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by pshc 7y ago
A friend of mine had a couple great experiences with psilocybin, and then a bad trip. Interestingly, it was the bad trip that broke them out of their narcissistic mindset.
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by pshc 7y ago
Great comment and thanks for the reading material. Now I'm wondering if there's a Rust library for a generational copying arena--one that compacts strings/blobs over time.
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by pshc 7y ago
Well, people are working on it. For example, what's been happening in Firefox. C/C++ has a head start in the millions of person-hours.
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by pshc 7y ago
That is a decent anecdote. Well, with respect, allow me to revise and qualify my read of @baggy_trough's comment: It's perfectly fine to continue using an existing C codebase for a program, not exposed to the public internet, that
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by pshc 7y ago
I think the implication is to stop using C.
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by pshc 7y ago
In what sense is Lightning not peer-to-peer? It seems permssionless in that any two people can agree to open a channel.
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by pshc 7y ago
Wikipedia is often notoriously convoluted for technical topics though. I read the Lightning paper and found it simple enough to understand (conceptually at least) how the channels are opened, updated, closed, and penalized. Of course the ac
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by pshc 7y ago
Oh wired , wow, I had to read that five times to understand it fully. That is an unreconcilable situation, ouch.
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by pshc 7y ago
You could send another volume-up packet every say 200ms. No way that would congest a local wireless connection.
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by pshc 7y ago
I get similar effects, but a simple aspirin seems to subdue them :)
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by pshc 7y ago
Exactly. I have accidentally witnessed so many 4-digit PINs typed into phones by friends and casual acquaintances. It’s kind of unavoidable if you spend any reasonable amount of time in person with them. Very few people in my experience go
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by pshc 7y ago
Holy. I’m sorry to hear it. I say as a born and raised Vancouverite, since moved to the US... it’s kinda fucked out there.
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by pshc 7y ago
Would it work to compile rust code to WebAssembly first and translate that to 65C816 opcodes?
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by pshc 7y ago
Thank you for these insights. I see what you mean--drive-by criticism is just rude.
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by pshc 7y ago
Counter oppressive regimes by decentralizing. Build mesh networks.
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by pshc 7y ago
This resonates. As a nerdy adolescent in BC, I couldn't understand why I sometimes felt gaslit and confused after seemingly polite exchanges. Moving to east coast USA fixed it--I'll take candor and tough love over passive aggressi
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by pshc 7y ago
Late 2017 was nuts. I recall my brother texting me “Hey should I buy XRP?” out of the blue. Wish I had had the presence of mind to realize it was time to get out.
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by pshc 7y ago
Driving to work doesn't fit with the others--it can be replaced with riding the subway to work. The automotive status quo is tragedy and farce.
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by pshc 7y ago
Way I see it, the ego manifests as a bunch of defense mechanisms that seek to preserve the status quo of one's existing personality, by distorting one's perception and generating sometimes-intrusive thoughts. The ego is also the t
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by pshc 7y ago
Can’t remember the last time this has actually happened to me. In what websites are people posting code without code block formatting support? Like, instant messengers?
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by pshc 7y ago
I hope air gapped transaction signing is on the roadmap!
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by pshc 7y ago
No idea if this is practical, but I wonder people living on either side of the river could set up some kind of laser-based point-to-point pipe that would be nearly undetectable unless you knew exactly where it was?
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by pshc 7y ago
Once in a while something like Blade Runner 2049 comes out and spurs me to the nearest IMAX theatre.
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by pshc 7y ago
Gradual typing (that you can opt-out from) makes for a smooth prototype-to-production experience. Wish more languages supported it.
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by pshc 7y ago
I wouldn't go that far. To me it looks like the usual bikeshed effect is at full force.
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by pshc 8y ago
That’s a fair point, but even if workplace norms are sane, the technical solution additionally protects against (say) a rogue IT admin gathering info in secret, or against future policy changes.
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by pshc 8y ago
I think people understand the nihilistic viewpoint but it makes no sense to sacrifice your health while you still have it.
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by pshc 8y ago
Browsers are far from perfect but their sandboxes are getting pretty good. I think you typoed WebAssembly though?
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by pshc 8y ago
re: crypto mining, that’s funny. I thought a passive activity like crypto mining is allowed as long as one doesn’t actively “work” on it. Maybe the NAFTA/USMCA rules are different?
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by pshc 8y ago
I think Cloudflare could easily co-exist, selling premium IPFS hosting for companies who want highly available and performant content. Not to mention they do much more than static CDN.

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