michael-welnick
Michael Welnick

https://michaelwelnick.com

I drink tea and I learn things

Public Key

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michael@michaelwelnick.com

NIP-57 Address

rareelephant2@primal.net

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relay.damus.io

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2024-03-22 18:32:52

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I agree that hyperinflation is the end game but not that it’s soon

2024-03-20 18:20:44

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Props where props are due though. The canary worked

2024-03-19 00:49:40

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So if I select a utxo with 1m sats and set the local amount to 200k I get a channel with 200k on my side and 100k on your side and 800k back to my wallet? https://image.nostr.build/3405be5f5eeb21e996380fac42ff134763ea5fac6d102c72095c74f3a1d7ff44.jpg

2024-03-18 21:19:46

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Can you get incoming liquidity or is it only outgoing?

2024-03-18 19:34:16

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They are clearly dominating in the space, but that P/E ratio is still priced for a lot more growth. Eventually it won’t hit the numbers investors want. When I compare it to DOGE what I mean is that when it finally runs out of steam it could be a good signal that we have reached the top of this bull run in stocks

2024-03-17 17:52:42

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You haven’t watched much anime have you?

2024-03-17 15:45:49

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This stuff literally changed my life https://www.amazon.com/Propolis-Beekeepers-Naturals-Premium-Extract

2024-03-16 22:49:11

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That pretty much sums it up. I haven’t read this book but Iv been following her podcast for a while and I suspect in this book you would find a lot of science to back up your theory https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1668007878

2024-03-16 21:21:40

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Why is M2 going up even with QT going on?

2024-03-16 21:14:44

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Is the source code available yet?

2024-03-15 18:21:43

prediction: within 1 year zk rollups and defi on bitcoin will become the biggest topic of discussion on nostr

2024-03-11 20:19:31

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True, do darknet markets bother with 2 of 3 multisig though?

2024-03-11 20:10:07

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Yeah the rug pulls happen to the coins that are still locked in escrow. Nostr doesn’t solve the escrow problem

2024-03-09 00:28:29

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Is this some kind of loophole in Apple tos?

2024-02-27 21:59:12

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I do not understand why anybody besides a jr dev or a student would go for a bounty

2024-02-26 19:16:13

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I have tried several times and even after two months I still felt terrible. Now I drink matcha most days, never exceed 100mg and never have caffeine after 10AM. Check this subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/decaf/s/Oz5UmksGI3 some people say it can take a year to fully reset

2024-02-15 00:48:01

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Which is depressing because typescript the language itself is so good

2024-02-08 18:37:09

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🤯

2024-02-08 18:18:48

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Maybe in very small amounts. Anymore than one cup in the AM is overdoing it. My life has been much better since switching to a high quality matcha. I suspect people are using coffee to overload on cortisol. If you have any stress at all or don’t fall asleep immediately I suggest trying to switch.

2024-02-08 15:54:15

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Coffee is high time preference

2024-02-06 22:17:50

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Did not realize you can do zk Rollins with bitVM 🧐

2023-11-13 19:30:17

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There is no way in hell they will actually do this. There are not enough coins for sale on exchanges to do so without the price going to infinity.

2023-11-12 03:49:44

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Amen

2023-11-09 22:17:38

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🤙

2023-11-08 17:02:26

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Ok i tested zapping from alby and it works

2023-11-08 16:53:00

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I’m using Damus and I set my lightning address in the lightning tips section in my profile. Is that not what damus uses for zapping posts?

2023-11-08 16:46:54

Can somebody zap this note? Trying to test receiving self custodial zaps and apparently zapple pay won’t let you zap yourself

2023-11-08 16:29:51

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🤙

2023-11-08 16:27:24

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🤙

2023-11-08 16:25:05

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🤙

2023-11-08 05:59:16

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🤙

2023-09-08 22:26:09

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Iv been saying this for a while. It would solve so many problems. There’s a PR on damus for it https://github.com/damus-io/damus/pull/525

2023-09-03 16:27:59

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It is the 2nd most legitimate cryptocurrency but yeah it’s not even close to bitcoin

2023-09-02 23:39:09

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Wow that’s probably the best written one Iv seen. Is the link to a fake version of ledger live that asks for your seed words?

