Maybe I'm just getting old and crotchety, but "influencer" seems like such a ridiculous thing to do for work. I guess the laws of Capitalism dictate that it must be a job, or people wouldn't pay for it. But I think it says something about the world we've created, and I don't think it's necessarily good.
I actually can't stand the "we'll save your preferences and deactivate everything for you!" pattern as well. No, I want my account deleted, gone. Forget you ever saw me, please.
I personally don't understand why, as a whistleblower, she should also be proposing policies. "Hey there's something wrong" and "Here's how you fix it" seem like they should be very distinct in these cases where someone could easily use their leverage as a "high profile" whistleblower to push a particular political agenda.
Putting on my pedantic home brewer cap: The 16% number seems a bit low. I believe there are champagne yeasts that will ferment up to 18%, and specialized "turbo" yeasts designed for fermenting high-abv washes for distilling will go up to 20%.
I think it's a somewhat moot comparison, as Bitcoin does just about none of what traditional finance actually does, particularly on the "human" side of things.
This gave me a laugh. Very well written. And, good on your spouse for doing what she does. I was fortunate to have an excellent kindergarten teacher, and still think of her from time to time.
Looks like this goes well beyond TikTok (as it should). An interesting bit of... Mild civil disobedience(?) though. I can't imagine the false reports being too terribly difficult to purge if the submitters aren't doing anything clever in the way of IP hopping but who knows.
> "An uncharitable way of describing all this is to say that Hofmann created a way to let people pay the Ethereum network to return a list of useless names to them"
... No, I'd say that's pretty charitable. This is taking advantage of speculators at best, fraud at worst. There is nothing of value here.
Unrelated to the article, but WSL is a true gem :) I spend many an evening writing Rust on my Ubuntu WSL setup, and no reboots necessary in the morning (Windows-intensive job). Thank you for your work on it.
I think this is an unfair characterization of the ETH network, given that it has yet to transition safely to PoS. Maybe "will be" is a better qualifier.
The visualizations in this article are really well done. I've read a bit about hierarchical pathfinding before, but this is the first time I feel like I actually "get" it.
Anecdotally, I've had about the opposite experience. Never have been able to get a graphics card to perform well under any version of desktop Linux I've used, the sleep feature generally hasn't worked, fan control is all over the map, and I hate using terminal to configure everything. Windows has almost always just worked fine for me, as it does for ~80% of anyone using a desktop OS.
I actually... don't mind it. $15 is a bit much for me to pop on something I'm likely to spend some time giggling at (or maybe pranking some colleagues with... hmmm), but it really does look like the best of both worlds between comic sans and a monospace terminal font. Whatever that is. Anyways, well done!
If there's a valid need for the distinction, and it's straightforward (<>s search system libs first vs quotes search CWD first IIRC), what would be less ugly? Keeping in mind the vast number of C++ files out there that have already baked this convention in :)
As a Canadian, I take exception with the claim that "If multiracial democracy cannot be defended in America, it will not be defended elsewhere." Even our most conservative governments won't stray anywhere close to the level Trump has in the degeneration of multiculturalism. We've got a hell of a long ways to go with our treatment of our First Nations brothers and sisters, but come on. Don't pretend like America is the last defender of multiracial democracy, because it damn well is not.
> As something intended to be used by kids to learn about computing I do wonder how many are going to get hurt fingers from the heat output by accidentally maxing the cpu and/or touching the USB ports, etc.
Sounds like one of the unexpected lessons will be heat dissipation :)
Yeah... maybe "light" wasn't quite the right term to use here ;) I would hope that it could be somehow secured to the pavement underneath, but since this is Twitter-level content, there's not much for detail.
This actually seems to have some promise - I'd be worried about other side effects (another article I was reading mentioned possible effects on marine life due to dissolved iron and nickel), but it seems like a technology that merits further exploration and rollout on at least a small scale.
As a dumb workaround to just read the article, opening the print preview dialog makes it scrollable with the keyboard. Though, Ctrl-P seems to be intercepted to... search? sigh.
Certainly! And yeah - I'm sure there's a whole range of perspectives. Probably the idea that plants might be defined as "conscious" bothers some people, but I just can't understand that frame of mind. What are you going to do about it... starve?
I'm not a vegan, but if you think of veganism as more of a "harm reduction" approach to eating, it doesn't matter whether you define plants to be conscious or not. As in, it causes relatively more harm to a large number of organisms to eat an animal as food (the animals are presumably going to eat plants anyway), versus cutting out the middle man and just eating plants.