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jonnydubowsky

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jonnydubowsky··on JabRef – Literature Management
I like Zoo for Zotero on Android. With a bit of customization it gets the job done. https://github.com/mickstar/Zoo-For-Zotero
jonnydubowsky··on Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF
I'm curious as well...are there any protocols in place for emergency services or police interactions?
jonnydubowsky··on Coinbase secures Bermuda licence
you win the internet today.
jonnydubowsky··on An Update on USDC and Silicon Valley Bank
USDC is now back up from $0.82 to ~ $0.97
jonnydubowsky··on Small Visual Basic
great landing page! going to try out Abstra cloud right now. I love to see, in one glance, what it does, a gif of it doing it, and the code sample.
jonnydubowsky··on Show HN: Futurecoder – A free interactive Python course for coding beginners
that took a turn.
jonnydubowsky··on Crowds angered by lockdowns call for China’s Xi to step down
Recently captured so eloquently in the manifesto from Andor:

There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy

Remember this, Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause.

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle.

Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empires's authority and then there will be one too many.

One single thing will break the siege.

Remember this: Try.

jonnydubowsky··on Robb Oat is a robot software engineer
Wait this happens to you on Tinder too?
jonnydubowsky··on Normalising Layoffs/Firing
And I just happened to be in the next room filming this epic moment...which included a Rudy-style slow clap building to a frenzy.

https://media.tenor.com/L0RMEbQrLXwAAAAM/meme-sunglasses.gif

jonnydubowsky··on Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos
Us this the beginning of some Back To The Future moment in this timeline?
jonnydubowsky··on Applied music theory for managers, engineers, producers and artists
I first learned about Kimo Williams from a recent Hacker news post by Derek Silvers. I'm looking forward to reading this.

Kimo seams like an inspiring guy to be around.

https://sive.rs/kimo

jonnydubowsky··on Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year
Thanks for introducing a new (to me) term, i.e BANANAS. Upon searching i discovered a few others:

NIABY: Opposition to certain developments as inappropriate anywhere in the world is characterised by the acronym NIABY ("Not In Anyone's Backyard"). The building of nuclear power plants, for example, is often subject to NIABY concerns.

NAMBI: ("Not Against My Business or Industry") is used as a label for any business concern that expresses umbrage with actions or policy that threaten that business, whereby they are believed to be complaining about the principle of the action or policy only for their interests alone and not for all similar business concerns who would equally suffer from the actions or policies.

BANANA: is an acronym for "Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything" (or "Anyone").The term is most often used to criticize the ongoing opposition of certain advocacy groups to land development. The apparent opposition of some activists to every instance of proposed development suggests that they seek a complete absence of new growth.

NOPE: (Not On Planet Earth)To leave an uncomfortable situation, usually quickly.

LULU: Locally Unwanted/Undesirable Land Use planning.

NOTE: Not Over There Either (meaning is same NIMBY)

jonnydubowsky··on The Merge
The Rarible exchange contract supports all kinds of external royalty interfaces, among them two that Rarible defined themselves, being an early player in the NFT space:

https://hackernoon.com/enabling-nft-royalties-with-eip-2981

ERC721, 1155 & 2981 together act as a toolkit for the encoding of royalty administration.

For example, if an NFT collection owner only implemented one of Rarible’s royalty distribution schemes mentioned above, another marketplace that’s not aware of that interface can simply call the common registry’s getRoyaltyView function. It tries to query all known royalty interfaces on the token contract and translates any response to a commonly useable result.

Collection owners who haven’t put any royalty signaling scheme into their contract can deploy an extended “override” contract and register it with the common registry. This registration method will ensure that only collection owners (identified by the owner public member) can call it

The Rarible exchange contract supports all kinds of external royalty interfaces, among them two that Rarible defined themselves, being an early player in the NFT space:

For example, if an NFT collection owner only implemented one of Rarible’s royalty distribution schemes mentioned above, another marketplace that’s not aware of that interface can simply call the common registry’s getRoyaltyView function. It tries to query all known royalty interfaces on the token contract and translates any response to a commonly useable result.

