is there a cool thing to do for that number

When you flip 60, you get 09

I'm wondering if there would be any gain to chaining VPNs together

This is what Obscura does

new users shouldn't need to learn a new concept to use bitcoin.

Changing the symbol doesn't fix that. They still need to learn about "not your keys, not your coins", even if they decide not to hold their keys.

I should have phrased it better.

No worries, the internet can be an incredibly judgmental place, and I'm def contributing to it sometimes

Mhh, good point. Maybe this is better?

when someone says something they think is incredibly smart, because they've never considered it before

I think we tend to think someone is smart when they surprise us with arguments, especially if it's on a topic we think we've spent a lot of time thinking about.

I usually give blank stares which is confirms what I'm saying is true.

Are you sure? I think people give blank stares when someone says something incredibly smart they’ve never considered, but also when something is incredibly stupid and they don’t know where to start, and are considering whether it’s even worth arguing about.

Blank stares are not a good indicator of how right you are.

Though I’m aware you’re a better judge of the situation you described.

Thank you and no worries

I think I had this problem before, and I think I was able to read it, but I don't remember how

edit: Ahh, I can read it without an account actually. I just got confused (again) because I can't read it on nitter. Like the embed here, I only see an x.com/i/article link there.

Oh, the article mentioned them:

There are now many great technical Bitcoin events and communities: regional bitcoin++ events, Adopting Bitcoin, OP_NEXT, Presidio, MIT Bitcoin Expo, the Bitcoin Conference open source stage, BitDevs groups, and many more.

Thanks @Scoresby for posting the full text in #1497282

We have other conferences to carry the torch now

Which other conferences would you recommend for developers? I'm only aware of bitcoin++.

Is there a way to read it without an account?

oh, hello there, old friend

Yep. PPL SEA(L).

That's a separate license from a PPL(A)? Flying seaplanes isn't a type rating?

Definitely doable. I completed mine in 6 months despite having several weeks of bad weather where flying wasn't possible.

During flight school, this question came up: which season is best for flying? Naively, I expected it to be summer because of the "good weather." But what's good weather for humans isn't necessarily good weather for planes. Summers are hot and have lower air density, so aircraft performance is worse, although visibility is usually better. In winter, you get higher air density and lower temperatures.

What's your experience with flying seasons? Would you recommend summer or winter? Or does it not really matter?

Good way to approach it.
Don't worry too much about being good. It's a learning curve with different bumps for everyone.
Some things you'll get immediately, and other things you'll need to practice, practice, practice until you get it.

🙏

I started messing around in MSFS a while ago. My first surprises were that I struggled to land the plane centered on the runway, and that it's hard to maintain altitude, speed, and attitude, especially when you want to change one of them.

Btw, @plebpoet recommended The Rehearsal: Season 2 to me, and it was really good. You'll probably like it too if you haven't already watched it:

I decided against the dog and got the rest.

You have a pilot license?

learning to fly is temporary

Good point. If I commit enough time to it, I could be done in a few months, I guess.

Unless you want to make that your career, of course.

For now, no. Will consider again when I actually have my license. I don't know yet if I'm actually going to be a good pilot haha

Wanted to link to this.

Summary of my first world problems from my journal:

I can't have a dog, a nice place, travel and learn how to fly:

• dog vs travel, flying
• nice place vs travel, flying
• travel vs dog, nice place, flying
• flying vs dog, nice place, travel

:(

#886778 was a good post about this

Oh and micropayments != v4v

Instead of zapping a few sats, Gleason suggests we should be zapping tens of thousands of sats or more:

I gave away $2,000 in a weekend

Extremely entitled argument. "Look at me, I'm rich af, just be like me and stop being poor"

I think @davidw knew that ~privacy would be very popular on SN, so he bought it outright for 3m sats and set high fees, hoping for passive income. Smart move, but not very social.

Maybe we should fight back by gathering a group of stackers to have ~cheap_privacy, haha

From what I've seen, stackers don't like to zap @hn.

Ben says he asked the bot to engage in some role-play, in which he was “just a little guy” and his debt was like a giantess prone to trampling him.

This reminded me of Sjors Provoost saying he uses customer support chatbots to help him write code for free, haha

The future is bright for people with a hacker mindset?