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by hootbootscoot 5y ago
I question your observation. Currently, POW "currencies" burn real coal, divert energy from production applications like metal smelting, monopolize cheap renewables on-site (like Niagara falls) due to the way the markets reward BT
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by hootbootscoot 5y ago
This is a logical fallacy. One needs to get-rid-of ALL "proof of work" crypto-"currencies" AND get-rid-of single-use plastics, half of food waste etc. There is no singular silver bullet that will tackle our environmental
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Tell that to all the practitioners of all the other religions... "um sorry folks, you are wrong, we are right" I have issues with 1) "God told me to tell you" (any human claiming to represent God to their fellow humans.
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Indeed, monochromatic moralizing with a baseball bat. I would characterize Ayn Rands writings as obtuse. What sort of non-self-aware person terms their personal philosophy "objectivism"? AS-IF you were "objective", Ayn.
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
"Look, dude," RNA mutates due to many environmental factors. It's why living organisms typically now use DNA and only short-term usage of RNA for copying purposes, certainly not as the primary data store. RNA mutations mimick
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Hypothesis. Theories have evidence. This hypothesis has circumstantial evidence that a basic study in RNA molecules, virii, hydrolysis, mutation, protein-mimicry, "trying all keys of a combination lock, getting the right one gives you
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
HTTP is a first class member of the standard library, along with bcrypt, JSON, and a host of other useful stuff? https://crystal-lang.org/api This is a sweet spot for anything web-server related (which is quite a lot, these
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
..."maybe they are"... did you check for a pulse? I suppose there's nothing preventing walking Markov chains from having pulses... But your comment is the pithiest most succinct one here. Throw away the OP's tweet and al
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Twitter is most definitely the fastest C pre-processor out there.
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
don't forget to rotate your carburator bearings.
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
"Get a bundle, they are cheaper."
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Don't forget "dark patterns" that serve deliberate goals. It's often perfectly functional for a company to force you into certain courses of action due to apparent mistakes that aren't.
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
maybe bitcoind is actually a botnet. anyone read through the entire source? LOL. (*disclaimer: JOKE)
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
SQL injection? do they escape your clipboard before they save it? lol
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
I would have found out by 2022 for sure. Maybe it was due to copying a really-large clipboards contents...
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
I'm sorry, this directly contradicts the principle of ever-increasing difficulty for the proof-of-work hash. Bitcoin and other proof-of-work (no actual useful work being done here either, opportunity wasted!) based crypto-currencies in
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Well, we often use plain old HTTP for this purpose, hence the plethora of 3rd party API's one can make an HTTP call to... (I side with the monolith, FWIW...I love Carl Hewitt's work and all, it just brings in a whole set of stuff
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Apollo client? you mean where the Meteor Dev team suddenly leaped to when it dawned upon the world that Mongo as a primary-store and a bizarre architecture that let you walk away with exactly one artifact towards your inevitable rewrite? (m
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Yeah, we used to call them "Web Designers" and "Web Developers". If you met someone at a free cracker and dip event and they self-identified as one or the other, you could potentially network and collaborate and not step
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
That is SAD. We will miss Chick and his music.
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
What I think about bitcoin and crypocurrencies in general that are based upon a "proof of work" with no tangible production of anything useful in society? They are a giant waste of electricity. Even renewably-sourced electricity
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
but back to your original topic, I'm semi-familiar with the buggy world of automation drivers and the shady industry practices after a brief foray into home and industrial automation. I'm not referring to CAN drivers, particular
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
I'll take exception and note that many metrics are displayed on the infotainment system, to say nothing of GPS and phone calls. I know that laws are intended to mitigate this, but the basic issue is that Android has frustrating UI issu
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
This is the best comment I've read in weeks!
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Wow, I guess I know which mark of cars to avoid in the future. I'll likely get downvoted for what amounts to a negative review of a popular Google product but I find that Android is frustrating to use, hangs in the middle of tasks like
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Let's see, they treat indie artists with total contempt, they treat their customers with contempt, and yet people keep using their lousy service. If you care, support artists you like, typically bandcamp and portals with integrity, et
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Cool! I have a few questions, I hope are not stupid. I'll confess to not having delved into the heart of SOUL source yet. 1) what are these "audio processors" that computers already have embedded in them? (DSP cores and asso
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
like which "take"? you could literally be critiquing any of 10 onion-layers of dialog allegedly about an extinct PM client, but it turned into a "no one uses computers anymore, just phones" tale. I cannot tell if you are
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
the ironic thing is that I program computers for a living yet I cannot achieve the basic functional level of a 5 year old with an Android device...that's not even counting the deliberate dark patterns. I see young ones automatically pi
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Constant 50mb+ updates to browsers is the new norm?
6 points by hootbootscoot 6y ago|6 comments

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