2023-08-23 23:02:48

Anybody want to take guesses how high NVDA will go? It’s basically the doge of this current bull market in stocks. When it goes everything goes with it

2023-08-21 20:07:40

https://public.welnick.net/5ac060a9-fe07-43f4-a20c-a75fa153de48.jpeg

2023-08-15 23:55:15

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👏

2023-08-14 21:54:55

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This is giving me Covid flashbacks. Seriously who comes up with this stuff

2023-08-14 15:58:43

Is anybody aware of a nostr client that doesn’t connect your phone to multiple relays but instead connects to a server (preferably self hostable) which maintains connections to your desired relays and caches the notes you are interested in. I think this would be faster and save battery life. I thought about trying to implement this as a modified relay but the problem is that if you remove all but one relay in an existing client I’m pretty sure the client will broadcast those changes to your relay list. So I would have to use a modified client and relay

2023-08-09 23:47:57

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It is surprising difficult to export your notes though. Especially if you have anything in there besides text

2023-08-09 23:45:15

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Milk has very good macros for recovery. It makes me sleep like a baby at night and gives me energy during the day. Unfortunately it noticeably increases my inflammation so I avoid it for now

2023-08-08 20:33:43

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I feel bad about it for some reason. Even though I know that’s what they are taking advantage of

2023-08-08 20:24:13

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That sounds fun:
“Do you accept Bitcoin?”
“No”
SLAM

2023-08-08 20:22:55

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I have a “beware of dog” and “no soliciting” sign. it doesn’t seem to deter them

2023-08-08 20:15:31

Anybody have tips for dealing with door to door salespeople that won’t take no for an answer? Should I just slam the door in their face mid sentence?

2023-08-03 17:31:39

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Yup

2023-08-03 17:29:01

How many millions of dollars are wasted because of developers putting empty catch statements? I bet it’s actually in the billions.

2023-08-01 13:38:54

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I wonder if something that takes 3 years of using to feel confident with is really the best we can do though.

2023-07-31 16:15:26

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This should be interesting 🍿

2023-07-29 13:53:07

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Hi Elon 👋

2023-07-18 02:11:52

If Bitcoin does nothing besides change the subscription model from a pull to a push system I would consider the project a success

2023-05-31 22:23:50

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In what aspect?

2023-05-25 22:36:15

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Also adding now that I’m off caffeine I can eat much more which is already contributing to improving my strength.

2023-05-25 03:03:30

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Isn’t that bad for your phone?

2023-05-24 17:01:12

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Trying to reduce anxiety and stress mostly. That improves immune function, gives deeper sleep and reduces impulsive decisions. Coffee gets me into a pretty bad state with consistent use. I think my life would be completely different had I not been on it for the last 17 years.

2023-05-24 14:11:12

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Congrats! I’m on 21 days myself

2023-05-21 19:47:45

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😂 someone is in trouble

2023-05-21 01:19:33

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Those are rookie numbers

2023-05-16 14:59:21

Wait people actually thought that a firmware update could not steal your private keys from a hardware wallet?

2023-05-15 04:26:50

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I’m half like “make it stop” and half like fire Elmo and want to see how far it can go and see which bad guys get wrecked next

2023-05-14 21:21:56

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Trying to quit caffeine again. It’s one of the hardest things Iv ever tried to do

2023-05-12 17:33:32

I’m starting to think the most important thing you learn as an engineer is familiarity with unknowns. Specifically how to know when you don’t know something and how to handle yourself in the face of unknowns.

2023-05-12 17:30:06

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Cant

2023-05-09 00:14:47

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Sounds about right

2023-05-08 14:21:41

Really good article on passkeys. The way this is being implemented is very sketch. https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/5/1.html?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

2023-05-03 17:17:34

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You have never worked for a big corporation have you?

2023-05-02 01:58:14

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Docker is by far the easiest. And you can create a new user for each service and run the daemon under that user if you are worried about vulnerabilities in docker itself

2023-05-01 16:15:20

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For some that’s as extreme as only running code your wrote/verified yourself. For others it’s “YOLO I want the latest and greatest no matter the risks”

2023-05-01 16:11:29

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I don’t think the balance between security and convenience can ever be solved. It’s a constant game of ever-evolving trade offs. The answer for two distinct entities can be drastically different and that’s a good thing.

2023-05-01 04:21:50

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You forgot kids

2023-05-01 04:14:38

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What do you mean by pop’d?

2023-05-01 01:15:48

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This is why I run almost everything in isolated containers now

2023-04-28 13:57:47

Question for android users: Can you immediately tell when an app is using a web view instead of native scrolling? On iOS I can immediately tell when I’m using a web view and it feels horrible. Is it something Apple does to discourage web apps or is there something inherently worse about webviews?

