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100k lines says it all. I have a little low priority queue for Claude whenever I have leftover credz to slowly build me a mostro dashboard. Its already 20k sloc with 138 deps and its not even functional yet.
Luckily no one but me will ever run it. And I'm not even sure that I will run it.
living in a climate, culture, and geography that we don't particularly like
Do you (as a fam) feel that it has been worth the sacrifice thus far vs your prior situation?
If the state is strong, it seems that I have less likelihood of getting brutalized in my bed by a wrench attack.
I think that this is a bit of a mirage, at least in my own experience with this is, as that is why I had to become a privacy and security "maxi"; I had such an experience in what is considered among one of the safest places on the planet in terms of violent crime rates. I don't think that this is universal and it does depend on your profile, though I've never been a public big spender or been rich enough to be one in the first place. It's just that sometimes less savory people can learn about things, draw conclusions (and get it wrong!) and then target you.
But, that's ingrained in me now based on personal experience, and it is why I went from not much, to no love for the state; you will never get justice when you're dead, no matter if they fry the fuckers after the fact. I do think that there is a lot of value in organized intelligence sharing, even popo tip lines (but not so much automated surveillance at scale - besides intrusion/abuse potential, that's too much noise, not enough signal). Awareness is key - it can help with prevention. Preventing violence beats criminalization ex post facto. I'm super biased on this though.
since you started using bitcoin
I think Bitcoin is just a tool. In itself it doesn't really help either way. You need process. You need to make sacrifices. I'd say that the underlying question is: what sacrifices can we automate to relieve negative impact, and which ones are pure meatspace ones that we need to suffer regardless of tooling?
bitter
I'm often very forgiving, but in this case I'm not. Also because it actually hurt me, a lot.
Note that I am not in the US. Without doxxing too deeply, there are a couple smaller jurisdictions on the planet that simply declared Bitcoin (or well, "crypto") extralegal by saying: do whatever you want, but by doing so you're not operating within the legal system, so don't come running to the court if you have a problem. That's pretty much what that law says. Unfortunately, that's where my client is domiciled, and more unfortunately, that law was introduced during the project, but before I started on this last unpaid milestone. I do think that there is an opportunistic component to this, but I will hold a grudge even if that isn't so.
I don't believe the bitcoin denomination would hold up in court.
Depends on the jurisdiction. Though the ones that uphold foreign denominations that I personally have experience in ban Bitcoin denominated contracts, so I can't say I've gone through that motion. Worse, in the case I mention above, all Bitcoin contracts are extralegal: you can't turn to the courts.
they could probably get away with paying at the initial exchange rate, so you also need to have a lot of trust in your counterpart.
Yes. In my case, they paid all milestones during price depreciation, just not the last one after significant appreciation and aren't willing to negotiate, or at this point, respond to me at all. In my mind I have written it off.
There is no innovation in vibe coding. It's consolidation, nothing new gets invented if it is not in the prompt. Just a tool. Use it to PoC.
As an independent contractor that is still owed a couple whole coins from a contract that was set a couple of years ago and delivered late 2024, I don't recommend doing BTC-denominated long-term contracts, for now, unless you're doing business with a counterparty that has more income denominated in sats than you are owed.
For small contracts, the volatility can still be brutal, but the impact is smaller and easier to negotiate.
As someone that actually reviews software before installing it. No. Error rates are actually up, and lately, error rates on bugfix releases are up by 300% versus 6 months ago.
But, not because I think that vibe coding is bad. I think vibe shipping is bad. It's the laziest shit I have ever encountered in my professional life in software engineering. It basically takes out the entire engineering part, which was already the poorest part in the first place. Go and vibe code. It's awesome. Just... if you wanna ship, spend a couple months on understanding the code you're about to push out there. You have the opportunity now to make REALLY good products. So don't be lazy.
I'll give a real world example: yesterday a bot came up with a critical bug in some code i wrote and suggested a fix. It sounded reasonable and I implemented said fix. Mind you these are highly tuned, optimized and deeply instructed bots with 200-1000 line instructions that are well tested, not garden variety just run claude code / codex and yolo a 3-liner.
You know what? I thought about it and added an extra test fixture. And it broke. Then I dove in. And I found that what sounded extremely plausible and reasonable was in fact a misunderstanding on the part of the bot. If I would have just listened to it and not paid attention, the bug it introduced in the bugfix would have probably gone unnoticed for weeks.
You know what... I'm kinda proud to host y'all the territory that is both the biggest risk and the biggest boon. lol.
I think we need to separate two things.
- "Pay to post" is a bond, if there is also a way to get rewards. IIRC SN has always had this.
- "Money is the moderator" is an algorithm that decides what is visible based on how much people are willing to pay for promotion or suppression. SN has had something like this in the beginning (or at least I think I saw that in the code) and since last Christmas, as an experiment.
I think that if we were to reformulate "pay to post" into something that scares people less (as @SimpleStacker points out) and make it more coherent with the actual incentive of post bonds with an earning curve, emphasis on earning, then maybe you'll get to speak more to people's imagination.
I think part 2, "money is the sole moderator" is a dead experiment by now.
Isn't reputation subjective?
Example: to me, anyone that endorses shitty fork proposals loses most of their reputation, unrecoverably. So what on this site is displayed as 25% in the green, weighted by reputation, is 0.000025% from my perspective, because I'm dividing all these people's final relevance, for now and forever, by 1M.
If I wanted to acquire a whole coin I'd not do it in one trade. If I wanted to acquire a whole coin per day or per week, I'd probably get in touch with an OTC desk.
But it’s amazing what you canachievefuck up once you start shipping at inference speed
Fixed it!
You'll know nothing, but you'll think you're awesome, because Claude said you are
I can't choose between those two because I think that bottom line, the issue is that it rests on specifics. It doesn't solve the problem that this someone is allegedly behaving dangerously, it just tries to do preemptive damage mitigation on a potential outcome, by criminalizing non-compliance. It doesn't help - especially since if I'm going to go shoot someone, I didn't care about criminalization anyway.
But... a pencil can be a weapon. So can a piece of driftwood. A branch. Heck, I once had a 3-inch, 4mm (!!!) Allen key removed from my carry-on luggage by TSA because "it is a blunt weapon." Really pissed me off because that was my diving regulator key to tune airflow. Had to buy a new one. Oh and my gold plated zippo was an explosive device according to Berlin Tegel security. Bottle of cognac is fine tho - even though we can totes classify that as a molotov cocktail component. But at least they took the lighter - oh wait... the plastic one was fine.
All this does imho is introduce ambiguity. Great for lawyers laughing all their way to the bank. Awful for everyone else.
Hmm if you're looking for an influx of stackers, like a practical outcome, then targeting is everything. Boost quantity / quality content on one of the niche rank 20-40 territories for a few months and see what happens. Provide stats about how much a post gets zapped, have something to show.
If we make a good plan I can do it with ~AI too. Though we're a bit in an AI dip because all the news is same old and fake lol. Can change that though. I'd just need to start consuming my papers feed again (but arxiv isn't as open as it was a year ago, they changed prerequisites)
If however you're looking for feedback / market intel more than immediate recruitment, then I'd a/b test some narratives. See what gets the most useful interaction.