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I remember trying to order from a pizza place that talked to a third party delivery site, I hit "Order" and the browser didn't do anything. DevTools told me it tried to talk to the 3rd party using HTTP although the page was in HTTPS, and the browser blocked it (this was years ago when browsers started blocking HTTP content on HTTPS sites). Modifying the submit URL to https solved the problem.

I found it pretty funny that I had to understand web development and troubleshoot the problem just to order pizza...
For me the biggest appeal is you could convert a petrol powered car to run off of hydrogen. While they are not as efficient as fuel cell, running a regular engine off of hydrogen would allow us to create demand for fueling stations faster than waiting on fuel cell cars to gradually enter the market.
If we really want to go in this direction and criticize other people calling famous tech businessmen assholes, at least give credit where it's due - Jobs deserves this much more than Gates. Gates documented unethical behavior was mostly against other companies, not so much individuals, with a few notable exceptions.
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Absolutely.

I think that people grossly underestimate the amount of processing that can be done on video. Reasonably sized filters, something like deinterlacing, high quality transforms. Swamping a modern CPU in terms of memory access or processing isn't too hard.
Ethereum doesn't have an energy problem, energy have an Ethereum problem.

Don't get me wrong, it's great that they are working on becoming more effective but the idea that we should judge new technology purely on it's environmental impact as we see these days is counterproductive to progress. Progress from 0 to 1 will always be less effective than the optimization that follows.

We should be much more focused on how to make sure that any technologies energy usage doesn't become an issue by creating clean technologies with high energy density, which are reliable, plentiful and scaleable and doesn't require backup sources.
Jordan isn't really the other side in this dust-up. Jordan and Israel get along these days (more or less), and I speculate that the money they both get from the US actually plays a part in that. The money the US gives countries around the world isn't just charity. It buys influence and the ability to decide who fights with who and when, among other things (like who buys what weapons).
I think you are correct. PoS coin is worthless coin.
Imagine the tales in the future -- about the potential trillion dollar economy that was invented by some internet nerds who listened too much to people that have no idea what they are talking about, and drove it off a cliff with fancy talk of proof of stake (which was actually engineered by the existing powers to ensure their continued control of global economies).
The difference is that with exceptions sloppy code is the default.

As you write code in a language with explicit errors, the language makes you acknowledge that the code you call can error out. This makes you stop and think what to do about the error. You can choose to ignore it, but that's a conscious decision that the language forces you to make.

With exceptions, there's no such feedback mechanism from the language/compiler. In order to write robust code you yourself must have the discipline to add exception handlers around the appropriate calls.

In short, defaults matter. It's simply easier to write correct, robust code when you don't have to go out of your way to do it.

See https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050114-00/?p=36...:

> It’s really hard to write good exception-based code since you have to check every single line of code (indeed, every sub-expression) and think about what exceptions it might raise and how your code will react to it.

... which leads us straight to favorite exceptions-caused bug: https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/202001/bug_915_solved.html:

> Inside tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile, the error handling misses the possibility that _TemporaryFileWrapper will fail.
I agree also perhaps for grid scale storage
> Do you see this leading to increased prices or a reduction in quantity consumed?

We’re way past that at this point. Amazon is closer to a level of government than traditional company. They are already under multiple antitrust investigations in multiple countries and jurisdictions so it’s nuts for you to go all pikachu face on the comment that they may be guilty of such.

The amount of power Amazon has over media, retail and internet is unparalleled and is a threat to a well regulated democracy. Their second HQ is going in DC metro for a reason.

IMO Amazon should be split into a dozen companies. Would that be good for consumers on day 1? No. But it would create a better market over time just as when the megacorps of the past have been split up.
> Last night I wanted to fry some eggs and forgot about the pan.

I had a good laugh imagining pouring eggs on an old-school electric stove.
I would look up the ladder before blaming physicians. It's not the high salary of the doctor that's inflated the cost of medical care. It's insurance, middlemen, overpaid administrators, and the general move to for-profit medicine that's to blame in my experience. Doctors make good money, but they also go through 8 years of expensive schooling to get there and are often just making ends meet for years after school.
>You didn't specify a platform

The browser is a platform. A big fact you seem to be missing.
I think the right channel is IG not FB for climbers.
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> There has never been a better time to be a nerd. In the past century we've seen a continuous transfer of power from dealmakers to technicians — from the charismatic to the competent

What happens if a nerd learns how to be charismatic? It's a winning combo, I guess.
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How? So long as there are multiple competitors after the same customers I don't really see how this happens. Hell, we only really have 3 major cloud computing platforms (along with some minor ones), but consistently the prices of everything they offer goes down.
You really need to emphasize how this makes your hands crack less, etc. Your site needs to be rewritten to put info like that front and center.

