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New comment by knopkop_ in "Ask HN: Non-techie friendly way to store crypto outside of exchange"

knopkop_ — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:59:27 +0000

This is still a thing, see bitcoinpaperwallet.com

New comment by knopkop_ in "Ask HN: What are your hobbies?"

knopkop_ — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:53:04 +0000

Not OP but there's a lot of useful old blog entries about this topic to explore at curedmeats.blogspot.com

New comment by knopkop_ in "Ask HN: What's the fastest way to produce an API?"

knopkop_ — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 10:40:38 +0000

I've heard good things about FastAPI

New comment by knopkop_ in "Ask HN: What car do you drive?"

knopkop_ — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 09:39:30 +0000

Same except I bought an old Toyota Yaris for £2000 cash. It's cheap to maintain and is super reliable. The missus would like a Mercedes G wagon though.

New comment by knopkop_ in "How did people buy Bitcoin before Coinbase?"

knopkop_ — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 09:14:41 +0000

Based on your description I'd guess you are referring to bittylicious.

New comment by knopkop_ in "Ask HN: What to do with excess off-grid solar electricity?"

knopkop_ — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:29:46 +0000

For more info you can check on whattomine.com to see if any alts may be profitable to mine with GPUs.

New comment by knopkop_ in "Ask HN: Good crypto resources (books, blogs, docs)"

knopkop_ — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:12:47 +0000

Andreas A's bitcoin and ethereum books are quite good for a technical understanding. You can buy them or read for free at https://github.com/aantonop

New comment by knopkop_ in "Ask HN: Is the Bitcoin network somewhat usable at the moment?"

knopkop_ — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:35:00 +0000

Bitcoin has a testnet.

New comment by knopkop_ in "Ask HN: Any less known but cool places you want to visit one day?"

knopkop_ — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 10:25:49 +0000

Me too, mostly after reading this article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niko_Bagration

New comment by knopkop_ in "What is the best programming dad joke?"

knopkop_ — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:45:42 +0000

What's the only way to generate a truly random string?

Ask a Windows sysadmin to exit VIM.

New comment by knopkop_ in "Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using Windows?"

knopkop_ — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 11:07:57 +0000

That you can click and drag a file to the command line window and it'll populate the path and filename.

New comment by knopkop_ in "Ask HN: What is your unpopular opinion about tech?"

knopkop_ — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 13:53:48 +0000

Some things were better before tech.

Back in the day you walked to the phone booth once a week to talk to family members that are far away. Nowadays they can contact you 24/7.

New comment by knopkop_ in "Ask HN: What's the most beautiful song or album you've ever listened to"

knopkop_ — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 09:08:48 +0000

An Armenian chellist playing Paganini's Variations on a theme from Moses in Egypt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g00bVs0zBg

New comment by knopkop_ in "Ask HN: How do you share passwords simply and securely?"

knopkop_ — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:28:48 +0000

I use this all the time!

New comment by knopkop_ in "Ask HN: Tricks to improve posture?"

knopkop_ — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 10:40:15 +0000

I think you live in the flat above me.

New comment by knopkop_ in "People are planting more vegetable gardens"

knopkop_ — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 11:03:28 +0000

Here in England I planted a bunch of stuff for the first time, and was quite shocked to find that the local snail population went over it all like a very efficient lawnmower.

New comment by knopkop_ in "Springer Nature is making SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19 research free"

knopkop_ — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:41:03 +0000

SAGE has done this too: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/press/access-coronavirus-ar...

New comment by knopkop_ in "Ask HN: What can I do with extra electricity?"

knopkop_ — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:52:22 +0000

Mine some crypto

New comment by knopkop_ in "Ask HN: Which is your most favorite old piece of tech?"

knopkop_ — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:08:48 +0000

Toshiba Libretto

New comment by knopkop_ in "Ask HN: Linux, too many changes in not many years"

knopkop_ — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:12:20 +0000

Alpine Linux may also be a good option if you're looking for something light-weight.