dr_win

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by dr_win 6mo ago
...and don’t forget Loon Lang — it’s a gem: https://loonlang.com By the way, “they” is actually just one person: Cam Pedersen — https://campedersen.com So far, he’s shown incredible productivity (with Claude Code). I
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by dr_win 6mo ago
vcad was started in 2026 and has great ambitions: https://docs.vcad.io
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by dr_win 9mo ago
*Supex* - Agentic coding for SketchUp. Working on a house renovation project in SketchUp, I wanted the same workflow I use with Claude Code: describe what I need in natural language, let AI write and execute the code, iterate quickly. So I
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by dr_win 1y ago
What about buying a dedicated machine for running agents? One macbook for agents and one for personal/private work plus a good KVM switch maybe or remote desktop.
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by dr_win 3y ago
According to the article it took him 15 years. Had been frequently visiting a single bank in Prague center (Raiffeisenbank) only with a briefcase exchanging EUR into USD in cash. Doing each time 2+2 hour round trip by train from his home to
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by dr_win 3y ago
Creators of P2P bitcoin exchange: https://vexl.it The data is well sourced and the code is open-source. You don't have to trust or rely on their authority. Don't trust, verify!
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by dr_win 6y ago
Under BigSur > System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Reduce transparency Thank me later.
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by dr_win 6y ago
Has anybody a link to the actual research paper?
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by dr_win 6y ago
bazqux.com The subscription is $30/year. I voluntarily opted in $50/year just because I like it so much.
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by dr_win 6y ago
Blockchain might be a relevant tool for a group of strangers to maintain books (a database) which cannot be easily tampered with (or it is virtually impossible). Prime example is sound money. But it could go beyond that. Say you can run a l
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by dr_win 7y ago
Back in the old days if the Internet, there was no cryptocurrency. I strongly believe (crypto)payments can be used as a pretty effective anti-spam measure in the future.
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by dr_win 7y ago
Doesn't really matter how you spend the money. It is a signalling thing. The money must be burnt. With limited resources it ensures you can't repeat engagement with multiple women... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by dr_win 7y ago
Who is claiming that bitcoin transactions will be used by average person for everyday payments? Making a bitcoin transaction is like recasting gold bars - not something you want to do often with small amount of gold. This will be done only
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by dr_win 7y ago
This will be the base layer. They expect custodial wallets and payment channels on top (in Bitcoin terms exchange wallets and lightning network). See the Libra blockchain paper, section 8: > We anticipate that many payment transactions w
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by dr_win 7y ago
For clojurists here, Nathan is the creator of the Specter[1] library. Which is a brilliant idea and technical masterpiece, IMO. Nathan, kudos and good luck! [1] https://github.com/nathanmarz/specter
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by dr_win 8y ago
IMO, UX is a minor issue. Why would anyone spend hard money before fiat money? (Gresham's law) Also each spending could trigger a separate taxable event (depending on your jurisdiction) and that would be a serious accounting nightmare
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by dr_win 8y ago
https://bazqux.com
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by dr_win 8y ago
Isn't problem simply with the user (his wife)? She had enabled auto-translation and didn't notice. Similar thing would happen to anyone with email account setup to forward all emails to a public mailing list or something of that n
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by dr_win 8y ago
To truly understand how bad it is, we would have to analyse the 250T figure in more detail. There is a "free debt" component to it which was generated via seigniorage[1] and "real debt" to people, companies and other eco
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by dr_win 8y ago
What about the number of deaths caused by possibility for governments to finance war efforts via money printing? Most notably both world wars.
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by dr_win 8y ago
No, mining gold is not cheap. And if by "traditional money system" you mean fiat then I must argue that it is not comparable. Comparing bitcoin to fiat is like comparing gold to paper.
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by dr_win 8y ago
A few years back I wrote something similar for ClojureScript: https://github.com/binaryage/cljs-zones The drawback was the need to manually wrap all participating async functions into a special macro (zones/bound-
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by dr_win 9y ago
> You should be asking the opposite question. Why does anyone choose to have children? I would think that the opposite question does not need much explanation because we have some DNA programming to spread our genes and to "make off
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by dr_win 9y ago
Intrinsic value of bitcoin tokens is the ability to use them to append a hash value into immutable eternal excel spreadsheet with no censorship possible. You can use this to prove some data existed at some point in time (proof of existence)
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by dr_win 9y ago
Bitcoin token's (secondary) value is the right/ability to write a new row into a global eternal immutable append-only decentralised censorship-proof spreadsheet table (blockchain). It is valuable not only in economic context to cr
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by dr_win 9y ago
Use blockchain :-)
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by dr_win 9y ago
Making bitcoin transactions is digital equivalent of melting and recasting gold bars. You should not try this at home if you don't know what you are doing. This base-layer Bitcoin is not suitable for average Joe and I doubt it will eve
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by dr_win 9y ago
Maybe you are right and it would be technically feasible to bump the block size limit 2x, then 2x again and maybe later 2x again... Basically every time people demand extra cheap block space for their transactions someone would have to lead
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by dr_win 9y ago
2-of-3 fragmented backup of the private key using cryptosteel costs ~$300.
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by dr_win 9y ago
I just preordered Trezor T (hardware wallet) and paid with bitcoins. So your statement "no one uses bitcoin to buy anything anywhere, ever" is provably false.

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