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by dkersten 5y ago
I love how he called people who used to give him money but stopped "idiots"
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by dkersten 5y ago
I've used pixijs.com in javascript, especially the drawing bits: https://pixijs.io/examples/#/graphics/simple.js You can export the drawn surface as an image. Not sure how if it will would work from a co
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by dkersten 5y ago
I actually was thinking of one of those little devices that talks to your phone over bluetooth when I wrote that, but I actually remember the carbon paper ones too! Used to use one when I worked as a street trader (jewelery stall in a touri
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Its usually a lie. Same as sites with time limits. Clear cookies and refresh, guess what, its 6 people looking again and the time limit has reset.
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Reminds me of Rob Fitzpatrick's customer development talks: ask a potential customer if they would buy your product and they're all positive yes, definitely. Go, ok, lets do it, whip out a credit card machine and listen to all the
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by dkersten 5y ago
Agreed. Its incredibly rare that I've waited to buy a sold-out item. I either buy a competitors, or I lose interest and decide I don't care enough. I can't actually think of a case, off hand, where I did wait, although I&#x27
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by dkersten 5y ago
I should add that the only times I do end up "tinkering" with my Linux setup is when I do very out of the ordinary stuff, that is either not easily done in Windows or would require an equal amount of tinkering. For example, much o
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by dkersten 5y ago
Go back to my scenario: when you use a US credit card, denominated in USD, to buy something from a European merchant, whose prices are in Euro and who receives Euro from the purchase made, are you buying the goods in USD (the currency that
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I can at least easily/cheaply convert and withdraw it as one of many cryptocurrencies. Of course, if Binance went away or otherwise restricted withdrawals, then I wouldn't have access to it, but that's the price you pay for t
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That wasn’t the scenario though, I picked the scenario because it’s similar to my use of cryptocurrencies: where your credit card is in a different currency to your purchase, while the card issuer does the conversion behind the scenes. Just
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The question was if anybody was using cryptocurrencies to buy stuff. Well, I am. When I buy stuff, my crypto balance goes down and I get the purchased item. What happens outside that is invisible to me. From what I see on my end, I am spend
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by dkersten 5y ago
You're nitpicking. The question was: "Anybody actually uses crypto for legal goods and services?" I am using crypto to buy suff, how it is facilitated under the hood is an implementation detail and none of my concern. I am
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by dkersten 5y ago
> desktop Linux is a pile of burning garbage. Purely subjective. I personally think that Windows is a pile of burning garbage, YMMV obviously. My own desktop linux experience in the past ~5 or so years has actually been better than my Wi
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I mentioned that in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29158328 To the user , this is transparent (for some cards anyway, eg Binance), so its effectively the same thing. Yes, I'm not actually sendin
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by dkersten 5y ago
> The scripting languages of the future I see more in things like Unreal Blueprints. A lot of people have an aversion for anything visual programming. Usually when someone mentions Blueprints (here or on r/gamedev on reddit) I see a
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by dkersten 5y ago
The video in the article has an example where it can be effective: as a silent non verbal signal. Sure, writing it may be more effective but if for some reason you can’t, then a signal may be helpful.
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Binance, wirex, crypto.com and others offer credit cards backed by cryptocurrency balances. Sure, technically, they sell the crypto for fiat as you use it, but to the user it’s the same as spending the cryptocurrency directly. And there are
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Even crypto needs to be converted to fiat at some point to actually spend it, either directly so you can move it to a bank account or turn it into cash, or indirectly by using a crypto-backed credit cards and if that money isn’t legit, you
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> Anybody actually uses crypto for legal goods and services? I regularly use my crypto-backed (ie balance is in cryptocurrencies) Binance Visa card to make purchases. I have some money in cryptocurrency exchanges because their lending (u
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This was in a single-threaded application. Immutability would have saved me because it guarantees that no nested function call can mutate data unless its passed in or stored in a mutable way (in a Clojure atom, for example). If the data s
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by dkersten 5y ago
After trying to set up Fargate and it only sending my logs to cloudwatch 25% of the time (Id deploy and get no logs, try again two to three times literally just clicking the button in the web console again and then it would work), if cours
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I really reach to use DD but I’ve heard a ton of stories like this and they scared me away.
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I sorely miss Clojure's immutable data structures when I use other languages (Python, Javascript, C++). They give me a guarantee that nobody else is going to be changing the data, somewhere deep down the call stack. I've had cases
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> if it’s a currency then converting every single coin to cash should result in no change to the conversion rate Is that how it works for currency? I would think that if people tried to sell every single Euro for USD, the conversion rate
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This doesn’t seem like good advice to me, as others have already said. C++ standard library is written in a heavily templates style most user code isn’t written in. That would be a terrible way to learn. Some of Python’s standard library de
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> and if everyone uses a "consensus" to kick someone out Then do you really want to live there? At this point, it becomes important what the rules say happens to your shares if you're kicked out, they did not explain this
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The houses are close together "village-style". There's a part early on in the video where the lady compares the previous owners plans for building traditional suburbs to their own setup and how it differs. Each "neighbor
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Depends on the person. For many people, living in a City is super lonely, despite having many many people around. At least the "neighborhoods" in this community seem to be quite tightly knit, so people actually know each other. I
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They do have three neighborhoods of ~30 houses, each with their own governance. They scale it by adding additional neighborhoods, not by increasing the sizes of the existing neighborhoods.
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> self-sustaining commune They specifically said they are not trying to be an independent self-sustaining commune, but rather integrate into the wider community. The farms are rented out (at the price of the annual taxes, so very low ren

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