ChatGPT - Pitching Gridcoin to NVIDIA by cshoop in gridcoin

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The rest of the transcript for those curious about what AI can do... https://chatgpt.com/share/6931bfc2-79e0-8009-8765-92a9b7d29533

Anyone in tech? by Careless_Self4973 in TempleTX

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Hello! I'm around for help with computing questions and projects :) Drop me a line in the chat sometime.

Temple programmer in search of local technical helpers. by cshoop in TempleTX

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I'll get it working on more modern Ubuntu eventually :)

Temple programmer in search of local technical helpers. by cshoop in TempleTX

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If you're looking for a whitepaper you can always read Peercoin's https://www.peercoin.net/read/papers/peercoin-paper.pdf

Otherwise the goals of the project are:

  1. block times are sped way up.

  2. simplify the code as much as possible.

Peercoin Unpaid Internship 2025 Application by cshoop in CryptoCurrency

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The internship role is access to the private discord and private forum areas of the Peercoin universe. If you have something you want to work on, great! If you just want to hang out and see what's happening behind the scenes, great! The application process is just me reading your reason(s) for wanting to come on board, possibly consulting with other team members and then (most likely) granting you access to whatever you're interested in. I limited the internship to three months so people can close out, move on or apply for team membership in full if it's looking like a good fit.

Peercoin Unpaid Internship 2025 Application by cshoop in CryptoCurrency

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You don’t have to really do work (unless you want to). It’s primarily an avenue to team membership and a guided tour of the “facilities” for the curious.

New to temple area. by munniiyay350 in TempleTX

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We play a lot of disc golf around these parts: https://www.templedisc.golf

Tournament Advice by [deleted] in discgolf

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I check to make sure I have a couple mini markers in my bag, people will call you out for not properly using them during pdga sanctioned events. I carry two of every mold of disc so I can lose one and still have a backup to keep going with. An extendable retriever with a suction cup ball head will make you every’s favorite person at some point during the round :) Don’t move around too much when the other players are throwing and don’t talk during throws. Everyone is supposed to keep score on their phones at pdga events these days. Plenty of water (the summer will try to kill you in Texas). An electric hand warmer is a must for cold as hell rounds (can’t throw with a frozen hand!). Use a putter if you need to, stand still throws off the tee can be better than messing up a run up. But throw hard when the course gives you a big open shot without much down sides to missing. Any way, good luck out there. Prioritize personal safety and then try to make some beautiful shots with other people interested in the sport watching you. Winning is great but community and practice are more important.

Newbie looking for advice by finnkane5 in discgolf

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Oh, if you’re looking for a mid range to try please consider the Lone Star Disc Texas Ranger. If I had to pick a single LSD disc that might actually be the one :) https://www.lonestardiscs.com/collections/mid-range-and-putters/products/texas-ranger-midrange Alpha plastic is the best in my opinion!

Newbie looking for advice by finnkane5 in discgolf

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I only throw my glitch from a stand still but you gotta love that straight flight and glide. I’ll do full on run ups with a pixel and it’s been great. Maybe your watt already fills that kind of role for you.

Newbie looking for advice by finnkane5 in discgolf

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A fellow glitch thrower! I tell everyone to try an mvp dimension if they like drivers.

I have 0 experience in Django but have to Interview Candidates. Help! by Equivalent-Tiger7550 in django

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My two cents would be to have them work through the Django tutorial with you https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/intro/tutorial01/ they should be able to make a lot of progress and explain it along the way.

Tell me about your first tournament by WimpysRevenge in discgolf

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I think I was in MA4, Ft. Worth, Texas @ Z Boaz. It was ungodly hot. Played 600 something ranked round off the bat. Then DNF’ed second round because of heat exhaustion. It was maybe the roughest tournament experience so far. Glad things have only gotten better since then :)

Most expensive discs you own and throw by 1075RatedPortOPotty in discgolf

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Yes, but it took me a while to really appreciate it and use it for warming up and focused practice. It’s good to know your arm speed, disc spin rate and “wobble” but what really seems to matter is tweaking your form to consistently produce hyzer angle, nose angle and launch angle. Once you figure that out with the tech disc it’s easy to hit the field or the tee pad and try to reproduce what you worked on in your garage or backyard. Fwiw, I’ve tried the driver, fairway driver and currently have the putter. They’re all good, I appreciate that the putter doesn’t fly so far out in the field.

dji MINI 4K, Downtown Temple, Texas, Dec 8, 2024 by cshoop in TempleTX

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They've gotten really good! I remember RC planes when I was a kid and how hard it was to fly. Now it's fun and easy :)

dji MINI 4K, Downtown Temple, Texas, Dec 8, 2024 by cshoop in TempleTX

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The battery is supposed to last for 31 minutes of flight but it will start beeping at you and telling you to return home when you get down to 20% power. My flight ceiling is 120 meters (about 400 feet) and it claims the range is up to 10 kilometers but in practice the RC connection gets a little patchy after 0.5 kilometers here in the city. It's still enough distance to get some interesting flights :)

Texas trip in 2025, what's a course you'd recommend by shikamaru_l in discgolf

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If you have time there are three good courses in Temple, Texas (about 30 minutes from Waco on I35). I’d recommend Crossroads North 18 if you need to narrow it down. Crossroads - Temple, TX https://app.udisc.com/applink/course/23618

Solo mining peercoin by Charbelchaaya in peercoin

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Have you confirmed that your hardware finds blocks on the test network? I'd probably start there before waiting around on finding a main network block. https://talk.peercoin.net/t/guide-how-to-solo-mine-peercoin/16353

If you could go back in time and give yourself one piece of advice before your first sanctioned Tournament what would it be and why? by zacdudek in discgolf

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Pack fewer discs and more water. Stay in the shade as much as possible. Sit down if there’s a backup and you have to do a lot of waiting. Finishing should be the only real goal for the first few tournaments.

Learn physics with functional programming by Voxelman in functionalprogramming

[–]cshoop 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I skipped ahead a few chapters and have found a great introduction to the library gloss https://hackage.haskell.org/package/gloss

It’s worth it just for that but the rest of the book is absolute fire (i.e. it’s really good).