mvindahl

Ironically, I had to locate the X and close two video ad overlays in order to calm the screen enough to enjoy the article. And even then, the right part of my screen was flashing ads, and every few paragraphs an ad was shoehorned into the text.

And yeah, don't have adblock on my work PC which is probably why it's so insufferable.

Advertising the kind of industry that you'd really like to shove into a plywood submarine and set its bearings for the Titanic.

When I was a young kid in the early 1980s, my grandpa had a large book about Darwin's voyages and the Theory of Evolution. The book probably dated from the 1950s or 1960s and contained countless photos of fascinating creatures, reproduced with all the printing technology of the era.

Whenever we visited him, I would flip through the book and marvel at the creativity of nature.

These photos made me feel a little bit in the same way.

Tried it out on some REST response from a local test server.

And, well, as much as I applaud the effort, I also think that I'll stick to my text editor for browsing JSON data and to jq for extracting data from it.

My text editor because it's easy to perfom free text search and to fold sections, and that's all that I need to get an overview.

Jq because it's such a brilliantly sharp knife for carving out the exact data that out want. Say I had to iterate a JSON array of company departments, each with a nested array of employees, and collect everyone's email. A navigational tool doesn't help a whole lot but it's a jq one liner. Jq scales to large data structures in a way that no navigational tool would ever do.

Also, there is the security issue of pasting potentially sensitive data into a website.

> Cryptocurrencies were meant to put an end to such things

Yeah, well, Communism was meant to put an end to poverty and class injustice. Brexit was meant to restore glory to Britain. The Catholic Church was mean to put an end to vice. Things don't always do what they say on the tin.

As the Bible puts it: "For every tree is known by its own fruit".

Specifically, if the fruit seems consist of nothing but speculative bubbles and billion dollar frauds then that may be the true nature of the tree.

In all fairness, I don’t think “crypto” should be banned as such. Partly because it’s a loose and descriptive term, unlike asbestos, which is well defined and tangible. So a blanket ban wouldn’t work.

And also because it’s not necessary; existing regulation will get us most of the way:

- if you are, in effect, selling a security, let this be regulated this like any other security

- if you are, in effect, running a bank, etc.

- if your coin X acts like an intermediary for transferring money to hostile jurisdiction Y, then regulate transfers to X like transfers to Y. Forbid these if necessary.

- if your manufacturing process is needlessly wasteful then forbid this manufacturing process (globally) under threat of forbidding your product

Etc

I brought it up because it’s close to Buenos Aires and because I’m under the impression that Uruguay is a pretty well run place. I’m assuming there to already be a lot of connections, personal and trade, between the two metro areas. I’ve never been to either and anything beyond geography is guesswork on my part. Anyway, thanks for the clarifications :)

Asbestos solved an actual problem, as did freon. Both also created larger problems and were eventually banned. We could have given them some more time, I guess. Maybe, if given another fifty years, the freon industry might have (waves hands) fixed its issues with the ozone layer. Or maybe not. That wasn’t the trajectory, anyway.

Back in 2022, we’re now looking at a technology that has not, for all its promises of a glorious future, has not produced anything but centralized Ponzi-as-a-Service platforms, a way for organized crime to move money, and smokestacks. At least asbestos and freon had some utility.

If you need to cross a border to fetch your hard currency (or equivalent amount of goods) then what is the value add of using crypto compared to, say, opening a bank account in Montevideo and making a bank transfer?

Tired: Fyre Festival

Wired: Coinbros on Fire Festival

A lot of "mights" in that article.

Sure, index funds are freeloading a bit in the sense that they don't allocate any resources to scrutinizing the prospecta of each individual company, they just assume that other market players have done they homework.

This would be a problem if every investment was passively managed but that's not the case and it will never be. If we ever came close to that, then actively managed funds would outperform the passively managed ones by large margins.

Skimmed most of it but still learned some useful stuff. Will keep it in my bookmarks.

Also, would suggest mentioning gitbash in the Windows section. You get it for free with git so it's easy to come by, even in corporate environments where obtaining permission to install software is hard. If combined with something like ConEmu, it's actually pretty nice.

I'm currently experimenting with migrating a side project to now 2.0. It has been a learning experience, for sure. But so far I think that it has been time well spent.

My overarching goal is to be able to create and deploy a new web app, from scratch, and just have the platform take care of all the boring stuff that should just work.

So far I've been pretty pleased with nextjs and now 2.0, especially once I grokked the lambda concept and found out how to slice my old express server into vertical pieces. Also, I had to realize that the monorepo model was the right fit.

I'm not quite up and running yet on now 2.0 but I'll be any day now. Curious as to how it will affect my bill.

At one time I was contracting at a place where every process was broken, from IT to management to testing. It wasn't really a place that attracted talented developers. There were a some developers that were talented and a lot which were mediocre or had given up along the way. Development progressed at the pace of syrup. They paid on time, though.

Anyway, being a professional, I put in my hours and did my best to contribute until the contract ran out. But I also stuck a post-it note to the bottom of my screen with my all-time favourite Polish phrase: "Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy". Literally: "Not my circus, not my monkeys.". I.e. the inherent brokenness wasn't my problem to fix.

In my experience, not having German as my first language, you can get pretty far with guesses and rules of thumb as far as the genders are concerned. With experience your guesses will become more educated. You will start to feel the patterns in how the ending of a word maps to the gender of the noun, with some accuracy. You'll memorize some of the most common exceptions. "Impossible" delineations such as "mit das [..]" will feel wrong.

Also, by all means, memorize the delineation tables and the rotes that will help you identify accusative and dative. I still remember those from school and they never cease to be useful.

Oh, and by the way, it turns out that Polish is even worse in terms of grammar .. or maybe my mind is just less pliable these days :)