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Josua Schmid

And a very difficult one. Visibility of a dev is an antipattern.
This is what I try to do when choosing who we support with donations:
- look at library usage in our projects
- make a table of GitHub stars vs downloads on Rubygems
- donate to GitHub developers with few stars but heavy usage
There are other and unrelated selection criteria as well. For example we donate to the Web Archive and Tor because we think them to be very important infrastructure projects.

2024-06-28 07:52:57

Idea for a GPT-memory experiment:
Let it remember a six digit pin number. How often will it halluzinate a different number? How can you reincorporate feedback (boolean correct/incorrect pin number) without decreasing performance (close guesses are proportionally more severely punished)?

2024-06-25 18:04:36

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Not how I intended but true. Damn, I should learn to be more specific. Now honestly, would you count home as a geolocation?

2024-06-25 13:58:59

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Because if such a marked existed, the world would be a better place? Don‘t think so.
We should rather fix our communities so that individuals cannot hide behind bureaucracy.

2024-06-20 11:12:11

I just realized that we live steam punk. It‘s just that we use gas steam instead of water steam. We actually fly with steam engines, only that they expand the pressure chamber more often than in fantasy scenarios.

2024-06-16 21:05:45

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Thank you very much! These all seem very trotten paths now. Are the festivals very touristic?

2024-06-15 00:52:45

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Ah, now I finally get GitCitadel. Was totally missing this context and complained about the bazaar contradiction 🤦‍♂️

2024-06-15 00:43:29

@npub14d6…7wra I‘d like to go for a weeklong farm house ale brewery walk in Voss next year. Or somewhere else. Participating in brewing day. Do you know someone?

2024-06-12 21:18:52

Zwingli-Spoiz from #Rapperswil. https://video.nostr.build/aee818f90d4c2d6e91a8760847eae5e5f936bd0b253d6837e6117a12069e8214.mp4

2024-06-11 07:57:15

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I think Coax T-connectors are besutiful

2024-06-10 18:33:26

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So I‘d say they reduce entropy in your feed in similar ways devs do (or more) because they aim for your money-spending brain.

2024-06-10 11:25:27

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Are influencers not just about product placement? Or do you understand something different under the term influencer?

2024-06-09 08:59:22

I‘m inviting to #Zurich for the 20 years anniversary of #Ruby on Rails: https://www.meetup.com/rubyonrails-ch/events/301480681/

2024-06-08 20:33:00

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I guess it‘s this one then?
httpx://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-fiatjaf-nostr-donation-2024-6
I find it interesting. In my head this read by monotone news presentrix. Often emphasising the name pairs so that they stick for the internet. You really can feel how facts are born into existence, being pressed out in waves, although not in pain.

2024-06-07 08:52:16

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What happened?

2024-06-06 07:26:53

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We care because we find civilization useful. Socialists have difficulties to differ between leveling the balances and tearing down civilization.

2024-06-05 19:27:06

I just counted our reusable drinking bottles: 39 (not counting baby bottles)
Sometimes I‘m shocked by how much things-turnover my grown-up 4 person household accounts for.
As a student I basically consumed cereals and beer and I literally owned one single set of cutlery.

2024-06-04 09:54:45

The gray in #Rapperswil is becoming more blue by the minute. https://image.nostr.build/b164dcf40fb1315be5f94f0e4b4e511bda835930bf7c08acb107dd977ac35ea0.jpg

2024-06-03 23:36:25

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Ha! I even read the RFC once. How nice to see old ideas picked up so well presented. Reminds me of geocities as well.

2024-06-03 23:25:32

Is there an animal which has a wrong fur direction?

2024-06-03 11:44:13

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I like the german word „All“: umgangssprachliche Kurzform für das Weltall, d. h. das Universum,
would be englishable „The All“

2024-06-03 08:49:45

All that talk about fame… come on, you‘re on nostr. I never understood the „social“ in digital social networks anyways. nostr is infrastructure, the use are not, and not even the maintainers.

2024-06-02 10:58:41

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It‘s the incremental progress delta. But undistributed.