"Good for the environment" etc should be framed as an added bonus.

When I see someone selling a product like this and their most aggressive value position is "good for the environment," that reads to me like you are trying to guilt me into buying something I wouldn't otherwise buy. When I then see you very prominently also announcing "one tree planted for every widget sold!" I conclude "This is a fool who knows nothing about business and should just be running a charity but for some damn reason can't commit to that or something?"

It smacks of "I want to do good works, but I'm a pathetic loser who desperately needs money, so I'm going to try to make this a business, only not because I'm all confused."

(That "Look, look, we do good works!" positioning works for big companies who are raking in the dough and trying to convince people "We aren't an evil corporation. We are decent people doing good things while making a buck. Honest!")

Planting trees should be maybe a page linked in the footer. It should not be prominently and loudly promoted.

Because people will see that and conclude the product is overpriced so you can afford your hobby of planting trees.

You could also have a whole separate page on chalk lung, a whole separate page -- with pics -- about chalk defacing the climbing environment. Etc.

Your value position needs to be something like "Protect your hands! Bonus: Protects the environment too!"

Sales and marketing are about communication. It's about getting info from your mind to my mind without benefit of a Vulcan mind meld.

You need to get random strangers to see what you see, feel what you feel, understand what you understand, envision what you experience.

You want to walk them through how glorious it is to climb more efficiently because they chalk up less often, to climb more comfortably because their hands aren't cracked and bleeding, to enjoy their sport more because they aren't going to work with injured hands still healing for several days after a climb, to take pleasure in the view of the landscape unmarred by chalk residue, to know they are really getting healthier and stronger from their sport and not being left with hidden health issues like chalk lung because of it.

I would rename it. Maybe call it "liquid chalk" or something like that.

Edit:

Rather than "rebelling" against current practices, you need to position it as "the future of climbing." Rebelling gives the power to existing practices. "The future of climbing" says "Hey, this is a done deal. You can brag about being an early adopter or be some loser who joins late, but resistance is futile."
Yeah...

Will it also suggest me my passwords in iOS?

Come on, guys, 1Password is not only about syncing passwords between N computers.
The problem is getting enough power to broadcast the sensor report. It means you have to run your sensors with a thimble of energy and store up remaining energy for a burst of reports (hope someone is listening :))
I don't know anyone who keeps large amounts of ETH sitting unused on an exchange.
I think this is an overstatement anyway. It's more likely that these cores will accelerate increasingly complex effects applied to one 4k/8k stream.

M1 is fast at editing, but not particularly fast when you factor in processing.
look it's science , if you know electronic 101 and pay attention watching Dave's video, you could understand why. And yes, the power available was in microwatt range 10 years ago, too.
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Let's appreciate the achievement rather than
comparing instantly with electric or Tesla.

Would be interested to know what makes nexo different to be able to break the record.
Wow I know nothing about sales or climbing but this is great work! I signed up for your newsletter
"Ooops, maybe PoS was a bad idea, sorry about the billions!"
I am corrected: Yes,the Black Sea level was much lower, and rose. But how quickly? E.g., if the Bosporus was blocked, and later broke, the water could rise very quickly, over weeks, not years. It could fall, instead, if the sea had filled in, and then suddenly drained by a similar process.

But the subject is complicated by the unknown inflow from rivers, and from meltwater of retreating glacier.

Hydrology is complicated.
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In that movie, nerds publicly sexually harass and worst their enemies girlfriend. Yes, girlfriend mocks him at one moment, but the response is ridiculous. Are you sure you want to claim that is how things actually were?

Edit: in the movie nerds sell secretly taken naked pictures of said girlfriend to earn money. The movie is old and ridiculous, but when you start to claim this is how things were, I want to know wtf was going on in your school.
To directly answer your question: currently, ethereum has the same fundamental scaling problems that bitcoin has (limited global throughput)

Bitcoin's attempted solution on this front is off-chain scaling via lightning network. As far as I can ascertain, this has had highly limited adoption.

Eth's attempted solution on this front is sharding. I can't claim to be an expert in this, but from my understanding after proof-of-stake is deployed, ethereum plans to deploy something like 64 separate "shards" which, from my understanding, are like extra blockchains for conducting transactions, and using some kind of complicated proof of stake system to keep it consistent. In this case, while the main-net still has limited global throughput, scaling up to add more side chains will allow scaling additional throughput. You can read more here https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/

As with lightning, we don't know how well this will actually end up going until it's deployed.
It depends. Some midwestern companies want to pay < $100/hr. Californians will pay up to $145/hr for special skills. New York is accustomed to outrageous fees. I feel bad about taking advantage them so I only go up to $165/hr or so. And of course for assurances about hours and duration of the project, discounts.
The other article was speculation about a new MacBook Pro (laptop, possibly this year). This is speculation about a new Mac Pro (desktop, possibly next year).
I agree that the problem you've outlined here is a serious one, and I consider it a societal failure. It may be valuable to critique society from time to time, but when I spend too much time doing it only makes me miserable company for myself and anyone else who happens to be around.

