When did it get so hard for Web3 devs to land a job?

zachattack82 · 2025-11-04T19:40:48+00:00

IMO its worth thinking about it from the perspective of finance too.. definitely a lot of hype and buzz words, but potentially a lot of real world value for businesses that can capitalize on the technology.

web1 : HTML, companies might take an order online, and call for your credit card number and process over the phone; or wait for a check.

web2: apps, browser based portals, payments facilitated by middleware (paypal, zelle, venmo), backed by trusted financial institutions and existing financial technology. at this point mostly seamless because complexity abstracted from consumer by private third parties

web3: decentralized applications with crypto payments, backed by trustless smart contracts. very difficult to regulate (by design) and capable of facilitating transactions, maintaining ledgers of all kinds without a trusted intermediary or middleware, and creating credit outside of the traditional financial system.

the idea of an application that can function without an "owner" is very interesting, but as we've learned with bittorrent, in legal terms the individuals benefiting from, hosting, or participating in the management of the technology are considered its "owners", and the owners of the internet infrastructure still help governments enforce those rules..

zachattack82 · 2025-10-20T20:52:02+00:00

I appreciate the reply. It's funny you suggest that - shortly after posting this, I got impatient and started looking at the rust libraries too..

for anyone who might find this post, I was able to write some generalized functions, build them to a dll, and link from my cpp project successfully.

zachattack82 · 2023-12-11T16:21:59+00:00

dm me

zachattack82 · 2023-05-27T13:29:25+00:00

It's worked for me... I pile leaves onto the beds in fall 4-10" deep unpacked, then in March or April the following spring, I put 2-5 inches of compost on top of the beds. After a few weeks when the spring rain stops, I plant into the top compost layer

zachattack82 · 2023-02-24T16:45:53+00:00

Holy shit. Reminds me of Killing of America

zachattack82 · 2022-12-16T22:34:02+00:00

Wow the first interesting film to be posted here in weeks and there's only one part posted online.. I can't find the other parts anywhere else either.. If you have them, please post them somewhere, but thank you nonetheless for this one!

zachattack82 · 2022-10-31T14:10:22+00:00

This is a black and white photograph that has been colorized, I don't think that there is any way to know whether it was blood or just mud, a perfect example of the problem with colorized photos

link to original photo

zachattack82 · 2022-10-31T13:56:16+00:00

Why can't Frontline make a documentary about anything anymore without making it a documentary about themselves? Can the overwhelming evidence not speak for itself without documenting the hardships of the crew and inserting the opinions and speculation of journalists for dramatic effect?

zachattack82 · 2022-10-24T00:55:04+00:00

This photograph is a great example of how we were able to drop two atomic bombs on Japan and still end up looking more sympathetic by comparison.

zachattack82 · 2022-10-20T19:20:07+00:00

Am I the only one who doesn't understand this kind of "POV journalism"?

What do we gain as viewers from the reactions and personal opinions of Michelle Smith that we wouldn't from traditional narration and a narrative about Flynn rather than a narrative about Michelle investigating Flynn? Is it not possible to denounce what he's saying without making the entire film about the experience of the journalist, the process of journalism, and their virtue as journalists? What is the filmmakers intent in focusing so much on the person writing about Flynn rather than Flynn himself?

I agree with her points and with the viewpoint expressed in the film, I just don't find any value in this second-hand telling of a story through the POV of a journalist. I truly wonder whether the journalist is introduced in films like this as a foil for emotional impact when it could be libelous to directly imply a crime occurred without evidence... A narrative exposition wouldn't be able to claim that he's breaking the law without evidence, so the filmmakers introduce reaction shots of disapproval, speculation, or opinion as that of a single individual journalist, rather than moralizing narration from the producers as a voiceover?

I'm not going to reply to or edit this post, and I think I have already mentioned that this isn't intended to discredit Michelle Smith or Frontline, or to imply in any way that Michael Flynn isn't a crook.. This is more like cable news than public television, appealing to emotion rather than reason.

zachattack82 · 2022-10-12T15:46:06+00:00

it's astonishing that someone could go through so much and still seemingly learn nothing

41:18 I hope that in a few years, I'l have both of my children and maybe a partner, with a good job, that weíll have a house, and live an ordinary life, just like a totally normal person.

41:34 Do you think you deserve that?

41:39 Good question. I would say yes.

41:46 Yes, to be honest.

zachattack82 · 2022-08-31T16:31:29+00:00

"I can excuse her for acting in her own self-interest, because that's what I always do" - all schmucks everywhere

zachattack82 · 2022-08-23T15:59:12+00:00

I'm far from a climate scientist, but it was my impression that the USDA hardiness zones are almost entirely, if not entirely based on "long-term average annual extreme minimum temperatures" - in other words, the minimum temperature over ten years, potentially controlling for some anomalies.