2024-06-02 10:54:28

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I like your way of thinking

2024-05-31 08:29:42

Just listened to Joe Rogan 2156 (https://open.spotify.com/episode/0RMUNGWB0P22Ka6E71zV5b)
Follow-up thoughts:
AI promises unlimited information. Nuclear energy promised unlimited energy. How do we not have unlimited energy today?
If this parallel was valid, I‘d lay it out like this:
- The first atom bomb was THE thing because it was used in the real world and we perceived it discretly.
- Scaling (building more powerful bombs) is comparatively easy.
- But it‘s not obvious how to control and distribute useful civil applications. These engineering problems cannot just be solved theoretically. The solutions have to be acted out.
- We may not accept unlimited information because they come from simulated truths which have not been acted out (yet).
- So we‘ve probably got more time than some of us software-hybritians think.
Bonus questions:
- At which interfaces is Bitcoin connected to the real world?
- Does Bitcoin behave differently in the Matrix?

2024-05-26 01:38:55

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What can you bring to the table? Can you make your own table?

2024-05-26 00:19:59

Simulation theory:
God is the one who can distinguish between good and evil. Providing the playground for information playing out. Creator of the automated tests. Go and implement!
*feeling the sudden urge to watch The Matrix again*

2024-05-24 21:50:03

My wife is organizing a team party.
I can provide: #brauzeugen https://image.nostr.build/5baa2d95deef75589a149df114e1c7c877b0b14872ebd7bb2cf7d769b9bcc2ea.jpg

2024-05-22 16:51:38

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That‘s the kind of complexity-tear-down I like 👌

2024-05-20 13:30:27

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What do you think about
- Emojis
- font weight/style
- tables/tabular spacing
?
Are there better and worse programming languages?

2024-05-20 09:34:49

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I like this idea more than I tought.

2024-05-19 13:37:51

How long until you need a GitHub account to checkout something?

2024-05-19 09:54:09

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The Carmack sources miss context: it was about him building an AI company.

2024-05-16 09:29:59

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Without. Thinking about street view and entropy. How compressed are the recordings? How would you account for rotation and scale? I cannot see features.

2024-05-16 08:51:45

How long until this picture can be geo-referenced by only image payload by a third party? https://image.nostr.build/6f87d7fede57a8e54dee1bc55e72b90050f296ed656edb1d0fc3dd999167f22f.jpg

2024-05-16 02:05:10

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I like the idea. A burned npub is like a lost npub. Compromiser can burn it. Fine, as long as there cannot be a migration event together with the deletion. I don‘t see a solution for migrations in nostr because time is not absolute. Referencing other events can only give relative time.

2024-05-15 15:03:02

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You speak out of my experience. Exactly like yours. Twitter was too complicated for the perceived value in 2010. But unlike you I liked Facebook until they started fiddling with the feed by not showing everything anymore.

2024-05-12 13:00:51

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Thinking about bridging the web with the nostr-web:
Can you go forward using this as a URI and address resources on a relay? Or is this a step back because you would name the relay? Hm… definitely a step back.

2024-05-12 10:19:36

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You could give plasmic.app a try. GUI editor which can use your Python API. No frontend coding needed but some reading of docs.

2024-05-12 09:11:16

Spotify cares about your privacy. They could have put the irony even better using a mourning border. https://image.nostr.build/c547e8fae7694cc8370ca046fd12da78605f0293326ad7d20f3f8654b871263a.jpg

2024-05-12 08:49:49

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Cool! This would grab a big part of infrastructure. How would you assign IPs to pubkeys?

2024-05-11 09:14:16

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There are also artificial physical neural networks around just to proove that you don‘t need to store them digitally:
https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/neural-network-in-glass-requires-no-power-recognizes-numbers

2024-05-10 10:56:54

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I can say that my most successful outcome (my wife) is her own person with her own money. That‘s what I explictly looked for after learning about some of the other dependent types. I bring other things to the table than alpha-leadership, so I need some of that in her.

2024-05-07 12:41:46

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Mega cool!

