ifwinterco

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by ifwinterco 2mo ago
At least MacOS is unix based and has a proper shell etc (not that school kids will be using it). For someone who picks up technical stuff easily learning how MacOS actually works is much more useful (and closer to linux/bsd) than Windo
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
Yep and red flags were there in hindsight, but everyone ignored them. I think the brutal truth for maxis is that coldcard was promoted by them because of coinkite’s bitcoin-only stance and there was no actual assessment of whether the team
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
These guys never do anything by accident, like when Jamie Dimon said "I probably shouldn't say this, but if you see one cockroach there's probably more". You don't get to manoeuvre yourself to being the head of JP M
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
This is a bad one: bug in the RNG logic during seed generation, so you can lose funds easily without any action from the user and the device never connected to the internet. I still think crypto is unfairly maligned and will be more signifi
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
Keen is definitely a word but when used to describe a person it’s often a bit of a backhanded compliment… you don’t really want to be keen. Saying "I'm keen to do x" or "he's keen to do y" is a fairly common no
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
Yeah I get it, same as Americans coming to Europe for two weeks and thinking everyone in Italy is living La Dolce Vita. But I’m quite well travelled and some places have vibe and a lot don’t and for me both Toronto and Montreal have vibe
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
Yes, but if their machine god really is as good as they say it is, why are they constantly resorting to statistical sleight of hand at best and outright lies at worst with every public statement? That's not normally how people act when
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
Have you ever actually been to Canada? It's quite nice, pretty clean and safe, feels fairly functional, people are totally different to Americans (in a very good way). Hard to judge based on short trips/holidays and not living the
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
Yes, absolutely colossal amounts of batteries though - what if it’s quite hot but also cloudy for 5 days in a row? You either have to significantly oversize the PV (easier said than done, when its energy density is already not that high per
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
“ All these processes can be reduced to mathematics and computation” may or may not be a true statement. We don’t know yet, and maybe it’s unknowable. Believing everything can be explained that way is itself just another ideology followed b
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
The culture is different, if you tried pulling any of the shit Sam and Dario do on a daily basis in China you'd get your wings clipped pretty quickly, much smarter to keep your head down as much as possible. And maybe that's not a
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
The thing is though, they’re already outrageously rich. At some point you genuinely are just being dodgy purely for the love of the game
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
It is absolutely outrageous that FIFA unilaterally changed the structure of a football match (that’s been the same since the nineteenth century) with no consultation, just so they could show ads
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
And strangely a very high percentage of those resources get converted into mansions and yachts
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
If you look at what OpenAI and Anthropic actually do, they clearly either don't believe what they're saying, or they're idiots. They're claiming they've developed a cyber grade model that's "too dangerous
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
I was getting a bit worried so it's good to see an economist headline saying this will happen - now I can relax
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
Arguably it's rational (though selfish) to think like this. Life is short, there's no point freezing and living off leaves for the next few decades when you'll be old in the blink of an eye anyway
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
Was going to say this. The right form of state intervention can be hugely beneficial
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
This is what happened in the UK but not immediately, it’s only in the current government where the minimum wage (especially for young people) got hiked massively in the context of a weak overall economy that the effect on job creation becam
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
IIRC a lot more countries did it but mostly a lot earlier (pre ww2). Back then it would have been comparatively easy, cars were slow and there were barely any street signs etc anyway
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
It would be way more annoying for LHT countries to change to RHT than to switch from US units to metric, have to change literally every road sign, street light, road markings etc in the entire country. Plus everyone would then be driving ca
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
Yes exactly, his job is first and foremost to be a token salesman. He’d be telling you to use workflows that spin up loads of agents all the time whether or not he actually thought they were the best way to be productive
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
Yes the whole "wolf warrior diplomacy" stuff in the late 2010s was massively counterproductive for China and just pushed everyone else in the pacific back into the arms of the Americans. The mask (if there ever was one) slipped an
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
I’ve only been to Vietnam but the answer there is it’s… complicated. They’re culturally part of the sinosphere but of course constantly living in the shadow of your much, much bigger neighbour to the north does breed some ill feeling. The U
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
Yes it’s true that for a landing page (relatively simple site, most users are unique) React is not the natural choice. It can probably be made to work well if written by people who know what they’re doing using SSR, but it’s not what React
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
Why would react fail for higher traffic pages? If it's a traditional React SPA, you can use a versioned bundle with immutable caching and each user only has to download your bundle when you release an update or they use a new browser.
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
Something about bun always rubbed me up the wrong way (I even hate the name), but I couldn't really explain why. Thankfully now I have some good material to post-rationalise my intuitive dislike
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
I don't like it and I wish we had more privacy, but realistically there is no such "right". If you're going to be in a situation where you're in a room with some goons backed by the full power of the state, it is wh
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
Yes I thought this was the standard solution? People have been doing this since way back in the TrueCrypt days - IIRC you could configure it to run a whole fake version of Windows if you wanted without easily revealing your actual main volu
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by ifwinterco 3mo ago
At the end of the day they're selling dollars for 10c provided you buy them in a specific way (quotas a few times a day, and you have to not be a business). Incredibly obvious solution to this problem: become a middleman who buys spare

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