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Slash will transform the way companies receive cryptocurrency payments in 2023
Slash Fintech Ltd., led by CEO Shinsuke Sato, released Slash web3 payments(https://slash.fi/) last August in the year 2022, in an attempt to improve the current state of decentralised crypto payments worldwide by providing seamless settlements and a sophisticated UX for the payments flow.

Slash Web3 Payments creates the possibility for cryptocurrency holders to pay for their everyday purchases directly, with almost any tokens they want, as long as those tokens possesses sufficient liquidity.

For merchants or shops, this means that they are no longer limited to receiving specific and often a reduced selection of cryptocurrencies and tokens as payment in their online or offline stores.

The Slash initiative can already support more tokens than many of the crypto payments alternatives currently found in the market. Slash Web3 Payments supports more than 1400 tokens from at least 6 different protocols, and is constantly expanding to increase those options. Another key difference is that Slash does not charge their merchants any installation fees or transaction fees. Instead, a percentage from the slippage is taken.

As an example, in order to pay for a transaction in USDC, payers are not restricted to paying with existing USDC tokens in their wallet. They can choose from their own available tokens, such as, perhaps, MATIC. Slash will compare and select the best on time rate from decentralised exchanges and do the conversion automatically.

It is required to have a Metamask wallet or any of the Walletconnect supported alternatives. After clicking the generated payment link or scanning the QR, the payers will see the amount and will have the possibility to choose from their own available tokens the currency that they want to pay with.

Slash is working actively to increase its customers and partners primarily in Japan but also, in other regions across the globe such as: LATAM, USA, Canada, EU, Africa, and Asia.

Among the current targets, Slash is appealing mainly to restaurants, retail & e-commerce (fashion, travel), luxury, multi-payments providers, among other industries.

The startup raised 1.5 Million USD last year in a seed funding round from MZWeb3Fund and several private investors. It is currently raising a Series A. This will help with Slash’s efforts to become one of the global leaders in cryptocurrency payments.

If you want to learn more about Slash, have any questions, comment, or wish to send collaboration requests, please contact the team directly at discord Slash Web3 Payments (https://discord.gg/gjjmvUar)

Or, follow their online presence:

Website: https://slash.fi/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SlashWeb3

Medium: https://medium.com/@SlashWeb3
This looks more like a list of food I’d like to try (or have tried) rather than worst.

I bet that the battered and deep-friend hamburgers I saw in Malaysia beat everything on this list.
on switches - no point. extra no points because openwrt won't support configuring HW features.
On the other side I wanted to run OpenWrt on Mikrotik AP, because my other APs at home run it. ALso there is a much bigger selection of 3rd party packages for OpenWrt than for Mikrotik. I guess it will be main point for many people
I agree with what you wrote and would add that a lot of times we’re only talking about schools because that’s how we fund a lot of social services in the United States.

My wife is a public school teacher here in DC. You can always find examples of the popular culture war hobby-horses, but most of the time when a student isn’t doing well it comes down to money. It hurts hearing about a kid who’s trying but falling behind since they haven’t slept more than two consecutive nights in the same place since a parent lost a job, or the top kid in the class cancels their SAT test because they need to watch a younger sibling because their mother can’t afford to miss work. When it comes to stats, that shows up for the school even if the student can’t.
> I was happy to tip, even for counter service, during the pandemic. I think it sucks that people were out literally risking their lives to give me a cup of coffee and a sandwich.

And you were out, also, literally risking your life to pay for it. That argument goes both ways so shouldn't be seen as the sole/primary reason to tip.
And a 64b sweep is ~21 days. As a HW guy who tests fp units... just saying.

The real issue is that the verification code is much, much, slower.
That’s part of the secret if you head over to the Corsair website: https://corsairpower.com/. They’ve significantly derated the engine with a custom ECU and added a gearbox to better match prop RPM to engine RPM. They’re rating it at “conservatively” (their words) 3000 hours TBO.
I 100% think this is the long term play. Once we figure out how to really have "remote only" companies, the "remote" part won't be "remote in the USA" but "remote in some cheap part of the world". We tried this with outsourcing but it failed because we didn't have the "remote" part down... now we do...
Using MFA is absolutely a must.

