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I’m a beginner electric guitar player and what motivated and helped me is learning songs I want to play. The first was Zombie by The Cranberries. The satisfaction and sense of accomplishment when you pin down the chords and strumming is amazing.

Second was Tomorrow by Silverchair (excluding the Daniel Johns solo which is way beyond my skills). Rant: Silverchair is super underrated of the grunge area bands, Daniel Johns is a fantastic musician.

The first and most obvious target will be Bitcoin. It’s market cap today is $1.4T. That’s a gigantic reward for any state actor or entity with the resources and budget to break it.

Does this mean Bitcoin is going to $0? Absolutely not, it’s just going to take the community organizing and putting in the gigantic effort to make the changes. Frankly I’m not personally clear if that means all existing cold wallets need to be flashed/replaced? All existing Bitcoin miner software needs to be updated? All existing Bitcoin node software needs to be updated?

The server pallet caught my attention. I wish it listed some of the basic specs, but current bid is $55.

https://www.govauctions.app/auction/gsa-1-1-QSC-I-26-148-031

Interesting. I started playing with Godot this weekend and got something simple to render with some toolbar windows and a statusbar. I’ve always been fascinated by game and graphics programming.

The GitHub is at: https://github.com/nodesocket/missile-intercept-sim. Full disclosure; used Cursor AI.

It’s sort of curious that BBC always seemed to get linked to the Artemis news on HN instead of the official NASA website or US news agencies.

It sort of proves his point that he was trying to make the number of HN comments who are diminishing his (and Elon, I’ll also wrap Steve Jobs) accomplishments and contributions. The fact that so many so called “intellectuals” on HN can’t admit and even see what Elon has done with Tesla and SpaceX is just bat shit crazy to me. SpaceX made space travel and commerce possible. It’s the next big industrial resolution but limitless and unconstrained by resources.

I try to live my life as stoic as possible and simply. I don’t mean simply in terms of luxury lifestyle, or wealth. I mean mindset, common man approach simple. There is great power in it. That’s why the hardest working, smelly, and sweaty people are some of the happiest. Yet, the most intellectual people contemplating every single decision and living a life of pessimism and group think are perpetually miserable.

The lack of NASA live feeds from space is very disappointing. Our tax dollars at work.

The SpaceX cameras of live launches are way better. This NASA stream is mostly all computer generated art after the initial pad launch. Hardly any live space feeds from the ship.

I mean, 4 days and then she hooks up with your twin brother. Yes, I am shaming her.

Actually closed the day up 8.14%. (Disclosure I'm a shareholder and continuing to hold. Bought more when it was down 30% in a single day). These media storms almost always fade and assuming sales and profits continue will rebound. Not financial advice.

I founded and developed a similar concept many years back of a web-based SSH dashboard and management console (Commando.io; which I sold). Now a days I use Semaphore UI [1] which uses Ansible playbooks under the hood in my homelab. Pretty happy with it, though setup and configuration did take a bit to get up and running.

[1] https://github.com/semaphoreui/semaphore

very interesting. I bought The Game 10+ years ago and read 3/4 of it. I just can’t get myself to do tactics like magic, negging, and psych-ops. Though, I will confirm it works. Seen with my own eyes many times in disbelief. Couldn’t believe women fall for what seem like such corny and ridiculous behavior. I do think women are much more socially focused, tend to follow (sheep behavior) and in a miraculous turn of events if you ignore them, or don’t show interest they want what they can’t have.

I’m in my mid forties now and frankly don’t have the energy and metal capacity to play The Game. It’s only gotten much worse (most dramatic for westerns) for more traditional and “old fashioned” men to find partners. We can thank instagram, snapchat, tiktok and perhaps most negatively onlyfans. I have traveled allover the world and find South American women still have a feminine mindset and want to genuinely settle down and start a family. Again more traditional; I assume because faith and family are such strong forces down south.

Some may read my comment as “toxic masculinity” or whatever buzzword of the day is used to shame and emasculate men, but clearly something is broken with western and asian civilizations as marriage and birth rates are plummeting.

I am referring to “live” dealers where they spin a actual wheel and ball.

I don’t have proof to back up my assertion but my gut says a lot of these online/non-us/crypto casinos are cheating. How would you the end user know? The house knows where the big money is placed on the table and then magnetic or some mechanism control where the ball lands. Profit even more than their statistical edge.

I’m almost certain these dating apps, including Hinge and Bumble are creating loads of good-looking fake women profiles to attract male users and keep their platforms “sticky”. There are suspicious telltale signs like location downtown when nobody says they live downtown in my area. The same responses and prompts across multiple profiles. It’s equivalent to them cooking their books, but with vanity metrics.

I admit farming knowledge is not my strong suit, but I thoroughly enjoyed the Amazon series Clarkson’s Farm. If you want to see a country destroy its agriculture industry, look no further than the UK. Their shortsightedness, bureaucracy, and blind acceptance of doomer environmentalists essentially bankrupted farmers in the country side.

You’ll be back. Have you tried Windows 11 lately? Want an exercise in self-restraint not plowing yours fist through your monitor? Use Windows. Microsoft as Steve Jobs said has no taste. They hire the cheapest international engineers who take zero accountability and perfection in their work. Everything is just, that will do. Good enough.

Neo is wily popular, but don't expect it to generate significant profits for Apple (disclosure I'm a AAPL shareholder). I assume the profit/profit margin on Neo is paper thin.

To be clear, I'm not advocating for rent control. :-)

And yet, if you dig through the various comments on HN over the years regarding SF housing costs the overwhelming conesus is more rent control. Sometimes, the most common sense solution turns out to be the correct one.

There is a great book called “The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America” by Alex Berenson. In it he outlines various frauds and market calamities: WorldCom, Enron, 2008. He makes the point that earnings per share often times comes down to cents and a single cent of earnings can make a stock rocket or plummet. Thus there is often complicated and opaque financial gymnastics to adjust EPS to meet expectations. It’s a great read.

Well shoot. I have Google Fiber 1 gig, and generally been happy. Hopefully service uptime and price does not change.

Awesome write up. I use EC2 t4g instances extensively as I tend to scale workloads horizontal (using Kubernetes, Docker) and admittedly the workloads aren’t cpu constrained. Would be interesting to see how t4g’s compare to other low end comparable VMs on GCP, DigitalOcean, Hetzner. Though I get the difficulty testing as it requires maxing out CPU credits (waiting) for accurate results before starting testing for each VM.

Looking forward to t5g’s whenever (if ever) they release.

I have a MacBook Pro M1 Max and trying to decide if upgrading to the new Air makes sense.

This seems useful speculating on short term oil prices. I believe the straight of hormuz may be closed or rumor of closing. Every expert seems to think that will spike oil prices.

I understand how this works, but wouldn’t a more clear syntax be:

command &2>&1

Since the use of & signifies a file descriptor. I get what this ACTUALLY does is run command in the background and then run 2 sending its stout to stdout. That’s completely not obvious by the way.

You clearly didn’t have to use Authorize.net before Stripe came along. It was unspeakably bad.

When’s the last time a private company acquired a public company? Crazy!

There is 100% insider-trading and manipulation of prediction markets. It's absurd some of the markets that are created. The most glaring example was this years super bowl halftime show. They had markets on songs Bad Bunny would sing, which song he would sing first, etc. You're telling me the thousands of people who had access to practices and information would not wager on this?