skybrian @skybrian@schelling.pt

Weird. That should be skybrian @ mastodon.social.

This server seems rather broken. Moved to @skybrian@mastodon.social.

@natecull It seems like Wikipedia or TV Tropes are closer to keeping a memory than microblogging? How do we get people (ourselves) interested in building evergreen content together?

@omanreagan I guess that's sort of true if you don't look at the international news? I've read a fair bit about what other countries are doing. This includes articles in American newspapers.

But apparently a lot of people don't read that section?

@ifixcoinops I like NewsBlur, which I've been using since Google Reader died. I ignore some features and customize a few things: no thumbnails please. Some things work better using the website than with Android.

But it basically works. The "premium" account is $36 a year, not too bad.

@rysiek@mastodon.technology Unfortunately, this doesn’t make a difference. Lost assets generate no transactions and use no energy.

Energy usage is proportional to the price. (For proof of work, anyway.) It’s not just *creating* assets that’s expensive, it’s maintaining them. Just keeping them all secure for another year is very expensive even without many transactions.

@Rico A weird thing about bank deposits is that whether they are money or not depends on your point of view. To everyone outside a bank, a bank deposit is money. To a bank, its own deposits aren’t money, they are IOU’s. But a deposit in any other bank is money.

@Rico also the Fed pays interest to banks, not the other way around.

@Rico a bank can create money but it's a liability for them. When a loan is created the borrower spends it and the bank has to pay out. Some *other* bank gets the money, usually.

A bank makes money by getting someone to agree to pay them (a loan). Helping the borrower spend money is an expense that they would avoid if they could, but that's why borrowers agree to loans.

You wouldn't promise a stranger that you will give them $100 for no reason. Same principle.

@tindall@cybre.space I can’t answer this question because I don’t know what options were available. Partially because I didn’t follow Congressional politics very closely. I don’t know what “using every option available” would look like with such complex negotiations and Democrats having a bare majority in the Senate?

Like, are we going to blame Minchin and Sinema specifically, and does that mean the other senators and House Democrats are off the hook, because the “options available” were no options at all?

@tindall@cybre.space This seems a bit confused about the relationship between candidates’ intentions and results? Nobody can predict what laws they will be able to pass once elected.

Statements during campaigns are always optimistic at best because saying “who the hell knows what we’ll be able to pass” is too much honesty to get elected.

@tindall@cybre.space He’s not a scientist, and neither am I, but I thought the science was solid? I should get around to reading Kathryn Paige Harden’s book.

@tindall@cybre.space I’m curious if you’ve read Freddie deBoer’s take on it.

@vivianrose I like Onshape. It’s not open source but free to use if all your projects are public.

Learning to use constraints is a bit of a puzzle, but pretty fun as puzzles go.

@tindall@cybre.space Interesting! Do you know if nslice improves performance in practice? It seems like it might help inner loops?

@tindall@cybre.space I've used Ponoko but this is the first I've heard of SendCutSend. How do you like them in comparison?

@tindall@cybre.space Which Linux distros do you like and how do you inspect the updates?