The self-help thing seeming to blame the victim is real, but I think it is possible to skirt that problem by setting aside blame and switching to something like: Something very bad is happening here, and I need to see what levers are available to me. I have much more power to change myself than to change society.
It would be interesting to see less reliance on the regex parsing of bash shell command responses and a move toward something like PowerShell where the return of all commands is an object, the properties of which can be accessed with familiar dot notion (and enumerating with a foreach or lambda equivalent). I find it ironic that after creating such a powerful upgrade on the concept of a shell scripting language that Microsoft then enabled -- and even promotes -- the use of bash on Windows for systems administration.
Very interesting. Does it run on Windows 10? Android?
120 MJ/kg for H2 vs 46 MJ/kg for gasoline.

Both are explosive, so I think (I'm no authority on this) we can compare those values directly, without taking into account the storage pressure.

Source: https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2005/MichelleFung.shtml https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/ArthurGolnik.shtml
Demanding a single currency to settle debts is a feature, not a bug. I don't wanna spend each morning researching which currency to use today. And I'm sure the local store doesn't wanna figure out which set of ten optional currencies to sell milk for.

This doesn't even begin to consider long term debt.
Vitalik talked about splits like this, read https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/03/23/legitimacy.html
Check out Bill Mollison’s “Introduction to Permaculture” and “Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual”. He breaks things into principles across different climates. They’re also generally inspiring books.
I find interesting that WGSL is clearly influenced by Rust.

GSL and WGSL are completely unrelated, apparently time to rewrite shaders.

And in what concerns debugging, better get good at understanding what is the actual application code and browser own rendering engine, as the best solution keeps being to use native GPGPU debuggers.
> If I’m building a marketplace business in 2021, where I want to be “crypto-first” instead of relying on PayPal and Stripe Connect, where do I start?

Unless you are building a dark web market, why would you want to? It will be more convenient for the vast majority of users to pay with card or PayPal.
Burning hydrogen in an ICE is a very expensive and inefficient process. It's a bit like electric heating, you need to first make the hydrogen which is itself a lossy process. In both cases, the "high-quality" energy source that is produced, can be efficiently used by a specific process (fuel cells for hydrogen, heat pumps for electricity) or squandered in an inefficient conversion process (internal combustion engine for hydrogen, resistive heating for electricity).
Personally, I find the all-you-can-eat subscription subs all pretty bad for film. They have even good films but if you want to watch a specific film, it's unlikely they have it. Earlier in the pandemic I even reupped my Netflix DVD rental service for a while. (Sadly, Netflix is obviously not repurchasing a lot of older movies as the discs become unwatchable.)
What’s the provocative part?

I like the insight. What you are saying is that liquidity needs to get much deeper to account for all the currency made available and consolidated.
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no no no. It's Harper Rodriguez, born 1931. You're maligning the wrong Harper.
1Password in Firefox unlocking the desktop app caught my eye. I'm on Mac and have to unlock 1Password in Firefox completely separately from the desktop Mac app.
6 years old and already having to navigate software, passwords, privacy. I am mildly shocked, and saddened. Or am I just behind the times?
Well, the alternative is static filter lists like in Safari, which results in a worse experience.

I trust gorhill much more than I trust random ad delivery networks trying to possibly exploit zero-day vulnerabilities.
Like they do on all other PoS (worthless) coins? Yes.
This is the fundamental problem. We have seen chain takeovers from this exact scenario. See Steem / Hive for an example of how this can go very wrong.
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"I have some good news, and some bad news. The good news is that your fierceness will be a great help in solving difficult problems. And not just the kind of scientific and technical problems that nerds have traditionally solved. As the world progresses, the number of things you can win at by getting the right answer increases. Recently getting rich became one of them: 7 of the 8 richest people in America are now fierce nerds."

It's good that we've gotten past the tedious "solving society's problems" blather.

"If you do choose the ambitious route, you'll have a tailwind behind you. There has never been a better time to be a nerd. In the past century we've seen a continuous transfer of power from dealmakers to technicians — from the charismatic to the competent — and I don't see anything on the horizon that will end it. At least not till the nerds end it themselves by bringing about the singularity."

Isn't Graham a dealmaker? Isn't that exactly what Y Combinator does?