2024-05-06 22:38:59

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Correction: https://playground.nostr.com/

2024-05-06 19:30:09

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I guess the idea would be similar to git short hashes?

2024-05-03 23:03:28

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Maybe we should buy an IP mixing satellite relay in space (or the international seas)

2024-05-03 08:21:29

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Public Wifi helps

2024-05-03 08:21:04

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A botnet would help.

2024-05-03 08:14:15

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Agreed. Your agency and the tragedy of the commons are in conflict.
I researched my feelings when not picking up some trash:
- disgust towards the thing
- disgust towards the person who („)lost(“) it
- grateful that the city will clean it for me
- doubt if I didn‘t delegate too much power to them.

2024-05-03 08:07:16

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The idea of gift wraps is nice for DMs. But not suitable for public speak.

2024-05-03 07:58:46

Do (you) bitcoiners pick up trash from the sidewalk if you see some?
Taking on local responsibilities.
Would only be consequential to not delegate street hygiene to the admin apparatus, no?

2024-05-01 15:01:33

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Psychopath is a path

2024-05-01 08:25:49

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Thank you!

2024-05-01 08:23:07

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This wouldn‘t suffice, I think. This is like the dollar bill in the letter, not like the stamp.

2024-05-01 08:21:12

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I guess I‘ve got some reading to do. Is there a NIP to start from?

2024-05-01 08:06:30

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I‘m not thinking about the cash aspect, but about the infrastructure costs.

2024-05-01 08:05:25

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Is this how eCash works?

2024-04-30 19:46:26

@npub180c…h6w6 Would it be feasible and useful to attach sats to a note directly? Like a penny-post, the first relay seeing it could collect it.
(besides the fact that you don‘t like lightning)

2024-04-30 19:30:04

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I didn‘t have so many pixels, even 5 years later.

2024-04-28 23:03:22

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I think they actually want that. The evil guy is normally more convinced to be on the good side than the good guy.

2024-04-28 16:26:39

Making a guess:
The Cycles render engine of Blender only ray-traces the pixels it needs for properly dithered noise distribution. You basically tune a noise, time, cycle budget until you‘re happy with the rendered image.
Or am I completely off and each pixel is ray-traced?

2024-04-28 10:26:11

Gradient descent or game of life?
Traveling edges?

2024-04-25 10:11:19

„Degraded Performance“ my ass. Your system doesn‘t work as expected. It‘s broken.

2024-04-25 08:47:45

I like weather. Snow clouds but the sun almost gets through. Blue patches above me in #rapperswiljona https://image.nostr.build/f4ec774da255f4b4823fec2f4203b9770b1d5c179fb3a4c5625b6152921c43d3.jpg

2024-04-22 22:52:23

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Additionally it‘s consuming. You‘re not even self-actualizing/effective/creating. To save up your funds for a targeted spend is something completely different than maxing-out on consumption.

2024-04-20 10:51:41

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This sits deep. Cannot forget.

2024-04-20 10:35:50

Since we‘re not many here, a map would be nice, so that I can explicity connect to nostriches geographically proximal to me in #zurich.

2024-04-20 10:32:44

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Beautiful! Passing by in Jan 2025.

2024-04-20 10:28:08

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We booked flights and camper:
- Arrive in Auckland on Dec 25
- Drive up to Whangarei for a house
- Fly from Auckland to Dunedin
- Pick up an RV
- Travel north to Auckland
- Fly back to Zurich on Jan 30
Would you be up for a coffee if I happen to cross your way?

2024-04-19 17:13:20

Is 21 only half the answer?

2024-04-17 22:52:20

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Bittorrent and Magnet Links?
Dreamt-up end state:
All deps are seeded right from build servers where the code is still pristine (or even from production servers, e.g. for Ruby gems if maintainers started including the tests and docs again, which they don‘t seem to be willing to do, see https://github.com/orgs/rubygems/discussions/7551#discussioncomment-8981632 )

2024-04-16 09:26:38

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Nice link

2024-04-15 22:49:44

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For example: voting bets don‘t anticipate the putsch.

