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eukaryote31 commented on Pirate Bay Is Not Getting Rich from Bitcoin Donations torrentfreak.com/pirate-b... · Posted by u/wslh

jszymborski · 6 years ago

I think you might want to factor in the fact that when you're going on to TPB, your goal is to get something for nothing.

Add to that the fact that people might feel strange giving donations to TPB for not giving money to the creators whose bits you are downloading.

Finally, I'm pretty sure donating bitcoin to TPB is a good way to get yourself implicated legally. It's non-trivial to launder bitcoins, no matter what the film industry wants you to believe.

eukaryote31 · 6 years ago

Nontrivial, yes, but for said crypto-supporting crowd I don't think it would be a stretch to presume that a lot of them are the kind that would know how.

eukaryote31 commented on Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application chriskiehl.com/article/go... · Posted by u/goostavos

etaioinshrdlu · 6 years ago

Cool! I'm wondering if there's any possible way to automatically generate GUI's for command line applications. Including all the supported arguments.

Some type of crawler would interact with a program, parse its --help output, man page, or any other info available, to enumerate all possible options and their formatting.

It sounds like a really messy program considering how inconsistent CLI's are.

Anyways, a GUI could help massively with discoverability.

Such a tool could help bridge the gap a little between GUI and CLI.

eukaryote31 · 6 years ago

Barring that, a community-curated repo of interfaces for common applications would also be great. You could just have a wrapper that automatically downloads the applicable config files on the fly.

eukaryote31 commented on Newton's Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble royalsocietypublishing.or... · Posted by u/christofdev

Anon84 · 6 years ago

The first rule of the Dunning–Kruger club is that you don't know you're in the Dunning–Kruger club. Depending on the topic, even the most intelligent of us can get tangled up

eukaryote31 · 6 years ago

The second rule is that if you think you're in the club, you probably aren't. The third row is that if you only think you're in the club to lessen your chances of being in the club, you're more likely than someone who doesn't even know about the club to be in the club.

eukaryote31 commented on The Gravitational-Wave “Revolution” Is Underway scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/LinuxBender

joeyrideout · 6 years ago

> the distribution of the boring events is fascinating

This line needs to be made into a motivational poster, or a statistics meme.

eukaryote31 · 6 years ago

"Boeing events are fascinating, for sufficiently large values of boring"

eukaryote31 commented on The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation ft.com/content/5be1f2ee-d... · Posted by u/praveenscience

OrgNet · 6 years ago

you are probably right... but what if it was like IPV6 where there are so many IPs that they should never run out... the unlimited storage dream.

eukaryote31 · 6 years ago

Unlike IP addresses where you get exponentially more of them per unit cost (i.e size), storage space costs 1 bit per bit.

eukaryote31 commented on An Obscure Mathematical Theory and the Consciousness Debate in AI towardsdatascience.com/an... · Posted by u/Anon84

eukaryote31 · 6 years ago

Nitpicks: there are lots of grammatical errors, egregiously out-of-place usage of emojis and emoticons, and it could be argued that Gödel's incompleteness theorem is hardly "obscure."

eukaryote31 commented on Teenager’s memory resets every two hours after traumatic kick to the head news.com.au/lifestyle/rea... · Posted by u/new_guy

droptablemain · 6 years ago

This reminds me of a book by Yoko Ogawa called "The Housekeeper and the Professor." It's a really beautiful story of the awkward friendship between a former math professor, whose memory "resets" every six hours or so, and his caretaker.

eukaryote31 · 6 years ago

I believe it's been adapted to a movie too, if you'd fancy that.

eukaryote31 commented on Backpack X-Ray Machine (2016) adammunich.com/backpack-x... · Posted by u/aphrax

eukaryote31 · 6 years ago

The Aperture logo is a nice touch

eukaryote31 commented on Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035: Study bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/Osiris30

theklub · 6 years ago

Check this out... https://energyvault.com/energy-vault-closes-series-b-funding...

eukaryote31 · 6 years ago

More complexity and cost than pumped hydro, and no real benefit? Sign me up!

eukaryote31 commented on Why the Amazon Basics Keyboard Is My Favorite Keyboard nickjanetakis.com/blog/wh... · Posted by u/nickjj

kazinator · 6 years ago

Speaking of engineers and jobs, it's part of an engineer's job description to make compromises on cost.

I've never seen a mechanical keyboard that wasn't loud; let alone silent. (The thread topic is noise, not comfort or usability.)

That doesn't mean they don't exist. Maybe if I rubbed shoulders more with the high society, I might get access to some invitation-only showroom for exotic keyboards where $14K will get you a whisper-silent unit.

I do have one almost absolutely silent keyboard. It's quite awful to type on. Basically it's one of those flexible rubber keyboards for industrial environments, where there are spill and dust hazards. I use it at night, not to disturb anyone. I optimized for sound at the cost of comfort.

eukaryote31 · 6 years ago

Most silent mechanical keyboards are about the same cost as clicky ones.

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