Human folly for 02018-11-03

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• Dirt cheap webhosting I just bought the Premium (reddit.com):

  MoreBitcoinTV recommends hostinger.co.uk for #hosting paid with #Bitcoin

• Kickassd now accepting Bitcoin SSD powered (reddit.com):

  Kickassd.com does #hosting paid with #bitcoin

• In case you are not just here for the gains heres (reddit.com):

  #decentralization with Siatech, Zeronet, spee.ch, Substratum, yalls.org, and Tribler (mostly #Bitcoin paid services)

• Its a great idea for web hosting businesses to (reddit.com):

  huge list of possibilities for #hosting paid with #bitcoin

• Pricing (vultr.com):

  Vultr does per-hour #hosting and accepts #bitcoin. Their most skookum box has a 400 GB SSD, 16 CPUs, 64 GiB of RAM, and costs US$0.476 per hour, while their cheapest is 1 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB SSD, and US$0.0004 per hour (US$2.50 per month).

• Quaternions (marctenbosch.com):

  #Explorable-explanations of #quaternions and what Marc ten Bosch thinks we should replace them with, "rotors".

• (beta.observablehq.com):

  Jacob Rus’s #explorable-explanations of some spline #math.

• Creating a QR code step by step (nayuki.io):

  Nayuki’s #explorable-explanations of #QR-codes.

• A brief history of test frameworks (shebanator.com):

  Kent Beck wrote SUnit initially in 1994 on the plane to Chicago to meet with a client; Taligent had a convergent-evolution event with a nearly-identical testing framework in 1991. By Rys McCusker’s ex-boss at Apple. #history

• Software vs capital (medium.com):

  Software and capital are independent. I think the author is mistaken about some of the key causal relationships here, but their thinking is still interesting. #decentralization

• Small computing artisanal computing (hackernoon.com):

  On separating software and capital in practice by eliminating UI standardization.