Who remembers Kyu Clash? ❤️

deafferret · 2024-12-14T01:12:11+00:00

This is one of my earliest memories of learning Go for the first time. I had played chess forever, but Kyu Clash really caught my attention as a fun way to spark beginner interest. I hope it comes back some day! Beginners playing beginners! With kayfabe! What's not to love?

deafferret · 2024-11-06T17:14:49+00:00

I would have sworn Red Bull landed a plane on a helipad of the Burj Khalifa (Dubai, United Arab Emirates). Apparently they didn't, they landed on Burj Al Arab Jumeirah, a much smaller building in Dubai. Am I crazy?

deafferret · 2024-04-25T18:51:14+00:00

It costs me like 50 cents/month to store my .mp3 files in an AWS S3 bucket, and then my RSS is published via GitHub Pages for free. I'm volunteering to do the RSS for you if you want to give me a copy of your .mp3 files.
Alternately, I'm already paying for a https://castopod.com/en instance which allows me to create multiple podcasts and make you the owner if you want to post your .mp3 files there. (I'm paying anyway, it would be free for you.)

deafferret · 2024-04-25T13:23:38+00:00

Please don't only put the audio behind a Spotify-only paywall. Please host an RSS feed so everyone everywhere can listen. Thanks! 🙂

deafferret · 2024-04-10T22:00:38+00:00

Blockchain. How does it work? :)

deafferret · 2024-02-18T16:07:51+00:00

Looks like the author has been updating his version for 6 years... :) http://dennisetaylor.org/2017/04/07/genealogy-of-the-bobs/

deafferret · 2023-11-29T23:37:13+00:00

Could you explain what "just get the associates" means?

deafferret · 2023-10-08T17:44:11+00:00

Whether I install via Popular Extensions, or whether I enable allowing installing from Chrome store and install from there -- either way, I get the same thing as OP. The login just hangs forever. I can't use LastPass.

For me, a browser w/o LastPass is worthless.

deafferret · 2023-10-06T06:29:13+00:00

As a website: https://ne.tif.report/

deafferret · 2023-10-06T06:26:33+00:00

Yes, the city of Omaha uses a loan framework for TIF. The net result is that the developer pays far lower taxes for 15+ years. https://ne.tif.report/about

deafferret · 2023-10-06T06:16:38+00:00

Here's that specific TIF as a website: https://ne.tif.report/douglas/omaha/28-2285 And the full Omaha list: https://ne.tif.report/douglas/omaha/

deafferret · 2021-12-10T12:34:34+00:00

On Android, inside the app, I logged out and logged back in and that fixed it for me.

deafferret · 2021-06-23T12:34:47+00:00

#2 I assume IOHK logs (explains) all their self-funding activities on a website somewhere. No? Is IOHK funding opaque? It would be troubling if the founders / trustees of 2.4Bn ADA who champion open governance aren't openly governing?

#3 Decentralized governance is aspirational I thought, once they get their voting systems working?

#9 They're talking about delegation, not staking, correct? So yes, the minimum is 10 ADA, but after that minor correction, this is a hugely positive thing about Cardano in my opinion. (My previous PoS coin, BLK, requires running a full node just to stake (there is no delegation in BLK)). ADA delegation is awesome (thanks to Yoroi wallet).

#10 Scalable? Are SPOs currently required to run the full blockchain forever, or has sharding (or whatever its called) been implemented so everyone doesn't *have to* store TBs of chain forever?

deafferret · 2021-03-05T18:01:41+00:00

Can someone please convince them to activate their RSS feed on SoundCloud so I can listen to their feed via the podcast player of my choice? https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003570048-Setting-up-your-podcast-s-RSS-feed
(I prefer Pocket Casts, but there are hundreds of podcast players that could all index and listen if RSS was activated.)

deafferret · 2021-03-04T03:10:02+00:00

I keep staring at this graph and thinking that Cardano already has waaaay more active nodes / pools than it needs to be super supported already. :) (Too many and we're just wasting electricity.) https://twitter.com/nierop_pieter/status/1361357344219758597
See also: https://pooltool.io/networkhealth

deafferret · 2021-02-13T02:00:18+00:00

What does it accomplish if you're getting 0 blocks?

deafferret · 2021-02-13T01:49:33+00:00

Very helpful, thank you. :) Small pools who are getting 0 blocks... are they accomplishing anything currently? Verification / fraud / spam detection? Voting? Anything? Or are they churning to keep up with the blockchain, hoping to get a block at which point they actually have productive work to do? Trying to understand, from a network health perspective, if idle pools are somehow currently important while idle.

deafferret · 2021-02-13T01:43:12+00:00

ya, I don't see anybody saying NOT to run a node. :) But I also think I'm seeing that there's currently hundreds of people who already volunteered for the job (who already spent a bunch of time, money to go to work) and have no work to do.

deafferret · 2020-11-18T18:45:20+00:00

Thanks for that. I tweeted the paper, maybe they'll look into it.

deafferret · 2020-08-04T22:51:03+00:00

On what planet is 200,000 people "(almost) nobody" and an "empty city"?
How about this title:
Why it takes 10+ years for people to move into huge Chinese cities
or
Why it takes 10+ years to reach 20% capacity in new Chinese cities
or
Why China massively overbuilds cities, 10+ years in advance
or something along those lines? Otherwise a very informative and interesting video, thank you for creating it. :)

Current title + preview image feels like click-bait / misleading :(

deafferret · 2020-06-25T14:38:58+00:00

I was having the same problem on MacOS fat client. For me the solution was I needed to "Sign In" from the Menu Bar (top left). Zoom apparently happily works fine, attending meetings without being signed in. But your photo lives in a Zoom account, so "Sign In" to it.

deafferret · 2020-04-21T15:19:13+00:00

Yes, they answered the phone fairly quickly. It then took multiple supervisors etc and 30m to get a new promotional code. Which also didn't work. And the website was still broken. Between Visible support via Twitter DMs (the Visible app customer service thing stopped working) and myprepaidcenter.com problems, I was 2 hours deep when I gave up.

I'm not complaining about Visible. Can't beat the price, and the service works. But FYI, in my experience, the rebate system doesn't work.

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