jimmysong

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by jimmysong 2y ago
Yea, grayscale definitely impacts the syntax highlighting, as many of the colors end up pretty dark. It works, though, and I have coded a bit on it. My only criticism would be that the copy-pasting is a little clunky, at least with JuiceSSH
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by jimmysong 2y ago
I've got JuiceSSH set up and use the device as a thin client. Coding is a little different since you don't get the terminal colors that you normally use for syntax highlighting. Still, it's functional, and I can do it, mostly
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by jimmysong 2y ago
There's a stylus that comes with it and lots of note-taking apps. I particularly like the ability to take notes directly in PDFs, which for technical papers can be very helpful.
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by jimmysong 2y ago
For one, images and videos are a lot less visually stimulating. Everything is in black and white, and though those all render fine, they're just not as interesting as they would be in full color. So instead of doomscrolling Youtube sho
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by jimmysong 2y ago
I'm typing on a Daylight computer on Firefox right now with the brightness turned to 0 so it's only reflecting light. It's very similar to the tablet experience for Hacker News, just with less color, so it's not as strai
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by jimmysong 2y ago
As one of the beta testers, let me just say that I really like this device. It's very different than a kindle, kobo or reMarkable in that the refresh rate really makes a big difference. When I show this device to people, I show them
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by jimmysong 3y ago
I like Unhook, a browser plugin that takes out recommendations for YouTube. The YouTube home page then becomes more like a search engine and you can use it for that, but you won't keep going by watching more videos that are similar or
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by jimmysong 4y ago
This is a common misconception. Bitcoin mining is taking electricity generation that would otherwise be wasted. In non-peak demand times the energy is generated anyway and would simply be wasted. Bitcoin mining takes that energy and does so
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by jimmysong 4y ago
Proof-of-Stake doesn't solve the Byzantine General's Problem. Therefore, the system no longer has the property of being able to get decentralized consensus
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by jimmysong 4y ago
I'm going to be that guy that shills his own stuff. I wrote Programming Bitcoin published by O'Reilly. It has specifics and exercises on all the building blocks that make up the Bitcoin blockchain. You'll learn Finite Fields,
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by jimmysong 4y ago
I wrote Programming Bitcoin for O'Reilly and it was published 3 years ago. Some observations: * You won't make that much money directly, but I have probably made a good amount indirectly. The credibility from having published an O
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by jimmysong 5y ago
I had to lobby pretty hard to get the honey badger for the cover of my book. I was surprised no one had taken that yet. I do wonder about running out of animals given they publish so many new books a year.
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by jimmysong 5y ago
This article is an example of a person speaking from the perspective of massive financial privilege. Does the author realize how much people in the third world have been screwed over by banks and why they wouldn't want to trust one? Th
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by jimmysong 5y ago
This is very interesting when looking at prices in terms of gold. During the 19th century, US dollars were backed by somewhere around 1.5g - 1.6g of gold, which is worth around $90 today. So multiply by 90 and you start getting reasonable p
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by jimmysong 6y ago
Posts like these make it clear to me that the author does not really understand money, not Bitcoin. It's hard to reason about what Bitcoin's advantages are without first considering what the purpose of money is and the analysis fr
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by jimmysong 6y ago
Because Bitcoin is credibly scarce. In 10 years, Bitcoin will have 20+ years of history behind it. Your BTC2 will be much younger, probably have had a creator, a foundation that directs where it goes, possibly changed the proof-of-work and
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by jimmysong 6y ago
I guess Facebook is coming for Reddit.
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by jimmysong 6y ago
I was surprised not to see Ken Liu on there, given just how many really good short stories he's written. If I had to pick just one, _Paper Menagerie_ deserves to be on this list.
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by jimmysong 6y ago
I've seen this happen to a number of bankrupt companies, this just happens to be a big one. The expectation is that the stock go to zero, but somehow it bounces upwards. Happened with GM back in 2008-2009, happens to a lot of other sto
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by jimmysong 6y ago
some random things: * open source contribution * getting a book published with a major publisher * winning a major award or trophy in almost any field/sport * a blog with a lot of readers (or youtube channel) * doing anything considere
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by jimmysong 6y ago
My main advice 1. Start easy. It's tempting to grab a textbook or video series because it gets good reviews on Amazon or likes on YouTube. That's all good and fine, but it's more important to get a good introduction to the to
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by jimmysong 6y ago
I'm going to guess that you're going to get more mileage out of cutting something out of your life than in adopting yet another mindset, habit, drug or whatever. Some possible things that might work: * youtube/netflix * socia
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by jimmysong 7y ago
This has been tried. It's called Namecoin and it failed to get much traction. I suspect that using Bitcoin instead would improve adoption dramatically instead of creating yet another token. This can be done using sidechains or somethin
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by jimmysong 7y ago
Tooting my own horn just a little bit, I spend the first 3 chapters of my book on exactly this topic: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Bitcoin-Learn-Program-Scr... There are exercises that can help you learn it from scrat
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How to Write a Book in 4 Days(hackernoon.com)
6 points by jimmysong 7y ago|0 comments
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by jimmysong 7y ago
Housing is treated as a good investment because it is scarce. Stuff that's affordable is usually not scarce. Hence you can't have both something that's scarce and affordable. That aside, the reason why people have been using
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by jimmysong 7y ago
The main reason lard wasn't sold was because the health industrial complex blamed fat for heart disease and a whole host of other health conditions. This started the low-fat food trend which brought way more carbs into our diet which e
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What is Bitcoin? Part 1(hackernoon.com)
4 points by jimmysong 8y ago|0 comments