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by ranger207 1y ago
Bitcoin's high volatility means that it's impossible to predict exactly how much value one Bitcoin will have tomorrow, next month, next year, or next decade. USD has comparatively low volatility. It's possible, but very unlik
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Crypto and blockchain by itself does not solve any of these problems. It's merely a payments system that happens to be on a computer natively. There's nothing technical preventing banks from getting together and making Open Bankin
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There is a subreddit dedicated to 18650s where people make power banks and the like, https://old.reddit.com/r/18650masterrace/ . Off the top of my head I remember reading about making sure you use the same set of
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by ranger207 1y ago
I think it's more for astrophotography enthusiasts where the hobby is more about getting good photography setups than looking at stars yourself
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I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people setting up NASes didn't have a desktop to put drives into. Lots of people are only using laptops or phones nowadays
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Nu-MicroProse has been seeking out games similar in spirit to those published by old MicroProse trying to become the continuation of what it used to be. It might have been luck that there was a guy developing that kind of game at the time,
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by ranger207 1y ago
Minecraft doesn't have (much of) a story, but it does have progression, which is just as important in a sandbox game
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Little bit of a tangent, but as a customer I am not "delighted" when I find a product quickly and easily; I am merely not frustrated. Finding what I'm looking for is the baseline experience, having to search for what I'm
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by ranger207 1y ago
Why is crypto better at replacing SWIFT and Fort Knox rather than, say, SEPA or fiat currency (which replaced Fort Knox shortly after the invention of ARPANET)?
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NFTs are ownership (by some definition of "ownership") of assets on the blockchain. The blockchain is a database that's good for trustless transactions between a sufficient number of competing parties. Video game item transfe
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> It is impossible to protect data on rooted phones What makes securing rooted phones different from securing rooted PCs?
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Simon Tatham also wrote PuTTY, which was for the longest time the best SSH client on Windows (I don't use Windows anymore so I can't say if it still is or not). I can't find the quote now, but I remember him saying that betwe
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by ranger207 1y ago
Well see Apple doesn't sell 1440p external monitors, so the answer is you should stop using that trash and move to one that brute forces the sharpness problem and costs way too much because it has an Apple logo on it
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I think Linux font rendering looks fine (although it has noticeably gotten better since this post was last updated in 2019) but I absolutely agree that MacOS has the worst looking font rendering. And I was using it on a genuine MacBook Pro!
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I've had this mental model for a while now, but this post lays it out better than I could've. I think the most important part of the post is this part of the conclusion: > For years, our main defense against misinformation and
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by ranger207 1y ago
How do things like redis, Elasticsearch, or Terraform fit into this theory?
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If you think lobbying is bad now, wait till you see lobbying under sortition
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In general, no. In this specific case, yes
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It's not for everything (it doesn't even have the symbol in the article), but https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html is useful for a lot of math stuff
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> There are basically only two “real” reasons to use Docker or containerization more generally: > 1. People who do not know how to use Unix-based operating systems or specifically GNU/Linux. > 2. People who are deploying a pro
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by ranger207 1y ago
I think a QR code is easier for most people to share in a computer-readable format. You take a picture on your phone and either decode the QR code on your phone or send the picture to another computer and decode it there. The alternative is
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by ranger207 1y ago
I liked the idea in there about how there's so many people out there that look at a thing merely for its potential to "line go up", and the actual thing itself doesn't matter at all, it's just Whatever. The current
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My home server is definitely also a lab. Like they say, everyone has a dev environment; some people are lucky enough to also have a prod environment
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AA3 was my first shooter, and it was slowed down a lot compared to AA2 (then AA4 sped things back up) and I haven't been able to find anything quite like it since. Some of those maps were incredible That team also did a helicopter flig
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Practice. I've had a couple periods where I went from reading constantly to not reading at all, and the only way to read more in one sitting is to read more. At the start you may only be able to do 15 minutes or so before you have to g
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> The kind that would serve coffee in a Klein bottle. For some definition of "in"
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It means what it needs to mean so everyone involved will know what it means in the moment
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I think the idea is that you mostly sample the decay products, which are either going to be descended from neutron-activated non-radioactive material from the surrounding area and can be filtered out in analysis, or are going to be more exo
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Yep. Your startup fails? "Wow you founded a startup! Join our exec team!" You lost a billion dollars? "Wow you were trusted with a billion dollars! Join our exec team!" You presided over the death of a famous and beloved
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Existing MANPADS focus mostly on the helicopter threat; fast movers are realistically a little out of their reach. That statement isn't saying it's designed for targeting jets first and helicopters also, it's saying it's

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