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dnpp123··on NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap
Congratulations, you just invented an inefficient PoS for a single use case!
dnpp123··on FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home
I'm pretty sad this project never lifted off.

The talk at its origin is now a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOEMv0S8AcA

dnpp123··on Saharan dust: Orange skies and sandy snow in southern Europe
As the link says, pretty common. Happens in most places (relatively) close to a desert.
dnpp123··on Baffling Brexit rules threaten export chaos
There is no demand for the trip to happen at that price.

Hence this will produce high inflation on imported goods, especially on basic necessities.

Hence this will make the average British poor citizen.. poorer.

dnpp123··on Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?
> That's really low, even for poorer European countries

He said net salary. I know a lot of engineers from C schools in mid-size towns in France who are paid less than 2k euro net.

dnpp123··on Coinbase to Suspend Trading in XRP
Yes I guess too haha

Unless they limit the right of market orders to themselves^^

dnpp123··on Coinbase to Suspend Trading in XRP
That's not what was implied at all.
dnpp123··on Coinbase to Suspend Trading in XRP
IMHO good move for the ecosystem overall.

Beyond that, the formulation is really funny (bad?) though:

> Trading will move into limit only starting December 28, 2020 at 2:30 PM PST, and will be fully suspended on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time

Assuming limit only == post only orders (which sounds like it in the sentence), how do you expect the trading to work?

dnpp123··on Show HN: TypeSwift, Swift-like extensions to TypeScript and JavaScript
Maybe, not sure. Would be nice to have some benchmarks.

e.g. https://github.com/kyle-n/TypeSwift/blob/main/src/Array.ts#L... pretty sure using a flatMap will be faster in most recent environments.

dnpp123··on Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub Pages
Sweet! I thinkg something similar could be achieved by just writing an nginx plugin.
dnpp123··on The Secret Math Society Known as Nicolas Bourbaki
> I understand, but on the same period, France grew a whole generation of brilliant mathematicians. I don't think that the two are completely unrelated.

If you could prove me that there were more brilliant mathematicians educated in France during the 60's/70's compared to other periods, I'd be interested.

Even if this is the case (which I'm not sure), at least it's pretty clear it lowered the median (whether this is good or not is another debate ;)

dnpp123··on The Secret Math Society Known as Nicolas Bourbaki
Sure but what good is an education method if the teachers don't understand it. I don't doubt that if you had a great teacher that would work, but considering how focused French education is on mathematics, this was one of the main reason why the social ladder broke.
dnpp123··on The Secret Math Society Known as Nicolas Bourbaki
AFAIK the idea at that time was to try to apply the Bourbaky method to teach kids elementary maths - e.g. try to explain the concept of sets before kids know how to add 2 numbers (I'm caricaturing but not that much - you had to explain to kids Peano before addition..). Someone else might have a better answer for that as I'm too young to know. Wikipedia French page on 'New Math' mentions it but not in details.

> Is it still going on in French schools today? Or was it 60's/70's only?

Unless you are in a reaally elitist high school in Paris with a really old teacher, this should'nt happen nowadays.

dnpp123··on The Secret Math Society Known as Nicolas Bourbaki
You have to put back the creation of the group in context though.

Back then philosophers/mathematicians were kinda popular (think Sartre, Beauvoir and so on) so making such a group draw a lot of more public attention than it would now.

Sadly, I doubt that such a group could be created now.

dnpp123··on The Secret Math Society Known as Nicolas Bourbaki
If you speak/read French, try to have a look at elementary/middle school math books from the 60's/70's in France. It was a disaster and forced a lot of kids to imagine they were bad at maths.
dnpp123··on Why Proof of Stake?
and then have fun reading eth's yellow paper https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/paper.pdf and its subtle rules
dnpp123··on Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (2013)
I think the scope of the link is pretty much UK/US centric.

e.g. in S.Korea you write an address from the biggest geographical indicator to the smallest (country, region, city, district, road, building NOT building, road, district, city, region, country)

dnpp123··on The Uncertain Heavens: Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life
This article was a treat.
dnpp123··on Odroid-HC4 is a $65 2-bay network attached storage device
For what it's worth, I had https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-n2-with-4gbyte-ram-2/ to self-host some services and it died after 3 months.
dnpp123··on Party Line – 1:1 chat across the political spectrum
Sure, fake choice is still a choice.
dnpp123··on Party Line – 1:1 chat across the political spectrum
> I'm amazed that there's often 10s of kinds of peanut butter in an American super market, but only two political parties

Like I can't taste the difference between the 10s of kinds of peanut butter, I'm not sure the half dozen different political parties in my home country (France) offer a real variety of choice.

dnpp123··on Modern-Day Architecture Design Patterns for Software Professionals
or, you know, https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome :)
dnpp123··on South Korea Successfully Managed Coronavirus
Funny how wrong the article gets it.

Cases are on the rise, the government did not want to raise the level to 2.5 fearing the public backslash because of the coming public holidays.

Korea will probably go back next week to 2.5, meaning again police roaming the streets after 9PM, many underground illegal speakeasy, and more dumb house parties where the spread of the virus is totally uncontrollable.

dnpp123··on Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)
> Operators trying to build walled gardens is a pattern that repeated itself until

Dedicated private companies (myspace, facebook, gmail, etc...) started building walled gardens.

dnpp123··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)
Coinone | Software engineers (blockchain) | Seoul, South Korea | Full time | https://coinone.co.kr/ (HR site: https://www.coinonecorp.com/)

Coinone is one of the oldest, safest and most respected crypto-currency exchange in South Korea. This is an unique opportunity to work in a country with a really dynamic blockchain industry.

We are always looking for talents and have several positions to fill.

Have a look at the the HR website: https://www.coinonecorp.com/ or at a list of open positions: https://www.notion.so/7de6a41d4a7a48588c2254e6f0b1072e

(note: I'm no HR, just working in a team looking to hire more people)

dnpp123··on K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers
I mean the whole point of this is to have a crawler who look for the texts in your links, index them, then you can search a link when you just vaguely remember something the page in question mentioned.
dnpp123··on K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers
Has anyone a good open source, self hosted alternative of this?

Since I don't know any, I was thinking of starting something like this at some point.

Something to save interesting bookmarks/lightweight media (gifs, memes, ...) or even small blog articles. Make it federated, with some full text search feature ala elastic search but more lightweight, with a reddit like interface.

dnpp123··on Searx instances
> However if you use your own searx instance that is very difficult

The whole point of searx is not to mix your google research with other people google research, hence making it harder to track you?

AFAIK being alone in using a searx instance is useless, as google will still track you via this searx instance.

dnpp123··on Searx instances
Right, the way I see it, searx model is flawed.

I want to host my personal instance. But doing so doesn't make any sense since if I'm alone using it. So I'm better off using Google directly, unless someone can search whatever he wants via a service I'm hosting :/

dnpp123··on Searx instances
If you set up your own instance and are the only one to use it, what's the point of using searx and not grogle directly?
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