Kurt

@Kurt@lemmy.one

Dad, husband, and mechanical engineer based in beautiful New Jersey. On Reddit I’m u/engibineer.

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Kurt,

I, for one, would like to learn about what sorts of dark stuff these people were up to.

Kurt,

Oh wow. What a sicko.

Kurt,

I really don't feel that bad about the crew/tourists. They trained for months and paid lots of money. Consent doesn't get more informed than that.

Withings Body Smart Review: A Connected Scale For the Masses that includes baby/pet weight (www.howtogeek.com)

I like devices that are not locked into an OS ecosystem (Apple, I'm looking at you!) and although I already have a Fitbit Aria scale, it gets thrown out when my wife stands on the scale with a pet, to get the pet's weight (you weigh yourself, hold the pet, and then work out the difference). Having a built-in pet/baby mode is...

Kurt,

I have the Withings and it works well as a digital scale. However, I think it's body composition measurements/calculations are bogus. It thinks I have a 3.8% bone mass, which would be 6.7 lbs. That's right it thinks I'm some kind of bird cryptid.

How was your Father's Day?

Mine was mostly pretty low-key, which is how I like it. I got some small gifts from my wife and daughter, including a 7oz hammer with a colorfully painted handle. I actually really liked that. For dinner my mother-in-law took us out to an expensive steakhouse, where I had a wonderful ribeye, but I don't think it was worth the...

Kurt,

Glad you were able to turn it around, but I feel really bad for your wife!

Kurt,

The zoo is great! Ours has a platform where you can handfeed lettuce to the giraffes and my kid and we have a lot of fun with that.

Kurt,

Nice! Is there a particular gin you like? Hendricks is the go-to for my wife and I, but I recently found a Japanese gin made with yuzu that's pretty good.

Kurt,

Congrats on the jams, man!

Kurt, (edited )

Oh, hell yeah. Now, how do I open a link to a post on a different instance than mine from within my instance (also without getting sent to my browser)?

Kurt,

Ah okay. Looks like it will only work for certain instances. I don't think I can add any others besides these ones. https://lemmy.one/pictrs/image/c617ef56-256f-4847-a5be-4362c4474d29.jpeg

If Jerboa can follow comment links from the inbox natively, why does it let Android handle the links everywhere else? Maybe Jerboa could insert a little link button next to every hyperlink so that you can choose whether to open a link with Android or natively with Jerboa.

Kurt,

Yes! I finally just set up a dynamic DNS so I could get my music away from home.

Kurt,

Probably to broadcast announcements.

Kurt,

As in stuff like stealing from work?

Kurt,

I've never been to San Francisco, but Liz and Brace make me feel nostalgic for it.

Kurt, (edited )

Same. Also, https://lemmy.ml/comment/524160

Kurt,

I'm not sure how important it is for small denominations to be durable, since a pocketful of loose change is practically disposable for a lot of people. As for anti-counterfeiting measures, I think coins have a lot of potential.

Kurt,

Sure, but for low denominations, it doesn't make sense to develop and incorporate advanced security measures. Coins could support cryptographic technology that would make counterfeiting impossible. Hobbyists have figured out how to do it for $23 a piece. A national mint could probably do it for less.

Kurt,

Yes, but I think the premise of the OP is that frequently transacting with coins is a PITA. Even if paper is less durable, people will be happier not having to deal with coins as much.

Kurt,

I'm not really talking about cryptocurrency. What I mean is that you could fit cryptographic electronics on a coin that would make counterfeiting impossible. I don't think that technology would fit on a flexible paper bill yet.

However, it is interesting to consider that you could integrate a national cryptocurrency with physical coins. The benefit would be that people could transact the physical coins without recording anything publicly. Also, the physical coins would also be instantly redeemable for digital currency.

Kurt,

The way it works is you would just do one transaction to a wallet on the chip in the coin when the coin is minted. The chip is designed so that you can never release the funds on its wallet without essentially destroying the chip. There is no way to simply duplicate the cryptographic data from one of these chips to another. There's a better explanation available on the OpenDime website.

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