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www.sciencedirect.com 6y ago

2019-nCoV may contain a gain-of-function for efficient spreading

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private-network.firefox.com 6y ago

Firefox Private Network is in Beta

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medium.com 7y ago

The success of Go heralds that of Rust

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blog.vive.com 7y ago

HTC Vive Wireless Adapter

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

HTC Announces a wireless adapter for the Vive headset

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truecoin.com 8y ago

TrueUSD – a USD-backed stable cryptocurrency

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advances.sciencemag.org 10y ago

Researchers break quantum encryption key exchange

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phys.org 10y ago

Physicists set quantum record using photons to carry messages almost 2 km

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letstalkbitcoin.com 11y ago

Let's Talk Bitcoin the Bitcoin Block Size Discussion

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uncrunched.com 11y ago

We Deserve a Better Bitcoin Experience Than Circle

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jonkuperman.com 11y ago

People are really mean about PHP

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blog.docker.com 11y ago

Docker Responds to the Rocket Announcement

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wiki.php.net 11y ago

Abstract syntax tree in PHP 7

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www.coinffeine.com 12y ago

Coinffeine: The distributed Bitcoin exchange

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venturebeat.com 12y ago

Microsoft reveals dangerous IE bug

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reference.wolfram.com 12y ago

Wolfram Language Docs

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www.freeprogramminginc.com 12y ago

Free Programming, Where Your Dreams Come Alive

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twitter.com 12y ago

US Capitol is on lockdown. Shots heard.

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theultralinx.com 13y ago

The Long Shadow Design Trend

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

NoFlo - flow-based programming (FBP) for Node.js (Video)

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phpmaster.com 14y ago

PHP: Deploy and Release your Applications with Phing

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www.slashgear.com 14y ago

SOPA vote rescheduled for this week, attempts silent passage

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spaceport.io 14y ago

Spaceport: Javascript to iOS/Android/HTML5/Flash Framework

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lamsonproject.org 15y ago

A Painless Introduction to Finite State Machines

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I assume he is referring to the uptick in stablecoin adoption. USD Stable coins are US dollar-backed cryptocurrency tokens that are intended to always hold a value of $1 USD.

Stablecoins are not backed by a central bank. Instead their source of value comes from a private company that holds actual US dollars or USD-equivalent reserves (like treasury bills, etc).

Altitude is the third dimension, but I presume you knew that.

"Geography is three dimensional" doesn't correctly communicate the time dimension.

"Developers talk not just about how the AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes."

This has not been my experience. Sure it feels like more work to fix the AI code problems sometimes - it is a different skillset than writing code from scratch. But the speed that I can deliver software has significantly increased by using coding agents.

A "few seconds" to pay in bitcoin? So the captain is supposed to be watching for a response via email with his finger hovering over the pay button? Is the recipient address static? Surely they would use unique payment addresses if they have any hope of obfuscating payments.

This all sounds more like a TV show script than an actual thought-out plan to me.

I use YNAB. I thought about building my own now that AI coding make this feasible. But the moat that I can't cross is the integration with my bank accounts. Plaid and the like are too expensive and don't cater to one-off users like me.

Has anyone been able to find a personal financial data provider that has a reasonable price?

While I applaud this effort for flagging AI slop generators, I would caution users to not always ignore your "foes".

Reading opposing viewpoints is so important and is becoming a lost art in our society. I encourage you to understand and empathize with people you don't agree with. It will help all of us in the long run.

The second half of that argument was not in this article. The author was just relating his experience.

For what it is worth, I have also gone from a "this looks interesting" to "this is a regular part of my daily workflow" in the same 6 month time period.

Sybil attacks are very difficult to mitigate while maintaining privacy and decentralization. I see a nod to anti-gaming in this proposal, but it does fully address this.

Why did you choose Bitcoin for this? Other blockchains can have significantly lower fees and allow the distribution of application-specific reward or governance tokens.

An important feature of (some) crypto stablecoins is that they function like cash.

Cash is fungible. And cash in my wallet is not subject to being frozen like a bank account.

One can argue the merits of a digital cash for society. But a crypto-based digital cash is fundamentally different from a digital bank-based payment system.

This is an interesting example of an AI system effecting a change in the physical world.

Some people express concerns about AGI creating swarms of robots to conquer the earth and make humans do its bidding. I think market forces are a much more straightforward tool that AI systems will use to shape the world.

According to this post, Remix v3 aims to not build on top of React:

We're simply struggling to build something that feels like React did when we first found it.

That's why Remix is moving on from React

Remix v3 is a completely new thing. It's our fresh take on simplified web development with its own rendering abstraction in place of React.

Inspired by all the great tech before it (LAMP, Rails, Sinatra, Express, React, and more), we want to build the absolute best thing we know how to build with today's capable web platform.

The technical term is "monetary premium".

Gold has a utility (or industrial) value. But that value is significantly lower than the actual price. The rest of the price of gold is monetary premium.

I say Bitcoin's large network, censorship resistance and worldwide adoption give it some base utility value. The rest is monetary premium.

I do agree with your sentiment. Stablecoins (UDSC, etc) are predictable and are much better suited for actual spending.

For anyone here struggling with AWS Amplify or AWS CDK - I recently discovered https://sst.dev/ for serverless deployment.

It doesn't solve all problems (tt isn't a CRUD framework) - but it does make the developer experience much better as compared to Amplify.

AnandTech Farewell 2 years ago

From the article:

Our publisher, Future PLC, will be keeping the AnandTech website and its many articles live indefinitely. So that all of the content we’ve created over the years remains accessible and citable.

How about evolving CloudFormation and CDK instead of trashing it and starting over.

The CF web interface does not do a great job of showing the hierarchy and relationships between resources.

And working around circular dependency issues in CDK can be a real time sink.

I was getting migraines regularly most Mondays until I finally realized that it was tied to chocolate. I ate chocolate on weekends. I stopped eating chocolate and they went away. Now I never get migraines unless I have chocolate. It is likely the caffeine. I don't consume any other caffeine.