Collection owners who haven’t put any royalty signaling scheme into their contract can deploy an extended “override” contract and register it with the common registry. This registration method will ensure that only collection owners (identified by the owner public member) can call it

```function royaltyInfo(uint256 _tokenId, uint256 _salePrice) external view returns (address receiver, uint256 royaltyAmount);```

The interface also completely works off-chain, so marketplaces that trade assets on alternative infrastructure can still query the creator fee without knowing anything else besides the interface signature of the EIP-2981 method.

PaymentSplitters: Sending NFT Royalties To More Than One Receiver.

Open Zeppelin's PaymentSplitter primitive allows setting up individual split contracts that keep funds safe until their payees claim them, and their receive function requires the bare minimum of gas to run. NFT collection builders can create an inline PaymentSplitter containing the wanted list of beneficiaries and their respective share amounts and let their EIP-2981 implementation yield the address of that split contract.

jonnydubowsky··on Writing my PhD using groff
Great blog post! "Plato didn't write his dialogues on Microsoft Word, and neither should you".
jonnydubowsky··on Ask HN: How to block all political content from showing up online?
https://github.com/bhunt6/HorseBlinders
jonnydubowsky··on Ask HN: Is there an “uncanny valley” effect with startup MVPs?
When i come to the page and let my eyes naturally scan through, the phrase Dead Simple sticks out, which is probably not a great catch phrase for this app. It'd be cool if instead, a GIF showing the user experience led me right into trying it out with the "enter address here" section.
jonnydubowsky··on The Doomsday Economics of 'Proof-of-Work' in Cryptocurrencies
2019
jonnydubowsky··on Obsidian Dataview: Turn Obsidian Vault into a database you can query from
Minimal theme w/ Dataview card layout is awesome! I'm just digging into it, but it does make the queries more accessible. Thanks!
jonnydubowsky··on $3B in Bitcoin was sold in a last-ditch attempt to save UST from collapse
There have been massive advancements in the use of various options, futures and other structured products specifically designed to increase optionality for Bitcoin miners to weather bear markets without closing up shop.

This is definitely a proving ground and only those mining operations with the most resilient strategies will survive.

Many will continue to thrive.

The future outlook on the crypto markets enters a new era towards the end of this year.

Fidelity is introducing cryptocurrency investment services to all of its 401K investors, every company 401k, across the $2.4 trillion in 401(k) assets they represent (in 2020, or more than a third of the market at the time).

They will allow individuals to allocate up to 20% of their portfolio to cryptocurrency, for those who participate.

jonnydubowsky··on How to professionally say
And you've brought me back to a childhood memory of my older brother, age 13 with a big smile on his face, brought me into the closet where he had a portable cassette player and a newly acquired copy of Raw, and we listened to it and had our vocabulary suddenly expanded to a new level.
jonnydubowsky··on Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken
What i don't understand is how they can roll out this feature, while the last few weeks I've suddenly started getting spammed in Google Drive with obscene garbage that can only be blocked on an instance by instance basis. Surely they could offer some gate that allows the user to deploy such filters where they actually want them?
jonnydubowsky··on Data visualization experiments with Svelte.js and Three.js
This is amazing! I would pay for an api into this, in a heartbeat.
jonnydubowsky··on 1950 Census Records
Xan you find a sympathetic Mormon to get access?
jonnydubowsky··on The voucher scam: Are we too mathematically illiterate to notice
Thanks for writing this. You motivated me to go digging for any studies that have evaluated the outcomes of these voucher programs. Looks like there are dozens of studies that showcase just how bad these programs can be.

This study by American Progress supports your thesis.

American Progress is a left-of-center alternative to the right-leaning Heritage Foundation. I haven't finished looking for the right wing think tank's studies, but I'll share anything of particular interest when I do.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/highly-negative-imp...

"This analysis builds on a large body of voucher program evaluations in Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., all of which show that students attending participating private schools perform significantly worse than their peers in public schools—especially in math"

jonnydubowsky··on Bentō is an alive, unstable Japanese noise box by Giorgio Sancristoforo
Per the excellent explainer/demo video, this is inspired by the Japanoise scene. The creator makes art. It'd be interesting to ask any artist if a specific part of their work was really necessary. I imagine you'd get quite a range of answers.

https://www.theglow.jp/guides/a-brief-guide-to-japanese-nois...

"This era saw noise channelled as an output for political commentary and primal instincts; motives ranging from ferocious anti-consumerism and heedless nonconformism to compulsive, exploratory introspection".

https://youtu.be/pfdja2OQKFY

jonnydubowsky··on Asian-Americans fight back against school discrimination
Wow, thinkaboutnow is quite the website.
jonnydubowsky··on Understanding Fast Fourier Transforms
That is a really helpful explanation. Thanks!
jonnydubowsky··on MineXMR Now at 50.159% of Hashrate
Its down to 38%
jonnydubowsky··on Cryptocurrency Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme
Written in 2018?
jonnydubowsky··on Meat Loaf, 'Bat Out Of Hell' singer, has died at 74
Backstage at Beacon Theater in NYC kicking off 30 shows in 40 days i opened up for Meatloaf in arenas up and down the East coast. It was the opportunity of a lifetime to soak in the brilliance and magic that he conjured every single night. We will remember him with the speakers turned up all the way. https://imgur.com/gallery/BN7ryt3
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