rspeele

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by rspeele 3y ago
> 'wasting' is the wrong word there. It is converting power into work in order to validate blocks of transactions. We have tellers in banks who drive their cars into nice air conditioned offices every single day, that effective
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by rspeele 4y ago
Having used TCE to clean heavily fouled parts I can't emphasize enough how much better it is than acetone. It's really not close. Acetone might as well be water compared to TCE. TCE makes years of caked-on, baked-on crud wipe off
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by rspeele 4y ago
Anecdote: when I first got a 120hz monitor for gaming back around 2011 or 2012, I noticed my cat would get interested in the mouse pointer moving around the desktop and start swatting at it. The same cat had never cared about the mouse on m
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by rspeele 4y ago
Art Vandelay, importer/exporter.
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by rspeele 4y ago
Another problem is that really good CAD software is expensive. I have used FreeCAD. Its instability frustrated me. Not very rewarding to work on a part that needs a moderately complex feature like a loft, only to find out that after addin
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by rspeele 4y ago
As a longtime FPS player one area of complexity that is easy to forget is the maps. When I play the game, I can learn a new map pretty quickly. When I watch a game played on a map I'm not familiar with, it takes me much, much longer
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by rspeele 4y ago
> It's not always easy to know what options a player has at a particular position, but it's always pretty obvious whether someone is doing well. I really need to have at least a basic intuition for "the options a player ha
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by rspeele 4y ago
Action shooting is definitely the hotter sport right now. But I think bullseye will stay around, especially as the current generation of action shooters ages into it. It has one huge advantage over action: every competitor can shoot at the
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by rspeele 4y ago
Of course. I compete in pistol shooting at an amateur level. I have never been even slightly intoxicated when shooting a firearm. But I shoot 10m air pistol[1] at home for practice, and I've tried it while a little tipsy. So I can tell
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by rspeele 4y ago
Related: Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th...
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by rspeele 4y ago
Async/await is just a callback flattened into the function body. I.E. var x = await foo(); var y = await doStuffWith(x); return x + y; Is equivalent to, in a less enlightened language... foo().callback(x =>
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by rspeele 4y ago
You and me and nobody else. In the pedant-free zone.
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by rspeele 4y ago
You can hav a grat, distinctiv writing styl without distracting th radr with what look lik constant rrors. Rmoving parts of th languag that you find unncssary just fls lik bing cutsy for its own sak. I don't gt what it adds to th radin
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by rspeele 4y ago
I believe you hit the nail on the head with the whole problem of intent thing. I can enjoy reading antiquated works written in antiquated style, like Shakespeare, because I know that they were made in an effective way for the time. I get ov
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by rspeele 4y ago
I read post after post of gushing praise for Cormac McCarthy, so I bought The Road on Kindle a few years ago. A few pages in I wished I had bought a hardcopy -- the e-book seemed to have been badly OCRed, and was missing most of the punct
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by rspeele 4y ago
The hard limit on BTC requires mining to eventually be funded entirely by transaction fees. It's unclear whether this will work. Is there any successful PoW currency that runs on transaction fees alone now? How sure are we that this mo
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by rspeele 4y ago
Even if all fiat currencies went away and the entire world was on a Bitcoin standard, countries would still have standing armies, just as big as they have today, to protect their hard assets. The stuff you buy with money, like oil, gas, f
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by rspeele 4y ago
Hopefully my intent could be explained to a reasonable person, as I did make a good faith effort to look for help. It was a quiet evening, about half an hour till closing time with very little business going on in the store. I didn't f
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by rspeele 4y ago
At my local Home Depot the router bits are displayed on peg hooks with these little red plastic anti-theft dinguses securing them. I guess it's called a "peg hook lock". Inside this device there is a spring-loaded (I think) p
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by rspeele 4y ago
I can't recall seeing a jam in an ISSF world cup or Olympic rapid fire pistol match. It has probably happened, but definitely not often enough to be a regular appearance. Most competitors are using Pardini SP pistols. But they are also
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by rspeele 4y ago
> juicero for screwdrivers You have to buy a proprietary packet of orange juice and vodka?
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by rspeele 4y ago
Is there a place one can short Tether, that can also be trusted to pay out on a short position in the event of a catastrophic Tether collapse? I.e. not a crypto exchange?
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by rspeele 4y ago
Looking at the same page I come to a different conclusion. The pros it lists are permissionlessness, censorship resistance, and avoidance of a single point of failure. Cons are scalability and cost. While they don't mention the word &q
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by rspeele 4y ago
SolidWorks.
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by rspeele 4y ago
For now, that's true, since miners are mostly paid with newly minted BTC. The payout for the job of mining is currently based on BTC's valuation, but the reason for the mining is to secure the transactions. That also aligns with
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by rspeele 4y ago
It is ridiculous to blame USD for costs that would still exist, arguably not even reduced in size, if we didn't use USD.
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by rspeele 4y ago
I didn't say the only purpose of Bitcoin was to conduct transactions, but that the only purpose of mining (and the blockchain) was to do so. Specifically, mining exists to ensure that if you send me Bitcoin, I can be quite confident yo
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by rspeele 4y ago
But, the only purpose of mining -- the whole purpose of the blockchain -- is to facilitate transacting. So if the network can only do X transactions per day, and it costs $Y to run the network, it seems fair to use a "cost per transact
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by rspeele 4y ago
The whole series of movies (well, the pre-2000 iterations) was recently free to watch on YouTube. They're all cheesy but the original one holds up reasonably well. Feels like a movie-length version of a classic Twilight Zone episode, w
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by rspeele 4y ago
Ah, ok, so this is more like a thing where you drive around looking for loose change on the ground, and you find enough to exceed your fuel and maintenance expenses. But you can't scale it up by hiring more drivers, because there is on

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