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muskox2··on Crazy fast build times, or when 10 seconds starts to make you nervous (2012)
I find this is true for phones also (or even moreso). Google maps is a bad offender, getting slower every year despite doing essentially the same thing.
muskox2··on Posture: Is the Pandemic Breaking Our Backs?
I concur, shoulder and back work is one thing that helped me open my chest up more than anything else. Even just hanging on a set of rings for a minute after sitting for a while feels really good.
muskox2··on Tz: A Time Zone Helper
I think the best thing to do is use the first 16 named colors and give users the option to disable colors if they want. This supports most use-cases.
muskox2··on Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble
Ultimately, you need to be able to settle lightning transactions on the actual chain.
muskox2··on Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015)
I think what happens in real life is the rebellion quickly becomes an empire, with it's own set of horrible things. Then you need a new rebellion... And so on...
muskox2··on Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (2015)
Haha, I love having a southern accent for this reason. It makes it very hard for one to sound pretentious.
muskox2··on Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 (1992)
I love this book a lot. Definitely one to cherish.
muskox2··on Hertz, the original meme stock, is turning out to be worthless
They're not mutually exclusive. But as to what degree GME was or was not a coordinated scam, there's no doubt it has inspired other pump and dump schemes (RKT, DOGE)
muskox2··on Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO
Sorry, what about your second link shows that 4chan "wasn't viable"?
muskox2··on Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble
If no more bitcoins were mined, you couldn't move bitcoins around. You can only include new transactions by mining a new block.
muskox2··on Xmr.to shuts down Monero exchange service
I wonder if the recent price drop (from $280 to $180) is related to this.
muskox2··on BTC Endgame
Of course, one usually leads to the other.
muskox2··on Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
It goes up and down along with the price of BTC. The average tx fee right now is around $13, up from around $1 one year ago.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f...

muskox2··on Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
Is having a clause like that in your ToS legal?
muskox2··on Is Tesla a car company, or a casino?
I assume you haven't heard of "card counting", which is a famous way to beat the house advantage in blackjack. Of course, if they suspect you're doing it, they'll kick you out.
muskox2··on Rust: Structuring and handling errors in 2020 (2020)
I didn't know, thanks!
muskox2··on How to join a team and learn a codebase (2020)
- Make is a standard utility, so anyone that has used make before will know what 'make', 'make clean', etc will do without having to read any documentation.

- Make has the ability built-in to only run certain commands based on the files that have changed, which can be handy.

- Makefiles usually have a lot of handy variables for configuring the project like $CC or $DESTDIR. While you could have these in a bash script as well, there's a standard convention for variables in Make[1].

In my experience, Makefiles are usually better documented and follow more conventions than scripts. There are of course many exceptions to every rule.

Make files are very similar to bash scripts, and while I would prefer a Makefile any day, it's really a matter of preference.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Makefile-Conven...

muskox2··on Misinformation: The First Digital Drug
> Unfortunately there is no sign that society will even stop digging itself into this hole.

I think that for things to change they will need to reach a breaking point. I hope and pray that we will be able to get through this breaking point and to the other side to a better civilization before some x-level threat destroys us.

muskox2··on Would Rust Secure Curl?
How many memory bugs of the same calibre has Actix had, even with the large amount of unsafe code in its codebase?
muskox2··on Rust: Structuring and handling errors in 2020 (2020)
I use a similar method for error handing, using the derive_more crate to avoid the boilerplate. I really wish that the error messages for standard library operations, like opening a file, were more descriptive. It's a pain to have to wrap the error with the filename ever time you do an IO operation.
muskox2··on Car manufacturing hit by global semiconductor shortage
Where I live in the US, the shortage only lasted a couple weeks, where you couldn't get certain brands. There was only a few days where the shelves were totally empty. I work at a grocery store so I saw the whole thing start to finish.
muskox2··on You Are the Product (2017)
You're thinking of "network effect"
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