G3rn0ti

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by G3rn0ti 5y ago
Well, yes, this applies to engineering. But not to software engineering. Personally, I like „software engineering“ as it is — being a free profession where talent counts more than a degree.
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> Homes they can afford to own In Germany where I live home owners are in the minority (40%). In Europe on average homeownership is about 70%. Yet, we are one of the richest countries in Europe. Furthermore, buying a house on credit does
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That's not how markets work. Maybe on short term. If the demand for green energy is increasing due to Bitcoin, the production will also increase because it will drive profits of green energy producers.
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While I am sympathetic with your argument, don’t forget you’re just comparing energy consumptions. We don’t know much about how its energy is being created. If 90% of Bitcoin’s energy use would be from renewables its CO2 footprint wouldn’t
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by G3rn0ti 5y ago
Cryptos and Web3 are currently there where Web 1.0 was in the nineties. It was silly to order Pizza over the Internet like it was laughable listening to a baseball radio transmission over the internet instead using a … radio. LOL 20 years l
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Well you find DeFi laughable. Ok. You know what was called laughable in the nineties? Ordering Pizza over the Internet. It didn’t go over night but today almost everybody is ordering pizza over the internet. Maybe Defi will take over financ
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by G3rn0ti 5y ago
Bitcoin‘s scripting is not Turing complete and therefore does not lend itself easily to sophisticated smart contracts. It will probably always be limited to variations on money transfers. However, Bitcoiners consider this an advantage as th
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> And still not a single example of a good real world use case. Have you ever heard of lending protocols? You can park dollar in a smart contracts and earn a couple of percent interest per year. AAVE and Compound are quite popular exampl
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The Raku Advent Calendar 2021(raku-advent.blog)
15 points by G3rn0ti 5y ago|1 comments
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Another cool episode is where he upgrades a 16GB iPhone to 128GB by soldering a larger flash chip onto the board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHP-OPXK2ig
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Energy consumption of anything is irrelevant. The carbon footprint is the interesting marker of a technology and this will depend on the source of energy used.
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Yes. But no worries, Emacs got you covered, too: http://web.mit.edu/Emacs/source/emacs/lisp/emulation/ws-mode...
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But it breaks others’ preferred behavior. It also does not play nice with keyboard macros. Emacs is software way older than most Junior developers and needs to cater so many very different use cases and extension libraries.
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golang
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> it is just so esoteric to anyone used to ctrl+C for copy Come on. „CUA mode“ exists since the 90s. ;)
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> I’ve also seen plenty of new editors rise and fall in the past 20 years - Komodo, TextMate, Sublime Text, Atom, etc. Emacs and vim are the only editors that stood the test of time This is the main reason I keep using Emacs for my every
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by G3rn0ti 5y ago
Roughly, Taproot will make Lightning Transactions much more efficient and indistinguishable from simple transactions by introducing a new „Pay-To-Taproot“ validation type. https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/bitcoin-ta
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All Layer 2 scaling solutions would also be obfuscating transactions because all out of chain transactions are invisible on chain.
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I see, so in principle, taproot would facilitate to set up custom scaling solutions for Bitcoin payment schemes.
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Parent talks about the „Lightning Network“ — a Layer 2 scaling solution for Bitcoin. Beware: I am still a crypto noob but I am still going to try to explain how I understood the system so far. Edited: Minor terminology and typos. Roughly sp
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Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated(coindesk.com)
225 points by G3rn0ti 5y ago|228 comments
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In the accident two children were killed by a helicopter due to explosives firing too early: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident I don’t think they „chose“ to be in a risky business..
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Oxygen is actually pretty inert i.e. non-reactive and therefore safe to breathe in pure form (as aquatic divers do, I believe). The reason for that is most of atmospheric oxygen is composed of "triplet oxygen" referring to its out
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by G3rn0ti 5y ago
Why? Whenever you return „void“ you return „this“. That does not make anything more complicated. It is a pattern that suits itself well in front end code. When it comes to async. code, however, it’s a different story since you return promis
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> It's when, instead of simply raising prices, companies skimp on the goods and services they provide. This is old news. For food and beverages it’s a well known phenomenon: The average package sizes have been decreasing over time f
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> smart contracts This word to describe software settling monetary transactions is actually a bad choice and oversells what Ethereum actually can provide. A better term would be a financial vending machine. On chain EVM transactions are
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by G3rn0ti 5y ago
> This is not a cyberattack hack. It is just someone cleverly exploiting loopholes. Well, while the attacker did not exploit a bug inside the lending protocol code per se that person surely relied on a design flaw. Basically, what succes
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Untimely production of TGFβ is a hallmark of severe Covid-19(nature.com)
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> Hoover … committed to passivity That’s a legend that is in fact not true. He actually laid the ground for most of Roosevelt‘s „New Deal“ policies. These policies were likely ill-conceived and turned a bad recession into decade long dep
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I was pretty skeptical about magit at first because I know all the basic git commands for my daily workflows by heart and I don't find them to be very difficult or slow to use. But since I am also an Emacs user and everybody kept telli

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