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@deesapoetra a lot of misconceptions in this thread. However, I'm exhausted today + I'm not a physicists so I'll let someone else explain it. Perhaps @freemo has time?

@doliu666 Hm I see. That's a fair point, I guess that's why the big successful projects like Blender receive a lot of finding from studios using it so that's why they can get to such a high level even in mainstream.

@doliu666 I disagree. Could you elucidate me by providing examples of which propietary software you use for which the Foss alternative makes you less productive?

Also, I'm sure you know but free software refers more to a philosophical stance rather than gratis/monetary value.

In any case, in my experience using foss (or at least open source) tends to pay off in the long term, financially speaking. As I can get equally productive (although yes there's the time investment) but then don't have to keep paying for a subscription/license and I get the benefit of easily modifying it to my needs. This has been the case for things like my video editing software (kdenlive/audacity), note taking (obsidian), IDE (VSCodium/vim), etc...

@whirli I've been in a similar situation. If I remember correctly I used PySimpleGUI and PyInstaller to wrap the functions in a UI and make the executable.

@academicalnerd I don't know, had never heard of becherovka before until now.

@deesapoetra you'll probably get a different response from different devs as this seems like a gray area depending on your background. As far as I can tell, web developers call many things "app" whereas in mobile, embedded and desktop development that has a slightly different meaning.

For me, an app refers to a piece of code that the end-user will interact with whereas a library is meant for yourself or other developers, typically as an underlying component of the larger application/system.

Changing a battery and other components is NOT hard... Together we can shift societal norms away from fast moving consumerism that hurts the planet.

Laptop's age-> 5+ yrs

#designedtolast #sustainability #earthday2021 #earthday #righttorepair

@academicalnerd first had it when I was 13/14 and at first it tasted like medicine, had another one then I liked it. It's been one of my favorite drinks ever since. Especially because everyone else in my family hates it so the stock is never diminished unlike most other alcoholic beverages in a Venezuelan household (we are alcoholics).

@pluralistic this is 100% worth the read!

The Computer Chronicles (1993)

it's crazy how little people knew about computers back then compared to now. I'm stunned. Also, screw this guy, he keeps talking over people.

@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe why?

@2ck one potential issue is that many people would not want to use self driving cars which are merely maximizing for the number of lives as this can lead to situations where your own car would sacrifice you in order to save other people (regardless of who or what is to blame for the accident). There are many other such edge cases but the issue is rarely as black and white as simply optimizing a discrete variable.

@freemo So, I haven't traded at all since around 2016-2018 (used to do it manually on binance). Recently, I was thinking of trading based mostly on "trading signals" using natural language processing and simply selling/buying based around trends, "hype" or Elon's tweets, lol.

Perhaps setting up a python server using the binance API so that it is always running and when there's movement in something related to one coin (for example SEC filing against lbry) then execute a trade before the news has had a chance to hit the markets.

Is this too basic?

It feels too basic to have any chance of success.

@freemo do you have any advice for learning how to make a successful trading bot?

If I recall correctly you tooted about your trading strategy a while back but a lot of it went over my head such as the stuff on quantum wavelet transform.

#helplbrysavecrypto #lbry #freedom #crypto
My reaction to watching the SEC suing LBRY but then remembering they're a bunch of idiots that don't understand crypto: