://www.nucypher.com https://filecoin.io https://alice.si https:&#
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by damon_c 6y ago
The more I learn about S3 the more I feel the same awe I feel when looking at the Pyramids or Ankor Wat. > You can send 3,500 PUT/COPY/POST/DELETE or 5,500 GET/HEAD requests per second per prefix in an S3 bucket.
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by damon_c 6y ago
> laypeople know what benefit the internet Yes that's true now, but what about in 1997? That's what year it is in Ethereum now.
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by damon_c 6y ago
If I thought something was God's will, the last thing I'd do is try to stop it!
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by damon_c 6y ago
Being really busy and having a lot of people waiting for your perfectly reliable and long lasting solutions to their business problems really helps. When you only get paid for creating solutions that work or your earning capacity is reduced
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by damon_c 6y ago
They are clearly not synonyms. At the very least, notice this difference in your two definitions. 1. A single data point. 2. The average of many data points
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by damon_c 6y ago
Hedge trimming can be done by anyone with a hedge trimming machine. This baker made beautiful unique artistic cakes that were a product of his own life and experiences and sensibilities. Also, a wedding cake specifically celebrates a matr
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by damon_c 6y ago
Yes. It's the moments when you're carefully editing something really important... precisely pasting some line into a new location... you double and triple checked that everything is right.... and then BOOM your window is gone and
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by damon_c 6y ago
One interesting thing about being freelance during times of economic instability is that the "steadiness" metric is inverted when you have multiple sources of income compared to relying on one company.
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by damon_c 6y ago
The real question is, will the US voters living in the states which are recipients of the seized PPE be _more_ or _less_ likely to vote for the perpetrators of such malfeasance.
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by damon_c 6y ago
Maybe we can start running the wells in reverse and start putting it back.
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by damon_c 7y ago
I just traded a 2006 miata for a 2005 Ford Ranger. It feels like truck times.
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by damon_c 7y ago
It's using ENS (Ethereum Name Service) to locate the contents stored on IPFS. This is done through Ethereum smart contracts. Here's some documentation on all this: https://docs.ens.domains/contract-api-reference&#x
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by damon_c 7y ago
Regardless, having the money needed to pay for last year's taxes sitting in the bank, equivalent to... a year or two of living expenses or so... and not having to empty it out as the world comes crashing down is kind of nice.
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by damon_c 7y ago
People growing up 50 years from now will think the idea that we used to pilot our own cars is as ridiculous as the idea that people used to light their homes with whale oil.
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by damon_c 7y ago
A neural network needs to be taught this and then all cars with that training will respond correctly forever. Every individual human would need to learn this separately from experience, which would require far more soccer balls (and childre
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by damon_c 7y ago
His point is that given that half of the population makes less than $60k/year, $10k/year would be a 16% or more income boost for those people.
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by damon_c 7y ago
It will ~cannibalize~ eat Toyota Rav 4 and Ford Escape sales as well.
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by damon_c 7y ago
Yes it's very weird... but it's great when you're talking on the phone in a noisy place!
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by damon_c 7y ago
Yesterday I was walking in downtown Los Angeles while donning AirPods Pro and talking on the phone and I remarked to the person I was talking to that it felt like I was walking by myself in a quiet room because of how strangely quiet it was
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by damon_c 7y ago
It is very different. Ears, eyes and kidneys are unique physical manifestations of the code. The code is just information.

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