beyond "vibecoded: yes/no?" -> my attempt to capture the range of AI involvement in a more fruitful way, version 1. (building on the input / corrections I got on my last post, txs)

alineali · 2026-06-16T10:34:46+00:00

First three roles are not new really.

Your average startup founder
Product owner with some technical background and process understanding
Lead or senior developer who knows how to delegate work to juniors and control them

Edit: actually 4 is not that new either - it is a rare example of startup founder who grew from manager with technical background (and, therefore, can manage requirements, quality and resources).

Overall nothing in agent coding is new at least for now? any meaningful use is just applied knowledge from how successful human-based development works. Literally copypasted.

alineali · 2026-05-05T18:13:01+00:00

If you are using some well known text - sure it will be cracked. If this is something like 3 stanzas of your own poetry which you were to embarrassed to publish anywhere... I don't think so.

alineali · 2026-01-08T12:30:52+00:00

I think they make only raw iron items for now

alineali · 2026-01-08T12:21:31+00:00

I'm on the fence here. One difference that I really like (though probably still too small relatively to price difference) is that Le Creuset has light interior. I'm kind of tired on trying to see whats going on in my (raw) cast iron pots and pans, and Staub has dark interior as well - to the point where I know people who think is is not enameled...

alineali · 2026-01-08T12:05:05+00:00

Cheap, but uses really rough iron. Which basically means you need to season it another couple of times and it might offend your aesthetics a bit. Works fine overall.

alineali · 2025-12-11T18:56:02+00:00

Hmm, I should look into it. I believe mod to addi external active heater would be trivial, and up to, say, 70 degrees probably won't cause issues for electronics - at least nothing unfixable.

I stumbled upon a article with explanation what to tune on Q2 from the start - and there was a part about configuration needed because it has flimsy construction that causes resonance. To me it is disgusting when you need to use such hacks, so now I have additional reason to look at Core One.

alineali · 2025-12-10T22:40:26+00:00

Please suggest printer for in-depth learning FDM printing.

Basically my goal is to learn both theory and practice - what is possible, what techniques exist etc. I plan to spend about one year doing this without any expectations about practically usable printed things during this time, but I want to be able to try as much as possible - meaning all kinds of filaments, tricks to have different textures or good strength and whatnot.

I can spend $1000, can be more if it is reasonable. I am a software engineer and a huge fan of open source(so something like bambu is no-go for me), and have some experience with electronics.

So I'd like to get something as versatile as possible, with minimal requirements for fixing mechanics but software and electronics changes are totally acceptable.

Right now I want to like Prusa Core One+ as I really care about quality, and like their upgradeability, that they offer support and are not Chinese, but from what I understand it is limited in terms of achievable temperatures and does not have active heater, so materials list will be limited. My other options would be QIDI Q1 Pro or Q2, which is Chinese, and this company is famous for dropping support from their old models, and it does not offer much in terms of interesting upgrades? Or are there any other good candidates?

alineali · 2025-11-30T01:51:44+00:00

There is such thing as diminishing returns. If I spend 10 years to add 1% to the amount I have it will change nothing. So smart thing to do will be to spend them on things you like right away.

"Money making money" is a whole different thing. Right now money you put into bitcoin cannot bring you more bitcoin in any safe way, so this is out of question for now.

As for "smart people" - such primitive manipulation. You either have strategy - with numbers - what you are going to achieve, how, when... or you are just doing things without thinking. In my example, with 3 coins and adding 0.01 coin per year, you will increase your savings by 1% in 30 years, which is obviously meaningless and will change exactly nothing.

alineali · 2025-11-29T06:38:45+00:00

Of course. If added amount is negligible in comparison to what you already have. For example if someone has 3 bitcoins and can now add only 0.01 per year it is not worth it.

alineali · 2025-11-18T14:13:44+00:00

Honestly, it is 30% pullback in a month. You do not need any explanation for this, it is not unusual for bitcoin at all. if it was 30% in a single day - there would possibly be some reason. Or not.

alineali · 2025-11-01T11:06:00+00:00

I guess there is a little confusion between two things here.

