100 sats \ 1 reply \ @dayOldDonuts 2 May \ on: The Bitcoiner's Introduction to Rust bitdevs
I have read through section 7 and really like how you're iterating through the process of writing the code just like real-world coding; small chunks at a time. I went through another online rust course last year, and the same one again a week ago, but I have not yet done any programming on an actual project with rust. I was recently briefly looking at the rust bitcoin library because I am interested in learning bitcoin programming as well. Thanks for all the time you've put into it so others can benefit. I look forward to your deeper dive into the bitcoin protocol.
100 sats \ 0 replies \ @dayOldDonuts 15 Apr \ parent \ on: Tell me 3 things you did outside today? Outdoors
It's much swimming and breath-hold diving -- It's a workout, but well worth it. I learned how to spearfish with a speargun in the Caribbean. I have only been out less than ten times; once on a reef near Playa del Carmen, Mexico, but all the other times have been on the reefs of the east side of the island Cozumel.
Immediately upon readying this headline my brain told me "When they find out you have much BTC they will throw an anti-money laundering violation at you so they can take it all."
Now, I'm sure this has been happening for a very long time, not only with BTC, but I think I just now understood how easy it is for them to steal someone's wealth. Perhaps she's guilty of AML, but they are certainly guilty of theft.
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You are certainly correct, and I am crafting messages to a friend right now, one chunk at a time, to take him at his own pace, to a place he can take custody of his bitcoin. Once he's done that I will guide him further.
96 sats \ 0 replies \ @dayOldDonuts 10 Mar \ parent \ on: What is your story with Linux? Me first: Linux
Oh my, many memories flooding back from my early linux days. This linux discussion caused me to go look at Slackware's history so I could somewhat pinpoint a year when I began using linux. Slackware begin in 1993, so that's about when I began using it. A professor at the university, where I was studying EET, loaned me 110 3.5-inch HD floppies containing the Slackware distribution. At the time, CDROM drives were very expensive and I don't remember seeing any/many computers on campus with them, and I certainly did not have one in my home computer. I had a 80286-based system at home so I could not run linux at home, and therefore installed it initially on a 80386-based machine in the ham radio shack. I was immediately compiling streamlined kernels to get as much horsepower out of those systems. A short time later I ended up acquiring a 80386-based machine at home, and have been running at home ever since.
Of course, this discussion also brings back memories of my early days on the internet; before HTTP/world-wide-web. Gopher, WAIS, telnetting to MUDs, FTP sites, and so much more. In a way, the advent of HTTP caused the internet experience to be limited (man, that sounds like an incorrect statement!)
I REALLY enjoyed using cash because it kept my financial activity completely private. I would use cash to buy money orders to pay rent for an apartment (those places never take cash (!!!)) Now that I'm thinking more of this I remember I began using the credit card a few years before moving to Mexico so I could maximize the number of points on my credit card.
Where I've been living, in Quintana Roo, Mexico, there is no semiannual time change, which is nice. However, I work for a U.$. company so I still usually adjust my working hours to accommodate. smh
For a number of years I was using cash only and envelopes (learned from Dave Ramsey's course in 2006). I had envelopes for food, rent, gas, and those types of things, as well as an envelope for every monthly or annual expense, such as an annual gym membership. I broke down all expenses into the correct amount to place into the envelope every two weeks, and ensured the amount I was adding would add up to the correct amount on the day I needed it. I went to the bank when I was paid every two weeks and got the correct amount of cash in the correct denominations to fill all the envelopes. I had an envelope for six months of expenses that I filled up with the extra money I had. It worked beautifully.
Then I moved to Mexico, and stopped most of the above. Moving money between countries, paying currency exchange fees, not knowing what the Mexican government will do seeing all this money moving in and out of a Mexican bank account, and keeping that much cash in my home were all problematic. Now there are two envelopes for spending; food and household. All other items are usually paid with a credit card (I avoided credit cards for a long time) and paid off in full every month.
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