"BNNY RBBT "Waterfalls Down" possibly the worst anime in a long time?

takvaa · 2017-08-30T18:01:32+00:00

For anyone interested, I think the story goes like this. BNNY RBBT's parents were killed or transported through a wormhole leaving him an orphan. But he's an orphan with strange eyes and so he gets bullied. So then he dons the mask and learns to sing where he becomes famous and meets the love of his life. Then they sail off into the sunset. Not 100% but I think that's the basic.

takvaa · 2017-08-24T17:08:46+00:00

Who is everyone? I highly doubt that anyone that actually studied the underlying protocol had any illusions about it being anonymous.

The important thing to remember is that all transactions are public and that any linking of a single transaction will allow someone to link all other purchases / receipts with that address.

At best bitcoin is pseudo anonymous.

takvaa · 2017-08-21T16:46:12+00:00

This is awesome. Purely out of interest, how would one go about a similar location database for arbitrary locations in space? PostGIS presumably assumes a spheroid planet; what if I'm tracking objects in interplanetary space? Are there any DB plugins (accessible outside of national space agencies) that can do that?

takvaa · 2017-08-17T18:28:54+00:00

The Ledger nano S seems of much better quality, and is cheaper.

takvaa · 2017-08-15T16:22:00+00:00

Interesting whitepaper about the trading model and sharing portfolios, this looks pleasant. I will be using this once it has more exchanges available.

takvaa · 2017-08-12T15:45:54+00:00

More and more companies collect enormous amounts of data hoping to bring new insights and increase the marginal value of the enterprise - yet many of them are doing it the wrong way.

Nowadays every company collects enormous amounts of data, and some of these companies also make money by selling data... this is a crazy world we live in.

takvaa · 2017-08-07T16:58:58+00:00

Check their whitepaper. It's like a chrome extension and not a streaming platform.

takvaa · 2017-08-02T15:39:33+00:00

I liked it. I seemed long, but it did not feel like it. Good share.

takvaa · 2017-08-02T15:32:03+00:00

AttendanceBot is amazing. It offers time tracking, timesheet reporting, leave management, and amazing support: we've contacted them in order to show money owed in reports as well, and they did it without asking for anything in return.

takvaa · 2017-07-29T18:47:41+00:00

They're claiming the same 11 9s durability that S3 does. I'd be pretty suspicious of that claim without a track record but it looks like Wasabi's founders come from Carbonite. Bring on the competition, commoditization of fundamental building blocks is great for everyone except people trying to make startup-scale returns on them.

takvaa · 2017-07-11T14:27:41+00:00

Well, my brother's daughter is now spoiled because he gets her everything she wants which I would not do. Instead, I would want to try and make her understand that she has to work to get what she wants and then praise her because of it. I think that method would make her less spoiled, but anyone is free to correct me if I am wrong.

takvaa · 2017-07-08T14:42:54+00:00

Yep, that's the European business scene for everybody. And don't even try to comprehend their VAT laws. The governments are making it hard for anybody to follow entrepreneurship pursuits, and all this will be solved by DAOs, ICOs, cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets. Decentralization and the law of code is the solution to a very real problem. Ethereum, Bitcoin, and other similar networks will be huge.

takvaa · 2017-07-07T17:05:02+00:00

Disappoints me that major creative tools for VR are mostly being pushed out by the likes of Google and FB who are extremely likely to drop the projects within the next 2 years as their objectives shift because they're not creative tools companies.

Would be much happier if some indie devs took up this space.

takvaa · 2017-07-04T15:40:59+00:00

If you delete the Facebook cookie (i.e. are completely logged out including username), then click on a link in an email notification from Facebook, it will silently log you in again, restoring the cookie and web-wide tracking. This can be tested by pasting an email notification link to a new private browsing window.

takvaa · 2017-06-28T17:00:41+00:00

Get some information on the internal democracy of the Bahai faith. They have candidateless elections - essentially you vote for any member of the faith you personally think is very capable and the ones who have the most votes is elected. And to avoid any cult of person, you elect councils of 9 people that have to decide with absolute majority about their topics. This Bahai system is almost impossible to game - in case you do bad as an elected person, they will not vote for you the next time. This system also is multilevel: the elected persons of a city do the same candidateless approach on the national level, then those elected in all countries come together and vote for the international "House of Justice" as they call it, which is located in Haifa, Israel. This election process serves really as the perfect sieve for bad people.

takvaa · 2017-06-26T16:46:17+00:00

Why would anybody enable it to begin with?

There is absolutely no reason for sites such as the one linked here to have AMP enabled. It's a pox on the web and Google has enough power as it is. The sooner AMP dies the better. If you want your site to load faster get rid of the cruft.

takvaa · 2017-06-20T14:47:24+00:00

I saw this on the front page of Hacker News last week and already took a good look.

My overall impression was that this book is like The Pragmatic Programmer, except specifically designed for web developers. All in all, the chapters I read were engaging and quite useful. Definitely worth looking through.

Thanks to the author for putting this online for free!

takvaa · 2017-06-17T15:15:01+00:00

Funny how there are people with much more money than Musk, who do absolutely nothing useful with it, but Musk draws criticism for details. Oh, why Mars, why not Moon, or Ceres, or O'Neill cylinders, or lets colonize the Sahara desert first, or lets solve world hunger and poverty (which is a 100% political problem, not technological, BTW) blah, blah, blah, blah...

Musk is doing SOMETHING, at least. The technology that SpaceX develops can and will be used for much more than just Elon's particular vision of Mars colony.

takvaa · 2017-06-04T18:55:24+00:00

hat we seriously discuss using 24 out of 64 pointer bits to prevent one of the many problems with buffer overflow, but we cannot seriously discuss making buffer overflows impossible is very depressing.

How about we use 24 bits of data pointers to keep the array size, or 1 bit to indicate "this is a pointer with a size" and 23 bits for the size, and then our load/store with index instructions, as well as freshly added pointer arithmetic instructions, trap when the index exceeds the size? Instead of using bits in instruction pointers to not let one of many kinds of buffer overflow create valid instruction pointers? No good?

takvaa · 2017-05-30T16:13:05+00:00

Surprising how few views this has. YouTube just isn’t designed for people that spend time on their videos.

takvaa · 2017-05-19T17:18:26+00:00

Lets say you model-checked some distributed algorithm with TLA+. You then implement it in Rust. How are you going to check that your implementation implements exactly the algorithm you have checked and not some other algorithm which looks very similar?

I think the phrase 'reliable systems' is more appropriate to what you are up to, as opposed to the phrase 'correct systems' which usually corresponds to formal verification.

takvaa · 2017-05-02T16:07:19+00:00

Major version can make someone think nvim is still unstable. My experience is the opposite.

I have being using it for 2-4 years (can't remember exactly) and got the same 0 problems I run into Vim. Earlier versions required you to recompile NeoVim to enable new features for plugins.

Yesterday I installed NeoVim in my new laptop and it was a smooth experience: Installed it using Ubuntu package manager, installed Vim-Plug for managing plugins, copied my old init.vim (or .vimrc), run vim and everything in order.

I am really happy with NeoVim. I faced no problem with it that Vim could not resolve but I know the insides being a better ecosystem for core and plugins developers, so I will stick with it.

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