2024-04-15 22:47:43

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Are you talking about prediction markets? If so, I probably share some of the scepticism.

2024-04-15 07:18:58

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Oh you got me 👍

2024-04-14 22:46:10

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Actually not precisely. I think God told him multiple times to get his shit together and build it.

2024-04-14 09:59:08

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Assume GitHub started to censor. Then nostr immediately won.

2024-04-11 14:59:03

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Just make sure that the outbox model is as essy to implement as is NIP-01 and we‘re good, I think.

2024-04-11 13:33:59

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From the quotes he puts everything into the context of „Geltungsdrang“. Tell more about him than about the world I think.

2024-04-11 08:39:27

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Did I read correctly that the drop is mainly for covid sunsidiary abuse? I guess it‘s similar in Switzerland.

2024-04-09 22:32:38

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What‘s the right fill level of a beer glass? I see 2/3 of the fun is now inside of you. 1/3 is left to be had. That‘s a good ratio I guess.

2024-04-07 08:46:28

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Thank you very much! Our idea was to stay a week at the beach somewhere and then travel around.
Flight prices seem best if we go from and to the same destination (either Auckland or Christchurch).
I‘m undecided whether the southern beaches are „bathable“.
I think about searching a house here: https://www.holidayhouses.co.nz/
RVs seem quite expensive. What‘s a reasonable price? How to find a good deal? Do you know a platform?
The hikes you mention are probably too long for my 6 and 3.5 year old. But I know that you‘ve got a lot of very small beautiful ones, like in the Kauri forests, or in the Abel Tasman national park.
Something I toyed with was traveling the southern west coast, but people discouraged it because of bad weather and missing infrastructure. How bad is it really?

2024-04-06 23:42:14

Hey @npub1wmr…g240 I‘d like to visit New Zealand around Christmas with my family for 6 week. Where to stay? How to travel? Could you hook me up to someone?

2024-04-06 10:12:51

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Ok, then we‘re missing context for sure

2024-04-06 10:11:37

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handbrake I guess from the logo. A video converter.

2024-04-06 10:10:39

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That‘s interesting.
- did you put it in the right place? In Discussions? Does the handbrake website tell something about how to donate?
- are donations in general not accepted?
- are donations only accepted in a particular form? Maybe they are afraid of anonymous donations for some reason?
- are they opposed to Bitcoin per se?
- is handbrake so big that they outsourced issue moderation/triage?

2024-04-04 17:39:04

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While it should be

2024-04-04 17:38:02

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Because marketing is not sales.

2024-04-04 10:49:36

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Ha, didn‘t think of my mortgage as a currency short yet. But that‘s correct and the reason why I‘m not lowering the mortgage.
In Switzerland it‘s common to have high mortgages. Almost nobody pays it off. Although the the Swiss Franc is very stable compared to other currencies. That‘s interesting and counterintuitive to your argument.

2024-04-02 10:48:51

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I think some incentive to run a relay would go away.

2024-03-26 15:55:02

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He’s learning. He’s just too comfortable with easy results. This will work out eventually. I’m very sure about this one 🙂

2024-03-25 19:33:54

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🥺

2024-03-24 20:32:02

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He! I guess, I need to be careful mentioning your name, Uncl3 B0b
😏

2024-03-24 20:28:19

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Yes, just wanted to say, why don’t we set filters at €986’812.64?

2024-03-24 19:33:54

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Why not €1M? Appealing to filters I guess?

2024-03-24 16:30:53

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Interactions cannot grow polynomically then, but linearly. That’s healthy.

2024-03-24 16:28:23

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Ok, then interaction would be bidirectional? This I would like. What I wouldn’t like is the gravitational field around stars.

2024-03-24 13:28:20

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Loud populists would win, no? Speaking for myself, I would give npubs with rare but original (self-written) content more value than the blasting spiderwebs of engagement.
You will need to answer how you want to weight vertices. I don’t think that a “pagerank” (original Google approach) would work in the long run. I think “Yahoo link lists” are more stable because they work on source quality. For example: if Uncle Bob said something once a year, I might want to see it.