samkon

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by samkon 3y ago
I’ve never understood the take that a crypto network “doesn’t provide value”. Keeping the network secure isn’t valuable? So whose paying for all the energy exactly? How long until they’re bled dry?
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by samkon 4y ago
Sounds like turbo links
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by samkon 4y ago
But…isn’t this kind of how life really did start?
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by samkon 4y ago
A “patch” could also include a wire to an an external sequencer or arpeggiator, and in this way would include a “melody”. This is trivially easy to do in a software synth, but also perfectly possible in an original “patch”.
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by samkon 4y ago
The author of SQLite suggested that the name is meant to sound like a mineral: https://changelog.com/podcast/201
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by samkon 4y ago
It’s not “lite”, it’s “ite”. SQLite, as if it were a mineral, like Azurite.
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by samkon 4y ago
Considering that he was 19 at the time, and that he dropped that project soon after, I think a more charitable reading is that a teenager with some big ideas did something unwise.
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by samkon 4y ago
Don’t forget this tweet from a day earlier, which he quotes: > “So will wasm replace Docker?” No, but imagine a future where Docker runs linux containers, windows containers and wasm containers side by side. Over time wasm might become t
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by samkon 4y ago
I am such a musician, and have been looking for years for an app I can use on the go to capture a spontaneous idea on the go and then pick it up later at my home DAW. The ability to manually enter musical notation is a essential here, becau
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by samkon 4y ago
I can’t believe it doesn’t support manual midi entry (as far as I can tell), seems like a huge miss. This is a well understood limitation for apps in this space (see Auxy), and people increasingly have only wireless headphones.
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by samkon 4y ago
Can you elaborate on Lyn Alden? I don’t know enough to comment on her expertise, but I do know that dismissing someone as being trivially wrong on basically any topic is often a sign of not understanding the person’s arguments.
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by samkon 4y ago
Mining has nothing to do with CBDCs
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by samkon 4y ago
This is the real problem I have. If I delete content, move to a different note, and return to the first note, I lose the undo history and any possibility of regaining the deleted text.
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by samkon 4y ago
Crypto can be secured and transported much more cheaply and easily - as opposed to gold, where many people would rather own/trade a receipt for gold kept in a secured vault.
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by samkon 4y ago
You’ve articulated why people call Bitcoin “digital gold”.
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by samkon 4y ago
Have you found a good way to export a backup, instead of only cloud sync? Too to lose content by deleting by accident and then syncing.
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by samkon 4y ago
Except that these transactions do eventually go through. It’s a relatively soft form of censorship - and doesn’t actually achieve the goal of preventing the transactions. IMO - this behavior is a blip. As soon as it becomes clear that “cens
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by samkon 4y ago
Except that blocks are not “finalized”, like you’re imagining. With 51% of mining power, I can mine faster than the rest of the network, for an arbitrary number of blocks. The 51% attacker will have the longest chain for as long as they kee
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by samkon 4y ago
Compiled to wasm, it can be used in javascript games.
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by samkon 4y ago
Securing private keys is much cheaper than securing physical property.
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by samkon 4y ago
Any node that did this would have their stake slashed by the rest of the network, because it would be easy to prove that the chain was invalid. The network finalizes the blocks that are added to the chain, there are no deep chain reorgs lik