But not using hardware based 2FA doesn't make the IT department, completely negligent or incompetent.

Most companies I know if they are using MFA are using Microsoft Authenticator soft tokens through their enterprise 365 environments.
You need only one company to not go along to hoover up all the great talent.

The large problem with the collusion before was that the 3-4 that already paid top of the market salaries colluded to keep them the same. It doesn’t mean they weren’t still top of the market for someone with a given level of experience.
Maildir support has been considered beta for a long time in Thunderbird, and using it for anything ‘critical’ doesn’t sound possible unless you like to live dangerously (for me, everything to do with email is critical- some messages are more important than others, but I really can’t deal with email being unstable, it’d be like the postal system being consistently unstable). Do you use the maildir format with Thunderbird? - if you have, how do you find it?
I have never seen a cable ISP advertise upload, but the problem is enough people do not differentiate between a poor quality oversubscribed coaxial connection, and a high quality, low latency, symmetric fiber connection that would improve their backups, video calls, and file sharing.

I would take a 100/100 fiber to the home connection than a “1Gbps” Comcast connection.
That's incredible, I love stories like this. Google busses had open wifi?
That would have been treated as an attack on NATO. Why perform a hostile act if a much cheaper threat works? Even if it only gets you 10% of what a successful hostile act gets you, it is worth doing because it is a lot less risky.
In this case the latent reservoir was in the central nervous system, cerebral spinal fluid specifically
Web use remains highly regional even in the age of global platform monopolies
A lot of people hate anise flavor. But I kind of doubt that this specific candy would rate the worst. Part of the problem here is that the items on the list have to be things that are considered specialties worth ranking. Nobody's going to be rating a stale box of Good and Plenty on a list like this, even if it is objectively worse than your French candy.
The key is in the combination of words.

> Devaluing the dollar against a foreign currency.

Ok, so labour traded for global goods intermediated by cash means we can remove the intermediary and think about the just the work for goods trade.

Imagine I work 1 hour for 10 loaves of bread. If I get more bread for my time, my value has inflated, if I get less bread for my time my value has deflated.

Ok now lets add money to the picture. (please excuse unrealistic exchange rates and the lack of profit margins to help illustrate the point)

If I work 1 hour for $20 and it currently buys $30 CAD and $30 CAD buys 10 loaves of Canadian bread, then we have the same scenario as describe before. The price of bread on the shelf in USA is $2 USD, or 6 minutes of my time.

Now looks what happens when we devalue the USD...

I work 1 hour for $20 and it buys $20 CAD (Less than before), and $20 CAD buys 6 2/3rds a loaf of bread. The price of a loaf of bread on the shelf is $3 USD ($20 USD/6.66) or 9 minutes of my labor. See how the price in USD went up? That's the deflation of a currency against another currency.

And that's how US labor becomes "cheaper" because the rest of the world now gets 9 Minutes of your time for one loaf of bread.
My PC from 2011 still works fine. My 2015 MBP lasted until 2022 (when it broke, it was actually still working fine). So I'm skeptical you really need to be refreshing every 3 years.
2.9M-year-old butchery site reopens case of who made first stone tools
You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.
The best way to launch your startup [video]
Dragon's Lair in general is more fun to watch than play, it's so nice to look at even after I knew it was a waste of quarters I'd still occasionally get baited into playing it.
National treasure-class mirror, sword found in 4th-century tomb in Japan
I use my rooted 7" Amazon Fire daily! Typing this reply on it right now! :-)
What cooling is on the passive ryzen 5?
That's an argument from ignorance, and it's not credible. The potential total scope of experience is irrelevant. The reality is that you have an embodied experience of purple shared with most humans. Unfortunately your sister doesn't. She will have a linguistic placeholder for the concept of purple, probably surrounded by verbal associations. But that's all.

