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by lewi 8d ago
Seems like some pretty obvious errors in this. But a cool interactive demo.
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by lewi 2mo ago
Awesome. I've been playing exploring PITR stuff recently in my homelab. Will give it a go and try to contribute if I spot any issues
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by lewi 2mo ago
I love them, useful for super clean desk setups . I use a 140w USBC charger -> USBC to Barrel Jack -> LG Ergo screen -> USBC -> Laptop. One AC plug powers the display & laptop.
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by lewi 2mo ago
I'm using it for this purpose. You can just run a tunnel/tailscale net/dyndns.
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by lewi 2mo ago
You can compare benches of the old models against the new models. So yeah, you can see the difference. Even then, you can just compare the progress in open models. Leaps and bounds from where they were 6 months ago.
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by lewi 2mo ago
Typed out an entire prompt on the homepage, hit enter, was redirected to sign-up & completed it. My few hundred word prompt wasn't saved/persisted. :'(
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by lewi 5mo ago
The journalist knew what she was doing. Naomi was in China, agreed to do an interview about her self & her work, then the journo tried to drum up clicks by putting her on the spot about politics. Real consequences for the interviewee, a
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by lewi 2y ago
> over 0.6 million What a peculiar way to say: 600,000
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by lewi 3y ago
After working for a while at a marketing/digital shop, the topic of crypto came up over a work lunch one day. I fell down the rabbit hole and found a nascent project with some interesting stuff on the tech side. I saw they had a bounty
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by lewi 4y ago
They never said anything about Banks. Conceptually, a service provider utilizing Ethereum could create or aggregate on-chain services and package them in a similar format to what a bank is today with very little overhead.
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by lewi 5y ago
While the Facebook driven project is dead, an open fork of Libra is currently running and being built on. https://github.com/OLSF/libra
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Show HN: Self-hosted standup bot for Discord(github.com)
1 points by lewi 6y ago|0 comments
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by lewi 6y ago
Oh damn. This is awesome, will have to give it a go.
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by lewi 7y ago
Great talk, just finished it!
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by lewi 7y ago
Claims without citations, 5 day old account, comment history shows user is from china: not sure if I'd trust the comment.
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by lewi 7y ago
> An ant farting in a hurricane. Thats a touch disingenuous. It was never meant to power the whole of South Australia. It was specifically built to mitigate the peak power price gouging [0] that had been happening the for prior 10 years.
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by lewi 8y ago
Thanks for the constructive comment and plug of your product.
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by lewi 8y ago
Spark does pretty well for me. Nice inbox features and search functions.
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by lewi 8y ago
Became interested in a startup's technology and joined their developer community. I build some small examples and offered my help here and there. After helping out (paid) they kept asking for more assistance. I asked to formalise my re
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by lewi 8y ago
Correction from Vitalik[1]: > I did NOT invent 99% fault tolerant consensus; Leslie Lamport did. I just wrote an explainer and adapted it to a blockchain context. Please fix, Trustnodes. [1]: https://twitter.com/VitalikBu
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by lewi 8y ago
I get a metamask (ETH Wallet) phishing warning on this site. Anyone else experience this?
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by lewi 9y ago
When I first bought ETH (Coinbase) it took 5 min verification and a debit card. Practically instant in comparison to traditional financial setup times.
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by lewi 9y ago
> but he's terrible at the thing an enterpreneur is supposed to excel at - generating profits. I think that is a very narrow definition. Elon as of today is worth 20.7b (Forbes), between you, me and the internet I think he's do
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by lewi 9y ago
So its functionally the same as an ICO with a 40% premine? Of which 20% of the tokens go directly to the founders because they figured out how to write a paper.
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by lewi 9y ago
The BTC about 500k USD worth, of which 200k got taken as VAT, was used to develop the technology for the first 2 years. Only in the last month have the IOTA foundation been able to legally access the money donated to them by the community.
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by lewi 9y ago
Yes
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by lewi 9y ago
This article has incorrect figures: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/iota/#markets
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by lewi 9y ago
None, as it doesn't have one. It uses a different DTL architecture called a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), known as The Tangle.
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by lewi 9y ago
It's 100% premined, which smells as scammy as Ripple. It needed to be as there are no miners in the IOTA network. Additionally, In contrast to conventional ICOs, IOTA had 0% of their ICO reserved for founders. Not a single iota
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by lewi 9y ago
If two devices create valid transactions on two independent subtangles and the system tries to reconcile these tangles into the main tangle afterwards, how do they determine which transaction is valid? The subtangle with the highest

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