mtrycz2

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by mtrycz2 6y ago
The Tether scam needs to end asap. People are silent about it because Tether pumps their bags, sadly.
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
Imagine being able to audit the total supply of money printed by your central bank. Or to audit that your retail bank indeed has the reserves it claims. And "audit" not as in "spend millions on an auditing firm to do it for y
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
Scalability: While it can't do 25k transactions per second, my Raspberry Pi can validate 600tps with still some headroom. (ie 150x current maximum of BTC; it could actually do 2,2k but I wasn't able to reliably generate blocks bec
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
There was a Sublime-Text-equivalent for the terminal, but I cannot remember its name for the life of me.
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
> It would take a use another 3-4 seconds per app installation to prompt the user I yes, I too rememeber the FirefoxOS. Good times.
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
> It was a different Google back then. No it has always been the same company, and we tried to tell you.
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
Three decades of free software that generated billions upon billions of revenue and a big part of existing infrastructure is built upon is far from "wall to wall toxic waste". I'm not a fanboy for the sake of it, but you&#x27
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
My RPi4 can handle 256MB blocks on BCH's scalenet, just fine. There never was a scaling issue.
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
That thread is assuming that BTC runs on fossil, non-renewable energy, which was mostly correct ten to five years ago, but will be mostly wrong onwards. BTC runs mostly on surplus hydroelectric power. This may change based on what's lo
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
You'll be interested in https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
You should be worried for your gf, probably. And all the other millions of non technical users.
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
> Model reveals No, a model models, does not (and can not) reveal anything.
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
At least it raises awareness on how tracked we are.
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
On Windows10 you get multiple desktops (all monitors are bound tho), and you can snap windows to left or right half of the screen (this is resizable), or alternatively to the four corners. It's no i3, but it covers a lot of usecases wh
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
That's why you have 10 workspaces.
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
People that are brilliant in their field not necessarily are brilliant in "soft skills", or at least have been prepared to manage those skills. The Morning Star example (which I read of just now) seems to have the leaderless thing
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
grep, pretty often. All of the busybox alises, actually.
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
I wasn't following recently, but has Uber finally become profitable?
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
No Bitcoin Cash? BTC fees are really rampant, I'd rather that the full amount go to the donation.
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
> Whoever cracks this particular nut Why not just put a mirror on your desk?
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Corgi is a novel framework for testing emergent properties of bitcoind networks(read.cash)
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
You can't really make this statement without linking to https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
Probably because dark mode has been shoved over us through an aggresive bro culture not unlike MongoDB at the time. That's probably why people want to be vocal about it (not as much as said bro culture still)
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by mtrycz2 6y ago
aphyr, you are of great inspiration as an engineer and as a human. Your attitude of "a tool I need doesn't exists, so I'll just go ahead and create it" blew my mind and changed me for the better. I'm dedicating my n
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by mtrycz2 7y ago
You sound like you like motivation. "Motivation" is the "why?" of what you're starting. If you start a project and exhaust the "why", it's ok to stop there. Is it curiosity? Is it want to learn someth
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by mtrycz2 7y ago
> really dumb looking code You cannot imagine how I'd value having really dumb looking code in my life. Yet here I am, swimming in a swap of cleverness that I can't refactor nor will ever be able to wrap my head around. I envy
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by mtrycz2 7y ago
Videos of one year's lectures are available on youtube, with links at here: https://www.ineteconomics.org/education/courses/the-economic... I'm halfway through, and I'm really impressed not only by
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by mtrycz2 7y ago
Everytime I read posts like this is like if people are arguing about the tiny details of the small picture, and it makes me sad. Expecially because the big picture is easily stated: Write the least amount of clean code while providing value
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by mtrycz2 7y ago
Given all of the comments on here, I think I might have not stated the central point clearly enough. It isn't about getting things 100% correct 100% of the time. No engineering does that. What we like to call "software engineering
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by mtrycz2 7y ago
> Writing non-trivial software that is correct (for any meaningful definition of correct) is beyond the current capabilities of the human species. Bullshit. Humans have been sending computers into space for decades, and while yes, some h

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