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There are transactions happening all the time in regular cash for weapons, drugs etc. Large banks have been found to be knowingly processing funds from terrorists, drugs dealers an…

It depends on the wallet but it is possible now. There is a layer 2 protocol called lightning. People are sending people sats all day over Nostr. https://lightning.network/how-it-w…

> Crypto has been used overwhelmingly for scams and crime. So has regular currency.

I didn't really know what that second sentence meant tbh. Specifically with C# reflection will cause the app have a big affect on startup time. I have seen this with almost all the…

It depends how the application is written in C#. A lot of Modern C# relies on IoC frameworks. These do some reflection shenanigans and this has a performance impact.

> So the person who says their Dyson works great is a liar but also their opinion is invalid because it is expensive. Your Land Rover is good because it’s expensive but you like it…

Not to me it isn't. I think you are trying to justify the fact that you paid far too much for a vacuum cleaner, like most people do when they buy overpriced item and point out the …

> My first response to most problems is to ask an LLM, and this might atrophy my ability to come up with better solutions since my starting point is already in the LLM-solution spa…

You basically have no control over it. I don't mind it doing a virus scan but could it do it out of hours. People wonder why I don't run Windows outside of gaming and it because I …

> Sorry to hear you got a bum toilet. Firstly No my one works properly thank you. They just aren't as good as the old ones. Many of the plumbers have agreed with me on this. > Who …

Argh yes the "Works for me" argument. I suppose my mother was lying when she was complaining about it then? I will take her word for it rather than random internet user. So not it …

I was being hyperbolic throughout the entire post. Every-time you have a conversation around older stuff being better than newer stuff (some of this is due to regulation), you will…

This is exactly it. My Debian Install on older hardware than my work machine is relatively snappy. The real killer is the Windows Defender Scans once a week. 20-30% CPU usage for t…

Every Wednesday my PC becomes so slow it is barely usable. It is the Windows Defender scans. I tried doing a hack to put it on a lower priority but my hands are tied by IT.

> My Philips Silentio vacuum cleaner is both quiet and powerful and is also within the EU limits on input power. It will stick to the floor if I turn up the power too high. I don't…

Which is the same as every other toilet.

I literally had a new toilet put in a couple of years ago. It clogs pretty easily. So you just end up flushing it more, so you don't actually save any water. BTW the same thing hap…

Thanks. I think it is very easy for people to focus on a lot of the negatives about the tech over the last 25 years and demand regulation, without recognising the huge amount of in…

I know. I suggest you read the Q&A I posted.

There was a Q&A with the author of Tmux. He was complaining about the lack of documentation ~16 years ago. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20090712190402

You are using a relatively high end computer and mobile device. Go and find a cheap laptop x86 and try doing the same. It will be extremely painful. Most of this is due to a combin…

> Farming needs wheeled vehicles to transport heavy materials, I think it's exactly comparable. No because the farmer has to do many different things with the same piece of equipme…

Farming isn't comparable and doesn't have the same needs. You already admitted that the use case presented have been largely taken up by other types of vehicles. There isn't really…

The need to switch between the examples given is niche (I deliberately chose something I thought was ridiculous to illustrate the point), in a niche market. This is probably why th…

I've found the exact opposite when looking at this in the past. The last time I bothered looking there are sturmey archer designs which have an odd slop in the pedalling, shimano d…