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Over at The New Stack is a brief but entertaining history of the editor vi and Vim.
"The editor was optimized so that you could edit and feel productive when it was painting slower than you could think. Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore," Joy said. "It was a world that is now extinct. People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore."
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(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Tuesday August 28 2018, @08:47PM (5 children)
With respect to computing as a resource for digital currency and the low cost, the whole point is to make it crazy cheap. So it might be marginally cheaper to share all of your data with Facebook, Google, etc... but since you're spending, hypothetically, $3.17 per month on SafeNetwork resources to host your own GMail equivalent and Facebook equivalent you don't mind. Or you plug an old laptop into a wall, install SafeNetwork on it, and it "mines" for you contributing resources to the SafeNetwork and you don't pay anything for your hosted resources beyond a tiny bit of electricity. More resilience, less censorship (though that's a can of worms), more privacy, less advertising.
But right now all of that is mostly a dream, might as well ask for a pony. Or a unicorn.
I understand your point about not getting polluted by other ideas. Good luck with your blockchain. And your boat.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday August 28 2018, @09:45PM (4 children)
For resource cost, I worked out a nice rule-of-thumb for electricity, at something like $0.11/kwh your annual cost for 24-7 consumption of 1 watt is $1. So, a typical Intel NUC-ish compact pc might cost $20 per year to run, if you want compensation for your router, etc. that might start to get up to your $3.17 per month - without considering the cost of broadband. I'd consider broadband and the router hardware to be fixed costs, nothing additional for running a network node on top nothing you'd notice, anyway, as compared to normal usage.
Taking family to see the boat tonight, truly don't know how this is going to go...
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(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Wednesday August 29 2018, @03:22PM (3 children)
Man, we're really off in the weeds. I'm having fun, thanks for the discussion. What did you and your family think of the boat?
The dream of these SafeNetwork-style thing is that the level of tech literacy required is much lower. Install and go. I am typing this from my Linux workstation / home media server / home backups box. I do run the (fully open source) sandstorm.io software on the machine and they provide dynamic DNS, so my personal (redacted).sandcats.io subdomain is on the public web. If I wanted a static IP address so I could also host email or whatever on it, I'd need to pay Comcast a pretty penny in extra fees.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday August 29 2018, @09:12PM (2 children)
My life experience of running public facing servers is: go dedicated or don't bother. Virtual machines and containers could be a middle ground, but I definitely don't see attempting to run a secure server that handles even little financial transactions without it being some kind of pre-configured software appliance with all the firewall configuration and other process security pre-configured for the sysops, even to the point of the server software running system self-audits to make sure the configuration is still kosher.
The boat is scary-fun, hard to decide: 1974 36' trawler with a ferro-concrete hull - $15K, problems include rotten wood under the fiberglass in the superstructure that needs replacing (maybe 1/2 sheet of plywood, call it a whole sheet of plywood after you get into it and find other hidden gems), an exhaust manifold that needs replacing, water leak through the flybridge instruments, broken windshield (flat plate glass - easy), other than that it's really nice. New outside hull paint, could use new deck paint. Insurance on the concrete hull is difficult, and probably about $2K/yr, dockage is about $240/month - so maybe $5K/yr fixed expenses... if it lasts 3 years and we really use it twice a month, that's $30K plus all the repair labor for 150 trips, $200/trip + about $1/mile in running costs. Figure an average trip might be 20 miles, $220 per trip. Plus the time you can spend in the boat at the dock. This started as an idea for how to get a cheap apartment on the other side of town (30 minutes away, but 4 minutes from the kids' school), and it might still be that: cheaper than an apartment, but the docks on that side of town are $500/month and it's hard to think that that would be better than a dock less than half the price 10 minutes from home, even if that marina has a swimming pool...
I wish I were 25 again, back then I looked into houseboats but couldn't find anything acceptable for less than $80K, which is what I spent on my first house - this thing would have been awesome back then... now, we can enjoy it while doing the restoration work, but I'm not sure we've really got the spare time to enjoy it like we'd want to... It might get sold away from us before the custom exhaust manifold arrives next Thursday, and if that happens I'm O.K. letting it go. If it's still for sale when the exhaust manifold gets put on, we'll take a test cruise with the kids and let that help decide...
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(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Thursday August 30 2018, @01:38AM (1 child)
Good luck either way.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday August 30 2018, @04:55PM
Fast 'n loose math missed a 2: would need 6 years at 2 trips per month to get ~150 trips, so that would be an additional $15K of dock and insurance, making the trips $300 each at 6 years of continuous use, or $400 each at 3 years (or $800 each for one year, if it sinks after a year)... I'm cooling on it even without that bad math, our house-house needs wood work, caulk and paint, too, and when we went to see the trawler the smell of bug bomb came home with us on our clothes and hair... My boat diversion is leaning toward sail (where it was before this concrete beast came along), my wife is looking at bigger and more expensive trawlers... I just don't see that ever making sense, unless the blockchain thing does something unlikely for me.
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