And given Graham's comments about inequality, why am I ambivalent about the singularity of the fierce nerds?
In the case of a supply capped crypto, to not get burned by asset inflation.
I don't use it professionally, but I built a side-project in Elixir a few years ago and was amazed at how much I was able to get done with such a little amount of code. The service is still running today with basically no maintenance. For me it was a great choice and I would totally build my next project with Elixir on the backend.
I reported abuse few minutes back. Google pulled it out shortly after that.

Also I am pretty sure Google has a "karma" number for users (just like reddit) in the backend where they automatically take down if report is from a user with high karma.
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And you shouldn't jump to conclusions and shout "alternative science!!!" before looking at least at the order of magnitude discussed.
Right, but then the model is not trustless but is instead a complex implementation of the current system of international banking. Maybe I don't understand the point of cryptocurrencies. Most applications of cryptography are trustless.
Yes, this is the case. (As the owner of a 16" MBP, which replaced a long series of 15" MBPs—with a 17" in there way back when they were still current.)
The fact of the matter is that Israeli civilians have options that Gazan Palestinians do not. I'm empathetic to them as well — it's horrible that anyone has to fear being killed in a conflict. But there is absolutely a disparity, and it's not "hand-waving" to note that it exists without qualification.

That disparity, by the way, is exactly why it doesn't make sense to compare Gaza to cities with regard to population density. It's technically a city, but that's really not an apples-to-apples comparison. For all intents and purposes it's a country/territory, by which standard it is one of the most densely populated in the world.
I think GP's point is that in the event of a fork, in a PoW fork miners have to choose to either mine for chain A or chain B, whereas with PoS stakers can choose to stake for both. This is bad, because either side can use their staking power to disrupt the other chain, by doing double spend attacks or refusing to confirm transactions. On top of that, staking is free to do, so you don't even have to expend resources to pull off such an attack, whereas with mining you have to spend real world resources to pull it off.
An unfortunate state of the industry we are in is a result of years of technological evolution during which security and reliability were either ignored or present only in marketing materials and not in the result. Attempts to add security on top of this insecure mess sometimes make situation even worse (e. g. many anti-virus products were vulnerable to RCE at some points). Customers are complicit in this process too, especially if ware are talking about enterprise software. And simplicity which affects both security and reliability appreciated only by a minority of developers.

It is unfair to hold an app developer liable, when there is no practical way to create even a small CRUD application which doesn't have many million lines of code written by thousands of developers as dependencies (counting an OS as a dependency). And this becomes worse every year.

IMHO the only good way to create secure system is start from keeping the system simple and easy to audit. To keep it this way one would have not only invest a lot of time, but also to sacrifice non-essential features (something customers/users not used to do and will have a hard time accepting).
So I'm more familiar with how Cardano and Polkadot do their POS rather than Ethereums. In Cardano since the entry level requirement to operate a stake pool is much smaller than it is to do something like Bitcoin mining, it creates a larger number of stake pools. There's also a soft limit on the size of the stake pool that encourages people to spread out their commitment so no one pool gets to large.So at least in the existing POS systems it seems to be working quite well. I'm going to be interested to see how it shakes out in Ethereum because they have to commit their funds. Which is in a way a burden.The more you put into the system for staking the less that you can use.
If you say so. The existence of this thread seems to indicate it's either a very poor excuse for a "platform" or you're using a very loose definition of "platform".
Nah, this is the future of Internet, according to PG :)
I'm actually surprised by that, I've been using the beta on my Linux machines and never noticed anything that would suggest it was electron. No performance issues, weird UI, etc. I actually prefer it to the MacOS/Windows native clients.
Cool, but why does a new and more power-efficient M1 laptop has it[1], and it's much bigger than this one?

Apple is also known for not admitting its design failures.

1: https://www.zdnet.com/a/hub/i/2020/11/20/ab77bd9b-edc0-419f-...
This is exactly right. Corporate taxation is not a good thing in general, and makes everyone poorer.
Nobody is going to change their basic personality because of an essay they read online. I doubt it's even possible.
The punchline was that, IIRC, it's an Electron app.

Also PG and others were evidently very upset that, aside from just laughing at the obvious humor of the situation, lots people expressed wishes—for a bunch of reasons; e.g its most viable business models all seem to involve spying or other shady behavior; it's just a bad sign for where the Web is at so it would be sad to see that become normal—that the company doesn't do very well.
Right. But today when most people say "monopoly", they don't mean the Standard Oil kind. They mean the Google kind that has ~90% of the search market. That much market share is still pretty anti-consumer. With Standard Oil, there were no competitors. Today, you can start a Google competitor, but they will bully you every inch of the way, and probably end up buying you anyway. It's not as clear-cut as a Standard Oil/AT&T, but it's still highly predatory and monopolistic behavior.