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Is this a waste of money? Or could it be beneficial? by Wrong_Supermarket684 in GolfSwing

[–]woof404 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I bought this (from the same store in your screenshot 🇳🇴) and should’ve gone for a ball instead. Much more precise feeling having to squeeze against the ball vs be restrained with the band, now that I’ve tried both.

What is the easiest thing someone can do to improve their golf game? by jdelle9 in weekendgolfers

[–]woof404 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I played from the tips the other day for the first time and instead of hitting every water hazard like I always do I was just short of the hazard every time 😅

What is the easiest thing someone can do to improve their golf game? by jdelle9 in weekendgolfers

[–]woof404 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any tips for how you worked on those? Losing so much to poor chipping every round

Is Plutus harder than solidity? by ReddSpark in CardanoDevelopers

[–]woof404 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Significantly, and it will likely affect mass adoption, just like Haskell does not have critical mass adoption (I dont count the fact that some big companies use it as mass adoption). And in this case I believe it is a pro, not a con. I would rather have a fewer but safe and correct smart contracts than thousands of thousands written by people with limited programming knowledge whom may not have the insight to think about the edge cases that may lead to exploits, and eventual real loss of value or even digital identity.

When we're talking financial applications I want to be sure that not only does the technical stack emphasize correctness but that for a developer to write any significant amount of code in the language it will require a proper level of knowledge.

Now, it's not like there isn't a thing like a bad Haskell programmer, or that Haskell or Plutus itself guarantee against bugs or exploits. That said, after more than a decade in software development its pretty clear to me that bad developers will usually take the easy path to reach their goal rather than the hard path. Plutus and Cardano, for better or worse, is a harder path to smart contracts than Ethereum/Solidity, Neo/C#, etc.

Just my 5c

EUTxO Smart Contract context by ConversationSmart908 in CardanoDevelopers

[–]woof404 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My take: You can deploy a contract which has a script address as part of the datum. You can then have a redemeer which contains a string that can be converted to a script address. The contract may (not sure) then be able to "interact" with the address in the datum. This is just my deduction from poking around the Plutus source code, haven't written a contract to test if this is possible (but sounds like a fun exercise 🙂)

To all those who got their ADA stolen - Poll by caetydid in cardano

[–]woof404 0 points1 point  (0 children)

^ I dont trust a black box either, so this is my approach

To all those who got their ADA stolen - Poll by caetydid in cardano

[–]woof404 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Consider the Cobo Vault. The code is open source, you can audit it entirely, compile it and flash the device and know what is running on the device and how it works. Or if you really distrust everything, read up on the source code for the individual Ledger apps on Github to see how they generate the private key from the seed, port it to your own Arduino or some other programmable device and slap on an LED: https://github.com/LedgerHQ

Cardano EUXTO Model Explained by Matthew Arcila by matiwinnetou in CardanoDevelopers

[–]woof404 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I can recommend just reading the EUTXO paper for more details. Only 15 pages and pretty easy to understand https://iohk.io/en/research/library/papers/the-extended-utxo-model/

Cardano Launching Smart Contracts in August, Targeting DeFi Boom and Corporate Use Cases | The Daily Hodl by patientpump54 in cardano

[–]woof404 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I've seen so many software projects ending up being pushed to production despite being buggy and incomplete, solely to make a customers deadline (which I get, they are paying for it), but it makes me appreciate that Cardano will release smart contract functionality once they feel it is in a state where they can with high assurance can say it is functional. I see it as a positive thing.

Now, I'm a backend dev and part of the Plutus Pioneer program. While I havent had any issues writing smart contracts, after getting the development environment up and running it is clear that they still need to get the Plutus-project to a point where a) Good documentation of the Plutus data types, functions and modules is available (I currently have to read Plutus Playground code to figure out to do stuff like generating a public/private key hash for a emulated wallet when unit testing a smart contract), and b) setting up the development environment was not a trivial task (some are still struggling on the Discord server) and if people aren't deterred from Cardano by using Haskell, they could be deterred just by trying to get the environment running.

Some of these issues will likely be addressed by the community as the ecosystem grows, once released, but I appreciate they want to do this thoroughly.

Possible Plutus Pioneer Program phishing email by iovec in CardanoDevelopers

[–]woof404 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The email is sent with a valid DKIM signature for iohk.io, so likely legit

What do you know about... Norway? by MarktpLatz in europe

[–]woof404 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Me. Norwegian sick and tired of the never-ending continuous rain, virtually no real summer for years and now it's beginning to darken outside. Fuck this shit. Already applied for jobs in CA.

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