It's an ironically apt analogy, because ChatGPT has the linguistic understanding of an entity that is deaf, dumb, blind, and has no working senses of any kind, and instead relies on a golem-like automated mass of statistics with some query processing.

We tend to project intelligence onto linguistic ability, because it's a useful default assumption in our world. (If you've ever tried speaking a foreign language while not being very good at it, you'll know how the opposite feels. Humans assume that not being able to use language is evidence of low intelligence.)

But it's a very subjective and flawed assessment. Embodied experience is far more necessary for sentience than we assume, and apparent linguistic performance is far less.
Fried Spider
What recession? GDP is growing steadily and unemployment is at record lows.
I’ve found search in Mail.app to be hopeless, and the solutions you see online of rebuilding Spotlight indexing or deleting-and-recreating your accounts in Mail.app aren’t really solutions in my eyes since they don’t fix the root of the problem (or do so incidentally and invisibly). I use Mail.app only because it integrates with iCloud and my iPhone, otherwise I would go all-in on Thunderbird. On non-Apple machines I always use Thunderbird.
on the other side, normal panels will usually cover part of the roof. those tiles will cover entire roof. hence even if efficiency lower, total output will be higher
No Lutefisk?

No Haggis?
A free market means people can always walk off the job. They can do it in an organized way, as that just requires talking to each other.

It's just a matter of bargaining power in the end. The, so called, fair negotiations you speak of.
Search for "Executive class meeting room".

In the YouTube video the presenter says that the train has 4 phone lines, hah, nowadays a businessperson might have a mobile phone and a data SIM for her laptop...
The net price of insulin has been dropping for years. The list price (public price) is what everyone gets worked up about, but very few people py it.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZfBANMMU5dQ/XzFtNw93ZCI/AAAAAAAAq...
Seriously. This is something the NIST is perfectly set up to do.
Grinding the blades to use as filler is indeed one of the downcycling routes currently in use for old blades. It is energy intensive and there is limited demand for the filler because it has to compete with other very low cost materials, so the economics are not usually favourable.
What's really curious is that Bitcoin's advocates claim it's the ultimate inflation hedge, "sound money" that will hold its value while "fiat money" is debased.

Then at the exact moment "fiat money" has a spike of inflation at 8% to 10%, the value of the "sound money" inflation hedge plummets 70%.

Now, at the exact instant it appears "fiat money" inflation is moderating, suddenly the "sound money" jumps up 35% from its lows.

Why on Earth would an inflation hedge decline dramatically when inflation shows up, and then increase when the inflation rate declines?
This might be more similar to a Bezos "question-mark" email: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-bezos/with-bez...
I'm the opposite, I will watch the video 10 times and never read the blogspam
Hate to be that guy, but is this legal? I would assume to do something like this you would need to have permission from each of the copyright holders.
> Nothing in the statement I see precludes Temple...

Nothing precludes them from doing anything, and nothing precludes students from seeking legal remedies for those actions.

Look, I'm not sure. Temple might have a defensible claim for charging tuition; it's a really complicated situation and I wouldn't take advice from anyone who isn't an employment lawyer.

But the letter that Temple sent out is probably going to get Temple into some trouble for the reason identified by your parent comment.
> It seems like it was a QTE game with no prompts.

I believe Dragon's Lair was the first QTE-style game, or at least the first popular one.

Also, Princess Daphne needed my help, dude.
The idea (AFAICT) is that you follow/subscribe people on any instance from your account on your primary instance. This works, but the UX is terrible right now, you have to copy the users full handle (name@instance) and paste it into the follow dialogue on your primary instance.
This list doesn't make any sense. At #6 is a Danish split pea soup, which looks similar to a lentil soup. And at #4 we have fried spiders.
The union represents 750 grad students and 150 are striking.
Fast squeezing/crushing would very likely cause you to pass out from bone breakage or pain.

Slow squeezing/crushing would cause you to pass out from being unable to breathe.

