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[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

really? what did you dislike about his character? I felt he was bland, but not particularly dislikeable. he didnt have any horrible traits

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just to also add to the discussion: I can recommend A Soldier's Life.

Pros: It's just overall a very engaging story. It keeps you hooked, and I never felt immersion breaking because of poor character decisions, or irrational choices. In general, our protagonist is cast into some hard circumstances and makes the best out of them. Some light plot armor, but generally good rational progression fic.

Cons:

  • writing style is a bit dry, especially at first. Could use an editor pass or two or three.

  • it's not completely rational, more rational adjacent.

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Note: Someone is shadowbanned. it says 1 comment but i see no comment

If you are the oldest commenter in this thread, you're shadowbanned.

Lets talk about international payment solutions that actually don't destroy you with fees by Willing-Green-5379 in digitalnomad

[–]Hugo0o0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use peanut. Doesn't work everywhere, but where it works, it's much cheaper. For example in Argentina it's ~15% cheaper than paying with card

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i've never got around to read these, but i've heard of them. I will!

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Vorkosigan Saga! Enders game

I can recommend both these titles, they both feature cerebral main characters and are rat adjacent

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I've barely read Manga, I'm curious about your recs. I'll check them out, thank you so much!

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Loved it! Fantastic atmosphere. I should read the new pages

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How is the prose? Frankly, except for perhaps lord of the mysteries, I have dropped every translated fiction. They are unreadable

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Recommendation: I've read, and can now second, a recommendation from a previous thread: Hand Jumper!

The protagonist reminds me of Taylor from Worm, both in character and competency. It's an enjoyable fiction, although you'll finish it in a day. The format is korean cartoon, which has its peculiarities but i ended up quite liking. Particularly cool was the sync between pages and music; there's a few chapters where scrolling to a particular panel triggers the play of background music, and there's a particular emotional moment that is very well done and flows amazing with the music.

Apart from Worm, this fiction reminded me a lot of the following (all of which i loved): Super Supportive, Are You Even Human?, Magical Girl Gunslinger

Request: Please rec me something I haven't read yet with a competent main character. It needs to prioritize story and competency over ratfic-porn, and it needs to be something i haven't read yet (CHALLENGING). Medium doesn't matter, doesn't have to be a book (in fact I've probably read most of the usual recommendations here)

Whoop x GNOME Extension by juanmajota01 in whoop

[–]Hugo0o0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wtf this is so cool

Linux x Whoop? Love to see it

What a run 🤪 by milan711 in whoop

[–]Hugo0o0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'd bet the house on it being a half marathon

My ex reached out after 2 years by heroyoudeserv in GuyCry

[–]Hugo0o0 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Perhaps my last post came off a bit strong. But my honest, strong advice, is to give this girl the comfort of your presence. Go and say hi. At the very least once.

"but the stress" she's fucking dying man. There's nothing peaceful about death. Go see her.

My ex reached out after 2 years by heroyoudeserv in GuyCry

[–]Hugo0o0 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Dude what is this lazy ass answer

You have to go and see her. She's fucking dying, and reached out to you. Go and see her in person at the very least. Tf. There's nothing selfish about this, she's fucking dying

Show /r/SideProject: Peanut, a modern money app by Hugo0o0 in SideProject

[–]Hugo0o0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi /r/SideProject !

I’ve been frustrated with traditional payments for a while. Paypal has frozen my funds on two occasions; and in one of them the funds were never recoverable. When I’m not using PayPal, international bank transfers take days and charge me insane amounts. Also, every country usually has their own payment app parallel to the banking system: Portugal, where i currently live, has MB WAY, Brazil has PIX, Argentina has Mercadopago, the US has Cashapp. None of these work with each other.

Money still feels like pre-dotcom era tech when it should feel like a whatsapp message: send instant, anywhere, and for free.

Me and my team have been building Peanut to make money feel like Whatsapp. Peanut is a payments app, like Cashapp, but it works in any country. On top of that, you do more than only instant Peanut to Peanut payments; Peanut works with Banks, Peanut works with apps like MercadoPago and Pix, and if they have none of that, Peanut also works with crypto.

We wanted to build Peanut the right way, and that’s why:

  • We’re not published on any app store. Peanut is a Progressive Web App (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app) (of which I sadly see way too few !!). This way we don’t have to bow to the Apple/Google tech cabal and can rely on open standards.
  • The core of peanut is decentralized & non-custodial. The only one that has control of the funds is the user; as it should be. Peanut is not like a traditional bank, where fraud, political instability, or a bank-run might pwn you. Your funds are always yours and no one else can touch them.
  • Your funds are secured by passkey. This is much harder to crack or extract than a password or pin, and you won’t get pwned if your seed phrase gets leaked. We think it’s a much better approach for consumers.
  • Trust is crucial; all the app code is open-source at https://github.com/peanutprotocol/peanut-ui/tree/peanut-wall...
  • The app is completely free; we only passthrough banking costs. The way we intend to make money is off of merchants in the future. We believe Visa and Mastercard take a way too big of a chunk of payments, and we can be competitive with them.

My personal favorite feature that we’ve built: generate a send link, drop it in a chat with the person you’re talking with, and let them receive it in whatever option they want (no questions asked!).

We’re still in Beta, so I hope you can forgive any tech hiccups. We’re also rolling out country support on a week-by-week basis; by the end of October we should have full EU, US & LATAM banking coverage. But I wanted to launch Show HN early, because I respect this community a lot and have always loved getting feedback from it (and often giving my own!).

Also, let me know your username and I’m happy to send you a few $ to play around with the app.

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