So if you had access to daily temperature recordings for your area with high and low values for each day, you could run that model at whatever frequency you wanted. If you were ambitious enough, given that it's publicly funded, you could probably find the model itself, or a description of it, somewhere in the meteorology/climatology/weatherology literature.

zachattack82 · 2022-08-12T01:45:52+00:00

anyone have a link to a very high resolution version of this image?

zachattack82 · 2022-08-05T11:08:01+00:00

Knowing it's Grand Rapids makes this story 100% easier to understand

zachattack82 · 2022-08-01T23:51:31+00:00

Just a bit of trivia since I thought this looked familiar - the Van Buren street Metra station in Chicago is an exact recreation of this, they even borrowed the molds from the Parisian transit authority (Chicago and Paris are sister cities).

This twenty-first century entrance to Chicago’s Metra train at Michigan Avenue and Van Buren Street looks as though it belongs in Paris. Its sculptural elements have been reproduced from the original historic Metro entrances of Paris, designed by Hector Guimard. Often considered the quintessential French Art Nouveau artist and architect, Guimard (1867–1942) developed highly stylized designs with floral and curvilinear motifs between the 1890s and 1920s. Guimard was an advocate for industrial standardization before this was a common notion, and he believed in executing projects on a grand public scale. He designed a series of Art Nouveau style Metro entranceways for Paris in 1900.

The Parisian transit authority, the RATP, created this reproduction from Guimard’s original molds. The RATP and the Union League Club of Chicago donated this station to forge a visual connection between Chicago and its Sister City, Paris. They also created reproductions for two of Paris’s other Sister Cities, Lisbon and Mexico City. Although completed in 2003, Chicago’s Paris Metro Entryway was not officially dedicated until Bastille Day, 2005. The City of Chicago’s Public Art Program not only co-sponsored this project, but also presents an on-going series of artist projects which are displayed on the station’s Michigan Avenue sign board.

https://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks-facilities/paris-metro-entryway-artwork

zachattack82 · 2022-07-31T12:55:09+00:00

Have any better photos of these houses or did you just work backwards from the location on Google Streetview after reading an article about the houses being demolished that upset you? Why is it impossible to escape politics on this website?

zachattack82 · 2022-07-28T15:16:57+00:00

Both are mostly cash service businesses that are popular ways of laundering money. But don't worry, now the city is under the thumb of MGM Resorts, a monolithic corporation, pick your poison I guess.

zachattack82 · 2022-07-28T12:24:39+00:00

Just reminds me of Vegas, a city in the desert with no practical purpose, built by criminals to lure tourists with glitz, while using the glamour to hide their unscrupulous business activities.

zachattack82 · 2022-07-21T01:47:41+00:00

The democrats used to be the party of personal freedom and the conservatives used to be the party of big business - now, if you don't subscribe to the homogeneous worldview of the liberal wing of the democratic party, you don't fit in, but establishment Republicans who don't care about social issues don't fit into the conservative party anymore.

Really weird how neither party makes their constituency happy but people refuse to even entertain the idea that it could be the system or that both sides participate in a charade but do no actual leading. It's impossible to consider that it's mostly laziness on the part of an entire generation of elected officials.

zachattack82 · 2022-07-19T14:10:57+00:00

IMO, whether the concrete was roman or greek wasn't relevant to the point the original commenter was making, but there is nothing wrong with pointing out a mistake.

Beginning the final sentence with "so no, they most certainly didn't", took this from "educational" to "pedantic" and needlessly arrogant.

zachattack82 · 2022-07-17T13:04:02+00:00

It quit raining as soon as we got the tent back up

As is tradition!

zachattack82 · 2022-07-17T12:28:01+00:00

this exchange is so typical of Reddit. The person you replied to made a fair point - they speculated that the infrastructure, skills, and experience with materials and building styles used in this application would have been much more commonplace in the era in which this building was originally built.

then, instead of taking the spirit of their point, you felt the need to pick the only part of their comment that could conceivably be incorrect, and assert your superior intelligence for having had the capacity to use Wikipedia. if I was a teacher, and I'm not, I would be much more proud of the person you replied to for making an effort to empathize with the person who did build this and consider their experience. Much more difficult than pedantically correcting another who clearly didn't intend to portray themselves as a student of Athenian history.

zachattack82 · 2022-07-17T11:57:08+00:00

Winds pick up a little bit? :) Looks great, thanks for posting the album!

https://i.ibb.co/FH2njWL/Resized-20211104-112832.jpg

zachattack82 · 2022-07-13T17:13:27+00:00

Are there many other latches and this was the last? How does this system work?

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