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Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design
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Re: Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design
#22Re: Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design
#23I used GNUCash years ago in Argentina while we had high inflation. Some operations were in local currency and other are Dollars. The currency exchange changing hourly. Tracking finance is a nightmare, since you basically need an exchange rate for every operation.
How's the inflation now with Milei's changes? I know charts show its at a 10 year low but reality could feel different.
Re: Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
A true surprise if so, but still low in informational density and annoying to read.
huh, sorry I'm really bad at writing - this is one of my first attempts
I really enjoyed the read. Not everything needs to be some sort of utilitarian information density optimized reading piece.
Keep up the good work!
Re: Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design
#25I wonder if Hackernews ranking algorithm has been updated to exclude comments toing and froing about whether or not the article is LLM generated!
haha, true. Thing is - I'm not a English speaker. But I chat a lot with Claude/ChatGPT - i feel like I'm picking the style from them unintentionally.
Doesn't sound like reality to me. The article looks very much AI-generated. Nothing to do with not being an English native speaker.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
huh, sorry I'm really bad at writing - this is one of my first attempts
Your title promises a story about the spanish traders. It does not deliver, but talks about 3 other different topics that I'm not interested in and jumping between them to test my nerves. If it is about the architecture of whatever you are doing, put the architecture in the title and don't make your title an offhand comment somewhere there. Fucked up clickbite.
Yeah, sorry. It's kind of intentional. Did not want to give it a boring name like "Storing fractions vs decimals".
Re: Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design
#27I wonder if Hackernews ranking algorithm has been updated to exclude comments toing and froing about whether or not the article is LLM generated!
haha, true. Thing is - I'm not a English speaker. But I chat a lot with Claude/ChatGPT - i feel like I'm picking the style from them unintentionally.
I am a native English speaker, and I find accusations of LLM-writing exceedingly annoying – to the point where I sometimes intentionally write in that style, just so I can hit back with a profanity.
Re: Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design
#28Side question:
I'm surprised by the explanation of the 8 in the "real de a a ocho" because "traders counted gold doubloons on their fingers, skipping their thumbs." (and the link to investopedia has a similar explanation).
But from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubloon
> Spanish American gold coins were minted in one-half, one, two, four, and eight escudo denominations, with each escudo worth around two Spanish dollars or $2. The two-escudo (or $4 coin) was the "doubloon" or "pistole", and the large eight-escudo (or $16) was a "quadruple pistole"
I think it makes more sense that some time ago it was possible to split some coins in half and quarters, so someone decide to continue the tradition and use base 2 to move up.
Re: Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
haha, true. Thing is - I'm not a English speaker. But I chat a lot with Claude/ChatGPT - i feel like I'm picking the style from them unintentionally.
Doesn't sound like reality to me. The article looks very much AI-generated. Nothing to do with not being an English native speaker.
hm, I don't have any other ways to prove it. The thing is - I thought this is something LLM can't write about.
Just imagine a prompt: "Hey Claude, go ahead and come up with idea why GnuCash stores numbers as fractions and come up with an article for HN". I actually tried it and god damn thing came up with something very similar :D
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your title promises a story about the spanish traders. It does not deliver, but talks about 3 other different topics that I'm not interested in and jumping between them to test my nerves. If it is about the architecture of whatever you are doing, put the architecture in the title and don't make your title an offhand comment somewhere there. Fucked up clickbite.
Yeah, sorry. It's kind of intentional. Did not want to give it a boring name like "Storing fractions vs decimals".
Clickbait is a thing and pisses people off.