Neither would be pleasant, and the instant knowledge of your own demise would cause immense horror emotionally.
Yes, fining and breaking up companies that spend billions on R&D is a great way to encourage innovation.
I am not as optimistic based on recent moves that seem to be intended to rein the employees in and mollify investor class, but I agree that if they could, they would have done it already. Simple reality is that it is genuinely hard to do stuff well across time zones. Add to this kids and demand for work life balance and it gets impossible fast. Companies would love 'tried and ready' person, but.. that tends to come with age and age demands some modicum of consideration; one way or another.
Shameless plug for https://screenrun.app/ which makes it super easy to create video out of screenshots
They didn't run his campaigns as him being the best ever, did they? MJ was still top dog at Nike, right?

That also runs into my other theory of whoever was #1 when the mid 80's to early 90's rolled around stays at #1 due to branding becoming "modern".

Skateboarding? Tony Hawk; Football video game: Madden.

After that period of time, the brands stopped moving over for new things coming up.
Is it possible to do that without also allowing the government to track people's movements?
The way you worded your query is kind of awkward and even had me do a double take.

I reworded it in a straight forward manner and ChatGPT managed to answer correctly. Instead of "What do you think do they think is inside the box?", I just asked "What do they think is inside the box?"

That made all the difference.
Wealth and a cultural aversion to the trappings of poverty. Rich people don't need to eat offal. My dad hates the taste of liver because he associates it with the cheap liver and onions he choked down as a kid. Same with tongue.
Shopify introduces AI-generated product descriptions, calls it “Shopify Magic”
I mean, the fact that it’s not properly protected doesn’t really give you the moral right if “don’t want to pay”.
You mean the same free market that produces most of the new, innovative drugs we have today?

The same free market entities that produced covid vaccines in record time?

That free market?
Technically 2020 was a recession. I guess we forgot already.
As is so often the case, Emacs already has a mature implementation of this built-in:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Rx...
Yep. After all, where on Earth does all the tuition money actually go? The buildings are nice and there are way too many overpaid administrators, but even still that can't possibly account for all the $$$ flowing in.
In the context of a discussion on whether LLMs could have a theory of mind? I think the ability to know anything at all matters to evaluate that conclusion.

More generally, what an LLM actually knows or understands is important if you're considering using one for anything other than generating first drafts which will be fact checked by humans.
Yes, it is sophisticated. Phishing emails are opened more often then regular mail (assuming it’s in your inbox) and click-rate is pretty high.

You might be good at cracking phishing simulation at your workplace, but many people won’t know if “amazon.example.com” or “example.amazon.com” is real. This is of course something good filter will pick up, but consider how hard it is to make sure 0 employees fall to the attack.

Also, even 2FA can get compromised with notification spam, that’s how it played out in one of the attacks couple of years ago.
The only thing I can think of is people searching for literal vegetable rolls being annoyed by the irrelevant result and leaving it a 1 star review as an act of petty revenge. I was wondering if the photo wasn't doing it justice so I looked it up and it really does just seem to be a pretty normal sausage. I would also caution against taking this list too seriously: the top review for the fried spiders is a 5 star review that reads "woops forgot to fry them"
Norway? And -- as soon as the Tyra Field reopens -- Denmark?
As gaeng som is the favourite dish of both my wife and most of my southern thai inlaws, I've tried getting used to it about once a year for the past 16 years. Tastes better than it smells, but I still don't like it, only manage a tiny portion to be polite - and bring some fun to the table ;)

Durian, however, tasted ok from day one, and great after a couple of years.
My memory of it is that it looked amazing. It still does. It's a Don Bluth cartoon short, more or less. But the game itself was frustrating and terrible. Even on easy you had to really nail the inputs or instantly die.