2023-04-28 04:17:00

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Self hosted Gitlab

2023-04-26 22:09:46

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v4v is cool but corporations are willing to pay more for a skilled developers time. It then becomes hard to justify putting in the hours for such a small reward. This might not be the case if you have a large social media presence and can get eyes on your work and people to promote you. Most developers don’t have this. There’s a lot of passion in this space so it kinda works but you are still missing out on the majority of the talent pool with that model.

2023-04-26 21:03:12

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I don’t really understand bounties. Am I supposed to drop what I’m doing and put hundreds of hours into something and hope I win? Maybe that makes sense for a teenager or a new developer but not a professional with a family and bills to pay.

2023-04-26 14:43:21

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Copilot really shines when your are using a language you aren’t that familiar with or for boilerplate code which is really common in enterprise settings.

2023-04-26 14:04:14

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I think copilot has gotten worse too. I thought it was just me but it used to suggest what I wanted a lot of the time and now it’s giving me a bunch of nonsense.

2023-04-26 14:01:21

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It says this in the NIP “The zap receipt MAY contain a preimage tag to match against the payment hash of the bolt11 invoice. This isn't really a payment proof, there is no real way to prove that the invoice is real or has been paid. You are trusting the author of the zap receipt for the legitimacy of the payment.
The zap receipt is not a proof of payment, all it proves is that some nostr user fetched an invoice. The existence of the zap receipt implies the invoice as paid, but it could be a lie given a rogue implementation.”

2023-04-26 13:55:32

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The way zaps works is when you send a lightning payment to the server there is a nostr bot account on that server that publishes a zap receipt event that says how much was zapped. Nothing is stopping that server from saying there was a zap that actually didn’t happen or lying about the amount.

2023-04-21 20:53:04

Does anybody know anything about the shape of the FedNow API? I’m guessing it’s very hush hush at this point but it can’t hurt to ask. In my eyes knowing what the API looks like is the only way to separate fact from FUD.

2023-04-21 16:22:50

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I agree but also we should be wary of creating a “trust graph” because it would probably end up with “trusted” zap servers which would disincentive people from running their own servers

2023-04-21 16:03:12

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Fair I can’t fake zaps on your post but I could fake zaps on my own posts

2023-04-21 15:59:36

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Actually you can fake zaps pretty easily

2023-04-21 15:18:19

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These are getting impressive

2023-04-19 18:19:51

Security recommendations to not run containers as root are outdated now that it’s relatively easy to run the docker daemon in rootless mode. Always being root is one of the great joys of containerization and partly what gives it its development efficiency. Security people please don’t take that away from developers.

2023-04-18 22:26:13

Whole Foods hot bar is underrated

2023-04-17 20:35:54

A message for those of you who pushed for masks and vaccines: We know who you are. We forgive you but we will never forget.

2023-04-17 14:30:40

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With regulations specifically. Counter away in the public debate

2023-04-17 14:27:40

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That assumption is actually correct. But that’s exactly why we should not try to counter online misinformation

2023-04-13 16:19:31

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Also I just thought that it might be the case that the actually theory of everything is dead simple like A=A or just “42” but we’re not smart enough to deduce how everything else follow from that

2023-04-13 15:34:52

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I like this description

2023-04-13 15:22:52

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Right? I think the effectiveness of a species math would have a massive role in how successful that species is overall

2023-04-13 15:19:19

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There might be some objective way to perfectly describe physical reality but I suspect that it would be completely incomprehensible to humans. That theoretical description might exist in the same way as a rock but that’s not what math is. That description would likely not resemble math at all

2023-04-13 14:56:45

Is math invented or discovered? I find myself in the invented camp these days. Math doesn’t “exist” in the same way as a physical object like a rock. If humans never existed math would not exist but a rock still would. Also math is not as objective as most people think it is. It’s our collective best attempt to describe the complex phenomena that we observe but it’s not the thing itself.

2023-04-05 15:13:17

AI is being setup as the perfect scapegoat for the next big crash. Just like Covid, it can be cast as an invisible enemy except this time the internet is where it spreads. It can be used to explain currency collapses and justify draconian measures like the RESTRICT act and CBDCs. I really hope I’m not the only one seeing this.

2023-03-29 18:44:50

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Who is Justin?

2023-03-25 22:09:20

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Brave to post that here

2023-03-22 14:19:07

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What? Naw. A P/E of 147 is definitely way too low. It’s AI we’re talking about here

2023-03-21 22:13:22

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Like it stems from a need to be organized?