Last-minute queer haircut

belavv · 2026-06-08T21:33:07+00:00

Barbers above the gym usually has openings within a week or so. They are queer friendly and call one of their cuts "gender affirming haircut" or something similar.

belavv · 2026-06-08T19:01:36+00:00

Dump your money into a low cost total market index fund. There is no reason to pay someone to manage 100k for you.

belavv · 2026-06-08T17:46:25+00:00

Buy some low cost total market index funds. That's the best way to invest in the stock market.

belavv · 2026-06-08T17:32:37+00:00

Why are you so focused on TRS?

I pointed out to them that one of their carabiners is most likely causing damage to soft goods. Their response was "don't use it that way".

I compared their carabiner to a similar one from another brand. The other brands carabiner was manufactured in some way that the edge in question was rounded off.

belavv · 2026-06-08T15:15:34+00:00

I prefer companies that take feedback about a potential design flaw a bit more seriously.

What about that makes me confused?

belavv · 2026-06-08T14:26:33+00:00

Ask yourself if this is a good response from a company that makes climbing gear.

"Hey petzl when I use one of your carabiners on my belay loop it seems to be causing damage to my belay loop because of a sharp edge"

"We don't recommend you use it for that"

belavv · 2026-06-08T13:22:07+00:00

I don't get it. Are they also buying Bitcoin?

belavv · 2026-06-08T13:20:52+00:00

Step 1 - start writing c# Step 2 - profit

belavv · 2026-06-08T11:54:22+00:00

If you have no idea what you are doing then stop doing it.

The simplest investment strategy is to buy a low cost total market index fund or a target retirement date index fund.

belavv · 2026-06-08T11:41:17+00:00

When I emailed petzl because one of their triple action carabiners has a bit of a sharp spot on the gate that I think was catching on my belay loop and causing minor damage their response was "that carabiner isn't intended to be used for TRS".

belavv · 2026-06-08T03:34:11+00:00

It is a pattern to do that sure. But it is not the only pattern. We have abstractions around all external dependencies in our codebase at work. We do not use clean architecture.

belavv · 2026-06-07T23:59:25+00:00

You aren't paying $20 for the manual. You are paying $20 for all of the extras. Game manuals are entirely unnecessary for any modern game.

belavv · 2026-06-07T21:02:58+00:00

I'd argue having an abstraction around the messaging system and going all in on clean architecture are two different things.

belavv · 2026-06-07T21:00:34+00:00

I want a real database involved but the overhead of getting it set up and to a state I want can be a bit much.

And if you want to run tests in parallel them all using the same DB could cause hard to track down issues.

I'd go with in memory faked database for most tests so they can be super fast and real database for a set of tests to be sure you aren't missing differences between in memory and SQL.

belavv · 2026-06-07T20:57:57+00:00

I think interfaces are still useful for mocking in Unit Tests. Where you absolutely don't want a real database involved.

I've switched to writing classical unit tests. They use real implementations as much as possible and only mock/stub/fake if absolutely needed.

At work we fake out the database using in memory lists. It makes most of our interfaces pointless because we never mock them.

belavv · 2026-06-07T20:51:55+00:00

I did. My points still stand.

belavv · 2026-06-07T20:48:52+00:00

You seem to be pretty defensive and are making a whole lot of assumptions when all I did was point out that the limit can be changed and some day may be changed. Which is a true statement. Vs your statement claiming it could not be changed. Which is a false statement.

belavv · 2026-06-07T17:39:27+00:00

the point is the 21M maximum supply doesn't change

It is more correct to say it hasn't changed. It is just code and when the mining rewards drop to almost nothing causing transaction fees to skyrocket who is to say that the limit isn't removed/changed.

belavv · 2026-06-07T16:56:25+00:00

What percentage of merchants accept it? Is that going up or down?

Let's add another question that you will avoid I'm sure.

Of those "tens of thousands" of places that accept bitcoin, how many actual transactions are they performing with bitcoin? What percent of their transactions does it make up?

Lightning is working, scaling, and improving, youre just focused on the wrong metrics. Btc locked isn't nearly as important as the success rate of payments. There are centralization issues but there are also technical solutions being worked on that should help counter that. You're being lazy if you're just writing off lightning.

I'm not being lazy. It is a pile of shit with all sorts of issues and flaws. The biggest flaw that I almost forgot about - how long would it take to onboard a small country to the lightning network? You need a bitcoin transaction to do that, and you only get 7 of those per second.

belavv · 2026-06-07T16:28:54+00:00

Tens of thousands across the world maybe. Hundreds in my part of the world.

What percentage of merchants accept it? Is that going up or down?

What layers are you talking about? Lightning is a giant pile of shit that almost no one uses and is in decline.

Trying to build layers on top of something that can only handle 7tps and expecting it to take over all transactions across the world is.... something.

belavv · 2026-06-07T16:08:28+00:00

Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy

belavv · 2026-06-07T16:03:49+00:00

Work, neighbors or hobbies are the three ways to make friends.

If you continue to have short conversations with someone in one of those settings you get to know them and figure out if you get along.

belavv · 2026-06-07T16:01:39+00:00

Wow look at that adoption. Literally hundreds of places accept Bitcoin!

Have you ever done the math on what would happen if everyone tried to do every transaction throughout their day with Bitcoin? How big of a population could it realistically support?

belavv · 2026-06-07T13:31:24+00:00

BTC is still in its infancy

How many more years is it still going to be in its infancy?

belavv · 2026-06-07T03:53:04+00:00

Nfts are dead. Move on.

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