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iforgottherest··on Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
Clicked it because the hyperlink wasn't clear from the description.....

GOTO 2019 • The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Saša Jurić

This talk feels, as a coding analogy, a lot more like throwing ingredients into a recipe than architecting an abstract machine.

iforgottherest··on Shooting the Messenger
An example being hackers reporting vulnerabilities which were subsequently retaliated against
iforgottherest··on Tell HN: Amazon Reviews
Apparently I'm not the only one.

So if your review is considered 'bad for business', it gets you blocked from reviewing. Ridiculous.

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazon/comments/8u47vw/sorry_we_are...

iforgottherest··on Ask HN: About Financial Inequity
Relatively. Should have said wealthy.
iforgottherest··on Ask HN: About Financial Inequity
Do you know the origins of the word 'salary'?

If you compare wallet size, you're likely bound to find someone with a fatter wallet.

If you compare wealth over time, you may find you're richer than many just by opening your kitchen cabinets. [0]

As long as humanity moves forward for each other (and we don't * up [2]), wealth increases for everyone, on average. [1] In metrics that a dollar amount can't capture.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_salt [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk

Warren Buffett: "Time is the only thing you can't buy."

iforgottherest··on Ask HN: About Financial Inequity
what line of work?
iforgottherest··on Ask HN: What's Your Dream Job?
Studying. Improving human knowledge. Honest inquiry dispensed from the peacocking and fighting over breadcrumbs of academia.
iforgottherest··on Discuss HN: The Last 10 Years
Can failures in human morality be solved by technology?
iforgottherest··on Ask HN: Do you use Dvorak or any alternative typing / input technology?
If symbols are your pain point, why not just put those on an external macro pad? From what I remember, switching to Dvorak et al isn't best for increased efficiency, and you lock yourself from standard devices. Qwerty is better than good: it's good enough. Ergonomic keyboards are a good consideration, not for efficiency, but to avoid wrist pain.
iforgottherest··on Ask HN: What are your best purchases in 2020?
That looks amazing, but for 6x the time of Kindle, and roughly the same price as a good graphics card, it's a definite NO for me.
iforgottherest··on Ask HN: Remote Control LEDs
Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 ( possibly raspberry pi zero ) is an easy start. Don't reinvent the wheel
iforgottherest··on Knotwork Designer
I'm really unhappy with my knot... https://imgur.com/vwQqx7q
iforgottherest··on Bitcoin Tops $24K, Setting New All-Time High
> feels like

> starting to look like

> seem to be

I mean, maybe, but it'd be more substantial if you could explain what you base those on or what you actually mean. Otherwise it's as good as scapulimancy .

iforgottherest··on Bitcoin breaks above $20k
Plenty of individual transactions (at least on this recording time scale) and not a flow as an economy would daily. Plus some odd transactions where money is allocated to several wallets at the same time.

I wish it had the relative size included in the visualization.

iforgottherest··on Bitcoin breaks above $20k
When the price of gold crashes, at least you have a piece of gold. When bitcoin crashes, what do you have?
iforgottherest··on Bitcoin breaks above $20k
And yet the general interest (per google trends) is only twice as much as in 2013 when it first became popular. IMO this shows more speculation than actual demand.
iforgottherest··on Show HN: Interactive Rubik's Cube with sub-puzzles for solution steps
I originally meant a slider to control speed but I also like the waypoints idea (a slider in cube state history) .

I'm still curious about the internal lines idea. But I don't understand the Rubik's cube enough. If you label all blue squares as {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} is their solution configuration unique?

iforgottherest··on Show HN: Interactive Rubik's Cube with sub-puzzles for solution steps
this is a strange request, but could you make the cube translucent? I'd really like to see an internal cord/line between the 'solved' position (where it should be) of each color square to its place in the scrambled position (where it actually is) in order to get an idea of how "tangled up" a position is. Who knows, it might even help with solving strategies!

the solving animation is too fast (which can also be a good thing but not always) ... maybe add a slider.

also depending on your idea of fun, this allows for making a rubik's cube of rubiks cubes :^)

iforgottherest··on Show HN: Slices – puzzle game
Here's level 90 https://imgur.com/JkBQ5t0

I am not sure if they're autogenerated, but I think you can 'work bakwards' from a simpler solution to build a bigger puzzle.

iforgottherest··on Reading Manpages Like a Pro (2018)
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/