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Damn, it's almost like developers are going to need to learn to focus on using code to solve business problems, rather than just focusing on being able to write code and calling it a day. XD

Cryptographically enabled decentralized systems

The one on the last page about using dexdrive was pretty cool. I used a similar technique to create ps1 save files that would trigger an exploit on the ps2 that would load unsigned code. I miss being able to do stuff like that. Modern systems are so locked down.

The problem there is that you can't do instant transactions. You need to transfer cash, wait for that to be received by GDAX, then trade. Unless you keep cash on gdax/coinbase, you will still need to buy coinbase if you are buying an unexpected dip.

Yea! ShenzenIO is my jam! i have probably dumped dozens of hours playing that.

Sort of. For situations where the coin represents some ambiguous "share" of the project, absolutely.

However, when the tokens are used as an incentive mechanism for a fledgling decentralized network, I think it makes a bit more sense. Things like Sia or Storj or Ether or Ark where the token is there to function as a cost/reward for using/providing the service that the network provides (filestorage, smart contracts, decentralized cryptocurrency exchange) I believe that it actually does have some intrinsic value.

Sgt. Threefoot, reporting for duty!

There are companies that explicitly rent cars to rideshare drivers. The rates are around 300-500 per week. I did some contract work for one of them.

I was speaking more of platforms like patreon.

Maybe.

One of the most formative events for me as a programmer was playing with the gameshark on ps1. It had a debugger where you could press a button on the device and it would halt the system. Then you could search through the memory and alter values. Realizing that everything you saw and did, everything about the state of the entire game world was just numbers in memory was mind blowing. It instantly broke the illusion, but what it was replaced with was even more magical.

I realized that I could do things like set the health bar, or number of lives to a fixed value. I could change the height of the character and "fly" around. I could do anything, as long as I could figure out how it was represented in ram.

It was a pretty big deal to 10-year old me. A few days later I was using a computer and it dawned on me that the same thing applied to the computer I was using at school.

But the status quo of "Put tons of work producing content and hope that youtube doesn't demonetize, because then my patreon links get deleted." is also pretty fucked.

I am just glad somebody is trying to fix content monetization online without taking 30% for, what, handling payments?

There is a great collection on the internet archive where someone has gone through and unprotected tons of apple][ disks and documented the copy protection. It's pretty good reading, but a little repetitive after a while. https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am&tab=about

Great point! I never stopped to consider it as an accessibility technology.

There was a great Reply All episode about this just last week. It's about facebook, but a lot of the points would apply to google. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/109-facebook-spying/

Short answer, no, they probably aren't listening. But they know enough other information about you that they don't need to.

That's incredibly insightful. The way I see lots of people charge their phones, you have a long cable so you can continue using it when it's charging. with the wireless charging, you have to leave it locked in place while it charges at 500ma for hours. It's neat at starbucks where I can pick up a quick extra few percent on my battery bar, but otherwise pretty useless.

The hundreds, maybe thousands, of people working under him. The majority of which would need to agree that project "Dr. Evil style giant space rock randsom" was a good idea.

Oh, cool. Thanks! That looks like some interesting reading.

I wonder if the contract supports a way to pull posts when some shitlord posts CP

Fortunately, there is a rails library for that. https://github.com/airblade/acts_as_enterprisey

Because dividing by 0 is a logical paradox, akin to "This statement is False". Sure x=1/0 looks like a valid syntactic construction, it doesn't comply with the logical system it exists within. Try looking at it using elementary algebra;

x=1/0 must be equivalent to x0=1. And since one of the axioms on which the system is built is that any value taken zero times must be zero, we know that x0=1 is a false statement for any value of x.

You aren't supposed to click and drag it. You use the css flexbox attributes (see right-hand sidebar) to move it over the goal.

iirc, it has to do with gstreamer's support for chiptunes in their native format. There is basicly a nes emulator built in.

I once had someone at a gas station try to verify my signature against the card. I have always signed things with arbitrary (though lately, consistant) scribbles.

They tried to claim that it couldn't possibly be my card because they didn't match. After a few minutes of back and forth with the cashier I realized that I had already paid for my chips and smokes, so I just grabbed my stuff and left.

It was incredibly frustrating.

MtGox had the same bug

DotT holds up, played it a few months ago. Grim Fandango, too!

I almost never see this. Even on systems that are only running a single python project, I only ever see folks use virtualenv. The only time I ever see things installed with sudo is when the package is being installed in a docker container.

Phrenological Neural Networks

Nope, I think you got it. My understanding is that if you want to change the params, you need to rebuild the filter.

You are correct.

The filter is completely useless if it is filled with 1s. In this situation, you would just use a larger filter. I am not sure exactly what the ideal size is, it depends on the desired probability of false positives, but an optimally large filter for the data you are using will have some empty bits.

Really fun stuff. I noticed that it seems to have problems starting sentences. Especially if I try to start a sentence with "hi,". Interesting nonetheless. This passage seems to be rendered fairly well: https://lyrebird.ai/g/LYoVuaZm

Also, https://lyrebird.ai/g/D3Fw328D