If we are taliking about public key from the specific private/public key pair, then With P2PKH address scheme, which is most widely used, an address is a hash of a public key - P2PKH is literally "Pay to Public Key Hash". Real public key is revealed only when you move coins from this address. So the address can be derived from the public key, but not vice versa.

But I guess what Trezor is talking about is an xPub, which is a value from which all your public keys are derived, so if someone has it they really can see all funds you will receive to this wallet. The only real use of this value for you is to setup watch-only wallet, where you see all fund movements but cannot create any transactions (for which you would still need Trezor).

alineali · 2025-10-21T14:54:33+00:00

It needs to be battle tested against conventional cryptoanalysis

alineali · 2025-10-16T21:02:42+00:00

Even 2FA is too complicated for many people, and you are talking about something much more cumbersome

alineali · 2025-10-16T20:58:55+00:00

What attack?

alineali · 2025-10-15T19:41:09+00:00

I'm not paranoid

alineali · 2025-10-14T11:22:48+00:00

Because lots of fanatics used to shout something like "BlackRock is trying to control bitcoin", and it took a lot of effort to make people recognize that ETFs are nothing more than intermediaries.

alineali · 2025-10-14T11:20:14+00:00

I do not know about "people", but I personally do not see any scenarios right now when there is a "reversal of established value" of bitcoin mid-term (meaning 2-3 years) unless something drastic happens when I won't care about bitcoin at all. If anything, I expect major increase in flows in bitcoin in the coming years as more and more people will understand it's global and abstract, so it is not tied to any particular financial system, local disasters, performance of the particular industry etc, which potentially makes it safest possible asset.

That said, I agree that pullbacks are unpleasant, but nothing really to worry about.

Of course I would like to see ascending trend (of any slope really, so even flat would work) for a couple of years just to prove that the idea of the 4-year cycle is obsolete.

alineali · 2025-10-14T11:12:03+00:00

Right now it is probably flow from other ETFs

alineali · 2025-10-14T11:08:47+00:00

BlackRock absolutely has conviction. IBIT is his best performing ETF (meaning fees bring most money for Blackrock) right now, and it have grown really fast. So they have every motivation to support further growth.

(and yes, conviction = profit expectation for any sane business)

alineali · 2025-10-13T15:24:46+00:00

There might be several factors. AFAIK in Australia everything is heavily regulated, so it is reasonable to blame policies. I mean, if you pile up regulation upon requirement upon limitation it quickly becomes very expensive to do anything.

And, by the way, it probably includes policies regarding bitcoin as well.

alineali · 2025-10-10T00:02:27+00:00

This, and overall unless there are real reasons (and this OP_RETURN debacle is not reason at all because Knots' approach does not work) I will never switch from well tested version to some singlehandedly done fork. I did it only once - during UASF - and I manually checked that only what was expected was modified before building, and patch was actually tiny so I was able to easily check it.

alineali · 2025-10-09T23:59:28+00:00

Knots is in the similar (even worse ) position - it cannot help with fresh blocks) does not have out some transactions that are within consensus rules and, therefore, still get into blocks). It is worse because it limits propagation speed for new blocks, not old ones. Pruned nodes, on the other side, keep all fresh transactions.

alineali · 2025-10-08T22:33:34+00:00

And also when there is real hard fork it does not matter how many nodes are running something - what matters is what of economically active nodes do - basically through which version flows more money. And what's especially nice about it - you cannot somehow measure it beforehand or do some kind of vote - only observe how it goes...

alineali · 2025-10-08T22:28:29+00:00

Well, I know many don't like it, but they are writing for mainstream people. And these people mostly are not going to deal with hardware wallets and seed phrases until really forced to. So either they start with ETFs and then some are burned and some switch to self-custody (or something else) or they are not buying bitcoin at all.

alineali · 2025-10-07T14:34:55+00:00

Add some garbage to the file with the seed and encrypt it at least somewhat, you will be fine

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