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by xtracto 4y ago
Well, we have to better define "people ". IIRC she was only found guilty of defrauding their rich/large investors, not the general population. It was her boyfriend who was found guilty of that. Now, regarding SBF, I can imag
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by xtracto 4y ago
I've worked with plenty of languages [1] since 2001 when I entered the job market . Recently I've been doing coding interviews for developers for a Java shop who theoretically knew Java. It pains me to see what they need to d
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by xtracto 4y ago
I hear you... between music subscription, film subscription, tv subscription and software subscription the monthly spending gets crazy. Not long ago I was subscribed to a nice app called Saffron (dev is here in HN). But after a couple of
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by xtracto 4y ago
This looks great and the idea is amazing. I tried with the prompt: "speed metal" and "speed metal with guitar riffs" and got some smooth rock-balad type music. I guess there was no heavy metal in the learning samples hah
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by xtracto 4y ago
I don't understand why people use Medium or similar gated blogging platforms. It is so easy to use Wordpress. You can get a domain name with managed wordpress install ready to roll for less than $50 a year. And you become the owner of
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by xtracto 4y ago
Who is this General Failure and why is he trying to read drive A:? That's how I remember it! I also remember a cartoon of someone calling support telling them that "his computer is not working and makes weird sounds", the su
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by xtracto 4y ago
The current publishing model is obsolete and broken. To start to fix it, publishing of scholarly/research articles and Books must be treated completely differently. Their only intersection is that the development of both of them CANNO
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by xtracto 4y ago
>I like you as long as you are useful” which is of course not the truth. I think that's the problem with depression disease: no matter what most people tell you, your brain will find a way to use it to dig the hole deeper. My wife h
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by xtracto 4y ago
These threads remind me a lot of some of Isaac Asimov "Robots" series novels. He painted a world where Robots and AI solved a lot of things, so people didn't have to do things that "worried them". It seems some los
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by xtracto 4y ago
OpenAI is not open at all. Don't be fooled by the name.
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by xtracto 4y ago
There are plenty of online accounts of "new Linux kernel versions" affecting working software. The last one I remember seeing is Linux in a MacBookPro hardware (I think MBP 2011) that started waking up immediately after sleeping d
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by xtracto 4y ago
I respectfully disagree. A PhD is to apply knowledge you already know. If you want to go the academic route, go for a Masters. That's what you use to learn. I have a PhD in CompSci, and I can tell you, that's NOT the path to fo
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by xtracto 4y ago
People in Mexico have been using PKI for more than 10 years. The Mexican IRS defined a system requiring everyone to get a private/public keypair and a certificate. (Including generating a cert rquest). Everyone does it, including the m
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by xtracto 4y ago
It's a public square alright, the people that shout the loudest are the ones that end up being heard. People that want to engage in constructive nuanced argument are drowned by the noise of the loud extremists (from any ideology)
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by xtracto 4y ago
I don't think it's weird at all, in general. I actually believe that's the thinking of the majority of programmers. As employed by Tata, HCS, HP, IBM, Oracle, Cognizant and so many other huge corps employing developers. We f
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by xtracto 4y ago
Reminds me of an old site I used to frequent in the late 1990s: https://web.archive.org/web/19991129033212/http://www.wannal... Back then, it had a lot of very interesting info to learn about several sub
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by xtracto 4y ago
I clearly remember paying around $80 USD for a WholeTomato [1] license back in 2003 for C# when I first came out of University into my first job. And that was a glorified auto-completer. Software has turned really cheap. The downside of is
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by xtracto 4y ago
I dont understand "technical" people buying these sort of things... a crypto "wallet" is just a private/public keypair. Just store your keys I a Keepass file and make multiple copies of it. And maybe maintain a pri
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by xtracto 4y ago
The way I think this would work is like this: - A "good writer" sholud release the first chapter of their book (or first N pages or whatever) for free. As a sort of "Resume"/"Portfolio" - Then, he lists th
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by xtracto 4y ago
I prefer this one: https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
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by xtracto 4y ago
A lot of the typical and expected takes for these sort of discussions: - on one side, people who are in favour of the arrests , because they see their a activities as crimes. They have point - on the other side people that one way or anot
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by xtracto 4y ago
You are spot on with this comment. I've done misc small/medium sized software at various times, first in Uni to implement a compiler, later programming Nintendo DS and Wii homebrew using DevKitArm and DevKitPro. Some days ago I st
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by xtracto 4y ago
QA is a position/work that has been heavily outsourced. I know because I've met several QA outsourcing firms in Mexico and Ukraine that have really good business in the US.
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by xtracto 4y ago
The problem with all these current Crypto "projects" is that they don't want to be boring . Banks and other typical financial institutions are boring; and there's a good reason for that. There's a reason why you h
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by xtracto 4y ago
I remember when WikiLeaks first decided to accept Bitcoin's for donations. Nakamoto cautioned that Bitcoin was not mature enough fr something like that. I think that the problem with the Cryptocurrencies movement has been that the use
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by xtracto 4y ago
Exactly. I'm very pro-ethereum tech but still think it's been overpriced for some time. I "shorted" (via compound borrow/leverage) some and am still waiting for it to go down . Around $600 I feel is the correct pric
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by xtracto 4y ago
An ETH wallet is just a private/publik keypair. You only have to generate a compatible pair [1] and write it in a piece if paper. What makes it "cold" is that you dont place your keys sonwhere online (myetherwallet, exodus,e
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by xtracto 4y ago
I've had to do layoffs in my team (as head of Engineering, I had all visibility). It was pretty straightforward and un-conspiranoic: The CEO got us all execs together and showed us the P&L which showed that we had 10 month runway.
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by xtracto 4y ago
I've been in cryptocurrencies/blockchain since 2012. I "missed" the BTC boat and got into ETH early. I'm of the thought that CeFi services like Ftx, Nexo, Coinbase and similar are stupid. The only thing that should
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by xtracto 4y ago
Why should the Baker expect to receive alimony?

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