mikegreenberg

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by mikegreenberg 6mo ago
Given electric cars are responsible for much bigger responsibilities than combustion cars (avoid driving into that bicyclist), there are new concerns here which beg extra consideration.
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by mikegreenberg 6mo ago
I am currently a mentor and previously a judge and volunteer for many years at regional events. In all my years I have never seen anything remotely like sexual objectification. I obviously can't know your experience but I would be very
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by mikegreenberg 1y ago
Once upon a time, I was using postgres for OLTP and OLAP purposes combined with in-database transforms using TimescaleDB. I had a schema for optimized ingestion and then several aggregate views which produced a bunch of purpose-specific &qu
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by mikegreenberg 1y ago
FIRST and most of its teams are very open to collaborating and supporting rookies new to the org. I recommend reaching out to as many nearby teams as possible and see what support they can provide. Any serious teams are motivated to help as
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by mikegreenberg 1y ago
I couldn't agree more. FIRST is an excellent organization to get involved with. Even if you don't have specialities which directly align with the needs of a team, most will not turn you away (especially if you demonstrate passion)
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by mikegreenberg 2y ago
Correct. Bluesky is dogfooding AT Protocol. https://atproto.com/specs/atp#protocol-extension-and-applica...
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by mikegreenberg 2y ago
> Honestly would prefer all these people and places just published RSS feeds. Good news. That's what Bluesky does with the AT Protocol. They are a consumer of the AT Protocol and it is completely open and interoperable with private
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by mikegreenberg 2y ago
This is a matter of semantics... anyone who actually cares about E2EE probably understands the nature of email being cleartext over the wire and that Proton can't control what is outside of their control. Maybe inaccurate but I doubt t
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by mikegreenberg 2y ago
I've felt this to the point that I attempt to preempt the fake concern with my own rhetorical "Hope everything is going well for you." I'd like to think this alleviates the other party from feeling like they have to shar
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by mikegreenberg 2y ago
You've missed my point or didn't read it. This is not about the market fitness of the idea/product. This is about the parent commenter throwing shade on the inventor's curiosity and aspiring entrepreneurial effort. Regar
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by mikegreenberg 2y ago
What is silly and obvious to you is exploratory for others. When you cast shade on curiosity, you snuff out the potential before it ever comes to light.
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by mikegreenberg 2y ago
Some counterexamples: - TCP is a spec delivered by a software implementation program. Maybe you disagree that TCP is being "deployed" as opposed to "used"? - What about peer-to-peer hosted webpages? Certainly this is dep
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by mikegreenberg 2y ago
It seems the definition of IaaS Products could very well extend to ISPs: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2024-01580/p-46 > This proposed definition adopts the E.O. 13984 definition for “Infrastructure as a Se
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by mikegreenberg 2y ago
Or, if you don't want to trust the source, https://drand.love/
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by mikegreenberg 2y ago
There are a few projects doing this. This one piqued my interest as having a potentially nice UX after some maturity. https://github.com/OpenInterpreter/01
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by mikegreenberg 2y ago
I have one first-hand story: I did tech support via phone for a popular consumer computer brand. One particular call, a woman reported that her computer was restarting every time someone in the house flushed the toilet. Long story short, he
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by mikegreenberg 3y ago
Caveat: The other comments mention the file's contents being the only dependency on the hash, but the algo used to hash would also need to be the same. If the hash algo changes in two cases, the same content would have a different hash
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by mikegreenberg 3y ago
I don't think the blockchain walk has to be done locally. Much like someone looking up DNS records don't need to participate in the DB management to get their records, there can be intermediaries which provide the response and sti
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by mikegreenberg 3y ago
> Either way you need to have a kind of central authority, or at least trusted third parties. You lost me here. Couldn't the local user ('s process) reference the same block chain instead of another trusted party?
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by mikegreenberg 3y ago
Also, I assume it wasn't intentional, but consider against arguing from the position of "I can't think of anything". You are betraying yourself by implying that you know all there is to know...which no one does.
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by mikegreenberg 3y ago
Based on your wording, it sounds like you're conflating the two things together... running an exit node and using tor are orthogonal to one another both in value provided to the user as well as effort involved. Plausible reasons for: (
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by mikegreenberg 4y ago
Bitcoin transactions can be written to support escrow use cases. *Edit: Transactions can be sent to a script which requires multiple keys to forward the funds from that script address to a wallet address. https://en.bitcoin.it&#x
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by mikegreenberg 5y ago
There are a ton of interesting distributed systems problems in cryptocurrency. More generally, open source projects will often share issues for beginners which might be good to start with. Find a project you like and see if there's any
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by mikegreenberg 5y ago
I'm not even sure why you replied if you're not going to add anything to the conversation here. You talked about trusting your "bank" with cryptocurrency and I replied that you don't have to....your argument compari
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by mikegreenberg 5y ago
FWIW, I was speaking about the "collective" you. And of course one does not automatically get the value out of anything without using it properly. If you use something other than how it was intended, you will get something other t
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by mikegreenberg 5y ago
That's not true. How to use credit cards very much have an "interface". - It is open and requires that you protect the numbers on the outside or access to the data on-chip. Many of these security problems have hurt consumers
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by mikegreenberg 5y ago
I'm not really sure how that changes anything I said. You're naïve if you think the service isn't going to pass those costs onto their users. And if you need to resort to a custodial service, what are you even using BTC for?
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by mikegreenberg 5y ago
> However, I didn’t see any talking points in your list that could not be addressed by building solutions to improve UX. These things are problem with the protocol specification. I'm curious to know how you can solve things like wit
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by mikegreenberg 5y ago
> It won't. The only "goalpost" I have is: congrats, you've invented banks... Actually you moved it from "holding your cryptocurrency" to being a bank with safety nets. If you want someone to hold your funds
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by mikegreenberg 5y ago
Here's three: - https://www.sofi.com/invest/buy-cryptocurrency/ - https://gemini.com/ - https://coinlist.co/ These business have been around for quite a while (in technology

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