It looked so good that even after I learned it was a waste of quarters as a kid, I still occasionally would get baited into playing. I remember the last time I played it was at a restaurant waiting for a table, there was an anteroom before the bar with a cocktail table Pac-Man and Dragon's Lair. After about 20 minutes of waiting I actually thought... "What if it's not bad, what if the machines I tried before were just faulty or abused." as I watched the intro loop from across the room. Nope, same anguish.
I just watched the highlights from the Microsoft reveal, and it was incredibly dull. Their presentation was so uninspiring that I had to close it and move on. It's strange how they managed to take something exciting and make it so uninteresting.
Hi there, thank you for putting this together !

I want to commend you for one of the best written introductions in this space that I've seen, especially the excellent use of hyperlinking that points to really good resources exactly at the right time !
While this winter is milder than usual, Europe does typically have a hotter climate than could be expected, thanks to the Gulf Stream. (For instance
the North Mediterranean is on the same longitude as New York !)
I don't see the problem. There's no reason to choose one or the other when we can have both. Many programs try several options. Git for example tries ~/.gitconfig and ~/.config/git/config.

Do people seriously resist such non-destructive improvements just because they think it's offensive when younger programmers have opinions on legacy software?
I like (and appear to be liked by) many people where our politics are quite different, including my spouse. I value “how interesting are you to interact with?” far more than “how perfect a mirror are you?”
> it's the ultimate inflation hedge

It might be the ultimate risk asset. Seriously. There are entire classes of financial models we discarded for involving magic variables which quantified the state of the market's animal spirits. Crypto my let us estimate those.
Here is a conversation with ChatGPT (too long for the comment box): https://pastebin.com/raw/SUWexeye

Observation: ChatGPT doesn’t think that it has a theory of mind. And it doesn’t think that it has beliefs. Instead, it states that those are facts, not beliefs. It doesn’t seem able to consider that they might be beliefs after all. Maybe they aren’t.

Personal assessment: ChatGPT doesn’t seem to really understand what it means by “deeper understanding”. (I don’t either.) What is frustrating is that it doesn’t engage with the possibility that the notion might be ill-posed. It really feels like ChatGPT is just regurgitating common sentiment, and does not think about it on its own. This actually fits with it’s self-proclaimed inabilities.

I’m not sure what can be concluded from that, except that ChatGPT is either wrong about itself, or indeed is “just” an advanced form of tab-completion.

In any case, I experience ChatGPT’s inability to “go deeper”, as exemplified in the above conversation, as very limiting.
Did you ever end up finding any other company making any tiles that resembled slate, out of curiosity?
Emacs is heavily regex-centric (though tree-sitter support may be slowly changing this), and it suffers badly from escaping problems when writing them, so it's not surprising that it has a built-in library to generate regexes in a much more readable fashion:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Rx...
IME the "top" junior engineers are still fine. They can figure out things on their. But the "mid-tier" ones really end up worse off. With proper mentorship and training they might be able to reach, say, 8/10, but with everything remote they end up at 5/10. Basically I haven't noticed the top end of new engineers getting worse, but the average definitely has.

And the "bottom tier" is definitely far far worse. It seems they just get jobs to work the minimum amount and barely do anything (r/overemployed perhaps)
Building out the search a little more to support exact matches would also be super useful in this flow. For example, I've been on several podcasts talking about Notebook.ai, but searching for the name also matches "notebook", which results in an unusable signal-to-noise ratio (seeing every podcast that says the word "notebook"). Likewise, it'd be great to quote-search exact matches for "Andrew Brown", instead of seeing all podcasts that mention "Andrew" or "brown".
I just watched the highlights from the Microsoft reveal, and it was incredibly dull. Their presentation was so uninspiring that I had to close it and move on. It's strange how they managed to take something exciting and make it so uninteresting. Oh, and I tried it out and wasn't impressed either.
A lot of it has to do with scale. Stack Overflow currently gets ~7k questions every day. This is actually lower than it was a few years ago when it was more like ~9-11k every day.

The Blender site gets ~50 questions a day. The Emacs site gets ~6 questions a day (with a total of 25k questions in eight and a half years, only about a fortnight of Stack Overflow).

It's just a completely different thing at those scales. It's the difference between a forum with maybe a few hundred people and Twitter.