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Solvency

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Solvency··on BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem
got it. but now i kind of want a torrent-based dropbox. i have five workstations. would be great to be able to utilize them as my own miniature distributed file system without a corporate server.
Solvency··on BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem
so is this like a Dropbox alternative using the bittorrent protocol?
Solvency··on Zooming User Interface (ZUI)
just because this zooms doesn't mean you made a ZUI. the spirit of a ZUI is change of information/density/etc at different levels of zoom.

like google maps.

Solvency··on Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff
it's wild watching you worship musk relentlessly on him comment after comment. you LOVE him. we get it.
Solvency··on Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video]
Because:

1. good communication requires an intelligence that most people sadly lack

2. because the type of people who are smart enough to invent transformers have zero incentive to make them easily understandable.

most documents are written by authors subconsciously desperate to mentally flex on their peers.

Solvency··on The darker side of being a doctor (2017)
but.. why?
Solvency··on US finalizes rules for 'forever chemicals' in drinking water
forever for the most part. unless you donate blood. frequently.
Solvency··on The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework
wrong. somethings are lucky. most things are unlucky.
Solvency··on Tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm (2023)
why did "dead code elimination" come to exist when dead/dying trees have existed for millions of years?
Solvency··on Ask HN: How can I learn about manufacturing?
are you a tote manufacturer or something?
Solvency··on Ask HN: How can I learn about manufacturing?
dude HN is notorious for this. is a bunch of surly cranky developers who just down vote things for kicks. your comment was great.
Solvency··on Ask HN: How can I learn about manufacturing?
....why does the process have to be so shitty?
Solvency··on Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app
what Figma plug-in?
Solvency··on Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
it's that plus apple having better "design" aesthetic, so the ads never feel as garishly plastered in as microsoft's.
Solvency··on Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets
uh what? the average news site is hacked together by a motley crew of non-programmer marketing interns who apply every possible bloated inefficient awful ad/tracking/targeting/react/javascript spawn of satan into their site as possible, all written by the worst programmers in the world

none of this is to "appease google". it's malicious incompetence, malaise, and cynical stupidity.

Solvency··on Show HN: A JavaScript library for data visualization in both SVG and Canvas
i'm more curious about the future of it because he said he wants to go full-time on it.
Solvency··on Show HN: A JavaScript library for data visualization in both SVG and Canvas
there are quite literally at least 20 JavaScript data visualization libraries, many with years of maturity. Are there any particular reasons I should stake my personal usage on your library going forward over any of the others besides the "modern API"?

you mentioned you wish you could go full-time on this… How do you foresee this becoming competitive or differentiated from all of the others?

Solvency··on Ask HN: Where are all the touch-based art forms?
"why do octopi have camouflaging capabilities? because of natural incentives!"

it's essentially a trite truism/platitude. you can apply it to everything and if you don't want to delve deeper, why say it.

Solvency··on Ask HN: Where are all the touch-based art forms?
i've never seen the word incentive used more in my life than on hacker news. Is there some famous tech talk by a programming idol that involved the word incentive that's caused it to become such a weird fixture in this community? Sure, the entire world can be reduced down to a laundry list of incentives. But that's also incredibly reductionist, generic, and boring.
Solvency··on The DDoS attack of academic bullshit
We get it. It's been garbage for over 6 years. Possibly edging on a decade. Yes Google is aware and complicit. No they're not going to change it. Why? Because it PRINTS MONEY for them.
Solvency··on We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners
people have been crapping on HP printers since at least 2003. On every single ancient forum, on every single message board, on digg, Reddit, etc.

it's quite literally on "you" if you're still buying HP printers at this point. You have absolutely no one to blame but yourself. This is what they do. This is how they operate. So stop giving them money. There are so many great alternatives. go get a Brother laser printer.

Solvency··on Transformers.js – Run Transformers directly in the browser
can someone explain what this means I can do with it if I know vanilla JavaScript?

for example, I used the image upscaling playground on hugging face all the time. But I do it manually here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/bookbot/Image-Upscaling-Playgr...

would transformers.js allow me to somehow executive that in my own local or online app programmatically?

Solvency··on SFMTA's train system running on floppy disks; city fears 'catastrophic failure'
...which is exactly why the mentality i described is endemic
Solvency··on SFMTA's train system running on floppy disks; city fears 'catastrophic failure'
exactly. the exact mentality i described is behind most of the government corruption. "fuck you, i got mine."
Solvency··on Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS
were talking about a tiny desktop app that wraps ffmpeg CLI. this is the perfect use case for it, over, say, VISUAL STUDIO CODE.
Solvency··on Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS
but anyone can create an electron app these days with total control over the UI polish with way less effort.

in fact electron seems like the perfect use case here for a ffmpeg UI wrapper. surprised no one has done it.

Solvency··on Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS
how so? you literally select a file, and choose a preset and export. Not happy with one of the presets? Cool, adjust some quality sliders and hit export.
Solvency··on Show HN: ADS-B visualizer
fully empty map on iOS safari for me.
Solvency··on Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS
can you explain why would i pay and use this over Handbrake on a Mac?
Solvency··on Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph
technical speaking what does 10 years of transactions look like when it's "cached" with one current year still being raw text lines? how are the two reconciled?
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