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Yea, grayscale definitely impacts the syntax highlighting, as many of the colors end up pretty dark. It works, though, and I have coded a bit on it. My only criticism would be that…

I've got JuiceSSH set up and use the device as a thin client. Coding is a little different since you don't get the terminal colors that you normally use for syntax highlighting. St…

There's a stylus that comes with it and lots of note-taking apps. I particularly like the ability to take notes directly in PDFs, which for technical papers can be very helpful.

For one, images and videos are a lot less visually stimulating. Everything is in black and white, and though those all render fine, they're just not as interesting as they would be…

I'm typing on a Daylight computer on Firefox right now with the brightness turned to 0 so it's only reflecting light. It's very similar to the tablet experience for Hacker News, ju…

As one of the beta testers, let me just say that I really like this device. It's very different than a kindle, kobo or reMarkable in that the refresh rate really makes a big differ…

I like Unhook, a browser plugin that takes out recommendations for YouTube. The YouTube home page then becomes more like a search engine and you can use it for that, but you won't …

This is a common misconception. Bitcoin mining is taking electricity generation that would otherwise be wasted. In non-peak demand times the energy is generated anyway and would si…

Proof-of-Stake doesn't solve the Byzantine General's Problem. Therefore, the system no longer has the property of being able to get decentralized consensus

I'm going to be that guy that shills his own stuff. I wrote Programming Bitcoin published by O'Reilly. It has specifics and exercises on all the building blocks that make up the Bi…

I wrote Programming Bitcoin for O'Reilly and it was published 3 years ago. Some observations: * You won't make that much money directly, but I have probably made a good amount indi…

I had to lobby pretty hard to get the honey badger for the cover of my book. I was surprised no one had taken that yet. I do wonder about running out of animals given they publish …

This article is an example of a person speaking from the perspective of massive financial privilege. Does the author realize how much people in the third world have been screwed ov…

This is very interesting when looking at prices in terms of gold. During the 19th century, US dollars were backed by somewhere around 1.5g - 1.6g of gold, which is worth around $90…

Posts like these make it clear to me that the author does not really understand money, not Bitcoin. It's hard to reason about what Bitcoin's advantages are without first considerin…

Because Bitcoin is credibly scarce. In 10 years, Bitcoin will have 20+ years of history behind it. Your BTC2 will be much younger, probably have had a creator, a foundation that di…

I guess Facebook is coming for Reddit.

I was surprised not to see Ken Liu on there, given just how many really good short stories he's written. If I had to pick just one, _Paper Menagerie_ deserves to be on this list.

I've seen this happen to a number of bankrupt companies, this just happens to be a big one. The expectation is that the stock go to zero, but somehow it bounces upwards. Happened w…

some random things: * open source contribution * getting a book published with a major publisher * winning a major award or trophy in almost any field/sport * a blog with a lot of …

My main advice 1. Start easy. It's tempting to grab a textbook or video series because it gets good reviews on Amazon or likes on YouTube. That's all good and fine, but it's more i…

I'm going to guess that you're going to get more mileage out of cutting something out of your life than in adopting yet another mindset, habit, drug or whatever. Some possible thin…

This has been tried. It's called Namecoin and it failed to get much traction. I suspect that using Bitcoin instead would improve adoption dramatically instead of creating yet anoth…

Tooting my own horn just a little bit, I spend the first 3 chapters of my book on exactly this topic: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Bitcoin-Learn-Program-Scr... There are exer…