ha4fsd3fas (u/ha4fsd3fas)

ha4fsd3fas commented on Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index cbeci.org/cbeci/compariso... · Posted by u/apples_oranges

tw04 · 5 years ago

How many of those directly convert electricity into profit?

How many of those businesses have been rent seeking countries/states/locations that subsidize electricity for their populations?

Electricity is one of those things most of society has deemed an essential good, and as such has subsidized it for the poorest among us. Bitcoin farmers are abusing that system to turn the government subsidies into personal profit for a handful.

Let's not even begin to equate THAT to someone going to a concert put on for the benefit of and at the cost to those participating.

ha4fsd3fas · 5 years ago

Well it's like any other business that runs on electricity. AWS converts electricity directly into profit. They provide a service for paying customers, just like a miner does. I'm sure many datacenters are located in places where electricity is cheap, hell I bet some datacenters get it even cheaper with lobbying.

ha4fsd3fas commented on Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index cbeci.org/cbeci/compariso... · Posted by u/apples_oranges

newswasboring · 5 years ago

Yes I do. This is why my country had a space program before we solved all our social issues. You need to look at how much good an activity actually does vs how much resources it will consume. Entertainment is a good thing so is space exploration. But ISRO did not consume more resources than all other social improvement plans combined. Bitcoin is consuming more energy than the daily lives of a whole country. _Combined_

ha4fsd3fas · 5 years ago

Gaming is also consuming more energy than the daily lives of a whole country __Combined__. Entertainment is a good thing, but watching a movie consumes a lot less resources than playing games so why are games acceptable? What about VR? VR uses a lot of GPU computations for something a small fraction of people use. Surely people playing VR could use some other form of entertainment that is less resource consuming.

Or then we let people use their own resources the way they see fit.

ha4fsd3fas commented on Amazon Game Studios struggles to find a hit bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/ystad

NoahTheDuke · 5 years ago

This is a pretty short comment. Which part do you find ridiculous?

ha4fsd3fas · 5 years ago

The part where someone would claim this is racist.

ha4fsd3fas commented on Amazon Game Studios struggles to find a hit bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/ystad

ha4fsd3fas · 5 years ago

> Executives under Frazzini initially rejected charges that New World, an Amazon game that would ask players to colonize a mythical land and murder inhabitants who bear a striking resemblance to Native Americans, was racist. They relented after Amazon hired a tribal consultant who found that the portrayal was indeed offensive

What a ridicilous world we live in.

ha4fsd3fas commented on Alternative lightweight UI library to modern day frameworks mithril.js.org/... · Posted by u/turblety

wruza · 5 years ago

It was a master-detail “form”, rich-formatted financial records in the left pane and svg-heavy graphs for attributing records to edges on the right. Already heavily filtered on both sides, and required to be navigatable without constantly changing subfilters.

Estimating, every left row could consist of 15-20 vnodes and every graph of around 50+ min. I think I’ve seen 12-15k vnodes on average day, depending on how much data remained unmanaged and how structured the right side was in the middle of experiments.

surely there must be better ways of handling the requirement. I'm not sure a user can actually consume tens of thousands of dom nodes.

We tried windowing the data, but that simply moved delays to operators. They don’t consume it all at once, but they have to detect groups by using “natural intelligence”. The fixed process that spans multiple entities and liabilities wouldn’t allow to automate it further. Sometimes it’s what it is, welcome to real world business complications. As I said, it’s not mithril’s fault at all, but something to consider if you have to.

ha4fsd3fas · 5 years ago

Sounds like a good usecase for some framework without vdom like Svelte.

ha4fsd3fas commented on State of JavaScript 2020 2020.stateofjs.com/en-US/... · Posted by u/milkers

Pfhreak · 5 years ago

I've seen Svelte used in a number of high impact tools, including in AAA videogame UI. In my experience, I've seen engineers very happy working with it, and it meets the performance needs for a videogame it should be good enough for the web.

ha4fsd3fas · 5 years ago

Do you have any info on that AAA game? I would be curious to read up on how/why they used svelte.

ha4fsd3fas commented on McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu usatoday.com/story/money/... · Posted by u/elsewhen

markdown · 5 years ago

What is the appeal of a vegan pizza? Is it even pizza without cheese?

ha4fsd3fas · 5 years ago

The appeal is the same as a Vegan burger. If you mimic cheese well enough then why would it not be a pizza?

ha4fsd3fas commented on Chess’s Cheating Crisis theguardian.com/sport/202... · Posted by u/Thomashuet

4ggr0 · 5 years ago

I hope that's a joke, and even then, it's not a very good one.

ha4fsd3fas · 5 years ago

I would imagine it's not a joke. His comment is factual if you interpret "women" and "men" as a population and in context of chess performance(not in general).

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

ha4fsd3fas commented on GitHub Won’t Help You with Hiring benfrederickson.com/githu... · Posted by u/user5994461

hartator · 5 years ago

I will still think odd that’s someone who is a professional hasn’t found one bug in an open source lib that is worth a PR or even an issue in a decade of work.

ha4fsd3fas · 5 years ago

I did find a bug in svelte but not sure if it was worth a PR. I cloned their repo, tracked down the issue, learned how their codebase worked, fixed it, wrote some tests for it, wrote an elaborate issue and pull request explaining the issue and nuances. It took around 4-5 hours over a couple of days even though the fix was a one line diff. The PR was ignored for 6 months. I was considering bumping it but then I read in another PR that it's bad manners and just decided to remove it instead.

ha4fsd3fas commented on Why I'm Putting All My Savings into Bitcoin (2011) falkvinge.net/2011/05/29/... · Posted by u/baylearn

ha4fsd3fas · 5 years ago

His arguments for investing in it in 2011 made sense but in 2020 they no longer do.

- Past performance has plateaued for years.

- Use cases are niche instead of regular transactions.

- Since the use cases are niche there is few uptake drivers.