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There’s an easy solution: Bruce should place large bets on the prediction markets right before publishing the relevant data. It is legal, ethical, and, for him, risk free.

I made my first commit to `just`, a command-runner written in Rust, ten years ago with the auspicious commit message "Initial commit. Broken." Thanks to everyone that has used `jus…

I wish that Opera Omnia, also by Stephen Lavelle, got more attention. It is mind-blowing exploration of the idea of propaganda and revisionist history, which somehow also manages t…

I've been working on filepack, a command-line tool for file verification on and off for a while, and it's finally in a state where it's ready for feedback, review, and initial test…

It would be hilarious if people wound up snorting or boofing their GLP-1s (≧▽≦)

The best example of managing expectations of all time is in the Time Zone Database documentation: > The tz database predicts future timestamps, and current predictions will be inco…

General-purpose deduplication sounds good in theory but tends not to work out in practice. IPFS uses a rolling hash with variable-sized pieces, in an attempt to deduplicate data ry…

This is stupid good advice. I use quicksilver as a launcher, and by putting bookmarks in a folder, I can index them and launch them like any other app or document on disk. Thanks f…

I definitely don't think Just will ever unseat Make. Just doesn't have file-based dependencies, so it's not a build system, just a command runner. As far as unseating Make as a com…

This is the canonical video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmVMh-nT200

I really enjoy it when I see programmers with a deranged disregard for aesthetics in the name of efficiency or productivity. Some of my favorited examples from my own experience: -…

One time me and a friend having an animated conversation on the 7th floor of Soda hall at Berkeley and William Kahan came out and gave us a coupon for Sizzlers. I think that was hi…

It's usually actually bread baking, not painting, in my experience.

Misread the title as "Which John von Neumann Died at Los Alamos?" and now I really want to read that article.

Don't let the article put you off, the paper, no paywall, is much better and much more concrete: https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aj...

The fact that consumers don't want phones with 7 years of guaranteed updates (if they did, they would be willing to pay more for them, and smartphone makers would happily oblige) m…

If this law comes into effect, consumers will pay the increased cost of delivery of 7 years of software updates when they purchase new phones. Smartphone makers don't sell new phon…

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Fortunately, if you're feeling entrepreneurial, you can spin up an Agora* instance and start selling whatever you want for Lightning Payments. * https://github.com/agora-org/agora/…

You bet!

These are definitely not dumb questions! Liquidity management is one of the most complicated aspects of the Lightning Network, and certainly one of the most counter-intuitive. The …